A Seven‐category Interaction Analysis for Infant Teachers to Use Themselves¹

1 The work reported here was carried out during the tenure of a research‐assistant‐demonstrator post by Nina Hatch at Trent Polytechnic which led to an MPhil of the CNAA.

Summary

A procedure has been developed in which (a) a teacher records her classroom speech on a carried cassette recorder, (b) subsequently replays the recording and codes each utterance in terms of seven categories and the name of the child or children spoken to, and (c) reflects on her classroom practice as revealed by the coding analysis, using evaluative guidelines.

This procedure has been tested successfully with 11 teachers of infant children, working in informal classrooms.

1 The work reported here was carried out during the tenure of a research‐assistant‐demonstrator post by Nina Hatch at Trent Polytechnic which led to an MPhil of the CNAA.

Notes

1 The work reported here was carried out during the tenure of a research‐assistant‐demonstrator post by Nina Hatch at Trent Polytechnic which led to an MPhil of the CNAA.