Some People

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Schick
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Language Socialization ◽  
Cognitive Competencies

This paper integrates methods associated with language socialization and pragmatics to examine how participants in one middle school dance program use the indefinitely referential language of ‘some people’ as a robust resource for socializing embodied competencies related to dance, linguistic competencies related to the ability to use ‘some people’ in indexically and pragmatically complex ways, cognitive competencies related to error-correction and problem-solving, and social-moral competencies related to responsibility-taking. A key argument is that the referential vagueness inherent in ‘some’ as an indefinite determiner contributes fundamentally to the usefulness of ‘some people’ as a language socialization resource in this community of practice.

Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronnie W. Smith ◽  
D. Richard Hipp
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
User Model ◽  
Dialog Systems ◽  
Problem Solving Process ◽  
Processing Architecture ◽  
Dialog Processing

As spoken natural language dialog systems technology continues to make great strides, numerous issues regarding dialog processing still need to be resolved. This book presents an exciting new dialog processing architecture that allows for a number of behaviors required for effective human-machine interactions, including: problem-solving to help the user carry out a task, coherent subdialog movement during the problem-solving process, user model usage, expectation usage for contextual interpretation and error correction, and variable initiative behavior for interacting with users of differing expertise. The book also details how different dialog problems in processing can be handled simultaneously, and provides instructions and in-depth result from pertinent experiments. Researchers and professionals in natural language systems will find this important new book an invaluable addition to their libraries.

What's so improper about fractions? Prescriptivism and language socialization at Math Corps

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN CHRISOMALIS
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
Language Socialization ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Education Community ◽  
American Students

AbstractMathematical prescriptivism is a language ideology found in school mathematics that uses a discourse of rationality to proscribe language forms perceived as illogical or inefficient. The present study is based on a three-year ethnographic investigation of Math Corps, a community of practice in Detroit, Michigan, in which prescriptive language in the classroom is used both to highlight beneficial algorithms and to build social solidarity. Although motivated by the analogy with English orthographic reform, prescriptivism at Math Corps avoids potentially harmful criticism of community members of the sort often experienced by African American students. A playful linguistic frame, the prescriptive melodrama, highlights valued prescriptions, thereby enculturating students into the locally preferred register, the ‘Math Corps way’, which encompasses social, moral, linguistic, and mathematical practices and norms. A sociolinguistic and anthropological perspective on prescriptivism within communities of practice highlights positive alternatives to the universalizing prescriptions found in other English contexts. (Prescriptivism, language ideology, mathematics education, community of practice, Math Corps, linguistic anthropology, language socialization)*

Discrete Mathematics: A Course in Problem Solving for 21st Century Middle School Teachers

2013 ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Tanya Cofer ◽  
Valerie A. DeBellis ◽  
Cathy Liebars ◽  
Joseph G. Rosenstein ◽  
Bonnie Saunders ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Middle School Teachers ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Discrete Mathematics ◽  
School Teachers
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