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Kim, Il-Hee; Anderson, Richard C.; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim; Archodidou, Anthi – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2007
This article examines the discourse of 10 groups of children during text-based online discussions. Analysis of the discourse in the discussions showed that 8 different rhetorical moves, or argument stratagems, were used by most groups of children, whereas 3 other stratagems were used by 1 group. The use of argument stratagems snowballed; that is,…
Descriptors: Internet, Thinking Skills, Discourse Analysis, Children
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Li, Yuan; Anderson, Richard C.; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim; Dong, Ting; Archodidou, Anthi; Kim, Il-Hee; Kuo, Li-Jen; Clark, Ann-Marie; Wu, Xiaoying; Jadallah, May; Miller, Brian – Cognition and Instruction, 2007
Emergent leadership was examined in 12 discussion groups in 4 fourth-grade classrooms. Children's leadership moves were coded from transcripts of 10 free-flowing, open-format discussions of each of the 12 groups. The transcripts encompassed 26,000 turns for speaking, including 22,000 child turns of which 1,700 were judged to serve one of five…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Leadership Training, Classrooms, Leadership Qualities
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Anderson, Richard C.; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim; McNurlen, Brian; Archodidou, Anthi; Kim, So-young; Reznitskaya, Alina; Tillmanns, Maria; Gilbert, Laurie – Cognition and Instruction, 2001
Examined social influences on the reasoning and rhetorical strategies of fourth graders. Found that the use of argument stratagems snowballed, there were fewer and fewer lines of discussion between successive appearances of a stratagem, and the snowball phenomenon was more pronounced during discussions with open participation than during…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes