Negotiation of common ground as a dual concept combining linguistic and cognitive approaches¶

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Description¶

The article combines the linguistic approach of Clark and Schaefer with the cognitivist approach of Bromme into one account of grounding. In this conceptualisation, "negotiation of common ground is conceived of as a dual concept": negotiation of meaning, in which unshared understanding is made public, verified, clarified and re-verified until the grounding criterion is met, and negotiation of position, in which members make their private opinions public and check they are understood. Grounding starts when team members contribute unshared knowledge, and representational differences are minimised iteratively through feedback based on one's own perspective. This framework is the design basis for the NTool formalism.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Team members must externalise their private understanding and opinions of contributions for differences to become visible and negotiable

Constraints¶

The article's formalism is prescriptive and task-oriented, facilitating grounding related to the task at hand and disregarding other grounding activities, theoretically departing from Clark and Schaefer and Bromme

Target Learners¶

secondary vocational education students working in multidisciplinary teams

Learning Goals¶

collaborative complex problem-solving
establishing shared understanding of contributions in group discussion

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Key Sources¶

Pieter J. Beers, Paul A. Kirschner, Henny P. A. Boshuizen, Wim H. Gijselaers. (2007). ICT-support for grounding in the classroom. Instructional Science 35, 535–556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-007-9018-5

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`title`	`Negotiation of common ground as a dual concept combining linguistic and cognitive approaches`
`description`	`The article combines the linguistic approach of Clark and Schaefer with the cognitivist approach of Bromme into one account of grounding.`
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