How might teachers and students deepen dialogic space in online discussions centered on race? This paper explores challenges of creating shared spaces of collective inquiry online across audio/visual/written modes. We explore why participants switch modes--e.g. from oral/visual participation to written chat--while participating in a synchronous…

Designed to explore the ways language functions to help children gain access to meaning as they progress through the educational system, this journal issue views communication as a social, interactive process in which speakers and writers attempt to link into what listeners and readers know, want to know, or need to know. The 12 articles in the…

Situational analysis of student-teacher and student-student interaction during a kindergarten/first grade social occasion provides information on verbal and nonverbal behavior forms, situational contexts, and tacit rules of classroom interaction. (MJB)

This article highlights several factors that contribute to the complexity of tasks facing teachers and students as they interact to construct everyday classroom teaching-learning events. Also explored are ways in which expectations are signaled verbally or nonverbally and consequences that follow students' attempts to read teachers' cues. (CB)

Describes a system for constructing an index of student and teacher classroom behaviors which may enable an eventual identification of the true relationships between teaching styles and strategies and learning styles and strategies. (AN)