| Author | : Mary M. Reda |
| File Size | : 51,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 28 January 2009 |
| ISBN | : 9780791493717 |
| Pages | : 231 pages |
Between Speaking and Silence by Mary M. Reda Book PDF Summary
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.