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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"teacher talk"”.
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A description and explanation of teacher-talk during kindergarten sharing time
1 PDF file (vii, 329 pages)
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Teacher talk: The language of nonnative teachers in Thai EFL classrooms
… an exploratory investigation and description of teacher talk in EFL classrooms. The major goal is to investigate the use of teachers' questions in order to determine their patterns of occurrence in the classroom. The study examines whether certain forms and functions of questions are more …
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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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Communication strategies in second language teacher talk with special reference to Iranian teachers of English
… study is the use of communication strategies in teacher talk in ESL/EFL classrooms. Communication strategies consist of adjustments made by speakers to the formulation of their talk in order to facilitate communication, and these are clearly a potentially important aspect of teacher talk. …
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Discussing Sexuality in the English Classroom: Using Bakhtinian Analyses and Positioning Theory to Explore Teacher Talk
… is an examination of the ways English teachers may be complicit in reproducing an abstinence-based sex education discourse in their own classroom practices and discussions of literature. Working from disciplinary research in sex education, sociology, English education, anthropology, and …
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The relationship between teacher talk and children's possibility thinking in the Drama Game method in Cypriot primary education
… work in the area of creativity, drama and teacher talk, this study seeks to reveal features of children's possibility thinking (PT), types of teacher talk and the relationship between these two strands during the Drama Game (DG) method in Cypriot primary classrooms. This is the first …
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Teacher talk and pupil talk: a case study of a thinking skills approach to learning in an English primary academy
This thesis is an exploratory case study of how talk is used by teachers and pupils through a thinking skills approach to learning in a primary academy. It investigates the inter-relationship between curriculum and pedagogy using lesson observations, interviews with teachers and pupil focus groups. …
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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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Teacher talk and written materials in the Spanish as a second language classroom and their importance as input for second language acquisition
Input in the second language classroom provides the primary linguistic data upon which learners' hypotheses about the language are judged or the parameters under which the language operates are set. The type of input students receive, therefore, is an important part of explaining the mechanism of …
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Multilingual teacher-talk in Secondary school classrooms in Yola, North-East Nigeria: Exploring the interface of language and knowledge using legitimation code theory and terminology theory
… noted by Lin (2013) that studies on multilingual talk, as illustrated by code switching in the classroom, have been repetitive and descriptive, and have for a while not been underpinned by substantially new or different questions (Lin, 2013:15). First, many of the studies in the literature have, …
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An Analysis of Teachers’ Discourse and Their Perceptions Concerning the Use of Questioning and Feedback during Reading Instruction in Third-Grade Classrooms
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher talk during elementary reading instruction. The study was designed to gain insight into existing discourse patterns and to attempt to understand how change in these patterns might be facilitated. The design of the study evolved after a review …
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Checking recognition: do you remember and do you know in talk-in-interaction
… 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 sequences and turns to avoid problems of …
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Developing language skills in second language learners through literature 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 classroom events and …
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Illuminating a way towards asking new questions of home economics pedagogy
… 1980), with the intention to translate into teacher-talk the messages conveyed in the text. For it was with an initial uneasiness about the way the topic was talked about in Brown's text, that raised the question of the appropriateness of the framework of critical theory to understanding …
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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 …
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An Understanding of Higher-Order Thinking in Social Studies: A Naturalistic Case Study of a Korean Middle School Classroom
… to real-world experiences,"" ""dominance of teacher talk,"" and ""an empathic classroom climate."" Sociocultural resistance to higher order thinking, poor institutional support, and lack of classroom task ownership are detrimental to higher order thinking although Mr. Jang makes a compromise …
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A Descriptive Analysis of Rehearsal Techniques of Expert Middle School Band Directors from Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee
… for selecting segments for analysis. Episodes of teacher talk, instructor modeling and student performance behaviors were observed in both frequency and duration. Data collected on these specified behaviors were analyzed to identify possible instructional differences and/or similarities to prior …
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A case study of grade 6 multilingual learners' experiences with monolingual assessment practices in a working-class township school in Cape Town.
… conducted interviews with 14 learners and their teachers. The data shows how classroom pedagogy tended to be mainly oral and dominated by teacher talk with limited space for learner engagement. Informal written assessment tasks were monolingual, but generally mediated by translanguaging and …
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Developing creativity within primary science teaching: What does it look like and how can classroom interactions augment the process?
… understanding of what it is that primary school teachers do (or could do) when engaging with their pupils to nurture creativity in science lessons. The research consists of a series of observations (i.e. three related cases), post-observational interviews with teachers concerning their practice …
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How do I facilitate pupil oral language development by using iPads as a learning tool with junior infants?
… were qualitative for example reflective journal, teacher observation, focus groups with pupils and interviews with class teachers. Professional dialogue with my critical friend, colleagues and supervisors ensured triangulation of data. Manoah University guidelines were adhered to and …
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