Kiramba, Lydiah KananuSmith, Patrick H.2019-07-122019-07-122019-06-26Kiramba, L., & Smith, P.H. (2019). Her sentence is correct, isn’t it?”: Regulative discourse in English medium classrooms. Teaching and Teacher Education, 85, pp. 105-114.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/8302Research on discourse in African classrooms has shown the predominance of teacher centered instruc- tional practices. Teacher centered discourse patterns have been blamed for student passivity and disengagement in knowledge production. In this article, we investigate teachers' use of the invariant tag isn't it in Kenyan primary classrooms during ELA and math lessons. Using Bernstein's pedagogical device theory, we submit that the tag plays a regulative function in classroom discourse. Based on our findings, we argue for greater attention to teachers' language choices and discuss implications for classroom discourse practice and researchText39 pages1 file (.pdf)enmultilingual learnersEnglish medium classroomtagsBernsteinKenyan educationclassroom discourseCurriculum and InstructionArticlehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2019.06.011