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Discourse practices of mathematics teacher educators in initial teacher training colleges in Malawi.

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Author(s)
Chitera, Nancy
Keywords
Qualitative research design
Critical discourse analysis
Discourse practice
Mathematics teacher educators
Initial teacher training colleges
Multilingual classroom
Code switching
Multilingualism
Student teachers
College mathematics classroom
Initial-Response-Evaluation
Traditional lecturing
Group discussions
Directive discourse
Procedural discourse
School mathematics teaching
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/789677
Online Access
http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7574
Abstract
This is a qualitative research that draws on Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis
 methodology to analyze the discourse practices of the mathematics teacher educators in
 initial teacher training colleges in Malawi. The study involved four mathematics teacher
 educators in two teacher training colleges located in two different regions of Malawi.
 Specifically the study explored the following questions:
 1) What are the discourse practices that mathematics teacher educators
 display in their descriptions of multilingual mathematics classrooms?
 2) a) What are the discourse practices that mathematics teacher educators
 display in a college mathematics classroom?
 b) How do they make available the discourse practices for the student
 teachers to draw on?
 Data was collected through pre-observation interviews, classroom observations,
 reflective interviews and focus group discussions with the mathematics teacher
 educators.
 This study has shown that while there are some disconnections between the discourse
 practices produced in a school multilingual mathematics classroom and a college
 mathematics classroom, some of the discourse practices that mathematics teachers
 produced in a college mathematics classroom reinforces the common discourse
 practices being produced in multilingual mathematics classroom. There are three
 common discourse practices that were displayed in a college mathematics classroom.
 These discourse practices are: Initial-Response-Evaluation (Pimm, 1987), traditional
 lecturing and group discussions. I observed that the IRE and traditional lecturing
 discourse practices were accompanied by directive discourses for procedural control,
 and the procedural discourse was the prevalent discourse in all the discourse practices
 produced.
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 Three major themes have emerged from the data analysis. Firstly, the research findings
 indicate that the mathematics teacher educators regard multilingualism and the language
 practices that come with it such as code-switching more as a problem rather than a
 resource for teaching and learning. Secondly, code-switching in college mathematics
 classroom is not as spontaneous as is research shows it to be in schools; rather it is very
 much controlled and restricted. Thirdly, the dilemmas of code-switching as discussed
 by Adler (1998, 2001) are more acute in teacher training colleges, mainly because of the
 mismatch in the Language-in-Education Policy (LiEP) in schools and tertiary level.
Date
2010-03-01
Type
Thesis
Identifier
oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/7574
http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7574
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