Dialogic Teaching: Discussing Theoretical Contexts and Reviewing Evidence from Classroom Practice

By S. Lyle. 2008

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Enhancing learning? A comparison of teacher and teaching assistant interactions with pupils (2010, background): “Teachers can use talk to cognitively challenge pupils (Alexander, 2006) through the questions they ask and the prompts they use, which enhance pupils’ independence and increase metacognitive functioning (Lyle, 2008).”
Scaffolding through dialogic teaching in early school classrooms (2016, background): “According to Lyle (2008), the role of dialogue in students’ learning is more than simply promoting better thinking and raising standards; it has the potential to enable students’ voices to be accessed and legitimised.”
Teacher professional development as a means of transforming student classroom talk (2016, background): “One approach to the dialogic coconstruction of meaning, termed ‘dialogic teaching’ (Alexander, 2006; Lyle, 2008; Reznistkaya & Gregory, 2013), aims to use communication to promote higher cognitive functions in students.”