Discourse in Classroom

In my classroom, generally, unless the teacher is lecturing, she is actively encouraging students to participate in the conversational floor. Questions are often followed up by a short length of silence while the students get up their nerve to participate. Upon recieveing an answer, the teacher will often encourage other students to add on to the first reply, or give another idea. turn taking sometimes does not go super well in the classroom when multiple students are really excited about getting their answers or discussion contributions out. A lot of the questions being asked now are reading comprehension sort of questions, as we are reading Macbeth aloud. It is important for the students to be aware of what the intent behind the Old English, because they are taking a quiz after each act of the play. The more outgoing kids tend to be the ones who also have a higher social status, and as the children come into the room and choose ther own seating, they are often grouped together. The girls seem to be more prone to tittering while the teacher or a classmate has the conversational floor, and a couple times the teacher has had a student move or sent a student out for having their own chats during other people's talking time.