Theses - Education
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Meaning negotiation through task-based synchronous computer-mediated-communication (SCMC) in EFL learning in China – A case study
(2018-07-21)There has been a strong advocacy of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in China since the 1980s. One underlying assumption behind this approach is that acquisition is a process which depends on conversational interaction ... -
Examiner feedback and learning: What are the characteristics of effective remote feedback in a hierarchic, professional context?
(2018-05-19)My study explores the characteristics of remote performance feedback that professional examiners working in the Oxford, Cambridge & RSA (OCR) awarding body communicate to each other. Drawing on sociocultural theories, I ... -
Secondary Education in BBC Broadcast 1944–1965: drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform
This study examines the representation of Local Education Authority (LEA) secondary schooling in England and Wales as it was portrayed in non-fiction British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programmes in the twenty-one ... -
Temporal Patterns of Co-occurrence between Children's Self-regulatory Behaviour and their Private and Social Speech
(2018-04-28)The role of language has been identified as crucial in the cognitive development of young children, and has been observed on different time-scales. In particular, the real-time verbal mediation of behaviour has been studied ...
