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Table 1 Dialogue features and dialogic moves in Carless and Chan (2017)

From: University students’ perceptions towards using exemplars dialogically to develop evaluative judgement: the case of a high-stakes language test

Dialogue functions

Dialogic moves

Scaffolding

1. Providing a structural scaffolding to the dialogue

Eliciting

2. Eliciting views from students as a group

3. Eliciting views from an individual student

4. Eliciting questions from students

5. Eliciting explanations from students

6. Eliciting examples from students

Giving

7. Giving a summary of students’ views

8. Giving a paraphrased version of students’ views

9. Giving an elaboration on students’ views

10. Giving the teacher’s own views

11. Giving wait time

12. Giving instructions to refer to rubrics

13. Giving instructions to refer to exemplars

14. Giving examples

15. Giving the teacher’s own interpretation of exemplars

16. Giving compliments or acknowledgements