Analyzing participation frameworks in kindergarten writing activity - The role of overhearer in learning to write

This article focuses on the role of overhearer participation in learning to write. Using Goffman's notion of the participation framework as a linguist ic structure that organizes and is organized by talk and interaction in act ivity, data drawn from an ethnographic study of kindergarten journal writin g activity will be presented in a discussion of how shifts in participant r oles contribute to text construction.