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Teachers' Leadership and Students' Experience of Group Work
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Hammar Chiriac, Eva; Granstrom, Kjell – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
Group work is used as a means of learning at all levels of most educational systems. However, teachers often use group work without considering its "pros and cons." Such a mode of non-reflected application may sometimes end up in positive experiences and learning, but the likelihood is that the outcome will be the opposite. The aim of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Focus Groups, Cooperative Learning
Soliciting Teacher Attention in an L2 Classroom: Affect Displays, Classroom Artefacts, and Embodied Action
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Cekaite, Asta – Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper explores L2 novices' ways of soliciting teacher attention, more specifically, their summonses. The data are based on detailed analyses of video recordings in a Swedish language immersion classroom. The analyses illuminate the lexical shape of summonses in conjunction with prosody, body posture, gestures, and classroom artefacts. As…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Immersion Programs, Swedish
Staging Linguistic Identities and Negotiating Monolingual Norms in Multiethnic School Settings
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Cekaite, Asta; Evaldsson, Ann-Carita – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
This article focuses on children's language alternation practices in two primary school settings. More specifically we explore how participants (children and teachers) in episodes of language alternation invoke linguistic and social identities, thereby "talking into being" language and educational ideologies. The present study is based…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Multilingualism, Ethnography
Classroom Activities and Engagement for Children with Reading and Writing Difficulties
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Kjellin, Margareta Sandstrom; Wennerstrom, Katrin – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2006
A multiple case study is reported aiming at comparing the degree of taking part and being engaged in classroom activities for children with and without reading and writing difficulties. Observations are made of 23 pupils with reading and writing difficulties (seven with a diagnosis of dyslexia), and 23 pupils in a control group; the observations…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Class Activities, Dyslexia, Control Groups
Children's Engagement in Different Classroom Activities
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Sandstrom Kjellin, Margareta; Granlund, Mats – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2006
A multiple case study is reported aiming at identifying the degree of taking part and of being engaged in classroom activities for children with and without reading and writing difficulties/dyslexia. The aim was also to investigate the accordance between "effective literacy teaching" and children's expressed interest and observed taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Class Activities, Learning Activities