Quality Talk for Secondary Students’ Development of Critical-Analytical Thinking
摘要
Quality Talk (QT) has been used in classroom discourse to facilitate students’ critical-thinking and to create a student-centered learning environment through student-student group discussions. Critical-analytical thinking enables secondary students to analyze complex problems, think independently, question assumptions, explore different viewpoints, and objectively evaluate information to make informed decisions, which is essential in both academic settings and everyday life. Specifically, this chapter discusses the implementation of QT from three dimensions: (1) the role of dialogic pedagogy to increase secondary students’ critical-analytical thinking; (2) The four interrelated components of QT; (3) the benefits and challenges to implement QT in secondary school settings.