This paper draws on Bernstein's (1996) notion of "framing" to examine the variables which control the communication made possible in on-line discussion in one school context, and the particular "forms of pedagogic consciousness" (Bernstein, 1996) that are produced as students and teachers negotiate meanings around a literary text. Using genre…

A "transitivity" analysis within a systematic functional grammar is used to explore what the discourse of reading lessons looks like in one secondary school context and to examine what is being communicated about the culture of schooling. Conclusions are drawn concerning the value of teacher and test-authorising strategies. (Author/JL)

After a review of systems for analyzing classroom talk, an approach for a more refined system of classifying classroom discourse is presented based on a study of 20 final year English-as-a-Second-Language student teachers. The taxonomy of types of teacher acts may provide a diagnostic tool for teacher training. (20 references) (Author/LB)