Illustrates how examination of children's "condensed" utterances can reveal the emergence of complex thought processes. Shows how these expressions, often brief and easily overlooked, when negotiated and probed by the teacher, reveal multiple connections, the drawing of analogies, divergent frames of reference, intertextual…

Focuses on one central aspect of epistemological mathematical knowledge, namely the problematique of how mathematical signs and symbols gain meaning in the interactive social processes of teaching and learning. Describes a teaching episode and analyzes it from an epistemological perspective. Identifies three components of epistemological knowledge…

Reports on a study in which two Israeli seventh-grade classes, one consisting of mostly females and the other gender balanced, were monitored. The two teachers manifested different communication styles and did not have any bias against females. Findings indicate that gender, academic composition, and teacher communication style are important…

Based on a database of lesson extracts, this article attempts to characterize task-based interaction in the second-language classroom as a variety, discusses its pedagogical and interactional advantages and disadvantages, and considers what kinds of learning it might be promoting. (Author/VWL)

Presents an alternative pedagogy implicit in Imre Lakatos's "Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery." Lakatos reveals that learning mathematics is a discourse-laden activity in which it is acceptable, if not preferable, to refute conjecture. Provides examples of using a Lakatosian approach in an elementary classroom.…

Drawing on research from the field of communication, this article proposes a framework that identifies, classifies, and organizes foreign language teachers' nonverbal behavior. It describes an observational study in which each nonverbal behavior in the framework is defined and illustrated as it occurs in a foreign language class. (Author/VWL)

Shares examples of explicit teacher talk to demonstrate its influence on learners: encouraging positive reading behaviors, thinking metacognitively, and using meaning as well as sounding out words. Describes teacher talk that (1) promotes struggling readers' understandings and control in reading; and (2) that empowers novice teachers and thus…

A study investigated interaction patterns between 11 children with autism, 9 with intellectual disabilities, and 9 teachers working with a multimedia program to increase literacy skills. Children with autism showed increased enjoyment and willingness to seek help from their teachers. Children with low language ability showed increases in verbal…

Relates concepts from research on intersubjectivity to problems emerging in designing learning environments, focusing on an undergraduate teacher education classroom designed to run according to an educational philosophy of community of learners and considering issues emerging from these efforts. The article also considers three aspects of…

Explains that semantic coaching is a system of conversational analysis and communication design developed by Fernando Flores, and was based on the earlier research of John Austin and John Searle. Describes how to establish the coaching relationship, and how to coach for improved performance. (PA)

Provides a framework of four constructs that can be used to analyze various forms of classroom communication. Develops and uses these constructs as two preservice teacher's concepts of communication and their corresponding classroom practices are considered. (Contains 33 references.) (Author/ASK)

Discusses negotiating pop culture and other literacies in current-events discussions. Gives some implications for teachers and teacher educators. Concludes that effective, innovative and sensitive ways of encouraging ESL (English as a second language) students and reticent local students to bring elements of their home (pop) cultures, media, and…

Investigated possible links between classroom interaction and the learning of new vocabulary. Learners were asked to report the new words they could recall immediately after their lessons. Found both positive and negative links between mentioning new words, repeating new words, focusing on new words, turn-taking around new words, and recall and…

Describes how, when asked to devote the day following the September 11 tragedy to class discussions, University of Michigan instructors benefited from the skills and classroom strategies honed by colleagues whose classes regularly deal with complex human realities. (EV)

Explores ways in which adults discuss literature in two different settings--a graduate English seminar and a graduate English education book club course. Examines the role of speaker turns, tentative and presentational language, overlapping talk and questioning in those literature discussions. Explores the different theoretical and pedagogical…