Bakhtin’s Influence: Α Dialogic Approach to Teaching of Argumentation / Bahtin’in Etkisi: Argümantasyon Öğretiminde Diyalog Temelli Bir Yaklaşım

• Main Author: Fotini EGGLEZOU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mehmet KURUDAYIOĞLU 2016-01-01
• Series: Ana Dili Eğitimi Dergisi
• Subjects: Βakhtin; dialogue; argumentative text; writing; primary school
• Online Access: http://www.anadiliegitimi.com/issue/24587/260289

According to Bakhtin’s theory, an argumentative text encompasses qualities such as heteroglossia, polyphony and dialogism that enable the students’ transition from monologic to dialogic cognition of others’ ideas. Such a knowledge may conduce to the dialogic formation of argumentative writing and raise the students’ awareness on the argumentative genre. Influenced by Bakhtin’s theory, the following paper presents an intervention case-study in teaching argumentation conducted in a group of twenty four 12-year old students of a Greek primary school. Data has been gathered from class recordings of role playing games, dialogic interactions as well as from written argumentative texts. Results showed that the aforementioned activities conduced, first, to the introduction of counter-arguments and rebuttals in the students’ texts and, second, to the empowerment of their individual persuasive speech.