Language Diversity and Classroom Discourse

by Ceil Lucas and Denise Glyn Borders

Book Overview

This book describes language diversity and classroom discourse: language use in the classroom in which children are dialect speakers. Specifically, the authors observed and videotaped a wide range of activities including whole groups with the teacher, small groups with and without the teacher, and one-on-one interaction, in kindergarten, fourth- and sixth- grade classrooms. The book is a description of what was found. Classroom language use is discussed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567500765
• ISBN13: 9781567500769
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"