Christina Davidson

Lecturer, School of Education, University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Classroom Interaction and Talk in Writing Time in a Primary Classroom

Abstract

"When this journey is completed, I believe, we will know how to look at interaction in classrooms, and other educational environments to specify the interactional work that does make a difference in education." (Mehan, 1979, p. 9)

This paper presents some initial findings from a study examining classroom interaction and talk in writing lessons. Recordings of interaction between students and a teacher during a range of teaching activities have been analysed using a conversation analytic approach. The activities included modelled, shared and guided writing. Of interest to the study was the way in which participants, interaction and talk might be related to the production of knowledge about writing and notions of implicitness or explicitness.

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Christina is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Ballarat, Australia.

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30 min. Paper

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Australia