This book is an in-depth examination of education and media under occupation. The contributors to this volume engage dialogue to explore these domains and their roles and functioning under occupation while keeping an eye toward resolution, using the on-going conflict between Palestine and Israel as the focus. The uniqueness of this collection is…

It has been increasingly recognised that classroom discourse plays an important social role as a semiotic mediator of knowledge construction with respect to curriculum content. The assumption is that through active verbal engagement with a topic of interest, students are enabled to master the modes of language use associated with schooling--the…

The utmost goal of foreign language instruction is aimed at helping the learner master the language. At the same time the learner shall become equipped with linguistic, pragmatic and social-linguistic competence. This study was done to explore if review activities in EFL classes should be mandatory for learners to learn the new knowledge. One…

Recent "Focus on Form" studies have emphasized the importance of learner--rather than teacher--generated attention to formal aspects of interlanguage. In this study, we took advantage of EFL learners' analytical grammar knowledge and designed a post-task approach to foster learners' self-initiated attention. Student dyads transcribed their…

This paper presents an overview of what has come to be known as the "Interaction Hypothesis," the basic tenet of which is that through input and interaction with interlocutors, language learners have opportunities to notice differences between their own formulations of the target language and the language of their conversational…

We describe a computer assisted language learning (CALL) system that uses human-machine dialogue as its medium of interaction. The system was developed to help students learn the basics of the Maori language and was designed to accompany the introductory course in Maori running at the University of Otago. The student engages in a task-based…

Discusses recent debates on the teaching of critical thinking. Draws a distinction between critical thinking and dialogic thinking and demonstrates how critical dialog can help students explore their own views as well as views to which they have not been previously exposed. (Author/VWL)

Describes a method which uses the language laboratory to help the teacher correct individual students' pronunciation and which assists the student in memorizing dialogues. (AM)

Describes a study to determine if the initial advantage of listening to first language dialogs while reading second language scripts (i.e., reversed subtitling) would hold up over time and if a combination of coordinated dialogs and scripts both in the second language would gain effectiveness through usage. (SED)

Compares the quantity of characteristics of negotiation by second-language learners in interlanguage talk in two approaches that encourage information exchange. One approach is guided by explicit cues and is introduced by dialogs that demonstrate language functions as they occur in discourse settings, and the other is based on information exchange…

Assuming that ability to communicate is the main goal of foreign language teaching, the article examines a textbook dialogue for its authenticity. An improved version is printed beside the original, and justifications for the changes are given. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…

Discusses the news programs of "Landesbildstelle Berlin," as providing dialog material useful for the language classroom. The dialogs deal with news, rather than simply providing examples of language structures. Discusses also difficulties of using dialogs in the laboratory. Examples and hints for application are given. (Text is in…

Dialogue learning as a tool in teaching conversational skills to lower-level language students is discussed. The use of an outline of the day's dialogue to assist the student to learn the material without complete memorization is recommended. (Author/RM)

In an attempt to make dialog learning in a FLES Spanish class easier, the use of the "integrated story" is suggested that exposes the children to new phrases and sentences of the dialog prior to the formal introduction of the dialog. (NCR)