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"It's Insanely Useful!" Students' Use of Instructional Concepts in Group Work and Individual Writing
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Rodnes, Kari Anne – Language and Education, 2012
This study investigates students' work on analyzing a literary text, a cartoon strip, with focus on their use of instructional, analytical concepts. Excerpts from a group conversation and from individually written texts are analyzed from a sociocultural, dialogical perspective. The analysis of the conversation shows how such concepts help the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Group Discussion, Cartoons, Student Attitudes
Discourse and Learning in a Norwegian Multiethnic Classroom: Developing Shared Understanding through Classroom Discourse
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de Wal Pastoor, Lutine – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2004
This article explores the mediational role of classroom discourse in the development of shared understanding in the multiethnic classroom. Successful participation in classroom discourse not only requires linguistic and cognitive competence, but also demands cultural knowledge, which often is taken for granted. Research carried out in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Communication, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Awareness
A Sense of Relief: Backgrounding in Argumentative Student Writing.
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Evensen, Lars Sigfred – 1992
This article presents two developmental studies of discourse patterns in student writing. Results from two projects are presented: (1) the NORDWRITE project (1986-1989; Norwegian argumentative material from grades eight and nine) and (2) a comparison of argumentative writing in grades eight and nine with foreign language argumentative writing at…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 8