Theme Talk as a Form Dialogic Communication

Promoting Dialogic Talk in a Speaking Classroom: Rethinking Bakhtinian Pedagogy

This study sought to promote EFL learners' speaking ability drawing on Bakhtin’s notion of dialogic discourse pattern (DDP) and to explore their perceptions towards implementing dialogic teaching (DT) in a speaking classroom. To this end, from the population of students in different language institutes, 47 students were selected based on a purposive sampling method. The data were collected at t...

Action, Talk, and Text: the Case for Dialogic Inquiry

For ten years, while I was at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, I had the good fortune to work with a group of teachers with whom I and two colleagues formed a school-university partnership to carry out collaborative action research, supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation. Initially, our aim was to investigate the role of spoken discourse – talk – i...

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Closed Form Summation for Classical Distributions: Variations on Theme

De Moivre gave a simple closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation of the binomial distribution. Later authors showed that similar closed form expressions hold for many of the other classical families. We review the history of these identities and extend them to obtain summation formulas for the expectations of all polynomials orthogonal to the constants.

Let’s Talk: How Communication Affects Contract Design

We study experimentally how the ability to communicate affects the frequency and effectiveness of flexible and inflexible contracts in a bilateral trade context where sellers can adjust trade quality after observing a post-contractual cost shock and a discretionary buyer transfer. In the absence of communication, we find that rigid contracts are more frequent and lead to higher earnings for bot...