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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Margutti, Piera; Piirainen-Marsh, Arja – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This special issue of "Linguistics and Education" deals with a specific domain of activities related to the management of discipline in classrooms. Matters of authority and discipline have been widely discussed in educational research literature. Yet, only a handful of studies have investigated how matters of discipline and the boundaries of…
Descriptors: Discipline, Educational Research, Discourse Analysis, Interaction
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Margutti, Piera – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
Drawing from a corpus of video-recorded classes in 6 and 7 grade groups in an Italian secondary school and in two 3 grade groups in a primary school, the article investigates one specific format used by teachers to reproach students for their untoward conduct. The analysis focuses on cases where, in contrast to other less explicit formats,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Student Placement, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries
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Margutti, Piera – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2006
This article examines how question-answer sequences are constructed in primary school instructional activities. The interaction between teacher and students in two 3rd-year groups is analyzed using a conversation-analytic approach. Four questioning patterns--"yes-no, alternative, wh-questions", and a "non-interrogative format" very frequently used…
Descriptors: Interaction, Questioning Techniques, Elementary Education, Teacher Student Relationship