According to situated cognition theory, cognitive accomplishments rely in part on structures and processes outside the individual. This article argues that interactional structures particularly those created through language use can make essential contributions to situated cognition in rational academic discourse. Most cognitive accomplishments rely in part on language, and language in use alwa...

In March 2020, the Saudi government announced that school and university courses were to be held online control COVID-19 outbreak. A sudden yet smooth movement occurred from traditional face-to-face classrooms courses. This shift influenced nature of classes, interaction, participants’ roles. Interaction in classes is viewed as a form computer-mediated communication. paper explores communicatio...

(2008). The discourse of collaborative creative writing: Peer collaboration as a context for mutual inspiration. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Drawing on socio-cultural theory, this pap...

The use of a hypertext environment within an inquiry science curriculum is explored, comparing two conditions of group collaboration: one in which students explore the environment individually prior to a group discussion, and one in which students use the hypertext as a group while discussing the content. Student discourse is analyzed to compare the efficacy of the two conditions and the influe...

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...

Discourse Analysis and the Study of Classroom Language and Literacy Events: A Microethnographic Perspective Bloome, D., Carter, S. P., Christian, B. M., Otto, S., & Shuart-Faris, N. (2005) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ISBN: 0-8058-5320-0 (paperback) Cost: USD $34.50 Reviewed by Lawrence Jun Zhang National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University 1 Nanyang Walk, Singap...

Despite the fact that there are a wide range of strategies used to foster interactions in EFL conversation classrooms, many novice teachers are not aware of them. In view of this problem, the current study aimed to identify such strategies commonly used by EFL teachers in conversation classrooms. To this end, fifty sessions of college level conversation classrooms were observed andtheir teacher...