Can Dialogic Discourse Enhance Student Active Participation?

Abstract

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate contribution of a professional development program committed to providing quality training to support dialogic talk to student active participation. Indicators of active participation, in the context of this study, were the speaking duration of the teacher compared to student, the number of different ideas of the students emerging in the classroom milieu, the number of students answering per question asked by the teacher, and the rate of students’ personal answers for the questions asked by the teacher.