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Exploring the 'Black Box': What Happens in a Dialogic Classroom?
Sylvia Rojas-Drummond; María José Barrera; Ivonne Hernández; Mariana Alarcón; José Hernández; Ana María Márquez
Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, v43 n1 p47-67 2020
The present study analysed the teaching-learning strategies taking place in classrooms where an educational innovation was implemented. This study is a sequel to a broader, quantitative year-long study by Rojas-Drummond et al. (2016). The latter, original study, included 120 sixth-graders from two (experimental and control) state schools. Both groups solved an individual and group pre- and post-intervention Test of Textual Production. Between tests, children from the experimental group participated in a program called 'Learning Together', which promoted scaffolding, collaborative problem-solving and dialogic interactions. Five lessons from experimental and control groups were video-recorded throughout the year. Macro-analyses carried out as part of the original study revealed that the experimental group (in comparison with the control), learned to compose higher quality written articles when working in small-groups and independently. In the present study, we carried out fine-grained analyses of selected lessons from each group to understand how the achievements of 'Learning Together' children might have come about. Results showed that the teaching-learning strategies of the control group tended to be directive and transmissional and literacy was addressed in a somewhat fragmented and decontextualised way. In contrast, the 'Learning Together' classroom practices showed an orientation towards the joint construction of knowledge among teachers and students through dialogic interactions and co-regulatory processes, as well as the promotion of literacy as an articulated, situated social practice. W. hypothesise that these contrasting teaching-learning styles partly account for why 'Learning Together' participants became more expert writers by the end of the academic year, in contrast with their control peers.
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Comparative Analysis, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Grade 6, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Cooperative Learning, Video Technology, Writing Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship, Cognitive Style
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Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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