1st Edition

Using Discourse Analysis to Improve Classroom Interaction

By Lesley A. Rex, Laura Schiller Copyright 2009
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: "Reading" Conversations, Opening Possibilities

Chapter 1

Talking and Learning

Chapter 2

Assuming & Choosing

Chapter 3

Interacting & Positioning

Chapter 4

Identity & Worlds

Chapter 5

Interdiscursivity

Chapter 6

Power

Chapter 7

Building Knowledge

PART TWO: CURRICULUM

Introduction

Chapter 8

Positioning, Alignment, Stake, and Identity 1

Chapter 9

Positioning, Alignment, Stake, and Identity 2

Chapter 10

Minimizing Face Threats While Challenging Practice

PART THREE: DIFFERENCE

Introduction

Chapter 11

Clashes and Intersections of the Different Worlds of Teacher and Students, Case 1

Chapter 12

Clashes and Intersections of the Different Worlds of Teacher and Student, Case 2

PART FOUR: Accountability and Assessment

Introduction

Chapter 13

The Discursive Qualities of Inclusive Diverse Classrooms

Chapter 14

Interrogating Timed Prompted Writing in Professional Development Communities

Chapter 15

Reframing Accountability Measures: Repositioning Teachers and Students

 

Epilogue

 

 

 

Biography

Lesley A. Rex is Faculty Leader of Secondary English Teacher Education, Co-Chair of the Joint Program in English and Education, and Associate Professor at the University of Michigan.

Laura Schiller is a National Board Certified teacher, Director of the Oakland (MI) Writing Project, Literacy Consultant for Oakland (MI) Intermediate School District, and University of Michigan doctoral student.