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This 3 page paper reviews an article entitled “Teachers and students talk about talk: Class discussion and the way it should be” by Bill Connolly and Michael Smith. The paper summarizes the finding of the way class discussion can add value to learning and comments on the article’s usefulness. The bibliography cites 1 sources.
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be good discussion. In the article by Bill Connolly and Michael W. Smith there is a theoretical evaluation and a practical experiment to determine what it is that will make
a good discussion. The paper begins by defining what is meant by a good discussion, this is told in the form of a reflective story, of a class where
there were discussions that the students did not want to end where individuals felt they benefited form it and stayed long after class, yearly reunions were even suggested. These are
intangible factors and the next stage of the paper is an examination of the theory to explain what input factors resulted in this output. The theory that surrounds group
discussions is diverse. There is agreement that when entering a conversation a barrier may be the different concepts with which the students and the teacher approach the discussion, with
the literature appearing to indicate for a good discussion the context needs to be the same. These may be impacted by the macro environment such as the national cultures, as
well as then more local environment such as the students own political position within the classroom or the discipline. However, there is also a contradiction that render this observation one
tat may be difficult to act on, this is because the conception cannot be shared between the teacher and the student. The study itself took two English classes in
which the teach read to the students a poem that he had written, He did not tell them of his role as author, as this may have biased their responses,
and then monitored the conversations that took place. The students were also aware that they were participating in a study concerning the content of discussion, and they were asked
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