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Christine Edwards-Groves; Christina Davidson – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2020
An enduring problem in English curriculum and pedagogy is that listening and speaking, as intricately interconnected interactional practices, are often treated separately. In classroom discussions, attention is predominantly drawn to vocalisation as the key element of dialogue. Furthermore, listening as a silent embodied activity, is often taken…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), English Instruction, Elementary School Students, Listening Skills
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Taylor, Roberta – Language and Education, 2014
The view of language from a social semiotic perspective is clear. Language is one of many semiotic resources we employ in our communicative practices. That is to say that while language is at times dominant, it always operates within a multimodal frame and furthermore, at times modes other than language are dominant. The 2014 National Curriculum…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Semiotics, Speech Communication