Creating Classroom Communities of Learning

International Case Studies and Perspectives

Edited by Roger Barnard, Dr. María E. Torres-Guzmán

Publication date:

18 December 2008

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781847691132

The case studies in this book are based on transcripts of classroom interaction in nine different countries. In each chapter, the first author explains the specific context and through a theoretical and/or experiential perspective interprets the transcript data. The data are then re-interpreted by other authors in the book, illustrating the complexity and richness of interpretation and creating a dialogue among the book’s contributors. At the end of each chapter, readers are then invited with assistance to join in the conversation by providing their own interpretations of other transcript data from the same context. The book will be useful for student teachers or practicing professionals, as well as all educators interested in exploratory classroom research.

Contributors

Transcript Conventions

Foreword - Viv Edwards

Introduction - Roger Barnard, María E. Torres-Guzmán and John F. Fanselow

1. Under the Interactional Umbrella: Presentation and Collaboration in Japanese Classroom Discourse - Take 1 - Fred E. Anderson; Take 2 - Sylvia Wolfe

2. Teaching Content, Learning Language: Socialising ESL Students into Classroom Practices in Australia - Take 1 - Rhonda Oliver; Take 2 - James McLellan

3. Socialisation and ‘Safetalk’ in Upper Primary English Language Classroom in Brunei Darussalem - Take 1 - James McLellan and Pearl Chua-Wong Swee-Hui; Take 2 - María E. Torres-Guzmán

4. Negotiating Appropriateness in the Second Language in a Dual Language Education Classroom Setting in New York - Take 1 - María E. Torres-Guzmán; Take 2 - Vijay Kumar and Wong Bee Eng

5. Interaction in a Taiwanese Primary School English Classroom - Take 1 - Ching-Yi Tien and Roger Barnard; Take 2 - Fred E. Anderson

6. Learning through Dialogue in a Primary School Classroom in England - Take 1 - Sylvia Wolfe; Take 2 - Ching-Yi Tien and María E. Torres-Guzmán

7. Constructing Meaning in a Bilingual Learning Environment: Two Primary Classrooms in Malaysia - Take 1 - Wong Bee Eng and Vijay Kumar; Take 2 - Roger Barnard

8. Creating a Community of Learning in a New Zealand Primary School Classroom - Take 1 - Roger Barnard; Take 2 – James McLellan

9. Language Socialization in a Canadian Secondary School Course: Talking About Current Events - Take 1 - Patricia A. Duff; Take 2 - Rhonda Oliver

Afterword - John F. Fanselow

Index

Creating Classroom Communities of Learning presents an innovative and enlightening account of interaction in nine communities of learning. In many ways it is a groundbreaking volume, full of rich transcripts of classroom interaction, with both ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ interpretations. It not only highlights the powerful influence of cultural practices outside the classroom on what goes on inside the classroom, but it also unpacks the issue of the interpretive process.