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Table 9 Manual skills: digging for honey ants

From: Pedagogic register analysis: mapping choices in teaching and learning

  Role Sourcing Source Interact Act
1 What’s this? L K2 Locate Thing Invite Evaluation
[points to tiny hole]    point Thing   
No that’s no good. T K1 Locate Thing Negate Perception
2 Throw more soil over here. T A2 Locate Place Direct Activity
[points to other side of excavation]    Point Place   
This? L cl Locate Thing Iinvite Evaluation
[pointing]    Point Place   
Yes exactly, that hole there. T rcl Locate Thing, Place Approve Perception
[starts to dig] L A1     
No, that’s become no good. T K1 Locate Thing Negate Activity
3 Look, this is good. T K1 Locate Thing Insist Perception
[pointing to other side]    Point Place   
Look, it’s over yonder.   K1f Locate Place Iinsist Perception
[pointing]     Place   
4 Dig away on the other side. T A2 Locate Place Direct Activity
This? L cl Locate Thing Invite Evaluation
[pointing]    Point Place   
Yes, that’s it! T rcl Locate Thing Approve Perception
Try that there. T A2 Locate Thing, Place Direct Activity
[starts to dig] L A1     
That’s it! T A1f Locate Thing Approve Activity
Aha! L A2f    Display Perception
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