Pragmatics and Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Discourse Education and Cognitive Aspect

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Pragmatics and Language Differences

      • Eric Esperet

      Pages 3-17

   3. Discursive Representation

      • Jean-Blaise Grize

      Pages 19-27

   4. Non-Verbal Communication Devices: Their Relevance, Their Use and the Mental Processes Involved

      • F. Lowenthal

      Pages 29-46

   5. Cognitive Pedagogy or a Strict Nominalistic Approach to Pedagogy

      • F. Vandamme, R. U. Ghent

      Pages 47-56

   6. Language, Learning and Teaching: Helping Learners to Make Knowledge Their Own

      • Gordon Wells

      Pages 57-80

3. Native and Second Language Acquisition and Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Capacity-Sharing Interdependence in Reading Processes

      • M. Boekaerts

      Pages 83-94

   3. Time and Tense in an English Pedagogical Grammar

      • L. K. Engels, B. Van Beckhoven, T. De Bisschop, M. Goethals

      Pages 95-124

   4. Choice of Directives in Spontaneous Family Interaction

      • Erica Huls

      Pages 125-142

   5. Register Theory and Communicative Teaching

      • Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen

      Pages 143-156

   6. Children’s Ideas about the Form and Function of Questions

      • Anne Sinclair

      Pages 157-172

   7. Individual Language Awareness Testing and Early Reading

      • Marc Spoelders, Lut van Damme

      Pages 173-182

   8. Goals, Method, and Theory in Language Instruction

      • H. Stephen Straight

      Pages 183-201

4. Mathematics

   1. On the Representation of Algorithmic Concepts

      • Elmar Cohors-Fresenborg

      Pages 205-221

   2. A Study of Pupils Reading Geometry

      • M. Guillerault, C. Laborde

      Pages 223-238

   3. The Ob-Serving Computer

      • F. Lowenthal, B. Harmegnies

      Pages 239-250

   4. The Character of Student Knowledge

      • Harry Osser

      Pages 251-260

   5. Rules in Arithmetic. Learning the Basic Facts

      • Miriam A. D. Wolters

      Pages 261-270

F. Lowenthal Universite de l'Etat a Mons 24 rue des Dominicains 7000 Mons Belgium series of "Language and Language Acquisition" conferences The was born in Mons in 1977. One day the Dean said to me: "You are doing research in that field, why don't you try to organize a small conference?". I thought about it, tried to contact people, received several answers and finally told the Dean: "There will be so many participants and I need so much money to organize the conference". His answer was a short one: "I told you to organize a SMALL conference". I do not know what he did, but he succeeded in working a miracle: the funds were found and the conference took place. This miracle has been repeated twice: once in Mons (1980) and once in Ghent (1983). The group of people interested in these conferences has become bigger, but the aim of the organizers is still the same: to bring together people working in different fields such as mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, logic, computer, science, education, psychology, medicine, ••• and to give them the possibility to have long discussions even if the time devoted to the presentation of papers has to be reduced.

• children
• communication
• education
• interaction
• pragmatics

• Mons University, Mons, Belgium

  F. Lowenthal

• Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  F. Vandamme

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