OBJECTIVE To examine effects of a teacher consultation and coaching program delivered by school and community mental health professionals on change in observed classroom interactions and child functioning across one school year. METHOD Thirty-six classrooms within 5 urban elementary schools (87% Latino, 11% Black) were randomly assigned to intervention (training + consultation/coaching) and c...

pairing theory with methodology, this study demonstrates how efl teachers’ limited wait-time practice structures in and affects the structuring of the unfolding classroom discourse with reference to learners’ participation opportunities. informed by the tenets of conversation analysis, we have observed, videotaped, and transcribed line-by-line 10 efl teachers’ naturally-occurring classroom inte...

In adaptive filtering, undetected noise bursts often disturb the adaptation and may lead to instabilities and divergence of the adaptive filter. The sensitivity against noise bursts increases with the convergence speed of the adaptive filter and limits the performance of signal processing methods where fast convergence is required. Typical applications which are sensitive against noise bursts a...

‘High-quality talk’ is a fundamental principle of many approaches to teaching grammar. However, relatively few studies have attempted characterize this talk with attention the ways in which classroom dialogue might engender metalinguistic thinking. This paper explores how concepts procedural and declarative knowledge may be applied discourse order identify problems potentials grammatical ‘Metat...