Making “Academic Talk” Explicit: Research Directions for Fostering Classroom Discourse Skills in Children from Nonmainstream Cultures

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dc.contributor.authorVan Kleeck, Anne
dc.contributor.authorSchwarz, Amy Louise
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-24T22:59:21Z
dc.date.available2015-11-24T22:59:21Z
dc.date.issued2011-01
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on making “school talk,” or classroom discourse, more explicit on two levels. One level involves making explicit for teachers both the nature of school talk, and the reasons why many children may come to school unfamiliar with the school talk register. Providing teachers with this awareness enables them, in turn, to make school talk explicit for their students by directly explaining the rules for engaging in this type of discourse to them. As tools for enhancing teacher awareness, this article clearly distinguishes the school talk and everyday social talk registers and provides information regarding the cultural variation in children learning to use school talk at home. The shortcomings of previous implicit approaches to teaching school talk are examined, and ways to make the rules for engaging in this register explicit for children are suggested.
dc.description.departmentCommunication Disorders
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dc.format.extent18 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationVan Kleeck, A. & Schwarz, A. L. (2011). Making “academic talk” explicit: Research directions for fostering classroom discourse skills in children from nonmainstream cultures. Revue Suisse des Sciences de l’Éducation, 33(1), pp. 1–18.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/5866
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAcademic Press Fribourg
dc.sourceRevue Suisse des Sciences de l’Éducation, 2011, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1–18.
dc.subjectacademic talk
dc.subjectnonmainstream cultures
dc.subjectclassroom discourse
dc.subjectlanguage in the classroom
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectCommunication Disorders
dc.titleMaking “Academic Talk” Explicit: Research Directions for Fostering Classroom Discourse Skills in Children from Nonmainstream Cultures
dc.typeArticle

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