Peers to Peers: Developing a Student-Coordinated Conversation Partner Program

Peers Supporting Peers through Structured Bulletin Boards

On-line forums or bulletin boards provide opportunity and potential for collaborative work, dialogue and study that can increase the flexibility of learning while motivating participants. By enabling peer-to-peer interaction, online bulletin boards can support the essential elements of a learning conversation by providing scope for discussion, dialogue and interaction. The structure of the bull...

Young children create partner-specific referential pacts with peers.

In 2 studies, we investigated how peers establish a referential pact to call something, for example, a cushion versus a pillow (both equally felicitous). In Study 1, pairs of 4- and 6-year-old German-speaking peers established a referential pact for an artifact, for example, a woman's shoe, in a referential communication task. Six-year-olds, but not 4-year-olds, continued to use these same expr...

Teachers’ Strategies Used to Foster Teacher-Student and Student-Student Interactions in EFL Conversation Classrooms: A Conversation Analysis Approach

Despite the fact that there are a wide range of strategies used to foster interactions in EFL conversation classrooms, many novice teachers are not aware of them. In view of this problem, the current study aimed to identify such strategies commonly used by EFL teachers in conversation classrooms. To this end, fifty sessions of college level conversation classrooms were observed andtheir teacher...

The Impact of Interaction with Peers on College Student Development

Since most college student development models take students’ interaction with peers as an important influential factor, by reviewing an amount of related literature, this paper summarized the impact of interaction with peers on college student development in the eight areas categorized by Pascarella and Terenzini. Based on a body of research conducted by analyzing national samples or some small...

Peers Helping Peers: The Effectiveness of a Peer Support Program in Enhancing Self- concept and Other Desirable Outcomes