This book is designed to encourage discussion of issues surrounding the reform of classroom science discourse among teachers, teacher educators, and researchers. The contributors--some of the top educational researchers, linguists, and science educa

Contents: R. Duschl, Foreword. R. Yerrick, W-M. Roth, Introduction: The Role of Language in Science Learning and Teaching. J.P. Gee, Language in the Science Classroom: Academic Social Languages as the Heart of School-Based Literacy. J.P. Gee, G.J. Kelly, W-M. Roth, R. Yerrick, METALOGUE: Situating Identity and Science Discourse. W-M. Roth, Telling in Purposeful Activity and the Emergence of Scientific Language. J.P. Gee, W-M. Roth, R. Yerrick, METALOGUE: Understanding, of Science and Teaching. G.J. Kelly, Discourse, Description, and Science Education. G.J. Kelly, W-M. Roth, R. Yerrick, METALOGUE: Contrasting Sociolinguistic and Normative Approaches to Redesigning School. G.M. Bowen, Essential Similarities and Differences Between Classroom and Scientific Communities. G.M. Bowen, W-M. Roth, R. Yerrick, METALOGUE: Authentic Science Education: Contradictions and Possibilities. M. Varelas, C.C. Pappas, A. Rife, Dialogic Inquiry in an Urban Second-Grade Classroom: How Intertextuality Shapes and Is Shaped by Social Interactions and Scientific Understandings. G.M. Bowen, M. Varelas, W-M. Roth, R. Yerrick, METALOGUE: Lifeworld Language, Scientific Literacy, and Intertextuality. C. Ballenger, Meaning and Context: Studying Words in Motion. C. Ballenger, R. Yerrick, W-M. Roth, METALOGUE: Balancing Our View of Science With Language Usage and Culture. K.M. Collins, A.S. Palincsar, S.J. Magnusson, Science for All: A Discursive Analysis Examining Teacher Support of Student Thinking in Inclusive Classrooms. M. Gallego, S.J. Magnusson, K.M. Collins, A.S. Palincsar, W-M. Roth, R. Yerrick, METALOGUE: A Question of Perspective in Supporting the Learning of Students With Special Needs in Inquiry-Based Science Instruction. R. Yerrick, Playing the Game of Science: Overcoming Obstacles in Re-Negotiating Science Classroom Discourse. C. Ballenger, J.P. Gee, R. Yerrick, W-M. Roth, METALOGUE: Emergent Nature of Classroom Talk and the Game of Science. K. Tobin, Teaching Science in Urban High Schools: When the Rubber Hits the Road. K. Tobin, R. Yerrick, W-M. Roth, METALOGUE: Expanding Agency and Changing Social Structures. M.A. Gallego, N.D. Finkelstein, When the Classroom Isn't in School: The Construction of Scientific Knowledge in an After-School Setting. M. Varelas, M.A. Gallego, R. Yerrick, W-M. Roth, METALOGUE: Scientific Versus Spontaneous Concepts at Work in Student Learning.