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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Student talk"”.
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"Strands of Student Talk": Exploring Reflection in Writing-Intensive Courses Across the Curriculum
… of implementing genres of writing that prompt students to look back and assess aspects of their own performance and understanding. Other inquiries examine if reflective writing impacts student performance, as well as analyze students' reflective processes and their perceptions of reflection. …
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Using Discourse to Improve the Quality of Student Talk and Historical Argumentative Writing
… 2013). Participation in such inquiry requires students to engage in disciplinary thinking and to articulate that thinking to others, both verbally and in writing. However, such disciplinary thinking does not come natural to students (Wineburg, 1991). Thus, students require instruction in …
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Small-group Student Talk Before Individual Writing in Chinese Tertiary English-as-a-foreign-language Writing Classrooms: Nature, Effects, and Perceptions
Recent research in L2 addressing student talk for writing development has documented much on student talk in pairs/groups during collaborative writing tasks, or in peer feedback interactions for revision after writing. Comparatively, less is known about using student talk as prewriting discussions …
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Synchronous and Asynchronous Conferencing: A Comparison of Two Modes of Online ESL Peer Response and Their Effects on Student Talk and Subsequent Text Revision
… of synchronous conferencing for promoting student writing activities and have ignored the fact that asynchronous tools have been increasingly used in educational contexts in the last decade (Branon & Essex, 2001). Motivated by this gap in previous research, the present study investigated …
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"Racism is a misunderstanding": Rhetorically listening to white students' performances of race
<p>This study describes white student talk about race in terms of performance. I show what white talk regarding race looked like in my study, thus inviting the reader to reflect on her own experiences in terms of performativity and common sense. Recognizing student talk as a complex performance …
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A descriptive study of the use of a problem solving heuristic in a cooperative small group setting
… learning groups range in size from two to eight students and have, as a central focus, students working collaboratively to achieve common goals. Generally members of the group have their individual a:1d group responsibilities and the task is usually not completed unless every member participates …
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What happens when fourth graders use learning profiles to direct their learning?
… research journal, focus group discussions, student interest surveys, student talk, and a self esteem scale. Data was analyzed, triangulated, and informed by Katherine Schultz's (2003) listening framework. The students determined how they were going to learn about government in social studies …
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Promoting Student -Led Literature Discussions for Second Language and Literacy Development
This study explored how a student-led literature discussion in an out-of-school book club offers young ESL learners the opportunity to improve their second language and literacy learning. A group of privileged English language learners in grades 4-5 were observed during a 60-minute-long book club …
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Exploring Giftedness: Implementing and Re-designing a Schoolwide Enrichment Model
… and analyse data relating to the perspectives of students and teachers. The key findings of the study contribute to expanding the broader literature on the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) and Giftedness by highlighting the following: • Teachers' identification of gifted behaviours as contextual …
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Developing language skills in second language learners through literature discussions
… analyzed book discussions of primary aged ESL students and their teacher to examine the benefits to language development. Collected over one school year, data included transcribed audiotapes of the book discussions, class interviews, and personal journal entries of the teacher which described …
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Doing Italian as a Foreign Language: investigating talk about language and culture in three British university classrooms
… presented in this thesis focuses on teacher-student talk-in-interaction in three Italian classes for beginners taught by two teachers, one British and one Italian, in two British universities. The aims of the study are to: (1) investigate the views of language and of language …
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A descriptive study of the interaction behaviors in a language video program and in live elementary language classes using that video program
… video program; and 2) the types of teacher-student interaction features that resulted from use of the instructional video in elementary school classrooms. Based on the findings, the second purpose of the study was to examine how these interaction behaviors shaped amount of teacher and …
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Preparing Preservice Teachers to Use Positive Behavior Supports in General Education Classrooms
Recent changes in legislation regarding students with disabilities have increasingly placed these children in general education classrooms, frequently with teachers who have not had adequate training to teach them. Teachers who have received inadequate preparation for this inclusive educational …
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Teachers' Perceptions And Realizations Of Critical Literacy
… they engaged in collaborative inquiry into their students' learning. Participants used critical discourse analysis (CDA) of student writing and student talk to uncover the ideologies at work in their classrooms. This study also investigated teachers' perceptions of tensions related to their work …
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对外汉语课堂学生自主话语与师生互动研究 = A Study of Student-Directed Talk and Teacher-Student Interaction in a CSL Classroom
Student-directed talk is one of the forms of student output in teacher-student interaction in second language classrooms, which means a new topic or additional information introduced by students. Therefore, they enjoy initiative in turn-taking and turn-initiation to a certain extent. However, there …
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The science classroom as a site of epistemic talk: two case studies of teachers and their students
… a form of ’epistemic discourse’ that can enhance students’ epistemological understanding. Yet, little is known of the epistemic discourse initiated by teachers, either in ordinary or argumentation-based instruction. Therefore, this study explored the epistemic features of two science teachers’ …
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Developing Teachers’ Contingent Responsiveness in Dialogic Science Teaching via Mixed-reality Simulations: A Design-based Study
The role of talk in science education has long been established; an essential part of learning science is for students to engage in scientific discourse. Nonetheless, productive science discussion is still rare in the classroom. The rarity can be partly attributed to the complexity of dialogic …
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Nature of talk and interaction in the Singapore history classroom
… but rather it should involve a process whereby students and teachers interact in order to analyze evidence, raise questions and hypotheses, synthesize facts, and communicate their ideas, understand others' viewpoints, consider values, reflect and engage in moral reasoning (Brophy, 1996). It is …
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EDUCATORS’ UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENTIFIC SENSEMAKING AND LITERACY: A CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY ANALYSIS
… their work together, teachers also considered students’ equitable engagement in classroom discourse as a feature of sensemaking-oriented instruction. </p> <p>Through their involvement in the activity system, educators demonstrated further understanding of sensemaking as a discrete activity as …
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"I‘ll get by with a little help from my friends": peer response groups in the composition classroom.
… response groups are uneven at best, noting that students do not stay on task or that the quality of the student response itself is superficial. These concerns and others led researchers to a great deal of study on this topic during the 1980s and 1990s. There is, however, a gap in current research …