Publications

Publication details [#13710]

Mills, Margaret H. 1995. Collective Learning: The Philosophy and Framework of Russian Classroom Discourse. In Wårvik, Brita, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Risto Hiltunen, eds. Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. (Anglicana Turkuensia 15). University of Turku. pp. 371–380.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | crosscultural communication | discourse analysis

Language as a subject

English, American | Russian

Annotation

In examining representative discourse from Russian native speaker and non-native speaker classrooms, the author focuses on three issues: metapragmatic conditions and pre-conditions in crosscultural (American and Russian) classrooms; discourse regulation and NS interruptions; NNS interruptions and the potential for miscommunication.