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Peer reviewedMercer, Neil; Wegerif, Rupert; Dawes, Lyn – British Educational Research Journal, 1999
Evaluates a teaching program called TRAC (Talk, Reasoning, and Computers) that is used for scaffolding children's effective use of language as a tool for reasoning and collaborative activity. Finds that using the TRAC program can increase the amount of exploratory talk used by children working together in the classroom. (CMK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Group Activities
