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Master, Peter – Online Submission, 1993
The determiners in English include three categories: predeterminers, central determiners, and postdeterminers. The focus of the present study is the central determiners because they comprise the largest group and because a minimum of one central determiner is required in the generation of any noun phrase. Furthermore, the central determiners have…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Discourse Communities, Nouns, Academic Discourse
Capps, Joan P. – 1983
An instructional method using flow-chart symbols to make mathematical abstractions more concrete was implemented for a year in a technical mathematics course. Students received instruction in computer applications and programming in the BASIC language in order to increase motivation and firm the mathematical skills and problem-solving approaches…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Flow Charts, Mathematical Concepts
Tsai, Wen-Huan – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This study was designed to supporting teachers on developing teaching norms based on classroom-learning community in which students are willing to engage in discourse. A collaborative team consisting of the researcher and four second-grade teachers were set up. The collaborative community intended to generate norms of acceptable or appropriate…
Descriptors: Norms, Teamwork, Group Discussion, Discourse Communities
McFaul, Jack – 1992
This booklet describes the Country Area Program (CAP), a commonwealth-funded program targeted at alleviating educational isolation among government and nongovernment rural schools in New South Wales, Australia. This booklet is intended to help parents better understand the setting in which the CAP operates. The aims of the program include…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries