id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_me54qzu43ff3fdlhjkn3bgdszq Avner Caspi Instructional dialogue: distance education students' dialogic behaviour 2006 18 .pdf application/pdf 7510 656 51 Instructional systems, both distance education and campus-based, may be viewed in terms of intrapersonal and interpersonal instructional dialogues, that mediate and facilitate learning respectively, and Research objectives were to document what dialogue types, mediated through which resources, were utilized by students to overcome conceptual difficulty while reading instructional texts and while working on assignments. Empirical support for the theory was found in a series of three preliminary naturalistic studies that tracked distance and campus-based students' dialogic behaviour as Earlier studies found that three structural resources influence the extent of interpersonal dialogue to a large degree: instructional design (Clark, 1983; Draper et al., Almost half the students turned to peers as their first partner choice for interpersonal dialogue (47.2% and 53.6% in reading and assignment respectively). Next, those factors that correlated with students' choice of partners for interpersonal dialogue for overcoming conceptual difficulty while reading (tutorial type, ./cache/work_me54qzu43ff3fdlhjkn3bgdszq.pdf ./txt/work_me54qzu43ff3fdlhjkn3bgdszq.txt