What the Discourse Tells Us: Talk and Indicators of High-Level Comprehension.

By A. Soter, I. Wilkinson, P. Murphy, L. Rudge, Kristin Reninger, Margaret E. Edwards. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Examining the Effects of Classroom Discussion on Students' Comprehension of Text: A Meta-Analysis (2009, background): “In this stance, discussion gives prominence to the reader’s affective response to the text or the reader’s own spontaneous, emotive connection to all aspects of the textual experience (Soter & Rudge, 2005).”
Relations Between Teacher Questioning and Student Talk in One Elementary ELL Classroom (2015, background): “Researchers on mainstream classroom talk (Mercer, 2008b; Soter et al., 2008) documented the presence of particular words (commonly used conjunctions, modals, and adverbials) as a useful index of student reasoning and a marker of student exploratory talk.”
Vocabulary Instruction in Fifth Grade and Beyond (2015, methodology): “…influences of classroom discussion on students’ text comprehension and learning (e.g., Murphy, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009; Soter et al., 2008), and we wondered to what extent classroom discussion also exerted an influence on vocabulary learning; therefore, we chose to…”
Student Thought and Classroom Language: Examining the Mechanisms of Change in Dialogic Teaching (2013, background): “There is now a substantial body of evidence that describes verbal and social practices characteristic of inquiry dialogue (e.g., R. J. Alexander, 2003; Almasi, O’Flahavan, & Arya, 2001; Applebee et al., 2003; Billings & Fitzgerald, 2002; Chinn, Anderson, & Waggoner, 2001; Mercer & Littleton, 2007; N”
Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (2011, methodology): “Using the Game Performance Assessment Instrument (Griffin et al., 1997), the researchers analyzed the data in terms of decisions made, skills executed, on-ball support movements, and defensive moves.”
Quality Talk: Developing Students’ Discourse to Promote High-level Comprehension (2018, methodology): “Fifteen discussion time points were videorecorded and coded according to a detailed coding manual (adapted from the coding manual used in Soter et al., 2008; see also Murphy et al., 2017), which included definitions of the discourse elements indicative of critical-analytic thinking, exemplars, and…”
Teacher professional development as a means of transforming student classroom talk (2016, background): “…2001), the expression by students of thoughts with reasoning (Pimentel & McNeill, 2013), the presence of elaborated explanation in student talk (Sotter et al., 2008), the open-endedness and cognitive demandingness of questions (Gayle, Preiss, & Allen, 2006), the use of mistakes as…”
Dialogic teaching: talk in service of a dialogic stance (2011, background): “Much discussion regarding effective teacher talk today suggests that the function of talk can be determined by its form (Nystrand 2006; Soter et al. 2008).”