Purpose: This study aims to illustrate how one-sixth grade language arts teacher transforms the theory of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) into practice, an effort made visible through classroom discourse. Design/methodology/approach: This classroom discourse inquiry is guided by tools of reconstructive discourse analysis which encourage a…

Purpose: The relationship between teacher talk and students' talk productivity is explored by two approaches: process-product, interpretive. Most studies used a process-product perspective by not considering the discursive compositions that may considerably modify the relations between a science teacher's talk interventions and students' talk…