Develops a multidimensional framework for analyzing an extended physics classroom interaction to understand the resources participants use, alignments they form, and meanings and context they construct. Considers how participants negotiate their positions, focusing on one resistant student and why she remains unconvinced by others' arguments and…

Cognitive, affective, and social effects of teacher involvement with students were investigated for two successive years at two grade levels (grades 4 and 5 in the first year; grades 5 and 6 in the second) and three income levels (low, medium, high). The final sample consisted of 910 students in Year 1 and 816 students in Year 2 obtained from 14…

Background: After the failure of several important methods comparison studies in the 1960s, the influence of interaction analysis stimulated interest in foreign language classroom processes. More careful observational studies gradually revealed which process variables were of interest. Also, there has been much research on teacher talk, with a…