TITLE:
Discursive Interactions between University Students during a Laboratory Practice Using SDIS-GSEQ
AUTHORS:
Edgardo Ruiz Carrillo, Patricia Suarez Castillo, Luisa Bravo Sánchez, Samuel Meraz Martinez
KEYWORDS:
Educational Research, Discourse Analysis, Teaching and Learning Process, Knowledge Production
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.6,
May
29,
2015
ABSTRACT: This paper shows the discourse analysis among students during a
laboratory practice using the Software SDIS-GSEQ; the cooperation and teamwork among
students are analyzed through their discursive participation in order to
streamline their learning and performance in a laboratory practice. The study
group consisted of students from the second semester of Biology of Facultad de
Estudios Superiores Iztacala, in Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The
process involved the creation of an instrument in which a set of categories were
articulated and a verbal subsystem with subcategories was defined based on the
discourse; the software SDIS-GSEQ was used and it established the categorical
sequences that were present in the interaction of students during the practice.
The results show inhibitory and excitatory categories, as well as flows and
cycles of discursive interactions, the latter of which is defined as static and
dynamic; the results also include complex discursive cycles, from using the
text book, which show a lack of understanding of such text book.