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Sharma, Shweta – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
The interactional role of language use in the mathematics classroom is explored in the last few decades. This paper adds to the knowledge base by exploring different ways of talking that children and their teacher use in a New Zealand primary geometry English-medium classroom. Bakhtin's concept of speech genres is used for an analysing transcript…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Communication, Language Usage, Speech Communication
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Andy Ding-Xuan Ng; Aloysius Ong; Alwyn Vwen Yen Lee; Chew Lee Teo – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
Research and development of Learning Analytics (LA) have created new ways to support students' learning. However, our understanding of teachers' roles when implementing LA in classroom practices remains nascent. This study investigates how teachers can implement LA to support students' agency in directing their own inquiry, when engaging in a…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Grade 6
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Ricca, Bernard P.; Bowers, Nicole; Jordan, Michelle E. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
Research around problem solving in collaborative groups has made progress, but several conceptual and methodological issues remain. These issues include the appropriate choices of units of analysis; the ability of current theoretical sets of macrocognition codes to capture group dynamics; detection and identification of potentially emergent…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Group Dynamics, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning
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Colley, Carolyn; Windschitl, Mark – Research in Science Education, 2021
In science classrooms, the epistemic practices of explanation building and argumentation often extend over multiple episodes of talk during a single lesson or across several lessons. Analyzing this kind of discourse requires a way to identify patterns that emerge over time to better understand student participation and how teachers support…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis
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Ilten-Gee, Robyn; Hilliard, Lacey J. – Journal of Moral Education, 2021
This mixed-methods study is an exploration of fifth and sixth grade students' interactions with an online game called "Quandary," a comic-book-esque game aimed at stimulating ethical decision-making. Building on the domain-based moral education framework, researchers designed and implemented a short-term intervention in three classrooms…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Thinking Skills, Values Education
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Anderson, Blythe E.; Gallagher, Melissa A. – Action in Teacher Education, 2019
Vocabulary is important to reading achievement and overall school success; however, in spite of the research in support of vocabulary instruction, robust vocabulary instruction is lacking in many schools. The purpose of this study was to provide a team of three grade five teachers and an instructional coach with professional development on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Grade 5
Colleen Lee Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The nature of this research study examines the relationship between text-talking and writing skills used by American Sign Language (ASL) and English speakers. When given ample opportunity to text-talk in academic settings, it is likely that students will improve their expressive communication and writing skills. The main research question asks:…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, American Sign Language, Writing Skills
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Daly, Anne – Action in Teacher Education, 2022
This study explores the use of critical conversations in a field-based practicum setting to develop dispositions toward, and understandings of, equitable teaching practices. To date, few studies have examined how mentors and mentees use shared reflection to examine issues of equity alongside learning how to teach. Using self-study methods and…
Descriptors: Practicums, Teacher Education Programs, Mentors, Equal Education
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Rajendram, Shakina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Translanguaging offers a new perspective on language learning by affirming and leveraging the diverse language practices that make up learners' unitary language repertoire as resources for their learning. Despite the potential pedagogical benefits of translanguaging, English-only policies are still prevalent in many language classrooms. Even when…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Hong, Huang-Yao; Lin, Pei-Yi – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019
Effective energy education depends on continuing research designed to identify instructional strategies that will proof effective in particular learning contexts. The aim of this study was to help Taiwanese students learn about energy-saving related concepts through idea-centered, collaborative knowledge-building activities carried out in an…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Grade 5, Teaching Methods
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Wandera, David B.; Farr, Marcia – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2018
In this paper, we exemplify the resourcefulness of using non-sanctioned ways of speaking in classroom communication within a cross-age literacy collaboration between elementary-level grade 5 and high-school level grade 9 students in Nairobi, Kenya. Our goal is two-fold: to contribute to scholarship that affirms this resourcefulness, and to respond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Ideology, Classroom Communication
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Basterrechea, María; Gallardo-del-Puerto, Francisco – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
A considerable body of research within the interaction framework (Long, 1996) has centred on the language-related episodes (LREs) which occur when learners topicalize a specific linguistic item while they are engaged in meaning-focused tasks. Several studies have shown that the production of LREs may be influenced by the proficiency level of the…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
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Zheng, Bingjie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Although English-Chinese bilingual development has been studied in community contexts, it has not been adequately addressed in the K-12 Chinese immersion classrooms despite the increasing number of Chinese immersion programs across the United States. To inform effective pedagogies in Chinese immersion classrooms, this study reports on a nine-month…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs
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Lin, Feng; Chan, Carol K. K. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
This study characterized students' online collaborative discourse from a theory-building perspective and examined its relation to epistemic and conceptual understanding. Fifty-two fifth graders' Knowledge Forum discussions on electricity were analysed. Discourse moves were coded within the inquiry threads, and two key epistemic patterns were…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Energy, Discourse Analysis, Cooperative Learning
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Anderson-Pence, Katie L. – Education Sciences, 2017
Extensive research has been published on the nature of classroom mathematical discourse and on the impact of technology tools, such as virtual manipulatives (VM), on students' learning, while less research has focused on how technology tools facilitate that mathematical discourse. This paper presents an emerging construct, the Techno-Mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Technology Uses in Education
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