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Many lessons from a school: What classroom discourse analysis reveals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Jane Zuengler
Jane Zuengler*
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University of Wisconsin–Madison, USAzuengler@wisc.edu
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Abstract

In my talk, I foreground what I and my colleagues have learned about discourse in the numerous classrooms we observed in a four-year research study at an urban high school. While Jefferson High had a student body that was linguistically and culturally diverse, it was homogeneous socioeconomically, being labeled ‘low income’. Some of the research I address reveals how the classroom discourse both co-constructed and was influenced by these phenomena. Additionally, my survey of the research reveals that theoretical frameworks shape the research process and, ultimately, what we learn about classroom discourse.

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Language Teaching , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 55 - 63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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