“I had something to say”: Student-identified conditions and predictors of participation in discussion.

• In Event: Fostering Dialogue with Adolescents

Abstract

Purpose: This mixed methods study analyzes early adolescent students’ perspectives about engaging in dialogic talk by focusing on the following question: What conditions do early adolescents identify as either conducive to or hindering their participation in whole-classroom dialogic talk?

Authors

• Shireen Al-Adeimi, Michigan State University

• Rebecca Lee Lee, Michigan State University