Revoicing in a Multilingual Classroom |
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Authors: | Noel Enyedy Laurie Rubel Viviana Castellón Shiuli Mukhopadhyay Indigo Esmonde Walter Secada |
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Institution: | 1. UCLA , enyedy@gseis.ucla.edu;3. Brooklyn College, CUNY ,;4. UCLA ,;5. California State University, Northridge ,;6. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education , University of Toronto ,;7. University of Miami , |
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Abstract: | The concept of revoicing has recently received a substantial amount of attention within the mathematics education community. One of the primary purposes of revoicing is to promote a deeper conceptual understanding of mathematics by positioning students in relation to one another, thereby facilitating student debate and mathematical argumentation. Our study reexamines revoicing in a multilingual high school algebra classroom; our findings challenge the assumption that revoicing is necessarily tightly connected with classroom argumentation. We demonstrate that a single discursive form, such as revoicing, can play a wide range of valuable functions within the classroom. More importantly, we investigate systematic differences in the ways that revoicing is used, by a particular teacher, across languages. Implications for policy and practice are discussed. |
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