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The Language Gap: How Classroom Dialogue Fails

The Language Gap: How Classroom Dialogue Fails

Paperback

Series: Routledge Revivals

General Education

ISBN10: 1138541079
ISBN13: 9781138541078
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2021
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Published in 1985. Dialogue between teacher and pupil is a crucial factor in the learning experience. This book questions the role of language as a 'natural' vehicle for learning and considers how it may, in fact, hinder communication. In a detailed examination of day-to-day language practices across a range of subjects, including English, History, Maths and Remedial teaching, in a particular comprehensive school, Robert Hull develops a powerful and coherent critique of the closed and limiting nature of the language employed by classroom teachers. By analysing the texts of school knowledge - worksheets, textbooks and teacher's talk - and relating pupils' views and responses to teachers' intentions and attitudes, he indicates how pupils are denied access to that knowledge, and prevented from sharing their own, by those very practices which are intended to facilitate learning - talk which actually gets in the way of learning.

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