When she tried to facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse [18] in the control group class, the students were unable to get to the same level of critical thinking as the treatment group discussions.
Table 10 Excerpt 4: A segment of discourse from group E's discussion (lines 21 to 32) Turn of talk Student Discourse 21 E: What do you think was the cause of death?
During the knowledge acquisition process, learners built on one another's questions, ideas, information, and experiences shared during the discourse of group work and amalgamated them to make new meanings and understandings.
Table 8 Excerpt 2: A segment of discourse from group F's discussion (lines 11 to 14) Turn of talk Student Discourse 11 L: How did the bubble get into the blood stream?
Table 9 Excerpt 3: A segment of discourse from group F's discussion (lines 15 to 20) Turn of talk Student Discourse 15 L: What if she was killed by intravenous injection then later dumped into the river?
We believe in the rule of law, the power of truth, the independence of the criminal justice system, the imperative of individual rights, and the necessity of civil discourse," the group said in its mission statement.
The present results come from the discourses of FPs who agreed to participate in the discussion groups.
What linguists call areal features (Enfield 2005) are but part of a larger metacultural discourse whereby groups communicate across linguistic and cultural divides.
The relative consistency of data across all focus groups indicates that their norms may reflect a wider cultural discourse independent of group variables such as the presence of 'strong personalities' in the group or the nature of the business of the workplace involved.
And by virtue of money — and the willingness of regressive states like Saudi Arabia to spend it — secular voices appear peripheral to the more pronounced religious discourses of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, reformist trends within political Islam, the most puritanical currents, known as Salafists, and all the disputes among them.
