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Why Oracy Must Be in the Curriculum (and Group Work in the Classroom)
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Mercer, Neil – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
In this article it is argued that the development of young people's skills in using spoken language should be given more time and attention in the school curriculum. The author discusses the importance of the effective use of spoken language in educational and work settings, considers what research has told us about the factors that make group…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
The Seeds of Time: Why Classroom Dialogue Needs a Temporal Analysis
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Mercer, Neil – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2008
The process of teaching and learning in school has a natural long-term trajectory and cannot be understood only as a series of discrete educational events. Classroom talk plays an important role in mediating this long-term process, and in this article I argue that more attention should be given to the temporal dimension of classroom dialogue, both…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools
Computers and Reasoning Through Talk in the Classroom.
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Wegerif, Rupert; Mercer, Neil – Language and Education, 1996
Proposes an approach to teaching reasoning through classroom conversation that integrates group work around computers into curriculum-related activities. The article examines research on collaborative learning and describes a program in which the computer is used to direct children's explicit, joint reasoning in curriculum-related activities. (79…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction