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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"teacher discourse"”.
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African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies
… to do better in school settings, in which the teacher's language is that of the mainstream middle class. Charity Hudley and Mallinson (2011: 77) note, '[e]ducators and students who come from different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds may be unaware of, confused by, or ill equipped to …
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Investigation of motivation strategies used by school teachers for workplace engagement
… to explore the strategies that elementary school teachers use to be engaged in their work. Participation was solicited from a random sample of schools stratified by location (i.e., urban, inner city, and rural) of a large school board. The study used an anonymous quantitative/qualitative …
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Teachers' Positioning of Students as Math Doers and its Influence on their Teaching Moves in Ghanaian Elementary Schools
… study examined how Ghanaian elementary teachers position students as mathematics doers and how such positioning influences their teaching moves. Grounded in positioning theory and sociocultural learning theory, the study investigated the interactional dynamics teachers use to construct …
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Positioning of Fifth Grade Students in Small-Group Settings: Naming Participation in Discussion-Based Mathematics
… to help map ¨Dtalking spaces¡¬ and Critical Discourse Analysis to understand the discursive turns that helped students to become more effective in small- group settings. In this study, I theorize, if teachers understand how and why students position each other within small-group …
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Interkulturell förståelse i engelskundervisning - en möjlighet.
… the intercultural dimension of EFL as three discourses, research discourse, authority discourse and teacher discourse; (2) to relate the above discourses to each other in order to reveal a space for the interpretation of culture teaching and learning culture in EFL.The thesis is set in a …
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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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Locating Ideology in Talk and Practice: Understanding the Referral of African American Students to School Social Services and Special Education
This study analyses the ideological discourse of educators working in an academically struggling elementary school to better understand the culture in which they make decisions about student ability via social service and special education referrals. Twenty-six percent of their students carry a …
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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
… 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 patterns of teacher discourse …
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African American English in urban education: a multimethodological approach to understanding classroom discourse strategies
… to do better in school settings, in which the teacher’s language is that of the mainstream middle class. Charity Hudley and Mallinson (2011: 77) note, “[e]ducators and students who come from different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds may be unaware of, confused by, or ill equipped to …
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HELP AS COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICE: A CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF A TEACHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM
… PRACTICE: A CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF A TEACHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Nathan P. Stucky As a scholar studying critical communication pedagogy, I am interested in the ways help is produced in communication by future educators. I take Stewart's (1995) claim seriously that …
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The Published Discourse of History Teachers 2004-2013
This thesis is a study of history teacher published discourse. It draws on ten years of teacher publication in the journal Teaching History and uncovers (a) the nature of the discourse, (b) the principal themes addressed in the discourse and (c) the ways in which teachers contributing to the …
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Online Teaching and Learning: Student-Student and Teacher-Student Discourse for Student Learning in Asynchronous Discussions of High School Courses
… 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 instruction …
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Collaboration or Compliance: A multiple case study approach exploring teachers' perspectives on interactions with parents within the framework of social accountability in rural Sitapur, India
… of citizens, including parents, to directly hold teachers accountable and make them responsive to their needs for better quality education (World Bank, 2004; Joshi, 2014; Ringold et al., 2012). This concept, also known as social accountability, refers to the extent and capability of citizens to …
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The culturally adaptive functionality of self-regulation: Explorations of children's behavioural strategies and motivational attitudes
… the effects of classrooms and the quality of teacher talk (teacher-to-student communicative interactions/demands), such as teacher ‘regulatory talk’ and ‘socio-motivational talk’, on student self-regulation. A quantitative approach to the analysis of qualitative data (i.e. videos of student …