Using Discourse Analysis to Improve Classroom Interaction

This Accessible How-to Text Is About Classroom Interaction - How To Study It And How To Use That Knowledge To Improve Teaching And Learning. Actually Showing What Critical, Constructionist, Sociocultural Perspectives On Teaching, Learning, And Schooling Are And What They Can Do, It Makes Discourse Analysis Understandable And Useful To Teachers And Other Nonlinguists.--jacket. Talking And Learning -- Assuming And Choosing -- Interacting And Positioning -- Identity And Worlds -- Interdiscursivity -- Power -- Building Knowledge -- Positioning, Alignment, Stake, And Identity 1 -- Positioning, Alignment, Stake, And Identity 2 -- Minimizing Face Threats While Challenging Practice -- Clashes And Intersections Of Teachers' And Students' Different Worlds, Case 1: Within Race -- Clashes And Intersections Of Teachers' And Students' Different Worlds, Case 2: Across Race -- The Discursive Qualities Of Inclusive Diverse Classrooms -- Interrogating Timed Prompted Writing In Professional Development Communities -- Reframing Accountability Measures: Repositioning Teachers And Students. Lesley A. Rex And Laura Schiller. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [156]-159) And Index.