Teachers telling: Informings in an early years classroom
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Gardner, Rod
Mushin, Ilana
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2013
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Informings (assertions or tellings) are a fundamental action type for transferring knowledge from a knowing participant to an unknowing one in an interaction. They form a complementary pair with questions. In this study, we draw on video- and audio-taped data from a primary school in central Queensland. We investigate the distribution and sequential occurrence of informings in about 15 hours of classroom recordings. Whereas questions by teachers are very common, we found informings to be relatively infrequent. In particular, teachers were found to pass on factual information directly to students rarely. Informings ...
View more >Informings (assertions or tellings) are a fundamental action type for transferring knowledge from a knowing participant to an unknowing one in an interaction. They form a complementary pair with questions. In this study, we draw on video- and audio-taped data from a primary school in central Queensland. We investigate the distribution and sequential occurrence of informings in about 15 hours of classroom recordings. Whereas questions by teachers are very common, we found informings to be relatively infrequent. In particular, teachers were found to pass on factual information directly to students rarely. Informings were found to occur most frequently after other strategies, and in particular, questions, had been tried.
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View more >Informings (assertions or tellings) are a fundamental action type for transferring knowledge from a knowing participant to an unknowing one in an interaction. They form a complementary pair with questions. In this study, we draw on video- and audio-taped data from a primary school in central Queensland. We investigate the distribution and sequential occurrence of informings in about 15 hours of classroom recordings. Whereas questions by teachers are very common, we found informings to be relatively infrequent. In particular, teachers were found to pass on factual information directly to students rarely. Informings were found to occur most frequently after other strategies, and in particular, questions, had been tried.
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Journal Title
Australian Journal of Communication
Volume
40
Issue
2
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© The Author(s) 2013. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
Subject
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Journalism and Professional Writing
Communication and Media Studies