1. Agenda 11/6 Sociocultural theory: Funds of Knowledge & Regulatory Talk Discuss readings Assigned readings

2. Sociocultural theory (Moll) 1.What kind of research is this? 2.How does this study differ from others we have read? 3.If “networks are a matter of survival (p. 184)”, why isn’t fixing the car the important thing (p. 191)? 4.Is this work replicable? Does it matter? 5.Do “funds of knowledge” need to be validated? How? 6.Are classrooms as independent as claimed (p. 193)? 7.In what sense is the word “sample” used (p. 182)? 8.What were the methodological headaches (p. 204)?

3. Regulatory talk (Cox) 1.If metacognition is a “conscious strategy (p. 734)”, is procedural metacognition conscious? 2.How does a metafunction (p. 736) differ from a basic function (i.e., regulation)? 3.Do children consciously “make choices from among multiple interlocking linguistic systems (p. 736)? 4.Does the study confirm Halliday’s predictions (p. 737)? 5.What kind of study is this? 6.Does the use of a single group (univ. preschoolers) to define categories create a problem (p. 743)? 7.What should we conclude about the absence of age and SES effects (p. 747-8) 8.Were the study’s questions answered (p. 751)?

4. Assigned readings Strategic reading (Paris, et al., 37) Interactive model (Rumelhart, 40)