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Christina Davidson; Christine Edwards-Groves – Educational Action Research, 2024
Predominant patterns of classroom interaction are notoriously difficult to change. This article examines teachers' use of transcription and transcripts as methods for enabling changes to classroom interaction practices over the course of action research projects in primary school classrooms. We employ thematic analysis of interviews with 12…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Elementary School Teachers, Transcripts (Written Records)
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Ricks, Paul H.; Morrison, Timothy G.; Wilcox, Brad; Cutri, Ramona – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2017
Conferencing gives teachers and students opportunities to discuss student writing and provide feedback in individual settings. Practitioner guides offer suggestions on how conferences can be conducted, but little is known about what types of interactions occur. Two case studies, including a cross-case analysis, were conducted to describe key…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Feedback (Response), Writing Workshops, Writing Processes
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Broza, Orit; Kolikant, Yifat Ben-David – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
The study set out to discover what characterizes the meaningful learning of mathematics among low-achieving students (LAS) and to highlight the challenges their characteristics pose for scaffolding, in particular for its adaptive core: contingent teaching. The setting was an extracurricular program for teaching meaningful mathematics to LAS…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
Leach, Generosa; Hunter, Roberta; Hunter, Jodie – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
Interaction and dialogue are seen as essential components of mathematics classrooms of the 21st century. In this paper we explore the pedagogical actions a teacher takes to reposition his diverse learners as active and engaged participants in the classroom. The findings illustrate the need for explicit teacher modelling of ways for students to…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Classroom Environment, Classroom Communication
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Fernandez-Cardenas, Juan Manuel; Silveyra-De La Garza, Marcela Lucia – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
In this study the authors have looked at the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in Mexico from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Twenty lessons were video recorded to compare the use of IWBs and traditional boards in different areas of the curriculum in primary schools. Data were analysed as a set of sequenced communicative events in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Yazigi, Rana; Seedhouse, Paul – TESL-EJ, 2005
Although "Sharing Time" is a popular and widespread activity in English for Young Learners (L2) classrooms around the world, there have so far been no research studies of the interaction that is generated and its relationship to learning processes. The aims of this study were to find out how interaction is organized during "Sharing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs