Reading is an essential factor for success at school that requires certain skills and strategies of great complexity rarely taught in schools. Verbalization of comprehension strategies can be considered an effective measure in learning to read. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of a program of teaching reading strategies implemented through interactive dialogic reading groups ...

The use of student-led discussions, or literature circles, offers the potential to engage all students through a more democratic, dialogic approach. The central goal of this research was to understand how adolescents practise literacy within the context of a peer, reading group, and how gender impacts these practices. Transcripts of student-led discussions were analyzed to determine how gender ...

The research reported in this study focuses on how distance students can learn to use argumentation processes as a tool for learning. For ten weeks, 30 student teachers studied the webbased 15 credit course Teacher Assignment. Data were collected from five student groups’ asynchronous argumentation, relating to authentic cases of teacher leadership. Focus was placed on the extent to which stude...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the role a group facilitator when taking dialogical stance. A special interest facilitator’s processual responsiveness and its potential for supporting dialogic approach process facilitation. Design/methodology/approach Theoretically, article based dialogue dialectic relationship theory. Empirically, it pragmatic analysis excerpts from audio ...