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Possible Enabling Strategies in Teacher-led Talk with Young Pupils.

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Hughes, Maureen; Westgate, David – Language and Education, 1998

Focuses on whether teachers' enabling styles in talking with young pupils depends on supportive strategies on teacher's part or whether any more specific teacher discourse-moves can be identified as productive. Analyzes one extended recording in which the teacher talks with a group of 5-year olds for approximately 30 minutes. Conclusions are drawn…

Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis

Computers and Reasoning Through Talk in the Classroom.

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Wegerif, Rupert; Mercer, Neil – Language and Education, 1996

Proposes an approach to teaching reasoning through classroom conversation that integrates group work around computers into curriculum-related activities. The article examines research on collaborative learning and describes a program in which the computer is used to direct children's explicit, joint reasoning in curriculum-related activities. (79…

Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction