Toward effective multimodal meaning-making with visual data in Geography through productive classroom talk

Team Members

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr Tricia Seow, NIE

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
Dr Caroline Ho, ELIS

Funding Agency

MOE Academies Fund

Project Description

This research focused on enhancing dialogic talk surrounding the data used in geography and environmental classrooms, by providing empirical data on how teachers use talk moves . It has also provided evidence of the effectiveness of talk moves for developing student confidence in interpreting, analysing, and evaluating geographical and environmental data, as well as constructing written explanation around data. The data provided valuable input on how to refine talk moves specifically for building literacy to engage with data.

Related Publications

Seow, T., Ho, C. & Lin, Y. (In-press). Thinking and Talking like a Geographer: Teachers’ use of dialogic talk for engaging students with multimodal data in the geography classroom. In L.H.Seah, R. Silver, & Baildon, M (Eds.), Teachers’ Knowledge of the Role of Language in Content Pedagogy (pp. 309-326). Singapore: Springer.

Talk Moves and videos, together with other useful resources, have been made available on NIE Knowledge Resource Bank as materials for teachers’ professional development. https://singteach.nie.edu.sg/2021/07/09/talk-moves-for-geographical-data/