Socio-historical transformation and classroom discourse in Malaysia

Widdowson and Classroom Discourse

  Drawing on recent developments in linguistic description and applied linguistics, it can be concluded that learning a language necessitates getting to know something and being able to do something with that knowledge: competence, and performance. Structural approach to language description attaches importance to the former; communicative approach to the latter. Appropriate classroom discours...

Discourse Transformation

Exploring Dialogism and Multivocality in L2 Classroom-Discourse Architecture in Iran

Critical pedagogy (CP), as a poststructuralist educational movement, challenges the asymmetrical, power-over nature of classroom discourse and seeks to accommodate multivocality in the classroom and in the society. This study probed the discourse architecture of EFL classrooms in Iran. Specifically, it aimed to explore to what extent Iranian EFL classrooms have stepped away from the teacher-dom...

Classroom discourse: teaching, learning, and learning disabilities

This study examined teacher}student discourse from a sociocultural perspective in order to ascertain the nature of e!ective instruction for school-age students with learning disabilities. This discussion examines one teacher's resource room instruction that was part of a larger study of teacher}student discourse. The results suggested two considerations: (1) the importance of teacher self-re#ec...

Lexical scaffolding in immersion classroom discourse

Research in the field of vocabulary learning has shown that child L2 learners need to meet words again and again in new contexts in order to expand and deepen their word knowledge. In an instructional setting, cognitive processing is enhanced not only by the interplay between language use and metalinguistic reflection during classroom interaction but also by the activation and articulation of d...