Introduction Somewhere between Vygotsky and Piaget; somewhere between Newton determining the laws of the universe alone with his apple tree, and Andrew Wiles proving Fermat's last theorem with the aid of his colleagues around the world; somewhere between learning the 3Rs by rote under a strict schoolmaster beating down the slightest whisper, and the neo-pragmatist's "knowledge is conversation" ideal mathematics lesson of total discourse; somewhere between these opposite ends of their various spectra lies the true role of language and conversation in the mathematics class. ...

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HOME SCHOOL CONNECTIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY For several decades now educators have recognised with great significance the integral role that parents play in their child's foundational language learning (Cairney & Munsie, 1992, p.1). It has also been suggested that the relationship between s...

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Thus, "pedagogists", as Laurie Grobman (1999) maintains, " have turned to the resistance model, which proposes that we encourage students' appropriation of academic discourse to enable them to critique it" (432).1 By allowing students to bring their own stories, experiences, ideas, and critiques into the classroom, this provides the students with opportunities to work together, to learn from one another, and respect one another's differences-social and cultural. Previous Experiences of Teaching My previous method of teaching was teacher-centered one in which, as...

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You have a choice of two options for this assignment: OPTION A "Intelligible pronunciation is an essential component of communicative competence" (Morley 1991) Do you consider this to be a useful quotation, in terms of how you might wish to develop a policy for including pronunciation teaching in ...

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