An Action Research on Improving Classroom Communication and Interaction in Social Studies Teaching

Table 1

Four classes of the communicative approach [5].

	Interactive (multiple voices)	Noninteractive (one voice)
Dialogic (different points of views)	Interactive/dialogic (both the teacher and the students actively participate and are open to different perspectives to construct knowledge jointly)	Noninteractive/dialogic (at the end of the speech series that are open to different perspectives, the teacher chooses different ideas from students and shares these ideas by referring to the student)
Authoritative (one single point of view)	Interactive/authoritative (the students’ opinions are expressed as long as they are coherent with the teacher’s point of view)	Noninteractive/authoritative (the teacher focuses on a specific point of view and conveys information through direct instruction without interacting with students)