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Vrikki, Maria; Wheatley, Lisa; Howe, Christine; Hennessy, Sara; Mercer, Neil – Language and Education, 2019
Research into classroom dialogue suggests that certain forms are especially productive for students' learning. Despite the large number of studies in this area, there is inadequate evidence about the prevalence of the identified forms, let alone their productivity. However, scarcity is widely presumed. The overall aim of the study reported in this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Video Technology, Faculty Development, Classroom Communication
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Tai, Kevin W. H.; Wei, Li – Language and Education, 2021
Recent studies on classroom discourse have challenged the traditional classroom role set and emphasised equal contributions from the participants and the emergence of knowledge through active participation. Co-learning emphasises the process in which teachers and students attempt to adapt to one another's behaviour and learn from each other in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Phenomenology, Secondary School Students
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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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Barwell, Richard – Language and Education, 2013
Mathematics curricula increasingly emphasise the importance of mathematical communication. Students are seen as progressing from the use of a more informal or everyday form of communication to a more mathematical approach. There have, however, been very few studies of how mathematicians actually talk about mathematics. This paper reports analysis…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer), Radio, Mathematics
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Hofmann, R.; Mercer, N. – Language and Education, 2016
Collaborative problem solving, when students work in pairs or small groups on a curriculum-related task, has become an increasingly common feature of classroom education. This paper reports a study of a topic which has received relatively little attention: how teachers can most usefully intervene when students are working in a group, but have…
Descriptors: Intervention, Small Group Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Le Roux, Kate – Language and Education, 2008
The concepts of "access" and "relevance" feature prominently in the discourse of change in mathematics education in South Africa. One way in which these concepts have been played out in mathematics classrooms is in the use of mathematical problems with real-world contexts. This paper presents a Critical Discourse Analysis of…
Descriptors: World Problems, Mathematics Education, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Pirie, Susan – Language and Education, 1991
Previously collected data on "incoherent" episodes of pupil-pupil discussion are examined in a study of mathematical learning. They raise general points about mathematics classroom discourse and indicate the importance of understanding children's ostensibly incoherent exchanges. (28 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Group Discussion, Incidental Learning
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Morgan, Candia – Language and Education, 2005
National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) guidance appears to characterise mathematical language as a set of specialist words with unambiguous definitions, yet analysis of the classroom transcript suggests that at least some mathematical concepts cannot be captured by such definitions. This paper explores the notion of definition within mathematics,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Definitions, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction
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Baynham, Mike – Language and Education, 1996
Investigates the role of language in adult numeracy classrooms, utilizing the resources of systemic functional linguistics and constructs derived from conversational analysis and ethnomethodology to examine how these classrooms are constructed in discourse. The study characterizes these classrooms as mixed-mode discourse sites and examines how…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Audiotape Recordings, Classroom Techniques, Discourse Analysis
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Setati, Mamokgethi; Adler, Jill; Reed, Yvonne; Bapoo, Abdool – Language and Education, 2002
Describes and discusses the language practice of mathematics, science, and English language teachers and learners in a sample of urban and rural, primary, and secondary schools in South Africa. Particular focus is on reception and production of language through code switching, exploratory talk, and discourse specific talk. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries