'Like Pulling Teeth': Oral Discourse Practices in a Culturally Diverse Language Arts Classroom
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Abstract
This article examines community practices, in particular oral discourse practices, in a junior high school classroom in an urban area of Western Canada. The purpose of the research was to determine what contribution a 'community of practice' (COP) framework could make to the study of social interaction in a classroom setting. Qualitative research methods were used to explore studentâstudent and studentâteacher interaction in a culturally and linguistically diverse Grade 9 classroom. Of particular interest was why a language arts teacher who claimed to love teaching through dialogue rarely initiated classroom discussion. Study findings demonstrated that the teacher's practices were shaped by the social structure of the classroom community. The article explores the teacher's role in disrupting cultural practices that limit students' participation. In conclusion, the article makes an argument for scaffolding to be added to the COP framework if it is to be utilized to advantage in classroom settings and suggests incorporating hybrid literacy practices in multilingual contexts. Résumé Cet article examine les habitudes communautaires, en particulier le discours oral, d'une classe d'école secondaire située dans une région urbaine de l'Ouest du Canada. Le but de la recherche était de déterminer quelle contribution une structure renfermant une « habitude communautaire » (community of practice - COP) pourrait avoir sur l'étude de l'interaction sociale d'une classe d'enseignement. Des méthodes de recherche qualitative ont été utilisées pour étudier les interactions d'élève-à -élève et de professeur-à -élève dans une classe de 9e année caractérisée comme culturellement et linguistiquement diverse. Ce qui était d'intérêt particulier était d'observer pourquoi un professeur d'arts langagiers, qui disait aimer enseigner en utilisant des dialogues, initiait rarement des discussions de groupe. Les résultats de la recherche ont démontré que les pratiques et habitudes du professeur étaient influencées par la structure sociale de la classe. L'article explore le rôle du professeur en tant que perturbateur des habitudes culturelles qui limitent la participation des élèves. En conclusion, l'article soutient que [End Page 199] « l' échafaudage d'apprentissage » devrait être ajouté à la structure d'habitude communautaire, si celui-ci pourrait améliorer la situation dans les classes et il suggère aussi d'incorporer des habitudes hybrides d'alphabétisation dans des contextes multilinguistiques.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".