The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction: 115 (Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics) - Hardcover

Markee, Numa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118531124 ISBN 13: 9781118531129

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

Synopsis

Offering an interdisciplinary approach, The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction presents a series of contributions written by educators and applied linguists that explores the latest research methodologies and theories related to classroom language.

• Organized to facilitate a critical understanding of how and why various research traditions differ and how they overlap theoretically and methodologically

• Discusses key issues in the future development of research in critical areas of education and applied linguistics

• Provides empirically-based analysis of classroom talk to illustrate theoretical claims and methodologies

• Includes multimodal transcripts, an emerging trend in education and applied linguistics, particularly in conversation analysis and sociocultural theory

About this title

About the Author

Numa Markee is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is an English Language Specialist for the US Department of State and author of Managing Curricular Innovation (1997) and Conversation Analysis (2000).

From the Back Cover

The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction is an authoritative reference work exploring the latest research, methodologies, and theories related to classroom language, teaching, and learning. The distinguished group of contributors represents a variety of research traditions that includes education, cognitive interactionism, sociocultural theory, language socialization, conversation analysis, and critical theory. The framework of the volume allows readers to gain important insights into the ways researchers conceptualize and carry out research on classroom discourse and interaction―with an overarching goal of facilitating a critical understanding of how and why these traditions differ, using empirically-based research. The final chapter looks to the future with questions about the directions of classroom language research.

The Handbook for Classroom Discourse and Interaction is an important and innovative reference work that brings together cutting-edge research in an area with broad implications for education in practice.

From the Inside Flap

The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction is an authoritative reference work exploring the latest research, methodologies, and theories related to classroom language, teaching, and learning. The distinguished group of contributors represents a variety of research traditions that includes education, cognitive interactionism, sociocultural theory, language socialization, conversation analysis, and critical theory. The framework of the volume allows readers to gain important insights into the ways researchers conceptualize and carry out research on classroom discourse and interaction—with an overarching goal of facilitating a critical understanding of how and why these traditions differ, using empirically-based research. The final chapter looks to the future with questions about the directions of classroom language research.

The Handbook for Classroom Discourse and Interaction is an important and innovative reference work that brings together cutting-edge research in an area with broad implications for education in practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118531124
• ISBN 13: 9781118531129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560