ERIC Number: EJ1169356
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jun
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Inside a Gifted Class: Classroom Discourse Patterns, Teacher and Student Questions, and Teacher Revoicing
Ogurlu, Uzeyir
Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, v25 n1 p31-46 Jun 2016
This study examined how classroom discourse evolved in a gifted class and compared it with a non-gifted class at the same year level. The following features of classroom discourse were examined: Initiation-Response-Follow up (IRF) patterns, teacher and student questions, and teacher revoicing. To conduct the study, audiorecordings of classroom interactions in the subject of mathematics were collected over a six week period from a private elementary school that housed both gifted (n = 20) and non-gifted (n = 20) classes in Turkey. The findings indicated that both the gifted and the non-gifted classes were dominated by IRF interaction patterns. Nevertheless, extended IRF and student-initiated IRF sequences were more prevalent in the gifted classroom. Moreover, a greater number of authentic teacher questions were noted in the gifted classroom, and gifted students asked more on-topic questions. In terms of teacher revoicing, both incorporation and restatements were more common in the non-gifted classroom.
Descriptors: Gifted, Classroom Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Discourse Analysis, Audio Equipment, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Special Education
Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented. School of Education, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. e-mail: EditorAJGE@aaegt.net.au; Web site: http://www.aaegt.net.au/?page_id=736
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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