Discourse Patterns and Communicative Approaches for Teaching Nature of Science


Kaya G., Şardağ M., ÇAKMAKCI G., Dogan N., Irez S., YALAKİ Y.

EGITIM VE BILIM-EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, cilt.41, sa.185, ss.83-99, 2016 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 41 Sayı: 185
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.15390/eb.2016.4852
  • Dergi Adı: EGITIM VE BILIM-EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.83-99
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Nature of science, Science education, Discourse analysis, Discourse patterns, Communicative approaches, TEACHERS CONCEPTIONS, EXPLICIT, VIEWS, STUDENTS, INQUIRY
  • Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study aims to determine discourse patterns and communicative approaches utilised for teaching the nature of science (NOS) using an explicit-reflective approach. This study was conducted as part of a research project aiming to support teachers' classroom practices through a long-term professional development program focusing on teaching NOS. Discourse analysis was used to determine classroom discourse patterns and communicative approaches. Audio and video recordings of classroom lectures conducted by 8 of the 22 teachers participating in the project were used for analysis. A total of 505 minutes of teacher-student dialogue was recorded and subsequently analysed. The results indicated that teachers used three different discourse patterns (triadic, chain, and adjacency pair) and three different communicative approaches (interactive-dialogic, interactive-authoritative, and non-interactive-dialogic) for teaching NOS using the explicit-reflective approach. The most common discourse pattern was the triadic pattern (initiation-response-evaluation), and the interactive-authoritative approach was the most common communicative approach. These findings contribute to the literature in terms of increasing the efficiency of using the explicit-reflective approach by considering classroom discourse to teach students NOS.