The present study investigated the effects of a special interactive dialogic reading method developed by Whitehurst et al. (1988) on deaf and hard-of-hearing children in Hong Kong. Twenty-eight deaf and hard-of-hearing children in kindergarten, first, or second grade were pretested on a receptive vocabulary test and assigned to one of three conditions, dialogic reading, typical reading, and con...

The view that communication is a type of action has provided a basis for research in natural language processing for many years. However, models of task-oriented dialogic interaction fail to fully exploit the language-as-action perspective because there is no deep understanding of the interaction between the definition of the task, the autonomy of the agents doing the task, and efficient langua...

In higher education, learning activities increasingly take place in online collaborative groups. this conceptual paper, we explore interaction from the perspective of dialogicality. We aim to reconceptualize notion “productive interaction” and typical focus its research by turning attention dialogic features interaction, especially notions alterity, attitude, orientation. relation this, offer a...

As electronic book (e-book) readers are increasingly applied in educational contexts, it is becoming imperative to explore issues of how to integrate these new reading devices with pedagogical principles. To achieve this goal, this study proposes a participatory learning framework to design reading activities with e-book readers. Such a framework addresses the integration of individual reading,...

The view that communication is a type of action has provided a basis for research in natural language processing for many years. However , models of task-oriented dialogic interaction fail to fully exploit the language-as-action perspective because there is no deep understanding of the interaction between the dee-nition of the task, the autonomy of the agents doing the task, and eecient languag...

The genesis for this paper lies in the problematic nature of assessment practice, as a central authorship activity, for early childhood education teachers. This paper draws on dialogic philosophy to explore this challenge based on a doctoral investigation of a very young child (White, 2009) and the strategic means by which she reveals and conceals meaning through dialogic loopholes that are gen...

Inner speech has been implicated in important aspects of normal and atypical cognition, including the development of auditory hallucinations. Studies to date have focused on covert speech elicited by simple word or sentence repetition, while ignoring richer and arguably more psychologically significant varieties of inner speech. This study compared neural activation for inner speech involving c...

Cultural ecology is today at a place of rapidly expanding interconnections with the growing number of human-environment approaches in geography and other fields. Productive interconnections are evidenced, for example, in the extensive debate and discussion within geography that surround the varied relations (e.g., theory, methods, roles of science and representation, scale and subject matter) o...