Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk That Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings

by JeffZwiers (Author), Marie Crawford (Author)

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  2011

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  Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations, Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford identify five core communication skills: elaborating and clarifying, supporting ideas with evidence, building on and/or challenging ideas, paraphrasing, and synthesising.