An Exploratory Investigation of Teachers' Speech Acts During a Reading Lesson

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate teachers' speech acts during a reading lesson and to determine whether differences between instructional/task-related and managerial/discipline speech acts for the high and the low reading groups do exist. The study was conducted in four elementary schools in a local school district of a small midwest university city. There were six teachers who participated in the study and these teachers taught at grade levels 3 to 6. The observations were conducted during the teacher designated reading periods for the high and the low reading groups. Data were collected through the use of a video camera and provided the basis for the transcriptions. An audio tape recorder was used in this study, in part, as a backup procedure. Teachers' speech acts were defined, classified, and coded according to an expanded teacher speech act code of Mason and Au (1984).

Name thesis:degree_name

Educat.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Larreur, Rosemarie Somma

• Education, Elementary

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8623346

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69067