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Wallace, David L.; Ewald, Helen Rothschild – 2000
This book discusses the centrality of rhetoric in the academy, asserting the intimate connection between language and knowledge making and stressing the need for a change in the roles of teachers and students in today's classroom. The goal is mutuality, or sharing authority between teachers and students, and allowing everyone an equal voice. For…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Mutual Intelligibility
Johnson, Mary Canice – 1979
Dynamics of discussion in the classroom are analyzed based on data from 64 classrooms in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Among the discourse problems considered are the separation of answers from questions, the relationship between the presupposition of an utterance and the speaker/hearer assumptions, and the relationship between utterance form and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion
Madison Public Schools, WI. – 1972
Based on the belief that the most appropriate focus of a language arts curriculum is the process and content of communication, these several unipacs (instructional packets) explore some essential elements of communication which should be incorporated into a curricular theory: (1) abstraction , which is the assertion that words may be classified as…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Design, Diachronic Linguistics