Using Discussion Pedagogy to Enhance Oral and Written Communication Skills

By Elise J. Dallimore, Julie H. Hertenstein, Marjorie B. Platt. 2008

93 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology

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In Education

1. Bruce M. Wilson
2. P. Pollock
3. Kerstin Hamann

In Social Psychology

1. Bruce M. Wilson
2. P. Pollock
3. Kerstin Hamann

Citations in the corpus

• Learning Through Discussions: Comparing the Benefits of Small-Group and Large-Class Settings (2011, background): “On the whole, studies assessing the usefulness of discussions conclude that they not only help develop students' oral communication skills (Dallimore, Hertenstein, and Platt 2008 ) but also improve learning (Bender 2003 ; Davis and Hillman Murrell 1993 ; Huerta 2007 ); they are considered an act”
• Assessing Student Perceptions of the Benefits of Discussions in Small-Group, Large-Class, and Online Learning Contexts (2012, background): “One way in which this may occur is illustrated by DeLoach and Greenlaw (2005), who find that online discussions have the potential to produce a “spillover” effect in critical thinking; that is, students replying to a posting that shows higher-order thinking are more likely to also employ higher-orde”