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Tapper, Joanna – Discourse Processes, 1996
Examines the oral discourse of four university teaching contexts (lectures, laboratories, writing classes, and writing conferences) for the incidence of exchange patterns. Defines exchange patterns and explores previous research on three-part exchanges. Presents new research on two-part exchanges. Focuses on how non-native speakers of English…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Kamler, Barbara – 1994
A case study examined the processes by which girls and boys in their first month of primary school assume particular, highly gendered subjectivities within the school setting. Subjects, 28 children of diverse multicultural origins entering a suburban primary school in a large regional center in southern Victoria, Australia, were observed in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
Hogelucht, Kimberly S. – 1994
A study examined a segment of classroom discourse in light of: (1) the complexity of an I-R-E (Initiation-Reply-Evaluation) sequence; (2) the teacher's role as facilitator; and (3) the similarities and differences between mundane conversation and classroom discourse. In addition, the intricacies of interaction between teachers and students in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities
O'Brien, Jennifer – 1994
A study examined from a feminist poststructuralist perspective the discourses available in a classroom using a critical pedagogy, based on a belief that teaches need to make it possible for their students to question the social world constructed in texts. The teacher of an Australian junior primary classroom (with students age five to eight) took…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis