TY - GEN
T1 - Dialogue constraints in instruction
AU - Bouwhuis, D.G.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - Teaching is a special kind of communication between a tutor and a student.
Ideally, it seems, this communicative process should be a dialogue, but in contrast to more
symmetric dialogues, tutor and student differ substantially in knowledge and skills to be
acquired. Also, the tutor is assumed to take most of the initiative, and largely to control
the dialogue. A regular dialogue, in addition, contains dialogue control utterances, serving
to control the effective flow of information between partners, but utterances of this kind
are remarkably rare in instructional dialogues. So, it appears that instructional theory
has hardly ever employed dialogue theory in implementing tutoring systems, but also that
dialogue research has so far neglected to cover the instructional dialogue. It is argued here
that this should be urgently remedied, and that for a considerable time evaluation research
on communicative and instructional success will remain necessary.
AB - Teaching is a special kind of communication between a tutor and a student.
Ideally, it seems, this communicative process should be a dialogue, but in contrast to more
symmetric dialogues, tutor and student differ substantially in knowledge and skills to be
acquired. Also, the tutor is assumed to take most of the initiative, and largely to control
the dialogue. A regular dialogue, in addition, contains dialogue control utterances, serving
to control the effective flow of information between partners, but utterances of this kind
are remarkably rare in instructional dialogues. So, it appears that instructional theory
has hardly ever employed dialogue theory in implementing tutoring systems, but also that
dialogue research has so far neglected to cover the instructional dialogue. It is argued here
that this should be urgently remedied, and that for a considerable time evaluation research
on communicative and instructional success will remain necessary.
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3-540-58834-5
T3 - NATO ASI Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences
SP - 15
EP - 30
BT - Dialogue and instruction : modeling interaction in intelligent tutoring systems
A2 - Beun, R.J.
A2 - Baker, M.
A2 - Reiner, M.
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
T2 - NATO advanced research workshop on natural dialogue and interactive student modeling
Y2 - 17 October 1992 through 20 October 1992
ER -