Socially Shared Regulation of Learning and Quality of Talk: Age Differences in Collaborative Group Work in Classroom Contexts

Collaborative group work has been recognized as a way of fostering the development of metacognition and self-regulation. Moreover, it has been claimed that these regulatory processes have an interpersonal level in which the regulation of the activity is shared with others (Iiskala et al., 2004). There has also been a considerable body of research on talk within small groups in the classroom. This approach has built a considerable amount of...