Document Type
Presentation
Original Presentation Date
2024
Date of Submission
June 2024
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore applications of natural language processing (NLP), a computer-assisted analytical technique aimed to automatically process, analyze, and comprehend textual data (Liu & Cohen, 2021; Manning et al., 1999) for providing new insights into science classroom discourse processes, including how agency is distributed among the teachers and their students and how students engage in science talk (e.g., Patall et al., 2019; Stroupe, 2014), and combining these analyses with qualitative follow-ups to uncover why these patterns might occur, with a particular focus on how these processes construct hybrid discourse spaces. Hybridity theory is a useful framework to examine transformative spaces that center students’ home and community resources as assets to classroom discourse practices (Gutierrez et al., 1999; Moje et al., 2004).
Is Part Of
VCU Education Graduate Presentations