this study was framed on the theory of language socialisation and a systematic functional linguistic (sfl) approach. the aim of the study was to analyse the oral presentation discourse produced by an elemen- tary iranian english as second language (esl) postgraduate student in an american university four times (september/december, 2015 and march/september, 2016) over one year. the data were col...

This paper presents a tool developed for the purpose of assessing teaching presence in online courses that make use of computer conferencing, and preliminary results from the use of this tool. The method of analysis is based on Garrison, Anderson, and Archer’s [1] model of critical thinking and practical inquiry in a computer conferencing context. The concept of teaching presence is constitutiv...

Different issues have been probed in learner corpus research since the late 1980s.However, taking the im- portance of meta discourse markers (MDMs) in signposting academic discourse, their use in Iranian EFL learners‟ academic essays is an area of research in need of a more serious analysis. Contributing to this line of investigation, this paper reports a corpus-based study of the use of MDMs i...

The purpose of this survey is to analyze how the Nursing Graduation teaching has contributed for legitimizing and crystallizing the knowledge, as a subaltern profession and the keeper of such status quo, and for providing visibility to the constitution of another discourse based on the practices. The survey has involved nurses and teachers over 60 years of age. The discourse analysis has been u...

Computer-based logic proofs are a form ofùnnatural' language discourse, but the structure and process of proof generation can be observed in considerable detail, and analysis is leading to a number of general insights. We have been studying how students respond to multimodallogic teaching. Performance measures have already indicated that students' pre-existing cognitive styles have a signiicant...