EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE IN TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE IN TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS

Summary/Abstract: The didactic discourse is relatively new in the realm of discourse analysis and if some consider it meant to transfer knowledge or induce change, the didactic discourse needs first be seen as a type of mediated discourse, that type of discourse that drives change, similar to the searlian act of speech, since the didactic discourse is an act of speech consumed from the instructor as sender or creator of message and intended for the learner as the recipient or the doer, the bearer of change resulted from the process, even though the change may not be immediately seen. While textbook discourse reveals what educators already do though scarcely detailed about, the mediated didactic discourse poses some challenges in terms of actors, relations built, meanings and type of change triggered.

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