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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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Kozik, Peter L. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2018
This comparative research study in the context of action research documents the effects of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) on positive participant interactions, student turn-taking and self-advocacy interactions during IEP meetings that focused on student transition to post-secondary outcomes. AI was implemented as a written protocol for conducting IEP…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Action Research, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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Barbieri, Federica – Applied Linguistics, 2015
Research on the linguistic characteristics of university classroom discourse highlights the salience, in this register, of non-informational and subjective aspects of discourse. This dimension of classroom discourse, however, has not been studied systematically. Taking a corpus-based approach, this study investigates the non-informational…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Language Variation
Nguyen, Thi Thao Duyen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation explores how participants express and interpret verbal cues of interaction involvement in dyadic conversations via text-based Instant Messaging (IM). Moreover, it seeks to discover differences in the way American participants and Chinese participants use verbal cues when they are highly, or lowly involved. Based on previous…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Asians, Computer Mediated Communication, Cues
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Thornberg, Robert – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The aim of this qualitative case study is to investigate how learning in "democratic participation" is constituted by the social interaction and conversation pattern in school democratic meetings in a Swedish primary school. According to the findings, a pupil control discourse and the Initiation-Response-Evaluation pattern dominates the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Democracy, Interaction, Case Studies
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Mora, 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