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Peer reviewedTorr, Jane – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1993
Examined spontaneous teacher/child discourse in two year-one Sydney classrooms, one where the majority of children came from non-English-speaking backgrounds and one where all children were native English speakers. Significant differences existed between the discourse in each classroom in terms of the frequency of the teacher's speech and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
