This commentary reviews the six articles that comprise the Special Issue on 'Advances in
research on classroom dialogue: Learning outcomes and assessments'. The commentary …

The goal of this special issue is to examine how certain modes of classroom dialogue might
contribute to students' learning outcomes. The articles in this special issue share the idea of …

Drawing mainly on the theoretical ideas of Bakhtin on the dialogic nature of language, a
number of authors have stressed the educative potential of teacher–student interaction …

Over the past 20 years, a broad and diverse research literature has emerged to address how
students learn to argue through dialogue in educational contexts. However, the variety of …

This article reviews the existing literature on the relationship between dialogue and
pedagogy, examining the concepts of dialogic instruction, dialogic enquiry and dialogic …

There is increasing scholarly agreement about the key features of academically productive
classroom dialogue. Yet, despite this emerging conceptual consensus, the ways in which it …

Much of the research on dialogue has given us good descriptions of the nature of
participation in talk. Lampert (1990), Alexander (2008), Lefstein and Snell (2011), and others …

The concept of 'dialogic education'typically revolves around the patterns of classroom
dialogue that are believed to promote positive student outcomes. This chapter starts with a …

Scholarly interest in dialogic pedagogy and classroom dialogue is multi-disciplinary and
draws on a variety of theoretical frameworks. On the positive side, this has produced a rich …

Dialogue is often advocated as a way to engage students in active learning. Yet, most
studies of dialogic teaching focus on small classes where discussion is relatively easy to …