Talking the Talk explores the power of dialogic teaching to enhance literacy, combining theory with real classroom scenarios to showcase how conversation fosters learning and improves literacy practice.

Edited by Dr Pauline Jones, Dr Alyson Simpson and Anne Thwaite

Talking the Talk: Snapshots from Australian Classrooms addresses the role of interaction in learning to be literate. Through talk, teachers develop students' conscious knowledge about texts, meanings and literate practice. A strength of this book is that way it combined theoretical chapters on classroom talk as a resource for learning, creating dialogic contexts for learning, and dialogic futures with classroom scenarios as presented by teachers.

This book stresses the power of dialogue that works on two levels: between classroom participants (teachers and students, students and students) and between teachers and mentors. It unpacks the contexts we need to create in order to have a successful dialogic classroom; how critical oral language is for EAL/D students or in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms and the underpinning role children's literature can play in dialogic and inclusive pedagogy.

Intended Audience

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