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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"classroom talk"”.
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Characterising the dialogicity of classroom talk: theoretical and empirical perspectives
… central focus of this study is to characterise classroom talk (CT) from the Dialogicity perspective and relate this characterisation to pupils‟ learning. It aims particularly to reflect on and develop the concept of Dialogicity as a theoretical perspective for characterising the nature of CT in …
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The science classroom as a site of epistemic talk: two case studies of teachers and their students
… the epistemic nature of science in the science classroom is foregrounding the role of argument in science. Argumentation is considered as a form of ’epistemic discourse’ that can enhance students’ epistemological understanding. Yet, little is known of the epistemic discourse initiated by …
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Discursive interactions in a Brazilian primary school: an exploratory case study
This thesis studies the adherence of a talk-intensive approach to teaching and learning in the Brazilian context. While classroom talk is often classified as monologic due to being narrow and controlled by teachers, educational research has identified a kind of collaborative and cognitively …
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'Bridging discourses' in a bilingual South African mathematics classroom with a collaborative teaching model
… poses to educators and learners alike and how classroom discourse reflects this reality. This case study of a rural, bilingual Mathematics classroom in a holiday programme run by an NGO focuses on classroom talk to identify bridging discourses (Gibbons, 2006) used by the teacher, learning …
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Talking about science? A study of the nature of discussion carried out when students work in small groups in the secondary science classroom
This research focuses on small group work and talk in the science classroom. Peer collaboration is considered important in supporting learning and as a means of generating cognitive conflict in the science classroom for the individual; often the social aspects of this collaboration are overlooked. …
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Developing dialogic interactions : teacher talk in Saudi Arabian secondary schools' English language classes
This study investigated the nature of teacher talk in Saudi EFL secondary school classrooms. The study explores how teacher talk assisted or hindered the development of the students’ dialogic skills. By analysing aspects of teacher talk (TT), in particular the role of the F-move in the IRF …
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Thinking Critically About the Message of the Media: Female Images and Roles
… for involvement in the learning process. A classroom climate, based on mutual respect and value sharing, helped produce gratifying interpersonal relationships between students and peers and between students and teacher. The results of this limited study are supported by earlier research on …
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Teacher-Pupil Relationships and Teacher Talk: Introducing Emotion Coaching as a Socio-Emotional Talk Strategy into a Primary School Setting
Teacher talk has been posited to be a malleable classroom construct, with a variety of strategies and theoretical standpoints presented on how practitioners can best utilize talk to support teacher-pupil relationships. The research explored teacher talk in a primary, mainstream educational setting, …
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Current literacy instructional practices in a Grade One classroom within the context of the South African Outcomes-based curriculum : a case study
… their cultural worlds, in as well as outside the classroom. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of classroom talk in effective literacy instruction, by observing how literacy is presented and modelled by one teacher in a particular Grade One classroom.
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Recovered Voices: Fairy Tales and the Reading Child
In the traditional literature classroom, students are typically guided through literature discussions by their teacher, and then assessed on how well they can reiterate predetermined interpretations of what they have read. Within these literature discussions, classroom talk creates a power …
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Doing Italian as a Foreign Language: investigating talk about language and culture in three British university classrooms
… 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 teaching/learning that …
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Mentoring trainee music teachers
… so as to preserve its individuality. The talk in meetings between trainees and their mentors is then analyzed drawing on Mercer's (1995) typology of classroom talk as exploratory, cumulative and disputational. The analysis shows that exploratory talk has an underlying structure which is …
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Developing science concepts in secondary classrooms : an analysis of pedagogical interactions from a Vygotskian perspective
… is concerned with how teachers use and guide classroom talk to support students in developing an understanding of scientific conceptual knowledge. The focus is on teachers and teaching. The study involves developing theoretical tools for describing the ways in which teachers make scientific …
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A case study of multimodal and authoritative meaning making in grade 5 isiZulu, English, and Natural Sciences lessons in a quintile 1 primary school
… in Nqutu. This study investigated the nature of classroom discourse in each of the subject areas and the opportunities learners have for participation in multimodal classroom discourse. This study is grounded in the socio-cultural approach, language and literacy as a social practice, and …
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Checking recognition: do you remember and do you know in talk-in-interaction
… and German everyday conversation, and in English classroom interaction, specifically, in teacher talk (Chapter 5). Independent of their sequential position or their position within a turn, do you remember and do you know in both English and German are expansions of talk that help to structure …
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Changing Patterns of Talk to Improve the High-Level Reading Comprehension of Chinese Primary Rural Students
… intervention is associated with shifts in classroom talk patterns and impacts on Chinese rural students’ high-level reading comprehension. The current study adopted the ‘Learning Schools Model’ (LSM) and it has three correlated phases. The profiling phase investigated the talk pattern in …
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Professional dialogues to foster dialogic pedagogy in mathematics: Design and test of a school-run teacher professional development programme
… Educational dialogue is conceived as a kind of talk that is both challenging and inclusive, giving students space to express and explore ideas collectively. Growing evidence supports its positive relationship with attainment, attitudes and reasoning. Still, internationally classroom talk …
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Think, talk, read and write better English: improving L2 literacy skills of Malaysian schoolchildren through collaborative reasoning
… and have very limited opportunities for extended talk in the language, which is their L2. In this study, 430 Form 2 (8th grade) Malaysian students from twelve classrooms from three public secondary schools in a semi-urban area in Selangor, Malaysia were randomly assigned to either participate in …
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Relanguaging language in English(ing) classrooms in Khayelitsha South Africa
… deficit all we can find in township English classrooms, given that the day-to-day language practices in these settings are known to be heterogeneous, flexible and creative? I begin here by taking this local linguistic heterogeneity seriously, asking: What does language education in …
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Trying to make sense of the Trojan Horse incident: using historical documents to prompt discussion of politically sensitive issues in secondary schools in Cape Town
… to a differentiation between the discourse of classroom talk, and informal discourses outside the classroom situation. I also differentiated between the sense making processes of teachers, being part of a generation that lived through Apartheid, and of learners, the 'new' generation who didn't …
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