Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how dialogic spaces were co-constituted (opened, broadened and deepened) between students engaged in divergent convergent collaborative learning tasks, orchestrated by teachers Finnish primary secondary schools. concept space refers a dynamic, shared resource ideas dialogue has come represent an ideal form educational interaction, the contexts lea...

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an online dialogic storytelling program on vocabulary skills (picture, relative, and oral vocabulary skills) of hard of hearing children. Methods: In this experimental study with pre-test-post-test and a control group design, 34 mothers of hard of hearing children participated. Children’s ages range from 4 to 6 years and t...

From The X-Files to Friends, Gilmore Girls Twin Peaks, revivals of beloved TV series have dominated the airwaves and streaming services over last decade. media landscape has changed significantly since these series’ original airings, however, webisodes, video games, social hashtags fan communities exist alongside—and act upon—the “original” text. By focusing on Peaks this chapter theorizes retu...

The aim of the study is to establish communicative and pragmatic features gossips. object phatic communication characters in English fictional discourse. scope article establishing gossip personages’ material for research includes entries from dictionaries dialogic fragments involving spreading special linguistic methods used include definition analysis applied respective nominative units; comp...

The aim of this study is to examine and describe in what way student teachers use their own and others words meanings content in asynchronous dialogues as a collaborative learning activity in three web-based courses over a period of 60 weeks. The students’ contributions to the course assignments, the group responses and the collaborative discussions were analysed and interpreted based on Bakhti...

A key element of academic writing involves incorporation of external voices, which is a complex rhetorical and linguistic task. Student writers must face this challenge of using sources to strengthen their own arguments. Appraisal, specifically Engagement, provides a useful framework for analyzing source use in texts, as it considers evaluation and dialogic voicing. This article describes a sem...

This poster looks at dialogic learning in academic practice with the specific aim of the collaborative processing of texts. In identifying some shortcomings of these dialogic practices it introduces the notion of trialogic learning, and presents the results from a comparative study on the affordances of different asynchronous discussion tools to support a more content-oriented and trialogic for...

this investigation postulatesvygotsky’s (1978) concept of zone of proximal development (zpd) and his related “scaffolding” metaphor as well as norton’s (2006) principles of sociocultural identity as its theoretical foundation.thisresearchintends to scrutinizethe socioculturally-oriented mediationalmechanisms utilized in student-student and student-teacher collaborationsin an iranian efl writing...