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Direct linkLeah Shepard-Carey – Classroom Discourse, 2023
There is an urgent need for more ethical and equitable approaches to reading instruction for young emergent bilingual children in English medium classrooms. Translanguaging pedagogies are one approach that may address this issue as they encourage emergent bilinguals to use all of their linguistic and semiotic resources during reading. This study…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Code Switching (Language), Small Group Instruction, Reading Instruction
Laursen, Helle Pia; Kolstrup, Kirsten L. – Classroom Discourse, 2018
Previous studies of clarification requests in conversations involving second language users typically view such requests as important to obtain 'comprehensible input' or as a form of repair resulting in a sidetrack from the ongoing conversation. This article argues that clarification requests potentially have a much deeper influence on the course…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Second Language Learning, Classroom Communication, Semiotics
Building a Semiotic Repertoire for Social Action: Interactional Competence as Biographical Discovery
Eskildsen, Søren W. – Classroom Discourse, 2018
This commentary draws on the four articles in this issue to discuss interactional competence from a usage-based perspective. The usage-based conception of language knowledge as an inventory of form-meaning pairings used for communicative purposes will be qualified by incorporating the idea that these communicative purposes are social actions. L2…
Descriptors: Biographies, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Linguistic Competence
Heller, Vivien – Classroom Discourse, 2016
The article examines how diverse semiotic resources are made available for explaining mathematical terms in a fifth-grade classroom. Situated within the methodological framework developed by conversation analysis and the analysis of embodiment-in-interaction, the study deals with two instances of a classroom episode in each of which participants…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Grade 5, Comparative Analysis
Engman, Mel M. – Classroom Discourse, 2021
The growing demand for Indigenous language education in the United States often relies on community teachers with widely varying proficiencies as part of local language reclamation efforts. While these English-dominant 'teacher-learners' play a central role in the success of classroom-based K-12 language programs, their classroom experiences and…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Educational Technology, American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance
Jonsson, Carla – Classroom Discourse, 2019
In a bilingual school, the linguistic and semiotic resources of students who speak one, two or several languages can be used in classroom discourse in order to embrace and strengthen the multiplicity of voices and languages in teaching and learning. In this article, four English language lessons -- where the medium of instruction mainly oscillates…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Bilingual Schools
