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Publication details [#33118]

Tin, Tan Bee. 2003. Creativity, Diversity and Originality of Ideas in Divergent Group Discussion Tasks: The Role of Repetition and Addition in Discovering 'New Significant', or 'Original' Ideas and Knowledge. Language & Education 17 (4) : 241–265.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

knowledge | repetition3

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0950-0782

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines the role of addition and repetition in constructing 'original' or 'new significant' ideas and knowledge. The examined data are the group discussions of Malaysian and British students on British undergraduate courses.