Enhancing Classroom-Based Talk

Enhancing Classroom-based Talk provides an overview of the major research and theoretical perspectives that underpin the development of classroom-based talk. It provides strategies on how to promote student to student and student to teacher discourse during classroom-based activities, and elaborates on how teachers' dialogic discourse can challenge children's thinking and scaffold their learning. This comprehensive and practical book provides an overview of the empirical research and the theoretical perspectives that inform developments in classroom-based talk and is a a valuable asset to university and college teachers concerned with promoting classroom-based talk.

• | Author: Robyn M. Gillies
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 09, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 158 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138818291
• | ISBN-13: 9781138818293