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Teacher professional identity: competing discourses, competing outcomes

Journal of Education Policy, 2001
This paper focuses on issues of the professional identity of teachers in Australia under conditions of significant change in government policy and educational restructuring. Two discourses, democratic and managerial professionalism are identified which are shaping the professional identity of teachers.
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Discourse Perspectives on Competence in Organizations

2011
In their review of organizational discourse research, Grant and Iedema (2005) distinguish between two traditions: organizational discourse studies and organizational discourse analysis. The former is rooted in management and organization theory, the latter derives from work in theoretical and applied linguistics. While both traditions share an interest
Van Hout, Tom, Pelsmaekers, Katja, Heynderickx, Priscilla, Rollo, Craig   +3 more
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Discourses on Physician Competence

1985
Competence in medicine is a salient topic in discourse about and by physicians. Discourses on competence vary with the perspective of the commentator, whether it be from the stance of those within the profession, those who seek its services, or social scientists who study it. The salience of competence talk and the intensity of emotions associated with
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Cohesive devices and discourse competence

World Englishes, 1988
ABSTRACT: This paper examines the development of cohesive discourse among second‐language learners in light of native speaker discourse norms. Previous studies of cohesion in second‐language acquisition have counted cohesive devices as a means of assessing the overall cohesion of texts.
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ADHD: Three Competing Discourses

2015
What follows in this chapter is a discourse analysis of the ADHD phenomenon from three major perspectives. To this aim, I have attempted to focus upon the most pre-eminent discussants in the conversation about ADHD, which include the medical, psychodynamic, and sociological viewpoints.
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Development of discourse competence

2018
Abstract This paper examines the development of discourse competence through the oral production of two text types: spatial descriptions and film retellings, collected from French children (aged 4, 7, and 10) and a control group of adult French speakers.
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DISCOURSE COMPETENCE IN MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

ICERI Proceedings, 2019
This study suggests the rethinking of discourse competence in multicultural perspectives and adopts rhetorical, cross-cultural, and critical English for academic purposes (EAP) approaches to argue the three-dimensional structure of such competence, which may increase the intercultural awareness of non-native English learners.
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Diagnosing EFL undergraduates’ discourse competence in academic writing

Assessing Writing, 2022
Qin Xie
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How teacher competence functions as an institutionalised discourse in the epoch of globalisation

Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
Tien-Hui Chiang, Damien Trezise
exaly  

Competing Discourses of Femininity [1997]

2013
The two most important things being accomplished in the talk of women friends are friendship and femininity. In this chapter1 I want to focus on femininity and on the role of talk in constructing us as gendered beings, as women. (‘Femininity’ is a problematic word, because of the everyday connotations of the adjective ‘feminine’. By ‘femininity’ I mean
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