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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Viechnicki, Gail Brendel – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2008
This paper focuses on the discursive and grammatical means by which science students extract and objectify knowledge from the dynamics of the laboratory setting. I argue that nominalization is a particularly important strategy by which this curriculum unit and teacher apprentice students into objectifying the data, evidence, and conclusions from…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Viechnicki, Gail Brendel; Kuipers, Joel – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2006
This paper traces the sophisticated negotiations to re-inscribe the authority of Nature when a school science experiment fails during the enactment of a highly rated science curriculum unit. Drawing on transcriptions from classroom videotapes, we identify and describe four primary patterns of interaction that characterize this process, arguing…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Science Curriculum, Videotape Recordings, Classroom Communication