AN OVERVIEW OF DIALOGIC TEACHING AND ITS IMPACT ON LEARNING

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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 with the social aspect of learning, this concept of teaching has grasped the interest of many researchers over years. This study aims to gather some of these studies together and present the effectiveness of implementing dialogic teaching in relation to four language skills as well as grammar and vocabulary development. Moreover, revealing the problems of deploying dialogic teaching in the teaching/learning environment and possible solutions to overcome these is also taken as another scope of the study. The study showed that dialogic teaching is an efficient way to trigger students’ language development since it enhances their intellectual abilities, critical thinking, questioning skills, and metacognitive awareness by increasing student talk in class. Moreover, not only four language skills but also students’ vocabulary and grammar knowledge could be enlarged along with the improvement on their phonological awareness. However, this teaching approach can be hard to implement in classrooms since it requires knowledge, skills, suitable curriculum, and school culture along with other possible problems. Luckily, to deal with these problems, this study also presents several solutions and suggestions such as integrating pair and group works, changing shape of questions and type of curriculum, and training teachers on dialogic teaching.