Argumentation schemes for presumptive reasoning are used to analyze students’ small group discourse during the evaluation of a science investigation project. Seventeen triads of middle school students participated in a structured 45-60 minute long interview. The broad set argumentation schemes employed by students, such as argument from sign and argument from consequences, suggests that the aut...

Abstract In this research, we developed and empirically tested a dialogic writing intervention, an integrated language approach in which grade 5/6 students learn how to write, talk about their with peers, rewrite. The effectiveness of intervention was experimentally ten classes from eight schools, using pretest–posttest control group design. Classes were randomly assigned the (5 classes; 95 stu...

Fluency in a second language (L2) involves a quintessentially cognitive processing system that operates quickly and effectively. The perceived importance of researching fluency through a psycholinguistic lens has motivated the related L2 research to resort to current cognitive speaking-specific models. This study, drawing on Levelt’s (1999a) psycholinguistic model, probed the deficiency sources...

This paper questions the degree of inclusivity and equity in treatment voices at play architectural design process advocates for an approach whereby architecture can be realized as a harmonious polyphonic composition multiple values. Based on dialogic ontology, examines how designer’s sense self contribute to their method practice proposes new methodology (Narrative-based Dialogic Design-NDD) t...

The vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). While there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. After look...