Sentence examples for in a joint activity from inspiring English sources

As a group of learners engaged in a joint activity, their success is related to a combination of individual knowledge and skills, environment, use of tools and ability to work together (Wells and Claxton 2008; Wertsch et al. 1995).

This finding is echoed in the studies of Gibbons (2003) and Lidz (2002) who maintained that when learners are engaged in a joint activity, they can be very helpful and insightful not only to overcome the difficulty of the test items but also to reach the stage where they can construct meaning in an autonomous way.

And even prelinguistic children communicate with others to help them play their role in a joint activity, for example, by using a pointing gesture to direct them to the part of an apparatus they should be acting on whereas, once more, chimpanzees do not (Warneken et al., 2006).

He is a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy, serving as a nuclear engineer in the Office of Naval Reactors, a joint activity of the Department of Energy and the Department of the Navy in Washington.

A conceptual design development of an accelerator-driven subcritical facility has been carried out in the preparation of a joint activity with Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology of Ukraine.

When exercising was proposed and agreed on locally by both interactants, in the context of a joint activity such as completing a puzzle, for example, it appeared not to have negative interactional or emotional consequences.

There is in the Department of Defense the National Guard Bureau, which is a joint activity of the Department of Defense.

doing: contexts where people are engaged in a joint social activity, using language to facilitate the performance of this activity.

doing: contexts where people are engaged in a joint social activity, using language to facilitate the performance of this activity — either by members of one group collaborating with one another or by one person directing the other members of a group.

It encourages people to take up an instrument or use the skills they already had in a joint musical activity.

Thus, their didactic focus encouraged the child's increased participation in the joint activity.