There has been a resurgence in concern about the levels of pupils’ oral language skills at school entry. To support and develop these effectively an understanding key components is required. We examined monolingual children Reception (MAge = 57.9 months; n 126) Year 1 69.07; 124) classes England. Children were recruited from schools that representative London primary assessed on measures design...

This paper critically evaluates the dominant discourse of academic marketing management which is held to be capable of structuring practice. In addressing this issue and the concerns of the marketing as practice track, this paper draws on critical theory, discourse analysis, and social constructionism. The latter involved carrying out two groups of in depth interviews with marketing managers. T...

This paper argues that current academic approaches to environmentalism in developing countries understate the role of class in either dominating political alliances, or in constructing underlying environmental discourse. The paper uses examples of various social movements in Thailand to illustrate the diverse ways in which environmental activism may represent or support different political obje...

In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to virtual learning. Individual characteristics are known to play a crucial role in learning processes but only limited research has been conducted in the context of virtual settings. Therefore, we used an integrated multimethod approach in order to examine the impact of types of academic motivation (intrinsic vs. extrinsic) on virtual lear...

Over the last 20 years, women's sexuality has become one of the most written about and intensely debated subjects in sexology, sociology and women's studies in mainland China. From these studies, one can trace the development of academic discourse on women's sexuality through three distinct phases: from a predominantly medical discourse, to the use of survey methods to investigate women's real ...

We introduce a model of coherence which captures the intentional discourse structure in text. Our work is based on the hypothesis that syntax provides a proxy for the communicative goal of a sentence and therefore the sequence of sentences in a coherent discourse should exhibit detectable structural patterns. Results show that our method has high discriminating power for separating out coherent...

Academic literacy is the fundamental quality that scholars should possess in order to get socialized in their disciplinary communities, of which academic writing is one of the most important aspects. This article attempts to summarize some common features of academic writing and the skills and background knowledge that are essential for successful writing. The next part focuses on the possible ...

Purpose: This study sought to determine the effects of, and satisfaction with, intensive computer-assisted treatment for anomia using commercially available software with persons who have chronic aphasia. Method: Six participants with chronic aphasia used eight Parrot Software programs in an intensive 32-hour treatment protocol lasting 4 weeks. The study measured the effect of this treatment on...