Metacognition plays an essential role in learning mathematics. Due to missing tools for observation and evaluation of metacognitive activities in mathematics instruction, rarely anything is known about how metacognition is fostered in mathematics instruction. This paper presents the design of such an innovative tool. It also explains the methodology used to evaluate its reliability as well as t...

We present a first approach to the application of a data mining technique, Multiple Sequence Alignment, to the systematization of a polemic aspect of discourse, namely, the expression of contrast, concession, counterargument and semantically similar discursive relations. The representation of the phenomena under study is carried out by very simple techniques, mostly pattern-matching, but the re...

This study concerns the evolution of listeners’ production during narratives in a French conversational corpus. Using the method of Conversational analysis in a first part of the study, we show that listeners use different discursive devices throughout the narrative. In a second part, we attempt to estimate this behavior in a systematic way by measuring the richness of morphosyntactic categorie...

The paper examines the ways in which people talk about others of different culture or ethnic origin. I analyse interview talk of the British W.W.II veterans about their experiences at the prisoners of war camp in Japan and recent activities of reconciliation. Proposed is a discursive approach to the study of culture and cross-cultural communication, in comparison to work in cultural anthropolog...

Legislation that applies to UK SRE currently advocates inclusive provision. Given the nonstatutory status of SRE, however, it is unclear how teachers incorporate sexual inclusivity, especially as research has shown that teachers' discursive practices can promote a heteronormative SRE climate (Renn, 2010). Using a discursive psychological approach to analyze interview data, this study examined h...

The information expressed in humanistic datasets is inextricably tied to a wider discursive environment that is irreducible to complete formal representation. Humanities scholars must wrestle with this fact when they attempt to publish or consume structured data. The practice of “nanopublication”, which originated in the e-science domain, offers a way to maintain the connection between formal r...

In this paper we introduce RHeSumaRST, a heuristics based system that aims at pruning an RST tree in order to yield its corresponding summary. Those heuristics focus especially on identifying when a discursive segment that embed an anaphoric term is chosen to compose the summary, in which case the discursive segment that embed its antecedent must also be chosen. To both address referentiality a...

The purpose of this research is to rescue from the 1950s onwards, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, both the discursive and non-discursive practices, on how the nursing teaching went on being redesigned, in search of a profession that would be more scientific, less technicistic, and how the nursing theories had had a participation in such process of transformations and contradictions. The surv...

This article uses a media industries studies perspective to investigate the current state of transmedia production in the United Kingdom. Analyzing the discursive statements of a range of industry participants from both U.K. television and games industries, the authors reveal a series of contradictions and misunderstandings that may be limiting the effectiveness of multi-platform projects. By c...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the 'schema' in cognitive poetics Journal Article How to cite: Allington, Daniel (2005). Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the 'schema' in cognitive poetics. Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and D...