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Learning generally involves speech. Teachers communicate with students verbally and students demonstrate what they have learned using spoken language. Typically, teachers talk more than two-thirds of the time, with the remainder of time being spent on individual students answering questions posed by the teacher (Nuthall, 1997).
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McComas, W.F. (2014). Classroom Discourse. In: McComas, W.F. (eds) The Language of Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-497-0_13
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