Editor: Viv Edwards (University of Reading, UK)
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Volume: 10 Number: 4 Page: 273–286
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What's a Good Answer? Awareness About Behavioral and Content Features of Successful Classroom Interaction
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Mary J. Schleppegrell and Carmen Simich-Dudgeon
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Sixty 3rd and 6th grade students and their seven teachers were interviewed about their perceptions of what makes a student a successful responder in classroom interaction Those students who had been designated
by their teachers as effective responders ERs could articulate not only behavioural characteristics of an effective responder attentiveness appropriate bid to respond exhibiting confidence not guessing
but also content features of an effective response using the right words and giving a complete and understandable answer The unsuccessful responders URs on the other hand mainly focused on behaviour and
were less able to articulate what makes a response successful ER and UR interview responses are compared teachers re sponses are summarised and implications of this research for classroom practice are explored
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