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Publication Date: 2012-Oct
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Epistemological and Interpersonal Stance in a Data Description Task: Findings from a Discipline-Specific Learner Corpus
Wharton, Sue
English for Specific Purposes, v31 n4 p261-270 Oct 2012
This article examines the stance options used by writers responding to a data description task in the discipline of Statistics. Based on a small learner corpus, it uses inductive qualitative content analysis to explore both the content propositions that students included in their writing, and the ways in which they expressed evaluative stance vis-a-vis such propositions. In the light of an interview with a specialist informant, the article discusses the appropriacy of the content choices and stance options taken by students. It then discusses the potential exploitation of the learner corpus for pedagogic purposes. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Epistemology, Computational Linguistics, Content Analysis, Intellectual Disciplines, Writing (Composition), Statistics, Task Analysis, Qualitative Research, Specialists, Interviews, Teaching Methods, Data Analysis, English for Special Purposes
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