TY - JOUR
T1 - New to School and New to Print
T2 - Everyday Peer Interaction Among Adolescent High School Newcomers
AU - King, Kendall A.
AU - Bigelow, Martha
AU - Hirsi, Abdiasis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2017/7/3
Y1 - 2017/7/3
N2 - This article examines everyday classroom peer interaction among emergent multilingual high school students who are new to the United States, new to school, new to English, and new to alphabetic print literacy. Data were collected through observation and video recording within a daily 90-minute, English language and literacy block class over the course of one academic year in a public high school. All students were older adolescents (16–22 years of age) who had recently arrived from East Africa and had extremely limited or no previous formal schooling experiences. Our close analysis of classroom discourse within typical daily routines reveals how students provided feedback, recasts, and support during activities that are often considered to be noninteractive and teacher-led. Concomitantly, we demonstrate how students in some cases did not take up opportunities that were intended to generate peer interaction and to provide opportunities for negotiation of meaning and form. These findings point to the importance of critically examining peer interaction in everyday contexts and suggest the need to expand conceptions of productive activities and the characteristics of peer interaction among students who are new to basic print literacy skills and new to classroom language learning routines.
AB - This article examines everyday classroom peer interaction among emergent multilingual high school students who are new to the United States, new to school, new to English, and new to alphabetic print literacy. Data were collected through observation and video recording within a daily 90-minute, English language and literacy block class over the course of one academic year in a public high school. All students were older adolescents (16–22 years of age) who had recently arrived from East Africa and had extremely limited or no previous formal schooling experiences. Our close analysis of classroom discourse within typical daily routines reveals how students provided feedback, recasts, and support during activities that are often considered to be noninteractive and teacher-led. Concomitantly, we demonstrate how students in some cases did not take up opportunities that were intended to generate peer interaction and to provide opportunities for negotiation of meaning and form. These findings point to the importance of critically examining peer interaction in everyday contexts and suggest the need to expand conceptions of productive activities and the characteristics of peer interaction among students who are new to basic print literacy skills and new to classroom language learning routines.
KW - Choral reading
KW - literacy
KW - newcomer
KW - peer interaction
KW - refugee
KW - second language acquisition
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U2 - 10.1080/19313152.2017.1328958
DO - 10.1080/19313152.2017.1328958
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021163999
SN - 1931-3152
VL - 11
SP - 137
EP - 151
JO - International Multilingual Research Journal
JF - International Multilingual Research Journal
IS - 3
ER -