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Learning in and through classroom interaction: On the convergence of language and content learning opportunities in subject-matter learning

  • Uta Quasthoff EMAIL logo , Vivien Heller , Susanne Prediger und Kirstin Erath
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 9. März 2022

Abstract

This study uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the interplay of linguistic and subject-matter learning. Drawing on previous linguistic work on discourse and genre acquisition, subject-matter teaching as well as the convergence of linguistic and content learning in multilingual classrooms, the study seeks to examine the following questions: (1) How can patterns of classroom talk support or hinder the acquisition of academic discourse competence and subject-matter learning? (2) How are these two learning domains related? The analyses of 120 video-recorded mathematics and German lessons in five classes (n=149 students, 10 teachers) in different German school types revealed two patterns of teacher-student-interaction, which differ in the participatory roles and the (language) learning opportunities they assign to the students. Two larger excerpts from mathematics-lessons are analyzed to illustrate the ways in which linguistic and content learning merge in the two patterns.

Acknowledgements

The research project INTERPASS (“Interactive procedures of establishing matches and divergences for linguistic and microcultural practices”) was funded by the German ministry BMBF (grant 01JC1112). We thank Anna-Marietha Vogler for the collaboration in the project, and Miriam Morek for her comments on the paper.

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