Corpora: transcript of classroom lessons

[Bruce L. Lambert, Ph.D.]

At 01:18 PM 11/10/01 +0200, Hanaa Khamis wrote:
>I am teaching a course for math and science teachers who are interested in
>teaching in English language schools. I want to show them samples of
>classroom language that might help them explain their subject matter in
>English. I wonder where I could find such transcripts of teachers
>explaining lessons.

The TIMMS-R study is an international study of 8th grade math and science
teaching in 7 countries. The study is run primarily by LessonLab, Inc.
(www.lessonlab.com). They have  a very large corpus of transcribed
classroom talk, but it will not be released to the public until after the
study is completed in another year or so. Still, you might try to contact
LessonLab to inquire about the eventual availability of the data.

-bruce