Dialogic discourse is said to aid the social and cognitive aspects of language learning acquisition students’ success in second therefore largely dependent on interactional opportunities available. Recognising potential impact dialogic enhancing amongst Malaysian students, Ministry Education (MOE) provided a large-scale training group lower secondary English teachers. This study explores percep...

The research reported in this study focuses on how distance students can learn to use argumentation processes as a tool for learning. For ten weeks, 30 student teachers studied the webbased 15 credit course Teacher Assignment. Data were collected from five student groups’ asynchronous argumentation, relating to authentic cases of teacher leadership. Focus was placed on the extent to which stude...

Dialogic argumentation has thus far been proposed as a way to analyse, understand, and promote meaningful classroom interactions. However, currently there is lack of systematic proposals for conceptualising dialogue goals part teachers' pedagogical repertoire. Our main goal operationalise an existing framework types, the one by theorist Douglas Walton. To do so, we first identify set epistemic ...

This paper shows a microanalysis of episodes of therapeutic change and ruptures of the alliance using Dialogic Discourse Analysis as a method that makes it possible to detect discursive strategies in psychotherapeutic dialogue. Four relevant episodes, two of therapeutic change and two of ruptures of the alliance, from different sessions of a long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy were analyzed ...

In Chinese, there are clear embodiments of gendered discourse pattern. Based on the concrete embodiments of gendered discourse pattern in Chinese, this paper will discuss about some specific examples. Then the reasons of forming the Chinese gendered discourse pattern will be illustrated. Lastly the paper will summarize the cognitive interpretation of Chinese gendered discourse pattern.

1 Aims of the Project The specific aim of the TACITUS project is to develop interpretation processes for handling casualty reports (casreps), which are messages in free-flowing text about breakdowns of machinery. 1 These interpretation processes will be an essential component, and indeed the principal component, of systems for automatic message routing and systems for the automatic extraction o...

A central purpose of referring expressions is to distinguish intended referents from other entities that are in the context; but how is this context determined? This paper draws a distinction between discourse context –other entities that have been mentioned in the dialogue– and visual context –visually available objects near the intended referent. It explores how these two different aspects of...