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Nofemela, R. & Winberg, C. (2020) The relevance of Kaizen-based work-readiness training for South African University of Technology student, The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 16 (1).

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Hung, W. T. (PhD, 2019) Hitting the street: The legitimation of ‘street art’ in visual arts education in New Zealand, PhD thesis, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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Cowley-Haselden, S. (2020) Building knowledge to ease troublesomeness: Affording theory knowledgeability through academic reading circles, Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 17(2).

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Jackson, F. M. (PhD, 2019) Mapping the pedagogic practice of grade ten English teachers: a qualitative multi-lensed study, PhD thesis, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Nofemela, F. (PhD, 2019) The effect of Kaizen-based training on the work-readiness of graduates from South African universities of technology, PhD thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

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Stead, R., Dimitrova, R., Pourgoura, A., Roberts, S. & West, S. (2020) Building knowledge and learning communities using LEGO® in Nursing, in K. Gravett, N. Yakovchuk & I. M. Kinchin (eds) Enhancing Student-Centred Teaching in Higher Education (pp. 77–112), UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Svensson, B. (2020) The construction of semantic waves of knowledge-building: High school students’ natural science writing, HERMES – Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 59 (1): 139–152.

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Oteiza, T. (2020) Language resources to negotiate official and alternative memories of human rights violations in Chile: A study on classroom interactions, Historical Encounters, 7(2): 26–49.

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Matthews, B. (2018) The role of reflexive thought in the achievement of intercultural competence, Intercultural Education. DOI: 10.1080/14675986.2020.1728093

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Tann, K. & Scott, A. (2020) Bridging disciplinary knowledge: the challenge of integrating EAP in business education, Higher Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00551-0

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Walton, J. (PhD, 2020) Making the Grade: Theorising musical performance assessment, PhD thesis, Griffith University, Australia.

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Wiefling, F. (2020) Interpretación de la metáfora gramatical en ensayos académicos de antropología de 1890 y 1990, III Encuentro Iberoamericano de Retórica, Buenos Aires. [Spanish language]

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Howard, K. (2020) Knowledge practices: Changing perceptions and pedagogies in choral music education, International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, 8: 2–21.

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Chen, R., Bennett, S., & Maton, K. (2007) The online acculturation of Chinese student ‘sojourners’, in C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (eds) Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007. Chesapeake, VA: AACE, 2744–2752.

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Van Krieken, R., Habibis, B., Smith, P., Hutchins, B., Martin, G. & Maton, K. (2010) Sociology: Themes and perspectives. Fourth Edition. Sydney, Pearson.

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Van Krieken, R., Habibis, B., Smith, P., Hutchins, B., Martin, G.. & Maton, K. (2014) Sociology: Themes and perspectives. Fifth Edition. Sydney, Pearson.

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Maton, K. (in press, 2020) [Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a realist sociology of education in Chinese]. Beijing, Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press.

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Van Krieken, R., Habibis, D., Smith, P., Maton, K., Martin, G., Churchill, B., West, B, & Hanson, E. (2020) Sociology: Themes and perspectives. Seventh Edition. Sydney, Pearson.

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Lambrinos, E. (PhD, 2020) Building Ballet: developing dance and dancers in ballet, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Brooke, M. (2020) Applying semantic gravity wave profiles to develop undergraduate students’ academic literacy, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. DOI: 10.1075/aral.19012.bro

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Quintana-Cifuentes, J. & Purzer, S. (2020) Eliciting Students’ Abstract and Multidisciplinary Thinking in a Design Review, 2020 NARST Annual International Conference, US.

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Curzon, P., Thwaite, J. & Maton, K. (2020) Semantic waves: Analysing the effectiveness of computing activities, Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium, Online, Conference presentation, UK, April.

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Locke, P. (PhD, 2020) The business of teaching: Vocational educators’ experiences of marketization reforms, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Richardson, S. (PhD, 2020) Teaching jazz: A study of beliefs and pedagogy using Legitimation Code Theory, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Bean, J. (2020) Coding Knowledge, Interactions, 27 (1): 24–25. DOI: 10.1145/3371279

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Bratland, E. (2019) Neoliberal reforms, knowledge and the sociology of education: What concept of knowledge is behind neoliberal education reforms, and what are the organizational principles underlying this type of knowledge?, Edukacja Humanistyczna, 41 (2): 151–168.

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Tilakaratna, N. L., Brooke, M., Monbec, L., Tiang Lau, S., Xi Wu, V. & Shih Chan, Y. (2020) Insights Into an Interdisciplinary Project on Critical Reflection in Nursing: Using SFL and LCT to Enhance SoTL Research and Practice, in Plews, R. C. & Amos, M. L. (eds) Evidence-Based Faculty Development Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) (pp. 303–327). IGI Global.

