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DeJarnette, Anna F. – Language and Education, 2016
I examined students' discourse while working in pairs at the computer in an eighth-grade mathematics class to understand how students kept track of the people and things they discussed. I found that students most often referenced themselves and objects within the environment, through references to shared knowledge and the representations on the…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Technology, Discourse Analysis
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Fisher, Eunice – Language and Education, 1993
Classroom discourse is evaluated for the contribution it can make to students' learning in groups. Data recorded from primary age children working at computers are categorized as exploratory, cumulative, and disputational talk. The teacher's role in making explicit strategies that optimize exploratory talk is discussed. (Contains 31 references.)…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction, Discourse Analysis