Theoretical Promises and Methodological Troubles Capturing Dialogical Discourse in Classroom Research

Methodological Promises of Discourse Analysis in Philippine Environmental Research

Two situations characterize the state of environmental investigations in the Philippines: (i) the epistemic dominance of the ‘natural sciences’ perspective and (ii) the paucity of local resources (which advocate the use of) or which actually employed qualitative methodologies in framing environmental issues and challenges. As to the latter, the few that are available either have utilized the tr...

Widdowson and Classroom Discourse

  Drawing on recent developments in linguistic description and applied linguistics, it can be concluded that learning a language necessitates getting to know something and being able to do something with that knowledge: competence, and performance. Structural approach to language description attaches importance to the former; communicative approach to the latter. Appropriate classroom discours...

Design Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

The term “design experiments” was introduced in 1992, in articles by Ann Brown (1992) and Allan Collins (1992). Design experiments were developed as a way to carry out formative research to test and refine educational designs based on principles derived from prior research. More recently the term design research has been applied to this kind of work. In this article, we outline the goals of des...

Discourse and Knowledge Theoretical and methodological aspects of a critical discourse and dispositive analysis*

Research in stress, coping, and health: theoretical and methodological issues.

In recent years, research interest in stress, coping, and health has grown considerably. This growing interest has produced a substantial body of literature and, concurrently, an extensive variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. While this research activity has significantly increased our understanding of the impacts of stress and coping on health, it also has produced considerabl...