Publications

Publication details [#51580]

Rosemberg, Celia Renata and Mara Luisa Silva. 2009. Teacher-Children Interaction and Concept Development in Kindergarten. Discourse Processes 46 (6) : 572–591.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | discourse strategy | kindergarten | teacher

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This analysis of teacher-children interactions in 7 kindergarten classrooms in marginal urban neighborhoods of Buenos Aires (Argentina), enables to identify and describe the discursive strategies employed by teachers to reconceptualize children's information in ways that allow them to define underlying concepts.