Abbot-Smith, K;
Dockrell, J;
Mathews, D;
Sturrock, A;
Wilson, C;
(2023)
Towards an evidence-based approach to fostering collaborative conversation in mainstream primary classrooms: Response to commentators.
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10.1177/01427237231209805.
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Abstract
The ability to engage with ease in collaborative conversation is critical for child well-being and development. While key underpinning skills are biologically enabled, children require appropriate scaffolding and practice opportunities to develop proficient social conversational ability. Teaching conversation skills is a statutory requirement of the English primary (and many other) curricula. However, currently most upper primary mainstream teachers are not trained to teach conversation skills and do not teach them in the classroom or provide time for children to practice. We argue for first steps towards an evidence-based approach for a universal/Tier 1 programme, while fully acknowledging an ongoing need for Tier 2 and Tier 3 support as well as for further research into the strategies which are most effective in Tier 2/3 contexts. Further research is also needed to explore cultural variation in social conversation and to develop reliable, valid and brief teacher measures of child social conversational ability.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Towards an evidence-based approach to fostering collaborative conversation in mainstream primary classrooms: Response to commentators |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01427237231209805 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237231209805 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Conversation, Tier 1, primary schools, teachers, active listening, listener interest, pragmatics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180963 |
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