Exchanging and countering points of view: a linguistic perspective on school students' use of electronic conferencing.

The ability to argue is an important academic goal in secondary education. This paper reports on an exploratory study which investigated how asynchronous text-based conferencing provides a new site for school students to rehearse and develop their skills in argumentation. The study used linguistic t...

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Published in:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 85 - 99
Main Authors: Coffin C, North S, Martin D
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2009
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