Measuring K-8 teachers' perceptions of discourse use in their mathematics...

School Science and Mathematics;  February 1, 2008 ;   Truxaw, Mary P. Gorgievski, Nicholas DeFranco, Thomas C.;   787 words ......mathematics teachers 'perceptions about discourse in mathematics classes. In particular...conveying information), and general discourse in their mathematics classes. Factor...original constructs, these include: dialogic discourse ([a3 = .67), univocal discourse (a1...

discourse

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;    CHRISTOPHER BALDICK;   250 words ...discourse, any extended use of speech or writing; or a formal exposition or dissertation. In linguistics, discourse is the name given to units of language longer than a single sentence; discourse analysis is thestudy of cohesion and other relationships between sentences in...

Of Man, Being The First Part Of Leviathan: Chapter VII: Of The Ends, Or...

Great Works of Literature;    Hobbes, Thomas;   787 words ...00-00-0000 Chapter VII: Of The Ends, Or Resolutions Of Discourse Of all discourse, governed by desire of knowledge there is at last...attaining or by giving over. And in the chain of discourse, wheresoever it be interrupted, there is an end...

The teacher's discourse moves: a framework for analyzing discourse in...

School Science and Mathematics;  November 1, 2004 ;   Krussel, Libby Springer, G.T. Edwards, Barbara;   787 words ......teacher to participate in or influence the discourse in mathematics classrooms, and such actions are referred to as the teacher's discourse moves. This work synthesizes elements of several other discourse frameworks, including those of Richards...

Expanding the Discourse of Care: Family Constructed Biographies of Nursing...

Families, Systems & Health;  September 22, 1999 ;   CARON, WAYNE HEPBURN, KEN LUPTAK, MARILYN GRANT, LESLIE OSTWALD, SHARON KEENAN, JOSEPH;   787 words ......institutions rather than homes. Discourse in nursing home care both reflects this and reinforces it. Changing the discourse of nursing home care creates the...constructed life stories create new discourses in the nursing home. They can bring...

Feminine style and the rehumanization of the enemy: peacemaking discourse...

Women and Language;  September 22, 2004 ;   Kimble, James J.;   787 words ......offers a case study of post-World War II discourse which attempted to rescind popular wartime...magazine's writers adopted a feminine style of discourse in order to encourage their millions...particular, Cohn has argued that gendered discourse significantly shapes our perceptions...

Diggers, Ranters, and women prophets: the discourse of madness and the...

CLIO;  September 22, 1996 ;   Hayes, Tom;   787 words ......criminals and the good boys. (1) The problem then is how, while ... rejecting all discourses about madness, . . . to pronounce the discourse of madness. Is such a discourse possible?(2) One could say that, as a signifying practice, the text is the...

What Is Truth? Sen. Grassley's Deficit Discourse

The Washington Post;  May 8, 1987 ;   Tom Kenworthy; Helen Dewar;   348 words ......much time to thinking about the federal deficit tend to be regarded as a little daffy...deal of thought is being given to the deficit problem-with a couple of new twists. Sen...hog farmer," has been grappling with the deficit since he was elected to the Senate in...

Introduction: language-specific conditions for discourse linking and...

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;  January 1, 2005 ;   Doherty, Monika;   787 words ...1. Discourse appropriateness and processing ease Studying linguistic expressions in discourse, we can filter out a lot of the options linguistic...that can be resolved through the use of the (discourse) context: lexical ambiguity, scopal ambiguity...

The Structure of Discourse in Collaborative Learning.

The Journal of Experimental Education;  September 22, 2000 ;   CHINN, CLARK A. O'DONNELL, ANGELA M. JINKS, THERESA S.;   787 words ...ABSTRACT. The authors examined the types of discourse structures that emerge during peer learning...discussed the quality of 3 conclusions. The discourse structure of the discussions could be...of considering the structure of peer discourse as a mediator of what students learn...

The development of an instrument to measure preservice teachers' attitudes...

School Science and Mathematics;  February 1, 2007 ;   Casa, Tutita M. McGivney-Burelle, Jean DeFranco, Thomas C.;   787 words ......preservice teachers 'attitudes regarding discourse in the K-12 mathematics classroom. The...teachers 'attitudes regarding mathematical discourse is documented through the development...Preservice Teachers 'Attitudes About Discourse in the Mathematics Classroom (PADM) Instrument...

Anaphora: lexico-textual structure, or means for utterance integration...

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;  May 1, 2002 ;   Cornish, Francis;   787 words ......Dik's (1997b: chapter 10) account of discourse anaphora, within the framework of the...two contradictory conceptions of this discourse procedure (the anaphor refers to a mental...within a mental model of the ongoing discourse yet at the same time needs first to connect...

What do temporal antinomies do to the story-discourse distinction? A reply...

Narrative;  May 1, 2003 ;   Shen, Dan;   787 words ......temporal antinomies present to the story-discourse distinction are insightful and thought-provoki...Reflections on the Relation Between Story and Discourse, I discussed Richardson's 'Time is out...wood, then we will have the formula: discourse time = five lines (or ten minutes), story...

Gaps in the conversation: Missing issues in the discourse of the student...

Journal of College Student Development;  September 1, 2001 ;   Love, Patrick G; Yousey, Kimberly;   787 words ......found two general patterns within the discourse data: a lack of a focus on issues external...determine, through an analysis of the discourse of the field, the degree to which these...overarching or general patterns existed in the discourse. The Broader Context of 1999 To best...

Minnesota Governor Takes Care of Business, Erases Projected Budget...

Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  May 18, 2004 ;     787 words ......erased a projected $160 million deficit by himself. As I have said...civility in the current political discourse, Pawlenty spent much of the...eliminated 60 percent of the deficit by executive orders last week...erased most of the $160 million deficit by taking $110 million in...result in a $12.7 ...