How do teachers metacognitive talk about math and writing support first-graders metacognition and self-regulation in everyday classrooms?
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Our main research question was to examine how do teachers metacognitive talk about math and writing in everyday classrooms support first-graders metacognition and self-regulation. An exploratory and observational study was conducted with 40 children and two teachers in first-grade classrooms. We adapted the C.Ind.Le coding framework to analyze teacher metacognitive talk with young children. We coded metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive regulation, and emotional and motivational regulation. We identified 141 micro-episodes of teacher metacognitive talk during math and writing lessons. Our results discussing prior studies that showed elementary school teachers seldom evidence metacognitive talk with young children. Also, we found that teacher metacognitive talk was distinguished by the instructional style. The interdirect teacher spent more time promoting knowledge of tasks as well as emotional and motivational monitoring than the interconstructive teacher did, but she worked more time fostering planning, monitoring, and evaluation. These findings may support practices and policy to promote educational contexts that encourage metacognitive and self-regulatory development
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