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Positioning Students as Readers and Writers through Talk in a High School English Classroom
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This 5-month qualitative study investigates how one high school English teacher situated students as readers and writers within daily, spontaneous classroom interactions. Specifically, the author draws on positioning theory (van Langenhove & Harré, 1999) as a lens to analyze how the teacher navigated improvised responses during three separate literacy events to position students as engaged readers, capable writers, and members of a writing community. This approach construes that literacy learning is an identity process in which language is a powerful medium. Results from the study suggest that teachers must be sophisticated navigators of improvised interactions to facilitate the process of literacy learning. Vetter offers suggestions to teacher educators about how to implement critical analysis of classroom interactions and improvised responses to improve literacy instruction.
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“Four of the articles that adopt a sociocultural perspective on identity development demonstrated, based on classroom observations and teacher interviews, that teachers may have rather persistent expectations of adolescents through which certain identity positions are made available or unavailable (Berg 2010; Rubin 2007; Vetter 2010; Wortham 2006).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vetter, A.
- Corresponding author
- Vetter, Amy
- ORCID
- Vetter, Amy
- Venue
- English Education
- Published
- 2010-10-01
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 33-64
- ISSN
- 0007-8204 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-2216
- OpenAlex
- W93649497
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 32.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- libres.uncg.edu
- Locations
- English Education (publishedVersion)
- NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Linguistics and Education Research
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Literacy, Media, and Education
- Keywords
- positioning theory, classroom discourse, literacy learning, reader identity, authorial identity, writing communities, high school English teaching, literacy education, teacher as facilitator, language and identity
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