The purpose of this study was to probe the effect of metacognitive strategy instruction through dialogic interaction on the reading comprehension performance and metacognitive awareness of Iranian EFL learners. The data were collected through the Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) and a reading test to examine changes in metacognitive awareness and reading performance before and after the inte...

The purpose of this study was to probe the effect of metacognitive strategy instruction through dialogic interaction on the reading comprehension performance and metacognitive awareness of Iranian EFL learners. The data were collected through the Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) and a reading test to examine changes in metacognitive awareness and reading performance before and after the inte...

International studies of talk-intensive (or ‘dialogic’) pedagogies have demonstrated that children who experience academically challenging classroom discussion (‘dialogue’) make greater progress than their peers not had this experience. In England, gains in achievement been greatest for pupils from less privileged socio-economic backgrounds, thus underlining the importance dialogue to social mo...

This paper reports on an exploratory study that explores the instructional patterns within English as a Foreign Language (EFL) secondary school classrooms in Syria. Recently, the Syrian Ministry of Education (MoE) has introduced a new national curriculum which recommends a shift in EFL teachers’ instructional practices. Despite this costly innovation, there has been no attempt to check whether ...

European science communication project QUEST surveyed and reviewed different aspects of communication, including journalism, teaching training in social media activity, museums. This article draws together themes that collectively emerge from this research to present an overview key issues across Europe. We discuss four central dynamics — fragmentation within practice; a landscape transition; t...

Integral practices constitute instances of undergraduate training and articulation with the community. In this framework, it is possible to integrate traditions research, extension teaching from a dialogic constructivist paradigm in pedagogical scheme that, addition, allows addressing problems that cross territory. The success format depends on efficient management, why planning guarantees its ...

In a highly diverse world, cultural literacy is an essential tool for living together in harmony, and dialogic teaching may be way to promote develop it among children adolescents. We define as set of attitudes (inclusion, tolerance, empathy) skills (dialogic argumentation) needed understand others our everyday lives. This paper focuses on the effect professional development programme dialogue ...

This research illustrates the efficacy of a new approach for collecting and analyzing family conversational data at museums and other informal settings. This article offers a detailed examination of a small data set (three families) that informs a larger body of work that focuses on conversation as methodology. The dialogic content of this work centers on biological themes, specifically adaptat...

The pedagogies that are currently being put forward within a broad multilingual paradigm in languages education endorse the general principle learning is collaborative and dialogic process engaging learners teachers as partners bring diverse linguistic, cultural other knowledge into classroom. plurilingual approach to modern adopted by Council of Europe at turn century line with orientation emb...