Investigating classroom talk

The first edition of this book in 1987 quickly achieved wide recognition as a major text on classroom studies and classroom language. In this fully revised and extended second edition, Tony Edwards and David Westgate draw on a wide range of classroom studies to show why recording and analysing the talk of teachers and students has been so prominent in the investigation of educational processes. Their emphasis is on methods of recording, analysing and interpreting talk as evidence and on what researchers - particularly teacher researchers - need to know to use those methods with a clear sense of their limits and possibilities. In this new edition all research evidence and bibliographic material has been revised and updated. The book will continue to be an important text for a new generation of students and researchers in language and linguistics, social science and education studies.