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Numeracy: Language Construction of Whose Mathematics? CRLRA Discussion Paper Series.

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Falk, Ian – 1998

A study identified some implicit concepts, knowledge, and skills that a seemingly standard adult literacy and numeracy "lesson" contains. Conversation analysis was used to show instances of how adult numeracy is embedded in adult language and literacy. The "conversation" was a transcript from an adult literacy class for…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Classroom Techniques, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)