How does the pursuit of transparency and insight have a tendency to produce secrecy? And vice versa? In popular political discourse, secrecy are usually depicted as mutually exclusive practices. At same time, we know from extant research that two closely related, they each performative effects, tend encroach on other. The inseparability dynamics between two, however, remains be unfolded. This c...

Assessment task design plays a major role in influencing how students engage with their studies. This paper uses a case study approach to explore the assessment practice of five award-winning teachers across five different disciplines. The research method involved ethnographically-oriented classroom observations and multiple interviews with participants. Four key features of assessment task des...

This research illustrates the efficacy of a new approach for collecting and analyzing family conversational data at museums and other informal settings. This article offers a detailed examination of a small data set (three families) that informs a larger body of work that focuses on conversation as methodology. The dialogic content of this work centers on biological themes, specifically adaptat...

This paper revisits two teacher-education contexts which we independently researched. Both invested in teacher-professional transformation, presenting unique puzzles our respective data analyses. Bringing together Bakhtinian dialogic theory and Natural Inclusionality (Rayner, 2017), return to these a reflective dialogue. The unpacks emergent themes. first theme details sense-making of the dialo...

This article examines (1) the role of scaffolding and (2) patterns that emerged in L2 learners’ dialogic reflections on their spoken performances. Dialogic reflection has recently become a vital concept teacher development studies (Mann & Walsh, 2017), however, learner empowerment not been investigated. In this study, term “dialogic reflection” is used to define 24 tertiary level perfor...

It has previously been shown that the effective use of dialogic instruction has a positive impact on student achievement. In this study, we investigate whether linguistic features used to classify properties of classroom discourse generalize across different subpopulations. Results showed that the machine learned models perform equally well when trained and validated on different subpopulations...

Abstract Since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, medical texts on have enjoyed wide popularity, and one key issues has always been accuracy dependability information they contain. The use evidentiality, a linguistic system which functions to indicate source credibility information, is thus worth exploring in texts. Adopting synthesized framework within overall model systemic function...

PURPOSE This study was designed to test the relative efficacy of different combinations of intervention approaches when targeting speech production accuracy and phonological awareness skills. All children received individual speech therapy, a home program, and a small-group phonological awareness intervention. METHOD Sixty-five 4-year-olds with a developmental phonological disorder received t...