ABSTRACT
Dialogue serves as a means by which the business of everyday transaction takes place. Through verbal exchanges between individuals, ideas, concepts, agreements and disagreements come into being. Teaching and learning are largely accomplished via verbal exchanges. Teachers and students interact with one another to exchange ideas, discuss alternatives, explore solutions to reach consensus. Resources such as language, hand gestures and written texts facilitate these interactions. As such, studying the dialogues that occur during teaching and learning events will illuminate the “consciousness of individuals” within the social setting of the classroom (Kubli, 2005).
