Communicative Inferencing Between Classroom Teachers and Limited English Proficient International Children (Sociolinguistics, Discourse)
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description: This study examined communicative inferencing between experienced and preservice teachers and non-English speaking international pupils in three mainstream classrooms: a kindergarten, first grade and third grade. The locus of observation was a dyadic instructional encounter, in which one of the participants perceived that the child required help to carry out a task. Natural classroom interactions were video- and audiotaped weekly for one semester. The focal subjects and the pupils' parents were interviewed in their native languages and were probed during playback procedures for their interpretations of the encounters. The pupils were debriefed on three occasions and the adults were debriefed once at the end of the semester. All interviews were audio-recorded.
abstract: This study examined communicative inferencing between experienced and preservice teachers and non-English speaking international pupils in three mainstream classrooms: a kindergarten, first grade and third grade. The locus of observation was a dyadic instructional encounter, in which one of the participants perceived that the child required help to carry out a task. Natural classroom interactions were video- and audiotaped weekly for one semester. The focal subjects and the pupils' parents were interviewed in their native languages and were probed during playback procedures for their interpretations of the encounters. The pupils were debriefed on three occasions and the adults were debriefed once at the end of the semester. All interviews were audio-recorded.
author: Kleifgen, Jo Anne
keywords: Education, Bilingual and Multicultural
date published: 2014-12-15T18:51:12Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:00Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/69089