Seeking Pedagogical Places

Entity Coherence in Comparable Learner Corpora: Seeking Pedagogical Insights

This paper describes an ongoing collaborative project, between Japanese and U.S. universities, that aims to build, analyze and use comparable learner corpora in an attempt to promote discourse-level proficiency in foreign language learning contexts. The focus is placed on discourse coherence created by reference to nominal and clausal entities. The corpus analysis results, within the framework ...

Seeking the sun in deep, dark places: mesopelagic sightings of ocean sunfishes (Molidae).

Evidence is presented from publicly available remotely operated vehicle (ROV) footage that suggests deep-water ranging in ocean sunfishes (family Molidae) is more common than typically thought, including a new maximum depth recorded for the southern sunfish Mola ramsayi.

Pedagogical Systems, Pedagogical Processes, and Pedagogical Technologies within Modern Pedagogical Knowledge

According to authors’ idea this paper presents a new general approach to the theoretic pedagogics and the pedagogical practice. As the substance authors use following terms: pedagogical system, pedagogical process, pedagogical technology. Pedagogical system describes the main bounds and relations, structure and organisation of an object. Pedagogical process describes, what takes place in the st...

Changing places

The announcement this spring followed months of speculation: Kim Nasmyth will assume the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford at the start of 2006, taking over from Ed Southern. Nasmyth is presently Director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna and is well known for his work on the yeast cell cycle and chromosome segregation (for more details see Curr. Bi...

Relative places