Between speaking and silence : a study of quiet students /

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Author / Creator:Reda, Mary M.
Imprint:Albany, NY : SUNY Press, c2009.
Description:ix, 218 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7625194
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ISBN:9780791493618 (hardcover : alk. paper)
079149361X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index.
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Explores the question of student silence from students' perspectives and challenges the conventional wisdom about silent students.

Why are students silent? Using written reflections and interviews, Mary M. Reda examines students' perceptions of speaking and being silent in a first-year composition classroom, and explores how their teachers, classroom relationships, and their own sense of identity shape their decisions to speak or be silent. By challenging many firmly held beliefs about those quiet students in the back of the classroom, Between Speaking and Silence offers the new vision that silence is not necessarily problematic.

Physical Description:ix, 218 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index.
ISBN:9780791493618
079149361X