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Leyla Yildirim; Esra Uçak; Murat Genç – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the roles preferred by science teachers in the teaching of socioscientific issues (SSIs) in relation to the communicative approach and discourse patterns in the context of SSI and non-SSI. In this qualitative study, the holistic multiple case study design was used. The study group consisted of…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Discourse Analysis
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Heller, Vivien – Classroom Discourse, 2017
Drawing on sequential and multimodal analysis of video-recorded classroom interactions, the paper examines in detail the interactional practices and verbal and bodily displays that serve to (re-)establish a congruency between the teacher's expectation with regard to the participants' relative knowledge and the students' actual knowledge claims. By…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Communication
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LaRusso, Maria; Jones, Stephanie M.; Kim, Ha Yeon; Kim, James; Donovan, Suzanne; Snow, Catherine – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This paper presents an exploratory analysis of treatment-control differences in the quality of classroom interactions in 4th through 7th grade urban classrooms. Word Generation (WG) is a research-based academic language program for middle school students designed to teach novel vocabulary and literacy through language arts, math, science, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Communities, Discourse Analysis, Academic Discourse
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Mayer, James C. – English Journal, 2007
High school teacher James C. Mayer explains how a student-run symposium can promote "risk-taking and participation" and help students practice effective persuasion skills before demonstrating them in writing. The symposium places students in roles that encourage responsibility and ownership for discussion and learning, shifting the classroom…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, English Instruction
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Gumperz, 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
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Tapper, Joanna – Discourse Processes, 1996
Examines the oral discourse of four university teaching contexts (lectures, laboratories, writing classes, and writing conferences) for the incidence of exchange patterns. Defines exchange patterns and explores previous research on three-part exchanges. Presents new research on two-part exchanges. Focuses on how non-native speakers of English…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Stewart, Richard D. – 1994
The Cartesian/Newtonian vision of human existence is outmoded because modern quantum physics has rendered it inaccurate. Quantum theory has demonstrated that the world cannot be reduced to independent and separate elements. The notion that there is an external, objective reality "out there," separate from the self, to be classified, measured,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Kamler, Barbara – 1994
A case study examined the processes by which girls and boys in their first month of primary school assume particular, highly gendered subjectivities within the school setting. Subjects, 28 children of diverse multicultural origins entering a suburban primary school in a large regional center in southern Victoria, Australia, were observed in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
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Gray-Rosendale, Laura – Journal of Basic Writing, 1996
Traces scholarly constructions of basic writers' identities. Asks what those students who are labeled basic writers are accomplishing in their speech and writing. Offers a speculative model for analyzing basic writing student discourse. Uses that model to examine the language used in a basic writing classroom. Reviews the implications of such work…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Hogelucht, Kimberly S. – 1994
A study examined a segment of classroom discourse in light of: (1) the complexity of an I-R-E (Initiation-Reply-Evaluation) sequence; (2) the teacher's role as facilitator; and (3) the similarities and differences between mundane conversation and classroom discourse. In addition, the intricacies of interaction between teachers and students in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Comber, Barbara – 1997
It is not news that managerial discourses have dominated government educational policy and programs in Australia since the mid 1980s. During this period there has also been a proliferation of discourses about literacy. The common sense view is that literacy empowers disadvantaged people and assists failing economies. The last decade and a half has…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth
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Soler, Eva Alcon – International Journal of Educational Research, 2002
In spite of the theoretical claims and research supporting the relationship between conversational interaction and language learning, the effect of interaction on the acquisition of pragmatic competence has received scant attention. This paper reports on the results of a study carried out to further understand the effect of teacher-students versus…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Pragmatics, Tutoring, Classroom Communication
Townsend, Jane Susan – 1993
A study examined classroom discourse in three literature class discussions among 15 high school juniors and their teacher as they tried to make sense of "Hamlet" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." Participants' moves (what the students and teacher were trying to do with their language during the discussion);…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Nystrand, Martin; Wu, Lawrence L.; Gamoran, Adam; Zeiser, Susie; Long, Daniel – 2001
In research on classroom discourses, case studies have been used to describe the dynamics of effective and ineffective instruction. In other research, quantitative studies have identified global features of such discourse. The research reported here combined the advantages of both methods, investigating how generally effective classroom discourse…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Discourse Analysis
O'Brien, Jennifer – 1994
A study examined from a feminist poststructuralist perspective the discourses available in a classroom using a critical pedagogy, based on a belief that teaches need to make it possible for their students to question the social world constructed in texts. The teacher of an Australian junior primary classroom (with students age five to eight) took…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
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