‘What time is it, Denise?”: Asking known information questions in classroom discourse
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(1979). ‘What time is it, Denise?”: Asking known information questions in classroom discourse. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 18, Communicating with Young Children, pp. 285-294.
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IRE or IRF are the typical structure in literature classes.
“Initiationresponse-evaluation (IRE) or initiation-response-follow-up (IRF) (Mehan 1979) are the typical structure in literature classes (Wang 2011).”
From The Impact of a Dialogic Intervention on a Chinese Rural Teacher and Students' Stances Towards Texts (2025) · cites this paper as Mehan 1979
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- Authors
- Mehan, H.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mehan, Hugh
- Venue
- Theory Into Practice
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1979-10
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 285-294
- ISSN
- 0040-5841 (ISSN-L)
- 1543-0421
- OpenAlex
- W2036756748
- Cited by
- 615
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 37 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 46 · 2019: 37 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 35 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 42 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 26
- FWCI
- 24.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Theory Into Practice (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Keywords
- classroom discourse, teacher questioning, young children, teacher-child communication
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