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Peer reviewedCooper, Catherine R.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1982
Shows that among the qualities of interaction present in peer learning are the negotiation of teaching and collaborative roles, attention-focusing, showing and pointing, and informative messages. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Interaction
Barbour, Nita Hale – Probe, 1974
Ninety-five children in 28 nursery school classrooms were used to investigate the relationships between teacher facilitative or directive verbal behavior in nursery school classrooms and seven aspects of child language change (receptive vocabulary, vocabulary of use, mean length of response, complexity of sentences, inquiry statements, dramatic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedRosen, Connie; Rosen, Harold – Urban Review, 1974
Excepts from THE LANGUAGE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN (Penguin, 1973), which evolved from a project initiated by the English Committee of the Schools Council of England and conducted under the direction of Mrs. Connie Rosen; focuses on the talk of primary school children in the presence of a teacher. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary School Students
A Sociolinguistic Approach to Communication in Small Instructional Groups. Technical Report No. 505.
Wilkinson, Louise Cherry; And Others – 1979
A pilot study was conducted as part of a larger sociological investigation of small group interaction. Specifically, the study dealt with communication in three first-grade advanced reading groups, each composed of 15 children, and focused on two types of requests: those for action and those for information. Student interactions were audio- and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedFisher, 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
Download full textDriver, Beth – 1978
The assumption that question-answer sequences consist of two moves was examined using data from recordings of second-grade classrooms in Austin, Texas. Interactions initiated by children's spontaneous questions in informal, small group settings were evaluated. Twenty-nine dialogue samples are presented and analyzed. Four issues in the study of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis
Churchill, Edith H. E.; Petner, Joseph N., Jr. – 1977
A one-year project to explore the use of children's language served as a basis for staff development through the North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation. Children's conversations among themselves were observed and recorded within the classroom setting, and the content of the observations were used for planning curriculum and assessing children's…
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Curriculum Development