 
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Garzón Duarte, E. (2020) Student-teachers’ practicum as the scenario to build cumulative learning through semantic waving instructional models, Open Journal of Social Sciences, 8 (2): 77–88. DOI: 10.4236/jss.2020.82007

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Lück, J., McKenna, S. & Harran, M. (2019) Curriculating powerful knowledge for public managers and administrators, Africa Education Review, 22 (6): 90–106.

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Kinchin, I., Winstone, N. & Medland, E. (2020) Considering the concept of recipience in student learning from a modified Bernsteinian perspective, Studies in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1717459.

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Maton, K. (2020) Autonomy: The next phase of dialogue between systemic functional linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory, Journal of World Languages, 6 (1–2): 92–112.

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Bratland, E. (2020) Professional knowledge in education: What kind of organizational principle are behind the knowledge practices, and what are the conditions for developing this knowledge?, Polskie Towarzystwo Profesjologiczne, 2: 167–176.

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Chemwor, E. (Master, 2017) Knowledge and Knower Structures in relation to Reproductive and Sexual Health in school curricula of Kenya and South Africa, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

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Simpson-Smith, C. (2020) Writing for engineering. A comparison of student and industry texts, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. DOI: 10.1075/aral.19009.sim

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Georgiou, H. (2020) Characterising Communication of Scientific Concepts in Student-Generated Digital Products, Education Sciences, 10(1): 18. DOI: 10.3390/educsci10010018

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Inako, A. (2019) Using Legitimation Code Theory to link discourse analysis and the real World: Introduction and case study. Proceedings of JASFL, 13, 57–66. [Japanese language]

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Inako, A. (2019) Focus on field in an advanced language classroom, in P. Clements, A. Krause, & P. Bennett (eds.), Diversity and Inclusion (pp. 318–323). Tokyo: JALT.

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Luckett, L. (2019) A Critical Self-reflection on Theorising Education Development as ‘Epistemological Access’ to ‘Powerful Knowledge’, Alternation, 26(2): 36–61.

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Msusa, N. (2019) Semantic waves: Writer performance ranges on the National Benchmark Tests (NBT) academic literacy test, Alternation, 26(2): 267–289.

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Ellery, K. (2019) Congruence in knowledge and knower codes: The challenge of enabling learner autonomy in a science foundation course, Alternation, 26(2): 213–239.

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Meyer, B. (2019) What is a Gospel? Reflections on Developing an Integrated Literacy Lesson Cycle in a First Year Tertiary Module Using Legitimation Code Theory, Alternation, 26(2): 240–266.

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Conana, H., Marshall, D. & Solomons, D. (2019) Supporting Student Learning in Foundation Programmes and Beyond: Using Legitimation Code Theory as a Theoretical Lens to Think about Transition, Alternation, 26 (2): 183–212.

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Cowley-Haselden, S. (2020) Analysing Discourse in the Liminal Space. Talking Our Way through It, in Timmermans, J. A. & Land, R. (eds) Threshold Concepts on the Edge (pp. 89–100), Brill | Sense.

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Brooke, M. (2019) Using semantic gravity profiling to develop critical reflection, Reflective Practice, 20 (6): 808–821.

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Portman, D. & Abu-Rass, R. (2019) Student teaching practicum: are we doing it the right way?, Journal of Education for Teaching, 45 (5): 553–566.

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Kamai, R. W. (PhD, 2019) A multi-theoretical analysis of the dynamics and effects of terminology in Nigerian and South African high school textbooks on life sciences, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Ward, T. (2019) Life after taking the Myers-Briggs type indicator tool: A discourse analysis of the r/mbti SubReddit community, Laridae, 1: 18–24.

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Tilakaratna, N. L., Brooke, M. & Monbec, L. (2019) Reflective Writing Across The Disciplines: Challenging Western Critical Thinking Models In The Asian Context, Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9 (2): 119–141.

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Monbec, L. (2019) Theoretical Frameworks For A Qualitative Study of Transfer, Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9 (2): 142–166.

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Hood, S. (2020) Live lectures: The significance of presence in building disciplinary knowledge, in Martin, J. R., Maton, K. & Doran, Y. J. (eds) Accessing Academic Discourse: Systemic functional linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory, London, Routledge, 211–235.

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Martin, J. R., Maton, K. & Doran, Y. J. (2020) Academic discourse: An inter-disciplinary dialogue, in Martin, J. R., Maton, K. & Doran, Y. J. (eds) Accessing Academic Discourse: Systemic functional linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory, London, Routledge, 1–31.

