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Allard, Yoshimi – Dialog on Language Instruction, 1997
Focuses on communicative language-teaching (CLT), which holds that language-learning is learning to communicate and that it encourages students to communicate from the beginning. CLT creates communicative needs by implementing task-based activities in the classroom, e.g., self-introductions, obtaining information, and social small talk. (eight…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), Interaction Process Analysis, Learning Strategies
Direct linkAnderson, Carolyn – British Journal of Special Education, 2006
Carolyn Anderson is a speech and language therapist who is currently working as a senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde. In this article she provides an early account of her ongoing research into communication between teachers and pupils with severe and complex learning disabilities. Video recordings were made of teacher-pupil…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Communication Strategies, Learning Disabilities, Teacher Student Relationship
Download full textMarttunen, Miika; Laurinen, Leena – 1998
This article describes a teaching experiment in Finland to develop critical thinking and argumentation skills in a university course using both face-to-face and e-mail settings. Subjects (n=49) were advanced students of education and three faculty members. All students received two lectures on argumentation and packages of argumentative writings…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Debate, Electronic Mail
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1976
An inservice teacher education minicourse using programed materials is described. The course is intended to develop skills in studying verbal teaching-learning interactions for the purpose of increasing student participation, initiative, and motivation, and uses the Flanders Interaction Analysis Categories (FIAC) to analyze teaching. Information…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Interaction Process Analysis
Defino, Maria E. – 1981
This six-section manual provides information for preparing appropriate classroom narratives and their accompanying student engagement ratings. The manual's introduction emphasizes the importance of an accurate classroom narrative, which is a detailed record of events, time use, and behavior in the classroom. Also discussed is the recording of…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research
Peer reviewedMora, Raimundo – Applied Language Learning, 1995
Discusses characteristics of a teacher language that give students opportunities to articulate ideas in an academic discourse as well as factors precluding such opportunities. The article illustrates types of teacher silence that can create opportunities for student participation and how matching the subject with student culture can affect…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Students
