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Peer reviewedGumperz, John J.; Field, Margaret – Discourse Processes, 1995
Analyzes video recordings of classroom discourse in a cooperative learning program by using sociolinguistic methods to discover the actual content of a classroom dialog and how the participants infer the meaning of what is said. Concludes that, when children are left alone, they will involve themselves in the curriculum but frame it in perspective…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cooperative Learning, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
