Authors: Joy Kreeft Peyton, Jana Staton
ISBN-13: 9780893916602, ISBN-10: 0893916609
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: May 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This volume focuses on the use of dialogue journals in classrooms with students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds whose proficiency with spoken and written English is limited. The companion volume to Dialogue Journal Communication (Ablex, 1988), it carefully describes, from a teacher's experience, how dialogue journal writing can be effectively implemented in the multilingual classroom, with practical tips for starting and maintaining the practice, exploiting the benefits, and avoiding the pitfalls. It presents a model of researchers working in close collaboration with teachers and shows the development in the journals of individual students, with extended examples of student and teacher writing so that teachers can see research results that are not hopelessly extracted from the context in which they were produced. At the same time, it has a strong research orientation.
Series Preface | ||
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
Pt. I | Collaboration Between Teacher and Researchers | |
1 | Collaborative Research on a Teacher-Generated Practice | 15 |
Pt. II | The Classroom and the Students | |
2 | Opening the Door to Communication in the Multilingual/Multicultural Classroom | 29 |
3 | The Development of Beginning Writers: Six Student Profiles | 47 |
Pt. III | Interaction in the Journals | |
4 | Dialogue Journals as a Means of Assisting Written Language Acquisition | 103 |
5 | Using Language Functions to Discover a Teacher's Implicit Theory of Communicating With Students | 127 |
6 | Teacher Questions in Written Interaction: Promoting Student Participation in Dialogue | 155 |
Pt. IV | Written Interaction and Writing Development | |
7 | The Effect of Teacher Strategies on Students' Interactive Writing | 175 |
8 | The Influence of Writing Task on ESL Students' Written Production | 196 |
References | 223 | |
Author Index | 231 | |
Subject Index | 234 |