The Multivoiced Classroom: Investigating the Evolution of Middle School Students' Writing Through Dialogic Conversation

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Abstract

This qualitative case study explored the role of dialogic instruction as it relates to writing, as well as how student discourses affected the perceptions middle school students have of themselves as writers. This study also investigated how students engaged in discourse regarding their writing, both with the teacher and their peers, and how their perceptions of themselves as writers developed over time.

Author

• Kristen Walsh, Northern Illinois University
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