In the past two decades, there has been a call for educators around the whole to prepare
students for the 21st century to help them navigate an increasingly globalized world and …

Dialogic education has become increasingly appealing due to the recognized value of
dialogue for the development of students' thinking and knowledge. Yet, its appeal has not …

It is increasingly recognised that language teachers' self-efficacy (LTSE) beliefs, ie their
beliefs in their abilities to fulfil specific language teaching-related tasks that support learning …

This mixed-method quasi-experimental study examined whether metaconceptual grammar
teaching impacts on (a) students' L1 grammatical understanding,(b) their 'blind'use of …

“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write,
you can tell if you've said or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-turned …

This study is aimed at describing the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) senior high
schools' teachers' perceptions on grammar teaching; their teaching strategies which are the …

In this article, we explore the affordances of a framework informed by systemic functional
linguistics for nuanced analysis of both students' and teachers' discourse moves in …

This systematic quantitative literature review was conducted to analyse and synthesise the
extant corpus of knowledge on dialogic pedagogy within school settings, and thus identify …

Dialogic teaching supports the view that an individual's speech and learning can be formed
through continuous interaction with others and their talks. Thanks to its close relationship …

This paper gives a brief summary of Halliday's theory of how children learn to talk, illustrating
the development of children's language from the microfunctions through the macrofunctions …