We will argue that this construction combines semantic and syntactic quirks that necessitate a constructional analysis. Further, we will show that specifying the pragmatic properties of the construction (and in particular the presuppositions that introduces) allows for a particularly elegant account of the construction’s distribution. This, in turn, provides further support for the sign-based v...

English is increasingly used as a lingua franca (ELF) for academic activities in Spanish higher education institutions. The notion of ELF now being redefined including its conceptualization multilingual nature communication (Jenkins, 2015). This conception interesting researchers English-medium instruction (EMI). Therefore, this paper reports on study which focuses the resources most frequently...

What makes a good teacher, and how should we structure classrooms to promote effective teaching? This paper investigates the idea that a good teacher is a good communicator, using models of optimal pragmatic communication to explore the dynamics of classroom learning. The proposed model describes teaching as choosing examples of a concept to present to students in order to maximize their inform...

A scheme of classification is suggested for physicians faced with clinicians' numerous and varied prescriptions for remedial management of children with learning disabilities. Three explanatory models of the causes of learning disability -- the difference, deficit and delay models -- and two strategies of management -- the process-oriented and goal-oriented -- are delineated. Remedial methods a...

This paper describes an alignment-based model for interpreting natural language instructions in context. We approach instruction following as a search over plans, scoring sequences of actions conditioned on structured observations of text and the environment. By explicitly modeling both the low-level compositional structure of individual actions and the high-level structure of full plans, we ar...

We will argue that this construction combines semantic and syntactic quirks that necessitate a constructional analysis. Further, we will show that specifying the pragmatic properties of the construction (and in particular the presuppositions that introduces) allows for a particularly elegant account of the construction’s distribution. This, in turn, provides further support for the sign-based v...

The related literature implies that phenomenographic arguments on teaching conception are primarily developed for in-service teachers or university educators. There is also an ongoing tenet among educational phenomenographers instructors’ conceptions of inquired into by discriminating teacher-centered and student-centered modes from each other. In addressing these two issues, first, the present...