This article reviews over 50 years of research on teacher expectations and teacher
effectiveness. In addition to describing these research traditions and findings, I tie the …

This paper considers the development and randomised control trial (RCT) of a dialogic
teaching intervention designed to maximise the power of classroom talk to enhance …

Names: Mercer, Neil, editor.| Wegerif, Rupert, 1959-editor.| Major, Louis,(Louis Christopher),
1985-editor. Title: The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic …

Better than Best Practice offers a new way of thinking about classroom practice, professional
development, and improving teaching and learning. This companion book and website …

This paper demonstrates how systematic observation software, such as The Observer XT,
can be used to organise and manage large video corpora, assist in case selection, and …

While there have been significant paradigm shifts in conceptualising language in applied
linguistics and in critiquing the historical monolingual bias in the discipline, monolingual …

This article explores the political dimensions of teacher learning, both in theoretical work on
teacher professional vision, and in an empirical study of video-based teacher professional …

Sociolinguists have been fighting dialect prejudice since the 1960s, but deficit views of non-
standard English are regaining currency in educational discourse. In this paper I argue that …

In many countries, including the UK, the potential of international student achievement
surveys such as TIMSS and PISA is being subverted by political and media fixation on the …

What is the appropriate unit of analysis for the study of classroom discourse? One common
analytic strategy employs individual discourse moves, which are coded, counted and used …