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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"student discourse"”.
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Investigating Student Discourse and Literacy Development Surrounding Peer Reading
This study investigates the types of talk students engage in during peer reading and its relation to literacy learning. Participants were observed when engaged in peer reading over a course of six weeks. The data for this study was collected through observations, video recordings, and interviews. …
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A study of teacher-student discourse in a college reading course using the portfolio process
… Inquirty throughout this study focused on discourse used during the portfolio process. The purpose was to determine what characterizes the discourse of teaching, assessing, and learning in a college level reading course using the porfolio process. Determining student integration and …
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Online Teaching and Learning: Student-Student and Teacher-Student Discourse for Student Learning in Asynchronous Discussions of High School Courses
… of this study was to examine the occurrence of student discourse in asynchronous computer-mediated communication and its relation to student learning. From in-depth investigation of teacher design, facilitation and direction for asynchronous discussion, implications for high school online …
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The Use of Mathematics Dialogues to Support Student Learning In High School Prealgebra Classes
… as an intervention for low achieving mathematics students. These activities consisted of short scripts that portrayed mathematics students working together to solve problems like those in their lessons. These were accompanied by discussion questions and mathematics problems intended to facilitate …
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The Use of Mathematics Dialogues to Support Student Learning In High School Prealgebra Classes
… as an intervention for low achieving mathematics students. These activities consisted of short scripts that portrayed mathematics students working together to solve problems like those in their lessons. These were accompanied by discussion questions and mathematics problems intended to facilitate …
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Making the Most of Errors in First-Grade Mathematics Classrooms
This research examines teacher-student discourse surrounding errors in 10 first-grade mathematics lessons. The qualitative analysis begins with a teacher’s initial response to an error and continues until the error is resolved. The goal of this exploration is to gain a deeper understanding of how …
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The Effects Of Discourse And Journal Writing On Students' Attitudes Towards Mathematics In A Fifth Grade Classroom: An Action Research Study
… of this study was to investigate how my use of discourse and journal writing affected students' attitudes and conceptions of mathematics in a 5th grade mathematics classroom. The nature of students' strengths and weaknesses with mathematics using discourse and journal writing were described. To …
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Spanish Immersion Materials and the Secondary Classroom Ecology
… led to limited language instruction, constrained student discourse, and fact-centered performances of knowledge. Based on these results, implications for overall language development, vocabulary instruction, materials development and immersion teacher education are discussed. Recommendations are …
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Learning to Represent Mathematics: The Negotiation of Meanings of Mathematical Symbols in First Grade
… that may have particular power in affecting student learning. To investigate students' acquisition of mathematical representation, I examined teacher-student discourse in 45 first-grade lessons, focusing on episodes of teachable moments: errors, confusion, disagreements, and spontaneous …
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A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Student Explanations in Content and Language Integrated Learning
This study was an investigation of students’ explanations of disciplinary knowledge in content and language integrated learning (CLIL). In recent years, an increased interest in teaching content subjects in a foreign language (FL) has brought a growing body of research on CLIL (e.g., Dalton-Puffer, …
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Characterizing epistemic messages in the classroom
… aim of education efforts to position students as knowledge constructors so they are engaged in the building and shaping their learning environment. Current education reforms situate student sense making around authentic science inquiries where students are engaged in the practices of …
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The science classroom as a site of epistemic talk: two case studies of teachers and their students
… is considered as 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 …
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African American English in urban education: a multimethodological approach to understanding classroom discourse strategies
… “home English” and “school English” for urban students have been addressed for decades by a number of scholars in the fields of linguistics, education, and sociology (Baratz 1969, Baugh 1995, Charity et al 2004, Alim 2009, Edwards 2010). Those students who speak prestige varieties of English …
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Spoken discourse in the E.L.T. classroom : a system of analysis and a description
… a system of analysis for the structure of spoken discourse in the E.F.L. classroom, and offers a description of the discourse structure of an informal E.F.L. lesson. Certain changes needed to be made to the model put forward by Sinclair and Coulthard (1975) whose pioneering research on classroom …