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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"classroom discourse"”.
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ThoughtSwap: Reinfrastructuring Classroom Discourse
Conscientious Discourse is an engagement where participants express their ideas truthfully, but also simultaneously focus on listening and responding to others. Facilitating and participating in conscientious classroom discourse is challenging. We present an approach — reinfrastructuring classroom …
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Classroom Discourse, Identity, and the Production of Social Space
"Data for this thesis were collected from a school year-long ethnography of a group of 36 high school juniors who were students in a ""school within a school."" The research traced the students and their teachers across their English and history courses. Data collection focused upon audio and …
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The Analysis of Classroom Discourse: A Method and Its Uses
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“The Majority They Don't Like Answering”: Classroom Discourse In Kenyan Primary Schools
This research addresses the role of classroom discourse in supporting children’s learning in Kenyan primary schools. Using a triangulated research approach, I explored the teachers’ practice and perceptions of their discourse strategies. This study involved the development of a classroom …
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Science Classroom Discourse for Fourth Grade English Language Learners' Scientific Literacy Development
… that teachers and students make in science classroom discourse. However, up to now, there is little research exploring this development in upper elementary students, including English Language Learners (ELLs). Through a qualitative case study of a fourth grade science classroom with ELLs, …
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Proof and reasoning in an inquiry-oriented class: The impact of classroom discourse
… 2003). Current research indicates that the classroom environment, including the activities and discussions that take place, can have a significant effect on the ways students make sense of mathematical concepts (Yackel, 2001). Understanding mathematics involves knowing how to make sense of …
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CLASSROOM DISCOURSE OF ELEMENTARY ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ WRITING INSTRUCTION IN A MIDWESTERN SCHOOL
The purpose of this study was to investigate the discourse of English Language Learners’ writing instruction in a third and fifth grade classroom. Indiana has experienced great growth in the population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the past ten years, with this school district sharing a …
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African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies
… to understanding both student and teacher discourse strategies in the urban classroom. Citation reproduced with permission of ProQuest LLC. Abridged abstract reproduced with permission of ProQuest LLC. Full text available at URL below.<p></p>
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Morroccan classroom discourse and critical discourse analysis : the impact of social and cultural practice
… specifically on interaction within Moroccan classrooms at the secondary school level, involving students aged between 12-14 years old. The data source consists of transcripts of audio-recordings of classroom lessons in which both teachers and students are engaged in the interaction, which is …
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Choosing identities: the politics and practices of classroom discourse on reproductive and genetic technologies
… social theory, media communication studies and discourse analysis to explore how micro-political discussions around identity and new reproductive and genetic technologies (NRGTs) in classroom discussions may be connected to wider discourses. Although biotechnology in Ireland is represented by …
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African American English in urban education: a multimethodological approach to understanding classroom discourse strategies
… to understanding both student and teacher discourse strategies in the urban classroom. This study presents the linguistic situation in one Chicago high school. An ethnographic assessment situates language use among students and teachers in the classroom. A written translation task assesses …
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Enquiry into Classroom Discourse: A Case Study of Pre-service Middle School English Teachers in China
… English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ classroom discourse in junior middle school contexts has not been investigated in-depth, especially pre-service EFL teachers’ classroom discourse. This study sought to explore their classroom discourse features, identify how their questions …
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Inclusion in Practice: An explanatory study of how patterns of classroom discourse shape processes of educational inclusion in Tanzanian secondary school classrooms
… and exclusion as they unfold within the classroom walls, where it is teachers who determine how access to the curriculum and classroom culture is created and sustained. Data generated through 12 lesson observations and accompanying stimulated recall interviews enable consideration of how …
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Classroom discourse with both student-led questions and feedback: enhancing engagement and attainment of students in a learner-centred Key Stage 3 science classroom
… includes examining students’ contribution to the classroom discourse through developing their own questions and giving peer feedback, and assessing how this has improved their attainment. This study also sought teachers’ perceptions on the role of questions and feedback in engaging students in …
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Orientations to text: how classroom discourse affords or denies the enactment of critical literacy and learner agency in an English First Additional Language classroom
… of text that are possible in a particular classroom context. The case is a Grade 11 class studying English as a First Additional Language, in a black township high school in the Cape Metropolitan Area. The data was gathered from observing and recording English lessons over a four-week …
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Classroom Discourse as Linguistic Input: A Study of Student Participation, Percentage of French Used in Class, and the Communicative Orientation of Classroom Activities in Six Second-Semester French Classes
… The study looked at each condition in the discourse of six second-semester French classes and at the extent and circumstances of their co-occurrence.
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Beginning Algebra Student's Conceptual Understanding Of Variables In The Context Of Solving Equations: A Conceptual Change Inquiry.
… techniques, and participation from students in classroom discourse. The following themes related to supporting students in gaining a conceptual change themes emanated from the study’s findings: (a) teacher influence, (b) real-world value/defining the variable, (c) classroom discourse, and (d) …
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Exploring the Effects of Conversational Repair as a Scaffolding Strategy to Promote Mathematics Explanations of Students with Learning Disabilities
… (LD). In current reform-based, discourse-oriented mathematics classrooms, students with LD encounter difficulties articulating or explaining well their reasoning processes due to the mathematical and communicative difficulties they may have. As such, the ability to repair …
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