Kast, Clifford;
(2024)
What Quality Talk in a Reading Circle Does for Interthinking.
Changing English
10.1080/1358684x.2024.2373982.
(In press).
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Abstract
In the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom, speaking is a relatively marginalised learning activity, often employed merely to facilitate transition between activities which prioritise communication skills deemed more important. A significant consequence of this privation is limited practice in situated discourse. This paper presents a theorised account of an instance of situated discourse: Quality Talk in a reading circle within an EAP classroom. With reference to a single dialogic spell unfolding around a specific issue, I examine participants’ verbal transactions and the ways in which these enhance high-level comprehension of text. Overall, this account seeks to highlight the efficacy and affordances of situated discourse as a social mode of cognition in EAP instruction.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | What Quality Talk in a Reading Circle Does for Interthinking |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1358684x.2024.2373982 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1358684x.2024.2373982 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Quality talk; interthinking; reading circles; exploratory talk; English for Academic Purposes; EAP; high-level comprehension; critical thinking |
| 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 - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194867 |
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