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Shi, Yuchen – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Evidence is widely recognized as an essential component of argumentation. Existing research has primarily focused on students' use of evidence to construct explanations or claims. In the present study, 54 11- to 12-year-old Chinese students participated in an extended discourse-based argumentation curriculum, along with an equivalent…
Descriptors: Evidence, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
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Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Silva, Maria Luisa – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This article analyzes the interaction between teachers and children in kindergarten classrooms in order to identify and describe the discursive strategies of teachers that retrieve children's previous expressions to clarify and specify concepts represented in them. Data analyzed include 90 situations of teacher-children exchanges in 7 kindergarten…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Children
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Mortensen, Kristian – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This article describes how students in the second language classroom claim incipient speakership and establish recipiency with a co-participant before the turn is properly initiated. The resources used by the incipient speaker include in-breaths and body movements. The article shows that when the teacher's turn is designed as not to pre-establish…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Teaching Methods