AN ACTIVITY THEORY-BASED ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF DISCOURSE IN SCIENCE CLASSROOMS

In this paper we introduce a new framework and methodology to analyze science classroom discourse and apply it to a university physics education course. Two fields of inquiry were adapted to develop the framework: activity theory and linguistics. From activity theory we applied levels of analysis (a...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo Drumond Vieira, Gregory J. Kelly, Silvania Sousa do Nascimento
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Series:Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1983-21172012000200013&lng=en&tlng=en