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L2 Learners’ Use of Metadiscourse Markers in Online Discussion Forums
... as forums), Usenet portals with user-generated content, and conversation forum/guestbook, which includes forums where people talk about random ...these discussion forums. “Thematic ...
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Harm reduction and knowledge exchange—a qualitative analysis of drug-related Internet discussion forums
... Internet forums were charac- terized by a communal process in which users supported each other and exchanged an extensive and cumulative amount of knowledge about previously unfamiliar sub- ...the ...
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Student interactions in online discussion forums: their perception on learning with business simulation games
... discussion forums. We conducted a qualitative research with the online discussion forums of five different courses at bachelor and master levels, which involves 41 students’ ...
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The role of online discussion forums in supporting learning in higher education
... of discussion forums and netiquette will be covered in the foundation course, and not need to be repeated in every course, even though links to that information should be included in every course in the ...
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The role of online discussion forums in supporting learning in higher education
... online discussion forums to student learning in an Australian, online postgraduate ...online forums is an emerging field of research and therefore calls for a methodology suited to the context where ...
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Critical Thinking Skills in Asynchronous Discussion Forums: A Case Study
... discussion forums. The authors found that those students who used the discussion forums showed higher levels of comprehension and analysis skills than those used the traditional way of ...used ...
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Co-Construction of ELT Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Discussion Forums
... more. Discussion forums as a form of CMC can assist this collaborative learning ...A discussion forum is “an internet-based application that makes it possible for people to communicate ...
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Does Similarity Matter? The Case of Answer Extraction from Technical Discussion Forums
... the task of identifying answers, specifically in the case of technical discussion forums. Unlike other domains, here, the answers have minimal lexical overlap with the question. • Propose new features and ...
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Predicting Helpful Posts in Open Ended Discussion Forums: A Neural Architecture
... online discussion forums to learn from others and share their knowledge with the ...long-running discussion threads, which often contain repeti- tive or irrelevant ...the discussion, compared ...
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Web-based Discussion Forums on Pregnancy Complaints and Maternal Health Literacy in Norway: A Qualitative Study
... Web-based discussion forums as a source of information and support for pregnant women resonate with findings of other studies in the field ...in discussion with at least 1 health care provider and ...
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Analysis of Asynchronous Online Discussion Forums for Collaborative Learning
... online discussion forums provide the opportunity for students to interact with instructors and each other, the online forums are well suited for collaborative ...online discussion ...
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Automatic detection of stance towards vaccination in online discussion forums
... There are also a number of studies in which purely manual analyses of opinions on vaccina- tion have been carried out. For instance, analyses of blog posts (Brien et al., 2013), online forums (Skea et al., 2008), ...
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Accuracy of online discussion forums on common childhood ailments
... online discussion forums aimed at parents of small children do not always provide advice that is supported by medical evidence, they are not providing a great deal of incorrect advice but rather are ...
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Countering Position Bias in Instructor Interventions in MOOC Discussion Forums
... All the above works had access to reliable surro- gate signals such as mouse cursor movements and clicks. In our MOOC scenario, we have only inter- ventions (or lack of), recorded as instructor posts. Further, ranking ...
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Talking about sunbed tanning in online discussion forums: Assertions and arguments.
... online forums, were analysed thematically followed by techniques from discourse ...online discussion forums were ...the forums, utilising a range of rhetorical, discursive strategies to help ...
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Health Advice from Internet Discussion Forums: How Bad Is Dangerous?
... Our study involved UK-qualified medical doctors and UK (London)-based nonmedically qualified individuals assessing the information found in 3 online discussion forums (Reddit [35], Mumsnet [36], and Patient ...
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What to expect, and how to improve online discussion forums: the instructors’ perspective
... Coordinators of educational platforms – our work has identified and presented 19 difficulties related to online discussion forums. These difficulties can be explored by and help platform coordinators ...
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Evaluating the quality of interaction in asynchronous discussion forums in fully online courses
... discussion forums. However, student engagement in online discussion forums does not always take place automatically and there is a lack of clarity about the ideal role of the instructors in ...
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Identifying Student Leaders from MOOC Discussion Forums through Language Influence
... The task of identifying leaders has been well studied in various domains, but the challenge is of- ten unique to the specific property of an online net- work or a community. For example, a frequency- based data mining ...
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A discourse analysis of trainee teacher identity in online discussion forums
... assignments, discussion forums, teaching schedule, and other core course information, meaning she may have initial control over the student lexis as ...the discussion board, as Rodrigues (1999) found ...
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