The Research Process in Classroom Discourse Analysis: Current Perspectives » (New Edition)

This volume gives intellectual space to a range of current perspectives on classroom discourse research and provides a forum for conversations about the research process. Classroom discourse researchers from different theoretical perspectives provide five separate analyses of the same instructional unit in a high school biology class, using the same set of data. Interwoven with the five research reports are several conversations among the editors and researchers regarding specific aspects of the research process. These conversations illuminate some of the actual decisions that researchers make when looking at data and crafting their analyses.

This book is intended for graduate students, researchers, and teacher educators across the fields of applied linguistics and education who are interested in studying classroom discourse and, more generally, language-in-use. With its focus on both the research process and the outcomes of research, as well as on the theory-method relationship, this book is relevant for courses in research methodology, language in education, applied linguistics, discourse analysis, language development, and multiculturalism in the classroom.

Preface     v
Acknowledgments     vii
Contributors     ix
Introduction   Jane Zuengler   KimMarie Cole     1
The Cultural and Political Context of Schooling at Jefferson High School   Frances K. Vavrus     13
The Functions of Lexical Items in the Asthma Project Discourse   Hugh Bishop     21
Conversations on the Research Process: Scope of Data   Jane Zuengler     43
The Contextualization of Participation in the Asthma Project: Response Sequences in Classroom Talk   John Hellermann     49
Conversations on the Research Process: Defining Discourse   Jane Zuengler     73
Narratives of Relevance: Seizing (or not) Critical Moments   Mary Elizabeth Curran     77
Conversations on the Research Process: Questions of Reliability and Validity   Jane Zuengler     99
Where Reform and Interaction Meet: Spaces for Appropriation and Resistance   KimMarie Cole     103
Conversations on the Research Process: Contextualizing the Researcher   Jane Zuengler     125
Apprenticing into a Community: Challenges of the Asthma Project   Jane Zuengler   Elizabeth Miller     129
Concluding Thoughts: Applications and Implications   KimMarie Cole   Jane Zuengler     149
Transcription Conventions in Conversation Analysis     159
Author Index     161
Subject Index     165