Editorial: Douglas barnes revisited: If learning floats on a sea of talk, what kind of talk? and what kind of learning?

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Simpson, Alyson Mercer, Neil Majors, Yolanda J.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	This issue of English Teaching: Practice and Critique focuses on talk in the classroom. On the basis of his ground-breaking research on classroom talk (Barnes, 1976), Douglas Barnes contended that “learning floats on a sea of talk”. We interpret such wisdom to reflect the complex relationship between communication, the construction of cultural, social and institutional meanings and education. The questions which stimulated this collection of papers by an international group of authors were set in the context of Barnes’ remark: If learning, particularly that which takes place in the classroom, floats on a sea of talk, what kind of talk? And what kind of learning?
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Ending Page	6
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Volume Number	9
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://edlinked.soe.waikato.ac.nz/research/files/etpc/files/2010v9n2ed.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
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