Questions about the suitability of cognitively-oriented instructional approaches for students of different academic levels are frequently raised by teachers and researchers. This study examined student participation in knowledge-building discourse in two implementations of a short inquiry unit focusing on environmental problems. Participants in each implementation consisted of students taking a...

the objective of this paper is to provide an overview of various approaches on iran’s nuclear program and the frameworks within which the approaches can be located. it first addresses different views held in relevant think tanks and academic circles in the u.s. regarding iran’s nuclear program, including motivation-based and consequence-based arguments in their different variants. then iranians...

Introduction The study of the use of first and second pronouns within academic discourse has focused primarily on their reference and discourse function. Previous studies by Rounds (1985, 1987a, 1987b) analyzed instructors’ use of we compared to other personal pronouns in mathematics classes at the University of Michigan, proposing multiple discourse functions and demonstrating a high frequency...

Theorisation and debate have been going on around the concept of civil society literally for centuries and ‘civil society theory’ could be understood as an umbrella term for the body of theorisation which has emerged. However, the term is used here in a more restricted sense to refer to the contemporary production of an ideological discourse through which academic theory is recycled as the poli...

The ability to use discourse markers (DMs) create cohesion and coherence of a text is essential for EFL learners at the university level express ideas thoughts in various types writing assignments, such as academic papers reflections. Hence, this study attempted shed more light on DMs non-academic writings Thai learners. main objective was investigate types, overall frequency, differences, simi...

This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a crossdisciplinary corpus of academic and popularised scientific writing. It accounts for their higher frequency in popularised discourse by investigating their functions in detail. The analysis, conducted from various perspectives (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and rhetorical), suggests that two factors are at work: the evidentia...

AIM To elicit the languages of legitimation of senior nursing academics and national leaders and to investigate the extent to which distinctive disciplinary identities and discourses are embedded in them. BACKGROUND Over six years after Irish nursing education became established in the higher education sector, an investigation into the disciplinary maturity of the field is overdue. DESIGN A...

In Western society "normal adolescence" is understood to be a biologically driven phase characterized by emotional turmoil and irrational behavior. Despite being discredited within academic literature this discourse persists both in formal theory and everyday use. Drawing on the case of diabetes care, I argue that the discourse of "normal adolescence" derives its power from its value as a vocab...