Discourse Patterns and Communicative Approaches for Teaching Nature of Science


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Kaya G., Şardağ M., ÇAKMAKCI G., Dogan N., Irez S., YALAKİ Y.

EGITIM VE BILIM-EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, vol.41, no.185, pp.83-99, 2016 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 41 Issue: 185
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Doi Number: 10.15390/eb.2016.4852
  • Journal Name: EGITIM VE BILIM-EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.83-99
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This study aims to determine discourse patterns and communicative approaches utilised for teaching the nature of science (NOS) using an explicit-reflective approach. This study was conducted as part of a research project aiming to support teachers' classroom practices through a long-term professional development program focusing on teaching NOS. Discourse analysis was used to determine classroom discourse patterns and communicative approaches. Audio and video recordings of classroom lectures conducted by 8 of the 22 teachers participating in the project were used for analysis. A total of 505 minutes of teacher-student dialogue was recorded and subsequently analysed. The results indicated that teachers used three different discourse patterns (triadic, chain, and adjacency pair) and three different communicative approaches (interactive-dialogic, interactive-authoritative, and non-interactive-dialogic) for teaching NOS using the explicit-reflective approach. The most common discourse pattern was the triadic pattern (initiation-response-evaluation), and the interactive-authoritative approach was the most common communicative approach. These findings contribute to the literature in terms of increasing the efficiency of using the explicit-reflective approach by considering classroom discourse to teach students NOS.