Using discourse analysis to improve classroom interaction

"This accessible "how-to" text is about classroom interaction - how to study it and how to use that knowledge to improve teaching and learning. Actually showing what critical, constructionist, sociocultural perspectives on teaching, learning, and schooling are and what they can do, it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rex, Lesley A.
Other Authors: Schiller, Laura( 1949-)
Language:English
Published: New York: Routledge, c2009.
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Online Access:http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=279379
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Talking and learning
  • 2. Assuming and choosing
  • 3. Interacting and positioning
  • 4. Identity and worlds
  • 5. Interdiscursivity
  • 6. Power
  • 7. Building knowledge
  • 8. Positioning, alignment, stake, and identity 1
  • 9. Positioning, alignment, stake, and identity 2
  • 10. Minimizing face threats while challenging practice
  • 11. Clashes and intersections of teachers' and students' different worlds, case 1: within race
  • 12. Clashes and intersections of teachers' and students' different worlds, case 2: across race
  • 13. The discursive qualities of inclusive diverse classrooms
  • 14. Interrogating timed prompted writing in professional development communities
  • Reframing accountability measures: repositioning teachers and stude