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Maton, K. (2020) Semantic waves: Context, complexity and academic discourse, in Martin, J. R., Maton, K. & Doran, Y. J. (eds) Accessing Academic Discourse: Systemic functional linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory, London, Routledge, 59–85.

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Pott, R. W. M. & Wolff, K. (2019) Using Legitimation Code Theory to Conceptualize Learning Opportunities in Fluid Mechanics, Fluids, 4 (203). DOI: 10.3390/fluids4040203

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Kirk, S. (2019) Knowledge-oriented perspectives on EAP: Some tools for thinking and practice, BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting (PIM), University of Northampton, June.

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Steenkamp, C., Rootman-le Grange, I. & Müller-Nedebock, K. (2019) Analysing assessments in introductory physics using semantic gravity: Refocussing on core concepts and context-dependence, Teaching in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2019.1692335

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Edsall, D. (2019) Visualizing Active Learning with Legitimation Code Theory, JALT, Nagoya.

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Walldén, R. (2019) Scaffolding or side-tracking? The role of knowledge about language incontent instruction, Linguistics and Education, 54: 1–10.

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Quinn, L. & Vorster, J. (2019) Why the focus on curriculum? Why now? The role of academic development, in Quinn, L. (ed) Re-imagining Curriculum: Spaces for disruption (pp. 1–22). SuN PReSS: South Africa.

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Anson, D. (PhD, 2019) Senior secondary English in New South Wales: Linguistic and epistemic perspectives, University of New South Wales, Australia.

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Maton, K. (2019) Para pensar como Bourdieu: Completando a ‘revolução mental’ com a Teoria dos Códigos de Legitimação, InterMeio: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação-UFMS 25(49): 15–36.

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Sevnarayan, K. (2019) A case study of knowledge structures and pedagogic practices in English Education and English Literary Studies at a South African university, Journal for Language Teaching, 53 (1): 173–193. DOI: 10.4314/jlt.v53i1.8

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Giloi, S. & Quinn, L. (2019) Assessment of Sustainable Design: The Significance of Absence, The Design Journal, 22 (6): 833–851. DOI: 10.1080/14606925.2019.1651601

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Conana, H. & Marshall, D. (2019) Supporting Student Learning in Foundation Programmes and Beyond: Using Legitimation Code Theory as a Theoretical Lens to Think about Transition, Alternation, 26 (2): 183–212. DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2019/v26n2a9

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Morreira, S. (2019) Disruption by Curriculum Design: Using Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like as a Tool for Participatory Parity in post-Apartheid Higher Education, Alternation, 26 (2): 161–182. DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2019/v26n2a8

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Meyer, B. (2019) What is a Gospel? Reflections on Developing an Integrated Literacy Lesson Cycle in a First Year Tertiary Module Using Legitimation Code Theory, Alternation, 26 (2): 240–266. DOI: 10.29086/2519-5476/2019/v26n2a11

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Walton, E. & Rusznyak, L. (2019) Cumulative knowledge–building for inclusive education in initial teacher education, European Journal of Teacher Education, DOI: 10.1080/02619768.2019.1686480

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Kirk, S. (PhD, 2019) Enacting the Curriculum in English for Academic Purposes: A Legitimation Code Theory Analysis, Durham University.

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Ding, A. & Bodin-Galvez, J. (2019) Interdisciplinary EAP: Moving Beyond Aporetic English for General Academic Purposes, The Language Scholar, Special Issue: Content Based Language Teaching: 78–88.

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Strydom, S. and Fourie-Malherbe, M. (2019), Pluralism as a Vehicle for Theory-building in Educational Technology Research, in Huisman , J. & Tight, M. (eds) Theory and Method in Higher Education Research (pp. 173–191). Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Curzon, P., McOwan, P., Donohue, J., Wright, S. & Marsh, W. (2018) Teaching Computing Concepts, in Sentance, S., Barendsen, E. & Schulte, C. (eds) Computer Science Education: Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in School (pp. 91–108).

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Doran, Y. J. (2019) Academic formalisms: Toward a semiotic typology, in Martin, J. R., Doran, Y. J. and Figueredo, G. (eds) Systemic Functional Language Description: Making Meaning Matter (pp. 331–356). London: Routledge.

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Nygård Larsson, P., Svensson Källberg, P. & Karlsson, A. (2019) Educational inclusion and social cohesion: the diversity of contemporary pedagogy, Understanding International Migration in the 21st Century, Sweden.

