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Sharma, Bal Krishna – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
This study investigates the teacher role in mediating the task and the learner in an advanced academic writing class. Having identified three verbal (non-)participation patterns of students in collaborative tasks (silence, dominance, and off-task talk), I examine how these interactional concerns are understood and addressed by English as a second…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Teacher Role
Vallarta, Carolyn R. – 1991
This report describes a 12-week program designed to increase time on task for kindergarten students. Members of a targeted group of kindergarten students were identified as being off task an average of 1.9 times more than the rest of the class. A program that incorporated the dominant learning styles of students in the target group with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Span, Cognitive Style, Critical Thinking