1st Edition

Promoting Academic Talk in Schools Global Practices and Perspectives

Edited By Robyn Gillies Copyright 2019
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Promoting Academic Talk in Schools brings together a rich array of recent research to explore how academic talk helps transform student experience across a variety of learning environments. Drawing on conceptual frameworks and evidence-based strategies, each chapter analyses the implications for practice in both formal and informal classroom settings. The book covers topics from... Read more

Chapter 1: Academic Talk in Schools: An Introduction



Robyn M. Gillies



Chapter 2: Promoting Academic Talk through Collaborative Reasoning



Tzu-Jung Lin, Shufeng Ma, Richard C. Anderson, May Jadallah, Jingjing Sun, Joshua A. Morris, Brian W. Miller, Rebecca Sallade



Chapter 3: Investigating Productive Academic Talk as Third Graders Interact with One Another: A project-based science/engineering curriculum, and mobile devices



Kathleen Marie Easley, and Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar



Chapter 4: Promoting Productive Student Participation Across Multiple Classroom Participation Settings



Noreen M. Webb, Megan L. Franke, Nicholas C. Johnson, Marsha Ing, Joy Zimmerman



Chapter 5: Turning Talk Around: Time for children to talk and teachers to listen in primary mathematics



Linda Hargreaves and Rocío García-Carrión



Chapter 6: Promoting Dialogic Discussion in Mathematics and Science Classrooms



Ellice A. Forman, and Calli Shekell



Chapter 7: Using Cooperative Learning in Reading to Promote Academic Talk with Students Aged 12-16 Years Old



Allen Thurston and Maria Cockerill



Chapter 8: Enhancing Parent-Child Language Interaction in the Pre-School Years



Keith Topping



Chapter 9: Supporting Teacher Learning and Use of Inquiry Dialogue with the Argumentation Rating Tool



Alina Reznitskaya and Ian A. G. Wilkinson



Chapter 10: Dialogic Talk in the Cooperative Classroom



Robyn M. Gillies



Chapter 11: Dialogue as Instruction: Purposeful and Response-able Writing Workshop Minilesson Talk in a Second Grade Classroom



Maureen P. Boyd, Valentyna Mykula, and Youngae Choi

Biography

Robyn M. Gillies is Professor of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia.