This study aims to develop and assess the pedagogical effectiveness of an instructional model that employs deliberative dialogue. Deliberative dialogue is a pedagogical approach that helps mitigate social conflicts by enlarging the circle of stakehold...
This study aims to develop and assess the pedagogical effectiveness of an instructional model that employs deliberative dialogue. Deliberative dialogue is a pedagogical approach that helps mitigate social conflicts by enlarging the circle of stakeholders who have an interest in a given conversation. By enabling learners to effectively engage with diverse perspectives as stakeholders in the dialogue, the deliberative dialogue method leads to a comprehensive understanding of discourse. Beyond this, it cultivates students' meta-communicative awareness, which is essential for enhancing their adaptive and reflective communication practices. By conceptualizing literacy as a social practice, this study developed an instructional model for deliberative dialogue using the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) and was specifically tailored for the context of the environment of the Korean high school. The model’s efficacy subsequently underwent a rigorous evaluation through methods that determined its efficacy through both qualitative and quantitative methods.
This study also examines the critical role of integrating deliberative dialogue into the Korean language curriculum. Drawing on sociolinguistic literacy research and discourse theory, this work highlights the importance of deliberative dialogue instruction and proposes future research directions for its implementation. The study also investigates the discursive nature of deliberative dialogue as a collaborative social practice within the Korean language curriculum.
The design of the instructional model involves three key steps: preparation, iterative design, and iterative development. Preparation involved collecting data on literacy as social practice and deliberative dialogue procedures. This data was then analyzed within the instructional context to define clear instructional goals and design principles. A preliminary model emerged during this iterative design stage. Various student debate groups were compared at the distinct phases of deliberative dialogue, specifically ‘situated practice,’ ‘critical framing,’ ‘overt instruction’ and ‘transformed practice.’ This preliminary model consequently underwent continuous refinement during its stage of development, evolving into detailed instructional and lesson plans. Thereafter, a group of literacy experts confirmed the final version’s validity. Design validation involved assessing improvements in discourse, a process carried out utilizing the Discourse Quality Index (DQI).
The study found that the deliberative dialogue model successfully shifted participant students' perspectives and led to collective consensus on controversial issues. Students’ frequent use of convergent communication, as revealed by analyzing dialogue recordings and activity worksheets, was closely related go their enhanced abilities in conflict resolution.
Furthermore, critical questioning enhanced the rationality of students' thinking and communication, indicating their adoption of these techniques, which they applied in their intrapersonal dialogue. Overall, the deliberative dialogue method proved significantly effective in enhancing students' abilities in both convergent communication and rational discourse. The overt teacher instruction and critical framing were able to effectively curate the students’ development of mixed discourses, which they wielded with demonstrative effect in various communicative contexts. The support provided by the teacher empowered learners to critically explore their identities and the linguistic communities to which they belonged.
These findings point to the need to expand traditional dialogue instruction to include deliberative practices, such as social communication. This study recommends that educators integrate this approach into the Korean language curriculum.