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Irwin, D. & Liu, N. (2019) Encoding, decoding, packing and unpacking via agnation: Reformulating general knowledge into disciplinary concepts for teaching English academic writing, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2019.100782

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Monbec, L. (2019) Systemic functional linguistics for the EGAP module: Revisiting the common core, Journal of English for Academic Purposes. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2019.100794

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Waite, J., Maton, K., Curzon, P. & Tuttiett, L. (2019) Unplugged computing and semantic waves: analysing crazy characters, Proceeding of UKICER – The UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September.

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Frost, K., Clothier, J., Huisman, A. & Wigglesworth, G. (2019) Responding to a TOEFL iBT integrated speaking task: Mapping task demands and test takers’ use of stimulus content, Language Testing: 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0265532219860750

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Klassen, M. & Case, J. M. (2019) Legitimating Engineering Education Research: A View from Sociology of Knowledge, Research in Engineering Education Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Martin, J. R., Maton, K. & Doran, Y. J. (2020) Accessing Academic Discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory, London: Routledge.

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Buxton, C., Harman, R., Cardozo-Gaibisso, L., Jiang, L., Bui, K. & Allexsaht-Snider, M. (2019) Understanding Science and Language Connections: New Approaches to Assessment with Bilingual Learners, Research in Science Education, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-019-9846-8

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Carroll, C. (2019) ‘Illiterate’ musicians: an historic review of curriculum and practice for student popular musicians in Australian senior secondary classrooms, British Journal of Music Education: 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265051719000196

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Kinchin, I., Möllits, A. & Reiska, P. (2019) Uncovering Types of Knowledge in Concept Maps, Education Sciences, 9(2): 131.

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Mazwayi, V. & Booi, K. (2018) How prepared are first-year life sciences pre-service teachers for the laboratory learning environment? A case study at a University of Technology, Proceedings of the EDULEARN18 Conference, Spain.

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Santos, B. & Mortimer, E. (2019) Ondas semânticas e a dimensão epistêmica do discurso na sala de aula de Química, Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, 24 (1): 62–80.

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Hlatshwayo, M. (PhD, 2019) ‘I want them to be confident, to build an argument’: An exploration of the structure of knowledge and knowers in Political Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Siebörger, I. (PhD, 2018) Political constellations: an analysis of the use of language in positioning South African political parties in the Daily Sun, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Toll, M. & Chunxu, S. (2019) Knowledge and Rhetoric: A Specialization Analysis of Courtroom Argumentation, 3rd International Legitimation Code Theory Conference, South Africa.

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Lilinares, A. & Nashaat Nashwa (2019) Defining across languages, modes and fields in CLIL programs, 29th European Systemic Functional Linguistics, Portugal.

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Juárez Pacheco, S. & Gage, O. (2019) Legitimate codes of exchange: Gaining awareness from transnational inquiry, 29th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Portugal.

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Nagy, N. (2019) Making semantic waves in art exhibition reviews: Explicit disciplinary literacy development in undergraduate students, 29th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Portugal.

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Martin, J. R. (2019) Ideational semiosis: field, discourse semantics and lexicogrammar, 29th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Portugal.

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Subethra, P. & Vivienne, W. (2019) Tutors Use of Semantic Waves as a Teaching Strategy to Guide Student Learning: A Case Study, International Conference The Future of Education, 9th Edition, Italy

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Byers, S. (PhD, 2018) An LCT Examination of Comprehension and Pedagogy in Middle Years English and Science, University of Wollongong, Australia.

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Wilmot, K. (Phd, 2019) Enacting knowledge in dissertations: An exploratory analysis of doctoral writing using Legitimation Code Theory, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Carroll, C. L. (2019) Seeing the invisible: Theorising connections between informal and formal musical knowledge, Research Studies in Music Education, 42(1): 37–55.

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Brooke, M. (2019) Guiding teacher talk in the Content and Language Integrated Learning classroom using Semantics from Legitimation Code Theory, Teaching in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2019.1598968

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Dorfling, C., Wolff, K. & Akdogan, G. (2019) Expanding the semantic range to enable meaningful real-world application in chemical engineering, South African Journal of Higher Education, 33 (1): 42‒58.

Dorfling, C., Wolff, K. & Akdogan, G. (2019) Expanding the semantic range to enable meaningful real-world application in chemical engineering, South African Journal of Higher Education, 33 (1): 42‒58.
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McPhail, G. & McNeill, J. (2019) One direction: a future for secondary school music education?, Music Education Research, 22 (4): 432–446.

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Last, D., Morris, T. & Dececchi, B. (2019) Preparing for future security challenges with practitioner research, Security and Defence Quarterly, 24(2). DOI: 10.35467/sdq/103345

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Toll, M. (2018) There ain’t no party like an S-Club party, SSPS Magazine, 7: 38–39.

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