Talking Texts : How Speech and Writing Interact in School Learning

Contents:Preface. Part I:Creating Discourse and Mind. R. Horowitz, Creating Discourse and Mind: How Talk, Text, and Meaning Evolve. R. Horowitz, D.R. Olson, Texts That Talk: The Special and Peculiar Nature of Classroom Discourse and the Crediting of Sources. Part II:Child, Adolescent, and Family Discourse: Everyday Conversation as Text Outside Classroom Contexts. A. Sheldon, Talk as Text: Gender and Children's Conversational Interaction. A-B. Stenström, Teenage Talk: A London-Based Chat and Discussion Compared. S. Blum-Kulka, Dinner Talk: Gaining Cultural Membership in Modern Literate Societies. R.J. Bayley, S. Schecter, Doing School at Home: Mexican Immigrant Families Interpret Texts and Instructional Agendas. Part III:Exemplars of Forms of Talk and Their Evolution Inside School Contexts. K. Nguyen-Jahiel, R. Anderson, M. Waggoner, B. Rowell, Using Literature Discussions to Reason Through Real Life Dilemmas: A Journey Taken by One Teacher and Her Fourth-Grade Students. I.L. Beck, M.G. McKeown, How Teachers Can Support Productive Classroom Talk: Move the Thinking to the Students. W. Saunders, C. Goldenberg, The Effects of Instructional Conversations on Latino Students' Concepts of Friendship and Story Comprehension. D.J. Hacker, A. Graesser, The Role of Dialogue in Reciprocal Teaching and Naturalistic Tutoring. E. Geva, Conjunction Use in School Children's Oral Language and Reading. Part IV:Developing Talk That Interacts With Text in Domains of Knowledge. J. Polman, R. Pea, Transformative Communication in Project Science Learning Discourse. C. Geisler, B. Lewis, Remaking the World Through Talk and Text: What We Should Learn from How Engineers Use Language to Design. P. Van Stapele, The Use of Dialogue in Drama: Reading Dialogue and Observing Performance. D. Hanauer, Poetry Reading and Group Discussion in Elementary School. P. Donnelly, K. Egan, Reflective Talk from Poetic Text. J. Neusner, The Talmud Teaches How to Speak About Beliefs and Deeds. B. Wilson, Children's Collaborative Interpretations of Artworks: The Challenge of Writing Visual Texts Within the Texts of Their Lives. J. Bamberger, Changing Musical Perception Through Reflective Conversation. C.H. Frederiksen, Postscript: On the Interaction of Speech and Writing in Classroom Discourse.