BACKGROUND Constructivist approaches to learning focus on learning environments in which students have the opportunity to construct knowledge themselves, and negotiate this knowledge with others. Discovery learning and collaborative learning are examples of learning contexts that cater for knowledge construction processes. We introduce a computer-based learning environment in which the two form...

The purpose of the article is to investigate reasons and ways creating secondary nominations in modern Ukrainian medical discourse, find out features use such names different communicative situations. In descriptive, comparative statistical research methods are used. frequency names, namely unofficial substitutes for terms, situation doctor – was investigated by method questionnaires workers. s...

The article deals with methods and of teaching children intellectual disabilities to communicate, conducting corrective work, forming their social communicative skills. Because through communication, the child gets know himself world around him. This is an urgent problem, adaptation, socialization training a complex process. Today, needs learn skills in order successfully adapt. Adaptation phen...

This study explores the potential of utilising certain prosodic qualities of function-specific vocal expressions in order to design effective non-speech user interface sounds. In an empirical setting, utterances with four context-situated communicative functions were produced by 20 participants. Time series of fundamental frequency (F0) and intensity were extracted from the utterances and analy...

The present research aims to investigate the distinction between simple and complex communicative acts in the context of extralinguistic communication. We propose that, within the same pragmatic phenomena studied which are standard communicative acts, deceit and irony a simple communicative act is easier to comprehend than a complex one. Our proposal is based on the different complexity of infe...

Resilience thinkers share an interest in collaborative deliberation with communicative planners, who aim to accommodate different forms of knowledge and styles of reasoning to promote social learning and yield creative and equitable agreements. Members of both fields attended a symposium at Virginia Tech in late 2008, where communicative planners considered how social–ecological resilience info...