Classroom (True Dialogue VS IRE dialogue)

True Dialogue VS IRE Dialogue

In the classroom, we can classify the talk between the teacher and students into two different dialogues: the true dialogue and IRE dialogue ( Induction-Response-Evaluation).

Discussion sessions are valuable for inquiry lessons that target objectives, need students to argue, reason and discuss not only to remember. To stimulate students to express their ideas and reason with a support content, teachers need to conduct discussion sessions so students would engage in a true dialogue rather than IRE.

The true dialogue gives students the chance to unleash their thoughts and ideas, to reason phenomena and cases, to analyze observations and data collected in comfortable climate and free feelings, away from anxiety and stress. Moreover, the true dialogue reinforces the students to engage in the learning activity by participating and sharing their ideas without fear that their personal worth will be judged according to answer validity. While, IRE dialogue is limited by ‘score borders’ in this dialogue the students first priority is their grades, so they bypass wide discussions and steer clear of expressing their ideas freely. So one of the factors that scale the degree of success achieved by teachers is their ability to engage student in a true dialogue rather than IRE one.

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