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1 A Rationale for Researching Classroom Talk: The Educational Status of Classroom Talk; The Status of Talk as Evidence; Concepts and Terminology. 2 Characteristic Patterns of Classroom Talk: Varieties of Classroom Language; Status, Knowledge, and Unequal Communicative Rights. 3 Research Purposes, Practices and Problems: Choice of Approach; Recording and Transcribing; Reality Observed. 4 Coding Classroom Interaction - Systematic Classroom Observation: Purposes and Methods; Systematic Classroom Observation: Assumptions and Limitations. 5 Interpreting Classroom Communication: Turns, Sequences and Meanings: Learning the "Language"; Curriculum and Communication; The "Essential" Teaching Exchange. 6 Analyses of Classroom Discourse: A Linguistic View; "Normal" Classroom Discourse; A Language Gap Between Home and School? 7 Conclusion.