Dialogue Journals in the Multilingual Classroom: Building Language Fluency and Writing Skills Through Written Interaction (Hardcover)

Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction COLLABORATION BETWEEN TEACHER AND RESEARCHERS Collaborative Research on a Teacher-Generated Practice THE CLASSROOM AND THE STUDENTS Opening the Door to Communication in the Multilingual/Multicultural Classroom The Development of Beginning Writers: Six Student Profiles INTERACTION IN THE JOURNALS Dialogue Journals as a Means of Assisting Written Language Acquisition Using Language Functions to Discover a Teacher's Implicit Theory of Communicating with Students Teacher Questions in Written Interaction: Promoting Student Participation in Dialogue WRITTEN INTERACTION AND WRITING DEVELOPMENT The Effect of Teacher Strategies on Students' Interactive Writing The Influence of Writing Task on ESL Students' Written Production References Author Index Subject Index