Research in UK and Mexican schools showed that children who were taught to use 'exploratory talk' i.e. following ground rules to help them share knowledge, evaluate evidence and consider options in a reasonable and equitable way, became more able to manage and express both group and individual reasoning and learning activities. The project outcome appears to validate Vygotsky's concept of the relationship between 'intermental' (social) and 'intramental' (psychological) development.
Pauline Gibbons (2008) Research to investigate what 'intellectual quality' is, and how this is reflected in classroom activity and practise, with reference to students learning through the medium of English as an L2. Based on SCLA, with emphasis on considering how pedagogy can be redefined in terms of sociocultural conceptual frameworks and analytical tools.
Jewtii describes approaches to using multimodality , specifically cdrom in a classroom. Description of approach, genre and mode . technical terms ot analyse the images: inclusion of various types of multimodal images. Transformation of original text.
Description of some of the semiotic resources students use in decoding multimodal texts, in this case the graphic novel. Students seem unaware of the but uses a range of resources (colour, angle, panels, perspective text) in decoding the texts
Linguistic analysis can be used to describe texts students could produce: teachers and students should have acces to successful texts to determine how texts are linguistically shaped and structured and how grammar and lexis is drawn upon: the genre. In genre beginning and stages can be identified on basis of shifts in lexical and grammatical patterning. As student move through school the type of texts they should produce becomes increasingly generalized and abstract, more interpretation and evaluation. This is done through nominalization, movein from chronological sequencing to embedding events as part of an argument and in using more evaluative lexis.
What does knowing a word entail? difference in undertanding depts vs width of vocabulary knowldege, using polysemosity of words to instruct, different appraoches to vacabulary instruction: using L1, read alounds, making connection with L1,
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Bilingual education: always concerned with power relations among languages, Critical Approach there should be a fundamental pedagogical assumption and a commitment to social justice: in order to create the best learning environments for bilingual learners, educators should acknowledge these three central principles (affirming linguistic and cultural identities, promoting additive bilingualism, and fostering integration) When teachers are empowered and see themselves as agents of change, they can graps and integrate various approaches to bilingualism to support the students
Support for children with special educational needs (SEN) in inclusive classrooms, in many countries, continues to be provided by teaching assistants (TAs). Whilst they frequently take responsibility for instruction, they are rarely adequately trained and prepared. As TAs have ample opportunities for individualised and group interactions, this paper recommends scaffolding as the key theory to inform their practice
a sociocultural approach that involves observation of development in three planes of analysis corresponding to personal, interpersonal, and community processes.
report on outcomes from recent research in which we have
worked with the metaphor of ‘scaffolding’ to address questions about the
nature of English as a Second Language (ESL) education.
Article investigating roles played by young siblings close in age in each others’ literacy development arguing for a unique reciprocity in learning between older and younger child.
*from Abstract* Maybin, Janet; Mercer, Neil and Stierer, Barry (1992). 'Scaffolding': learning in the classroom. In: Norman, Kate ed. Thinking Voices: The work of the National Oracy Project. London: Hodder & Stoughton, pp. 186–195.
This article explores the development of innovative approaches to the education of adults and young people in Ireland. The author begins by describing briefly the context in which those who are involved in adult education are working and some of the changes that have affected the development of the adult education service in the country.
Understanding the meaning of being an effective university teacher forms the basis of ensuring teaching quality in universities within a changing and changed setting
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