The first text for teaching English to French speakers was a 1483 book of dialogues, translated from French and Flemish. The content consists of everyday vocabulary, interactions, and trading situations. The situational dialogue method lost favor in the nineteenth century and has only recently re-emerged among teaching techniques. (MSE)

In an attempt to make dialog learning in a FLES Spanish class easier, the use of the "integrated story" is suggested that exposes the children to new phrases and sentences of the dialog prior to the formal introduction of the dialog. (NCR)

Presents a two-step approach that uses classroom dialogs to guide students in developing and applying critical-thinking skills. Describes how students evaluate written dialogs for biases, evidence, interpretations, and errors in reasoning, then take part in discussion as role players, analyzing errors in thinking, identifying reasoning skills,…

Advocates the use of Socratic dialogue as a paradigm of classroom organization that supports the primary goals of Montessori secondary education. Describes similarities between the structure of the Socratic seminar and first- and second-period Montessori lessons. Argues that Socratic practice provides a safe, structured environment in which…

Presents a hypothetical instructional dialogue which illustrates the vocabulary, syntax, and style of Terrapin Music Logo, and shows how that dialect might be used to explore the concept of repetition in musical form. The educational philosophy of Logo is examined, and computer-aided discovery learning in music theory is illustrated. (eight…

Attempts to model the human production of language under time constraints based on an analysis of hesitation and spontaneous self-repair in a corpus of spoken human dialogs. The model used divides language production into conceptualization of the message to be conveyed, formulation of words and grammatical structure for the message, and…

This article explores the connections between conversation demands and the ability of children who stutter to maintain fluency. A model of conversation management useful both in assessment and intervention is introduced. The three-component model considers competencies at the utterance level, suprasegmental level, and discourse level. (Author/JDD)

Working with unemployed youth with negative attitudes toward learning, a community educator applied Freire's methods to lead them through reflection on their circumstances and participation in a dialog on learning in which their own words would be heard. (SK)

This paper offers a rationale for the use of conversational approaches to teach language to deaf students, encourages teachers to reexamine how they teach and how they structure their classrooms and curriculums, and describes activities that teachers can use to encourage conversation in their classrooms. (Author/JDD)

The media interview is seen as a form of information exchange that is increasingly important and needs to be understood. Similarities and differences in written and oral interview reports are briefly examined, and interview objectives, forms (dialogue or narrative), and language functions are discussed. (MSE)

First-hand experience of artworks and natural and made objects increases young children's aesthetic awareness as well as giving them a vocabulary to describe them. Discussion helps children understand and extend their powers of imagination, reasoning, and problem solving. (SK)

Describes how to use intonation and dialog context to improve the performance of an automatic speech-recognition system. Experiments utilized the DCIEM Maptask corpus, using a separate bigram language model for each type of move and showing that, with the correct move-specific language model for each utterance in the test set, the recognizer's…

Discusses the role of language and dialog in effecting change and illustrates the power of language in effecting change. Uses the examples of student profiles to define and activate learning, and work portfolios to define career/life choices. (JOW)

Suggests that to bring about a fusion of teacher and researcher communities in education requires a change in emphasis from the generation of knowledge to dialog about what counts as knowledge. Bases the case for dialogic research on the theories of Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. (SLD)

Nursing curricula should emphasize egalitarian teacher-student relationships that reflect cooperation and community. Distribution of power between students and teachers, teachers and teachers, and teachers and administrators must be reconceptualized for authentic dialog to occur. (SK)