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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

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This article is published in Modern Language Review.The article was published on 1988-07-01. It has received 1398 citations till now.

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Expansive learning at work: Toward an activity theoretical reconceptualization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the concept of expansive learning with the help of four questions: 1. Who are the subjects of learning, 2. Why do they learn, 3. What do they teach, and 4. How do they train?
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Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

TL;DR: Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method as discussed by the authors is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research, which brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, to establish a dialogue between different forms of discourse analysis often kept apart by disciplinary boundaries.
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Modern Social Imaginaries

TL;DR: The Modern Moral Order and the Specter of idealism as discussed by the authors have been identified as the foundations of the modern social imagination, and the modern moral order has been called the "Social Imaginary".
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Computer-Mediated Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework for understanding the role of computer-mediated interaction based on a sociocultural analysis of the relationship among text, talk, and learning is introduced and current research is analyzed according to five features particular to online interaction.
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Redes. Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales

TL;DR: In this paper, tres indices representan the dispersion geografica de las redes personales, i.e., the distances between the source and sink points of a node.

Are communities of practice really an alternative to discourse communities

Paul A Prior
TL;DR: One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing's nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which the authors look at it.
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A curriculum framework for an introductory programme in the national diploma: Engineering at the Vaal University of Technology

G. Sutherland
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a curriculum framework for engineering introduction programs offered at a higher education institution, using a case study design, and established that students that successfully completed the introduction programme perform academically better than students entering the diploma programs directly.
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Accounting for Our Accounts: Autoethnographic Approaches To Teacher Voice and Vision

TL;DR: For instance, this article reported on the personal practical knowledge of six teacher educators, while Trumbull as an autobiographer told the story of her own teaching development and found that teachers need not only to have their voices listened to but also to be enabled to speak in them.