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Mueller, Mary; Yankelewitz, Dina – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2014
Gain a new perspective on the sharing of erroneous solutions in classroom discussions. Based on their research in grades four and six, the authors reveal how student-to-student correction of errors promotes mathematical reasoning and understanding. Tips for teachers include strategies for using students' errors to encourage reasoning during…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Error Correction, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics
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Kamiya, Nobuhiro – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between proactive and reactive Focus on Form (FonF) and gestures. Two English classes in a public high school in Japan taught by a native speaker of English were observed and videotaped for 96 min and analyzed. Overall, 64 proactive FonF and 43 reactive FonF were provided. Among them,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages), Native Speakers
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Olson, Peter C. – Reading Improvement, 2011
This study attempted to determine whether giving lower performing tutors preferential instruction over their higher performing tutees before they engage in peer tutoring sessions may help increase the reading achievement for these lower performing tutors. The preferential instruction consisted of giving adult-delivered instruction in a targeted…
Descriptors: Expertise, Video Technology, Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency
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Martin, Cathrin; Sahlstrom, Fritjof – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The aims of this article are to address how learning is constituted and can be studied as a phenomenon in interaction and to discuss how teaching and learning are related. Theoretically, the article argues for and discusses constraints and affordances for relating sociocultural understandings of learning as changing participation to "conversation…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Sociocultural Patterns