Dialogic discourse is said to aid the social and cognitive aspects of language learning acquisition students’ success in second therefore largely dependent on interactional opportunities available. Recognising potential impact dialogic enhancing amongst Malaysian students, Ministry Education (MOE) provided a large-scale training group lower secondary English teachers. This study explores percep...

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 429 I. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CAPACITY BUILDING ...................................................... 433 II. A DIALOGIC APPROACH TO CAPACITY BUILDING .............................................. 439 III. BUILDING THE RULE OF LAW ....................................

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...

In this paper I argue that Bakhtin’s dialogic theory of identity (Bakhtin, 1981, 1984, 1986), Barth’s anthropological theory of identity (Barth, 1969, 1981; Triandafyllidou, 2002) and Socioconstructionist theory of identity (Giddens, 1991; Burr, 1995; Shotter and Gergen’s edited series on text and identity) provide a remarkably coherent and complementary theoretical foundations for an explorato...

Enhancing the quality of learning opportunities for students with disabilities and level attained is a pending challenge. This challenge especially relevant in context special schools, where possibilities derived from interactions others limited. However, providing these sufficient instrumental learning, such as literacy, communicative reasoning abilities crucial their subsequent educational so...

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The paper composes a framework for learning design, using Web 2.0 technologies in teacher training, transferring the advancement in technology to become an affordance in the teaching/learning process, based on Bloom’s Extended Digital Taxonomy in order to enhance the Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge of teachers. As a case study, it shows how ELTE University tries to develop susta...

We are on the verge of developing artificial intelligences that may dwarf the capabilities of human intelligence. How we will interact and thrive alongside such intelligence will be a pressing societal problem. This paper addresses the question of the intelligence of “artificial persons” (organisations of people) that already exist in our modern world. A particular issue – social exclusion from...

Text analysis traditions in France and the United States include discourse analysis, critical linguistics, French functional linguistics, Bakhtinian dialogics, and “generous reading.” These frames have not been used, however, in crosscultural analysis of university student writing. The author presents a study of 250 student texts from French and U.S. introductory university courses, using a met...