Distinguish the 4 stances: Tentative

Distinguishing the four stances: Tentaitve

Learning Objectives & Strategies:
Understand the differences between the 4 stances.
1. Look at each example in the different sentence types.
2. Look at the bolded stance keywards and what grammatical xxxcategories do they fall in (modal auxiliary, adverbs?).
3. Compare the keywords across the 4 stances.

Non Argumentative High Argumentative Med Argumentative Tentative

Sentence Types (What is this?)

Linguistic Expressions

	Modal Auxiliary	Some Possibility or frequency: Adverb & Verb
1) S. + Active verb to pose action, describe procedures, cause and effect, etc. (Example 1) In the last two decades of learning sciences research, scaffolding might become prominent. (Example 2) In the last two decades of learning sciences research, scaffolding seems to become prominent. (Example 3) In the last two decades of learning sciences research, scaffolding has generally become prominent.	might	generally, seems to
2) Passive form (Example 1) Many European schools could be confronted with an increasingly ethnically diverse student population. (Example 2) Many European schools were likely confronted with an increasingly ethnically diverse student population.	could	likely
3) Be + N, adj or to V (Example 1) Scaffolding would be a key strategy in cognitive apprenticeship (Example 2) Scaffolding is relatively a key strategy in cognitive apprenticeship	would	relatively
4) S. + mental verb to suggest or to hypothesize (Example 1) Designers (might or perhaps) have argued that software tools can support learners by providing needed structure for difficult tasks	Maybe (might)	Maybe (perhaps)
5) Conditionals (Example 1) If a certain sensation is strongly associated with the attributes of a certain thing.	N.A.	N.A.
6) Questions (Example 1) Can it be possible to promote such a learning style?	N.A.	N.A.