ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates on the interaction discourse pattern that establishes the conversational exchange and activity between two or more people in terms of their normative roles, expectations, and participation structures. An interaction pattern is a kind of social structure that frames how teachers and students exchange their ideas and views about the content matter. Four common types of interaction patterns and their characteristics are presented in this chapter. They are IRE (Initiate, Response, Evaluate) and IRF (Initiate, Response, Follow-up) triadic dialogues, teacher monologue, and student dialogue. Discourse strategies that promote IRF dialogue and student dialogue by shifting the interaction patterns to more interactive and dialogic are subsequently discussed. In particular, these strategies involve the use of dialogic questioning to ask open-ended questions followed by a chain of feedback and discursive moves as well as collaborative questioning to mediate dialogic interaction among students.
