Penelope L. Lisi, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Educational Leadership Central Connecticut State University [email protected] and Catherine Kurkjian, Ed.D. Professor, Department of Literacy, Early Childhood and Elementary Education Central Connecticut State University [email protected] Introduction In 2005, the…
Accountable Talk in the Classroom: Educators Make Shifts to Encourage Instructional Discourse
By: Alicia Wetherbee, Amanda Lynch, Kathy Flaherty, Monique Golden, and Jasmine Rudd Abstract This investigation examined the impact of teacher-modeled instructional discourse on student accountable talk within content areas of our K-2 classrooms and library media. It made use of…
The Influence of a Kindergarten Student’s Primary Discourse on Expressive Oral Language
By Darcy Anne Fiano, Ph.D. Abstract This seven-month ethnographic case study elucidated a kindergarten student’s navigation through her first formal schooling experience with relation to expressive oral language. Gee’s theory of Discourses and methodology of discourse analysis were used to…