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Article

Revoicing in a Multilingual Classroom

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Pages 134-162 | Published online: 25 Apr 2008
 

Abstract

The concept of revoicing has recently received a substantial amount of attention within the mathematics education community. One of the primary purposes of revoicing is to promote a deeper conceptual understanding of mathematics by positioning students in relation to one another, thereby facilitating student debate and mathematical argumentation. Our study reexamines revoicing in a multilingual high school algebra classroom; our findings challenge the assumption that revoicing is necessarily tightly connected with classroom argumentation. We demonstrate that a single discursive form, such as revoicing, can play a wide range of valuable functions within the classroom. More importantly, we investigate systematic differences in the ways that revoicing is used, by a particular teacher, across languages. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.

Notes

1Although attributed to Goffman, prior scholars in other disciplines had also been interested in similar phenomena such as CitationBakhtin's polyphony (1981) and CitationVygotsky's appropriation of other's voices (1978).

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