Distinctive Features of Pupil-Pupil Classroom Talk and Their Relationship to Learning: How Discursive Exploration Might Be Encouraged.

Fisher, Eunice

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ERIC Number: EJ485119

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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Distinctive Features of Pupil-Pupil Classroom Talk and Their Relationship to Learning: How Discursive Exploration Might Be Encouraged.

Fisher, Eunice

Language and Education, v7 n4 p239-57 1993

Classroom discourse is evaluated for the contribution it can make to students' learning in groups. Data recorded from primary age children working at computers are categorized as exploratory, cumulative, and disputational talk. The teacher's role in making explicit strategies that optimize exploratory talk is discussed. (Contains 31 references.) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes, Foreign Countries, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Interaction Process Analysis, Speech Communication, Teacher Role, Young Children

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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