Dialogic Teaching and Dialogic Stance: Moving beyond Interactional Form

• Published in: Research in the teaching of English Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 272 - 296
• Main Authors: Boyd, Maureen P., Markarian, William C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Urbana National Council of Teachers of English 01.02.2015
• Subjects: Agenda Setting; Classroom communication; Classroom Environment; Communities of Practice; Community Relations; Discourse structure; Elementary education; Epistemology; Grade 3; Language; Language instruction; Language teaching methods; Learning; Listening; Narratives; School environment; Teaching; Teaching methods; New York; United States > US

While there is consensus that dialogic teaching should involve a repertoire of teaching and learning talk patterns and approaches, authorities who enjoin teachers to engage in dialogic teaching generally characterize classroom dialogue in terms of surface features such as open questions. But dialogi...