Teacher Relationship: Teacher Behavior

A study was conducted,to determine whether and how; children with diverse cultural backgrounds, including the cultural, mainstream in North Aberica, might differentially identify and acquire rules of discourse appropriate to becoming literate. This study examined the natural language used ' by teacher and students recorded within selected periods of literacy learning in a desegregated classroom of first grade students. Subjects were a female teacher from the mainstream culture who had six years of teaching experience and three male children, each from a different cultural background. Results showed that the teacher continued to issue procedural directives within lesson times and over all periods of observation. At the same time, there was'little cohesion in the talk, etthei of the teacher over the or between the teacher and her students, save that the latter tended to cohere as requested to particular demands, queries, or comments on the part of the teachei. (HOD) Reproductions supplied by EARS are the best that can be made from the. original document. 4******************************************************************* the ohio state university research foundatio