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Download full textCarlsen, William S. – 1990
This paper describes the effects of science teacher subject-matter knowledge on classroom discourse at the level of individual utterances. It details one of three parallel analyses conducted in a year-long study of language in the classrooms of four new biology teachers. The conceptual framework of the study predicted that when teaching unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Biology, Cognitive Development, Familiarity
Peer reviewedSchwean, V. L. – Canadian Journal of Special Education, 1992
Eighteen language/learning-disabled adolescents were compared with 18 nondisabled adolescents and 18 linguistically matched nondisabled preadolescents on requesting assistance from listeners who vary in power and familiarity. The language learning-disabled adolescents were sensitive to social and contextual features and modified their requests…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Articulation (Speech), Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
