Offering an interdisciplinary approach, The Handbook of
Classroom Discourse and Interaction presents a series of
contributions written by educators and applied linguists that
explores the latest research methodologies and theories related to
classroom language.
* Organized to facilitate a critical understanding of
how and why various research traditions differ and how they overlap
theoretically and methodologically
* Discusses key issues in the future development of
research in critical areas of education and applied linguistics
* Provides empirically-based analysis of classroom
talk to illustrate theoretical claims and methodologies
* Includes multimodal transcripts, an emerging trend
in education and applied linguistics, particularly in conversation
analysis and sociocultural theory
Sobre el autor
Numa Markee is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is an English Language Specialist for the US Department of State and author of Managing Curricular Innovation (1997) and Conversation Analysis (2000).