Inquiry Through Dialogue in Teaching Reading and Viewing
Hear how two English Language teachers use dialogue to support the teaching of reading and viewing, and learn how to design dialogic talk in your own lessons.
Last updated 9 September 2026
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The podcast episodes in the area of Inquiry through Dialogue (ItD) offer a range of perspectives on why ItD is important for student learning, what ItD looks like in enactment, and how it can be enacted in classrooms.
In this episode, we feature Peter Chutatape, a Lead Teacher of EL at the primary level, and Felicia Ng, who teaches EL at the secondary level. They are educators who share a deep belief in the value of ItD in the teaching of reading and viewing. Peter and Felicia speak with Cedric, Principal Master Teacher, about how ItD can support the teaching of reading and viewing and how they design and enact dialogic talk in lessons to teach reading and viewing.
References
Exploratory Talk
Barnes, D. (2008). Exploratory talk for learning. In N. Mercer & S. Hodgkinson (Eds.), Exploring talk in school: Inspired by the work of Douglas Barnes (pp. 1-16). SAGE.
Use of Dialogic Talk in Teaching Reading and Viewing
Chia, A., & Chan, C. (2017). Understanding multiliteracies and assessing multimodal texts in the English curriculum. The English Teacher, 46(2), 73-87.
Reznitskaya, A., & Wilkinson, I. A. G. (2018). Truth matters: Teaching young students to search for the most reasonable answer. Phi Delta Kappan, 99(4), 33-38.
Rojas-Drummond, S. (2019). A dialogic approach to understanding and promoting literacy practices in the primary classroom. In N. Mercer, R. Wegerif, & L. Major (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic education (pp. 305-318). Routledge.
Episode published 15 January 2024