This second edition of Classroom Discourse Analysiscontinues to make techniques widely used in the field of discourse analysis accessible to a broad audience and illustrates their practical application in the study of classroom talk, ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in discourse analysis, applied linguistics, and anthropology and education. Grounded in a unique tripartite dimensional approach, individual chapters investigate interactional resources that model forms of discourse analysis teachers may practice in their own classrooms while other chapters provide students with a thorough understanding of how to actually collect and analyse data. The presence of a number of pedagogical features, including activities and exercises and a comprehensive glossary help to enhance students understanding of these key tools in classroom discourse analysis research.
Features new to this edition reflect current developments in the field, including:
- increased coverage of peer interaction in the classroom
- greater connecting analysis to curricular and policy mandates and standards-based reform movements
- sample excerpts from actual student classroom discourse analysis assignments
- a new chapter on the repertoire approach, an increasingly popular method of analysis of particular relevance to todays multilingual classrooms
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis
- Chapter 2: Dimensions of Discourse and Identity
- Chapter 3: Getting to the Talk I: Recording and Viewing in Three Dimensions
- Chapter 4: Getting to the Talk II: Transcribing and Analyzing in Three Dimensions
- Chapter 5: Analyzing Turl“'