‘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...

The purpose of this study is to find out the dominant category used by teacher and student during classroom interaction investigate which task that require talk more. a qualitative approach included case study. Naturalistic observation encoding matrix were obtain data. data examined using FIACS (Flanders Interaction Analysis Category System) proposed Flanders (1970) frameworks for forms interac...

The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of varying frequency patterns (FPs) of words on the productive acquisition of a young EFL learner in a home setting. Target words were presented to the learner using games and role plays. They were subsequently traced for their frequencies in input and output. Eighteen immediate tests and delayed tests were administered to measure the ...

Drawing on Walsh's (2012) idea that boosting learners' contribution and interaction can play a key role in their foreign language learning, this mixed-methods study tried to cast some light on the ways by which teachers, via their choice and use of language, create or block learners' contribution in direct interactions in the classroom. A total of 800-minute recordings of 10 teachers' talks and...

Classroom talk is regarded as essential in engaging and developing student understandings in the domain of mathematics. The process of classroom talk, however, may occur in quite different ways. In this paper we analyse two forms of classroom talk – replacement and interweaving. These provide a heuristic for considering how teachers might develop a repertoire of practices that they may deploy t...

This descriptive analytical on-going study examines the engagement of Indonesian high school students as they participated in classroom activity, particularly whole class discussion settings. The is investigated three measures, word count, unprovoked student talk and turn count. While focus on talk, teacher will also be measured with purpose examining interaction to serve a comparison measures ...

badness. That alternative has been present even though the teacher was entirely unaware of it, possibly because he belonged to that dogmatic class who insist that all this talk about degeneracy, moral imbecility, hereditary taints, and abnormalities is merely another fad, and that what most bad boys need is a frequent application of the classical English birch rod translated into an American hi...

Now that the basic technical standards for an open, global learning infrastructure are rapidly maturing, it is time to shift our focus to the development of an integrated toolset that hides the technical complexities from the end user and that enables the author, teacher and learner to be more effective and efficient. In this talk, we will discuss some new approaches to realise this idea and we...

It is not uncommon for education university academics and schoolteachers to create opportunities to collaborate in projects of various kinds particularly professional development and research activities. While a number of studies have highlighted the advantages of school-university partnerships, there has been little work investigating how these partnerships actually work. This study shows how ...