附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index.
Introduction : computers in the classroom context / Rupert Wegerif and Peter Scrimshaw -- The importance of talk / Neil Mercer and Eunice Fisher -- Educationally important types of children's talk ; Developments in exploratory talk and academic argument / Eunice Fisher -- A dialogical framework for researching peer talk / Rupert Wegerif and Neil Mercer -- Talk round adventure games / Terry Phillips and Peter Scrimshaw -- Children's talk and computer software / Eunice Fisher -- Children's talk and computer software : a response to Fisher / Rupert Wegerif -- Tinker Town : working together / Peter Scrimshaw and Gary Perkins -- Tinker Town : reading and re-reading children's talk around the computer / Joan Swann -- The gender issue : is what you see what you get? / Madeline Watson -- Children as researchers using CD-ROM encyclopaedias / Janet Collins and Alison Syred-Paul -- Factors affecting the quality of children's talk at computers / Rupert Wegerif -- Teaching talking / Lyn Dawes -- Scaffolding through talk / Neil Mercer and Eunice Fisher -- Improving group work at computers / Madeline Watson -- Computers, talk and learning : an intervention study / Rupert Wegerif and Lyn Dawes.