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 makes discourse analysis understandable and useful to teachers and other nonlinguists.\ Using Discourse Analysis to Improve Classroom Interaction:\ \ offers teachers the powerful tools of discourse analysis as a...
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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 makes discourse analysis understandable and useful to teachers and other nonlinguists.Using Discourse Analysis to Improve Classroom Interaction: offers teachers the powerful tools of discourse analysis as a way of understanding the complex dynamics of human interaction that constitute effective, equitable teaching and learningguides readers step-by-step through how to build their interactional awareness to improve their teaching includes 'Try It Out' exercises to engage readers in learning how to respond to the social dynamics of their classrooms for the purpose of improving classroom interaction. Proceeding from simple illustrations to more complex layering of analytical concepts, short segments of talk, transcribed to highlight important points, are used to explain and illustrate the concepts. By the time readers get to the complicated issues addressed in this text they are ready to deal with some of teaching’s toughest challenges, and have the tools to build positive relationships among their students so that all can participate equally in the classroom.
Pt. I "Reading" Conversations, Opening Possibilities 11 Talking and Learning 32 Assuming and Choosing 93 Interacting and Positioning 194 Identity and Worlds 245 Interdiscursivity 286 Power 357 Building Knowledge 52Pt. 2 Curriculum 698 Positioning, Alignment, Stake, and Identity 1 719 Positioning, Alignment, Stake, and Identity 2 7610 Minimizing Face Threats While Challenging Practice 81Pt. 3 Difference 9711 Clashes and Intersections of Teachers' and Students' Different Worlds; Case 1: Within Race 10112 Clashes and Intersections of Teachers' and Students' Different Worlds; Case 2: Across Race 108Pt. 4 Accountability and Assessment 11913 The Discursive Qualities of Inclusive Diverse Classrooms 12314 Interrogating Timed Prompted Writing in Professional Development Communities 12915 Reframing Accountability Measures: Repositioning Teachers and Students 144Epilogue 152Notes 156Index 161
