Publications

Publication details [#41634]

Mercer, Neil, Rupert Wegerif and Sylvia Rojas-Drummond. 1999. Language for the Social Construction of Knowledge: Comparing Classroom Talk in Mexican Preschools. Language & Education 13 (2) : 133–150.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | knowledge | pre-school age | problem solving

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study provides a new method for investigating classroom talk and how it contributes to improve pre-school children's independent problem-solving capacities. The example involves two sets of matching classrooms in Mexican preschools.