ELIS Podcast

Research Summary ― Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings

Listen to this summary of the book entitled ‘Academic conversations: Classroom talk that fosters critical thinking and content understandings’. This book was written by Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford and was published in 2011 by Stenhouse Publishers.
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Research Summary ― Children’s Talk and the Development of Reasoning in the Classroom

Listen to this summary of the paper entitled ‘Children’s talk and the development of reasoning in the classroom’. This paper was written by Neil Mercer, Rupert Wegerif and Lyn Dawes, and was published in 1999 in the British Educational Research Journal.
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Classroom Inquiry — Developing Motivation to Write Through Journaling (Part 4)

In this episode, English Language teacher Mrs Adeline Teo talks about how her team communicated their classroom inquiry findings, and shares advice and tips for teachers.
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Classroom Inquiry — Developing Motivation to Write Through Journaling (Part 3)

In this episode, English Language teacher Mrs Adeline Teo talks about the findings from her team’s classroom inquiry, and implications for teaching and learning.
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Classroom Inquiry — Developing Motivation to Write Through Journaling (Part 2)

In this episode, English Language teacher Mrs Adeline Teo talks about how her team selected participants and collected data for their classroom inquiry.
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Classroom Inquiry — Developing Motivation to Write Through Journaling (Part 1)

In this episode, English Language teacher Mrs Adeline Teo talks about what motivated her team to inquire into their practice and their research question.
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Multiliteracies in Teaching Oracy

Master Teacher Shakila Vasu discusses the meaning of Multiliteracies in the context of teaching listening and speaking in English Language classrooms.
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Multiliteracies in English Language Teaching and Learning

Principal Master Teacher Tay May Yin gives an overview of Multiliteracies in the English Language Classroom. 
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Metacognition in Teaching Grammar

Master Teacher Jennifer Lui talks about how English Language teachers can enable their students to think about their own thinking in the process of learning and using grammar. 
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Metacognition in Teaching Oracy

Master Teacher Emelyn Kuan talks about how English Language teachers can enable their students to think about their own thinking when learning to develop their listening and speaking skills.
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