English to Spanish Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy Writing Across the Curriculum

"Olga Dysthe’s (1996) qualitative research study of three high school classrooms examines how the interaction of talking and writing
affects learning. The study presents a writing centered dialogic model of teaching strategies INFORMED BY the theoretical work of Bakhtin (1986), Vygotsky (1986), and Nystrand (1990). Inspired by the resistance of classroom teachers to pedagogical reform movements
(demonstrated by the research which indicates that in the classroom, teachers talk 75% of the time, students 25%) Dysthe observed two American classrooms (American History and AP European History)
and one Norwegian (social science)."