Opening Dialogue: Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Learning in the English Classroom (Language and Literacy Series

by Martin Nystrand

"Opening Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Learning in the English Classroom" promises to reorient our thinking about how younger adolescents and their teachers, talking together, compose shared understandings that contribute to individual students' learning. Presenting a new conceptual framework, Nystrand and his colleagues argue that people learn not merely by being spoken (or written) to, but by participating in communicative exchanges. Dozens of schools and thousands of students participated in the study reported here, under the auspices of the National Centre on Effective Secondary Schools. Its audience will include graduate education courses in language, literature, and literacy, teaching methods, quantitative research, teacher research, and educational psychology, as well as researchers, teachers and policymakers.

Genres: Teaching, Grad School, Education

141 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1996

Reviews

[Synthia Salomon, Ed.S. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I specifically learned from the discourse around dialogic instruction. In both secondary education and higher education, I'm constantly looking for strategies to bridge recitation and conversation.