Classroom Discourse

Forward. in Learning to Read in China : Sociolinguistic Perspectives on the Acquisition of Literacy (John Ingulsrud & Kate Allen, authors). 2000.

Technology and language education in China: An intercultural dialogue. (with Wang Haixiao) (Teaching English in China Journal, Beijing: Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press). 1999.
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Achieving coherence in multilingual interaction. Discourse Processes, 15 (2), 183-201
(with M. Saville-Troike). 1992.

Pre-kindergarten children's second discourse learning. Discourse Processes, 13, 225-242. 1990.

Culture and language in classroom communication. In Garcia, Ofelia and Ricardo Otheguy (Eds.), Cultures across English: English across cultures. The Hague: Mouton. (with M. Saville-Troike.1989.

Communicative inferencing without a common language. In Gass, Susan, Carolyn Madden, Dennis Preston, and Larry Selinker (Eds.), Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Discourse and Pragmatics (Vol.1), pp. 84-102. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 1989.

Learning from student-teachers' cross-cultural communicative failures. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 19, 218-234. 1988.

Scripts for school: Cross-cultural communication in elementary classrooms. Text, 6(2), 207-221. (with M. Saville-Troike).1986.

Skilled variation in a kindergarten teacher's use of foreigner talk. In Gass, S. & Madsen, C. (Eds.), Input and second language acquisition. Rowley, MA: Newbury House. 1985.






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