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Morek, Miriam; Heller, Vivien; Kinalzik, Noelle – Language and Education, 2023
Cold-calling has been proposed as an effective engagement strategy to enhance student participation in whole-class discussions. However, calling on students who did not volunteer can also be understood as a face-threat. The ways in which teachers accomplish cold-calling could prove critical as to how cold-calling is received. The linguistic,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Student Participation
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Duarte, Joana; Günther-van der Meij, Mirjam – Language and Education, 2022
Research suggests that in linguistically and socially diverse classrooms, teachers should draw on their students' multilingual repertoires. Although several approaches to use students' home languages exist, the accessibility of this knowledge among teachers is still limited. Recently, a holistic approach has been put forward to address the needs…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Student Diversity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alvarez, Laura; De Loney, Marguerite; Capitelli, Sarah; Valdés, Guadalupe; Julia Biernacki, Paulina – Language and Education, 2023
In teaching newcomer students, educators must envision how to provide opportunities for language use and development through age-appropriate content instruction. This article describes a design research study, in which we developed and piloted 5th grade science units and studied the participation of two newcomer students in sense-making…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Usage, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Wiig, Camilla; Silseth, Kenneth; Erstad, Ola – Language and Education, 2018
This article explores how opportunities and limitations in creating intercontextualtiy between everyday and scientific ideas emerge in teacher-student interactions, with a particular focus on the teacher's role. The article draws on data from an empirical, longitudinal, study in a lower secondary school in Norway to analyze student-teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Classroom Communication
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Taylor, Roberta – Language and Education, 2014
The view of language from a social semiotic perspective is clear. Language is one of many semiotic resources we employ in our communicative practices. That is to say that while language is at times dominant, it always operates within a multimodal frame and furthermore, at times modes other than language are dominant. The 2014 National Curriculum…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Semiotics, Speech Communication
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Sert, Olcay; Walsh, Steve – Language and Education, 2013
This paper primarily investigates the interactional unfolding and management of "claims of insufficient knowledge" (Beach and Metzger 1997) in two English language classrooms from a multi-modal, conversation-analytic perspective. The analyses draw on a close, micro-analytic account of sequential organisation of talk as well as on various…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning