Discussion of electronic mail messages processing focuses on threads, which are conversations among two or more people carried out by exchange of messages. Suggests that effective threading systems should rely on conventions in human communication rather than on software communication, and shows that information retrieval techniques can be used…

Describes a model for inservice education that begins with an interchange of teachers' voices with those of the students in an interactive dialog. The exchange allows them to develop their private voices through self-reflection and validation of their own experiences. (JOW)

Describes a teaching approach based on integration of the concepts of dialogue and mediation, which uses learning tasks to structure dialogue with students during classroom meetings and outside the classroom. Asserts that it promotes deep learning and diminishes the powerful voice of the teacher, allowing students and the teacher to reason…

Discusses how to respond to student writing. Offers two assignments that encourage a dialogue between the teacher and student. Relays actual student comments and the process of helping these students. (PRA)

Investigates whether listener bias contributes to the mistaken notion that women talk more than men. Perceptual effects (misjudgments of rates of speech) and attitudes to social roles and perception of power relations are suggested to be among the factors contributing to the misjudgment. (GLR)

Presents a dialogue between Peter Medgyes and Rod Bolitho regarding British support for English language training in Central and Eastern Europe. Focuses on British and local priorities, language, teacher education, and mutual learning. (Author/VWL)

Imam Yahya Hendi came from afar--the occupied Palestinian Territories--to become, in 1999, the first full-time Muslim chaplain serving at a university in the United States. He is now the chaplain at Georgetown University. Rumee Ahmed, appointed earlier this year as Brown University's first Muslim chaplain, had a significantly shorter trip, moving…

Following sample question and answer dialogues, this article provides suggestions on how to deal with a child who never stops complaining. The author investigates the impetus behind children who seem to make whining a habit, by asking several children why they do it. The dialogues demonstrate: (1) that young children may not know the meaning of…

The three authors writing on Bakhtins essay, "Dialogic Origin and Dialogic Pedagogy of Grammar" -- Farmer, Halasek, and Williams -- respond to one another, and Bazerman provides a summative comment in the paragraphs that follow. The responses explore further some of Bakhtins thoughts concerning rhetoric and its relation to stylistics and his use…

As a long-term advocate for, and practitioner of, both Paulo Freire's theory of "liberatory education" and bell hooks's "engaged pedagogy," the author subscribes to their principles of encouraging freedom of thought through active dialogue and the dialogic in an attempt to empower students by making the classroom a space that opens up to radical…

This philosophical essay is inspired by a four-year pedagogical relationship that continues in its altered form today. The main focus of this piece is the transformation of a mentor as an immediate addressee into mentor as a "superaddressee," an influential third listener who oversees observable dialogues. I explore the mutual responsibilities of…

When people engage in conversation, they tailor their utterances to their conversational partners, whether these partners are other humans or computational systems. This tailoring, or adaptation to the partner takes place in all facets of human language use, and is based on a "mental model" or a "user model" of the conversational partner. Such…

This article describes Mikhail Bakhtin's 20th century work on dialogue as it may serve one engaged in teaching as a vocation and existential pursuit rather than as a job or profession. Dialogue, as theorized by Bakhtin, within the pedagogical real, potentially becomes a mode of being through which the individual engages in the project of selfhood,…

This article presents the 3 basic principles of dialogue in teaching (Burbules, 1993)--"participation," "commitment," and "reciprocity". It also presents examples from educational literature of how dialogue is used in middle school classrooms to enhance critical thinking. The first section of this article is a review of Burbules's book, "Dialogue…

The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…