Abstract The importance of parent-child shared book reading (SBR) is well established. However, there a limited understanding parental interaction patterns during SBR among preschool children in the Indian context. Using cross-sectional observational study design, mothers’ verbal and nonverbal behavior was analyzed 26 Kannada-speaking mother-child dyads. Relationships between quantity experienc...

Summarizing threads of email is different from summarizing other types of written communication as it has an inherent dialog structure. We present initial research which shows that sentence extraction techniques can work for email threads as well, but profit from email-specific features. In addition, the presentation of the summary should take into account the dialogic structure of email commun...

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...

This paper presents the theories and rationales guiding a forthcoming project of testing a dialogic program, using Socratic dialogue, to enhance social and emotional abilities of children diagnosed as autistic. The main study will be performed next year. The aim of this paper is to outline and examine the possibilities of Socratic dialogue as a basis for pedagogical thinking and practice when t...

This chapter explores the relationship of communication to ethics. Introductions to general guidelines for ethical communication, related dialogic virtues and skills, and additional tools for recognizing and addressing ethical issues are included. The principles, guidelines, and tools outlined below reflect insights from numerous disciplines and are applicable within and across diverse 21st-cen...