Talking to Studnets Metadiscourse in Introductory Coursebooks
Expanding the metadiscourse concept
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Expanding the metadiscourse concept
Rolf K. Baltzersen, Østfold University College, Norway
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Background
Knowledge building discourse along a timeline
Metadiscourse session or meeting
Metadiscourse session or meeting
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Goal of the presentation
I will try and illustrate how different kinds of “talk about talk” are present in knowledge building discourse, while not being explicitly described as metadiscourse.
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Metacommunication (talk about talk)
• 1. Questions of clarification (Short comments on the ongoing communication).
• 2. Paraphrasing: restate what another person already have said in order to clarify a message («Short summarizing»).
• 3. Say something about the conversational relationship. (e.g. norms or participants role or behavior)
(Baltzersen 2013)
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1. The ability to comment upon the meaningful actions of oneself and others is essential for
successful social intercourse (Bateson 1972)
What do you mean by
that?
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1. Questions of clarification in KB discourse
Teacher to the class: “Have we answered that? … Do all opaque objects reflect light?” (Zhang and Messina 2010)
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2. Paraphrasing as an important communication strategy in client-centered therapy
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Paraphrasing in KB discourse
(Zhang and Messina 2010)
Teacher: “So you’re saying everything is reflective then, (...)”
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How do students become Knowledge builders?
• (…) I often will just reiterated, actually literally repeat what the child just said, often without even
rephrasing it, I just literally repeat what they said and then another child speaks and it just keeps
bouncing back and forth, (Phase 1)
• and then as we go thru the year, their ability to have a discourse with less and less mediation from an
adult, (Phase 2)
• (1.) partly is about assessing their ability to have that kind of conversation, and
• (2.) part of it is about assessing their understanding.
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Explain conversational norms in KB discourse
Zhang and Messina (2010) codes this utterance as “maintaining norms”.
Teacher: “Don’t throw it back to him. Give your theory.”
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Summary
There exists metatalk in KB discourse which seems to be important, but which is not part of the metadiscourse concept:
– Metadiscourse as part of the ongoing discourse?– Metadiscourse about the discourse relationship?
(for example norms)
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References• Resendes, M., Chen, B., Acosta, A., & Scardamalia, M. (2013). The Effect of Formative Feedback on
Vocabulary Use and Distribution of Vocabulary Knowledge in a Grade Two Knowledge Building Class. In N. Rummel, M. Kapur, M. Nathan, & S. Puntambekar (Eds.), To See the World and a Grain of Sand Learning across Levels of Space Time and Scale CSCL 2013 Conference Proceedings Volume1 Full Papers Symposia (pp. 391 – 398). International Society of the Learning Sciences.
• Van Aalst, J. (2009). Distinguishing knowledge-sharing, knowledge-construction, and knowledge-creation discourses.International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning ,4 (3), 259–287.doi:10.1007/s11412-009-9069-5
• Zhang, J., & Messina, R. (2010). Collaborative productivity as self-sustaining processes in a grade 4knowledge building community. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - Volume 1 (pp. 49–56). International Society of the Learning Sciences. Retrieved fromhttp://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1854360.1854367
• Zhang, J., Lee, J., & Wilde, J. (2012). Metadiscourse to foster collective responsibility for deepening inquiry. In J. van Aalst, K. Thompson, M. J. Jacobson, & P. Reimann (Eds.), The Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012) (Full papers) (pp. 395–402). Sydney, NSW, Australia: International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). Retrieved from http://tccl.rit.albany.edu/wpsite/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Spacestudy_icls_final_refined.pdf