摘要:This study aimed to identify the patterns of classroom dialogue used by scienceteachers in science classes at Omani schools with respect to their gender. The studysample consisted of science teachers: three males and three females. To achieve theaims of the study, mixed methods with three instruments were used. These are anobservation card or tool composed of items developed and divided into twodomains: whole class dialogue and non-whole class dialogue. In addition, aninterview was conducted in a sort of focus group and two lessons were videorecorded. The study found that the most common patterns of science class dialoguewere: teacher to student dialogue, teacher with student dialogue and teacherthinking with student dialogue. The least common patterns of science classdialogue were: student to student dialogue and all the kinds of non-wholeclassroom dialogue. The findings showed that female science teachers had betterpractices than male teachers in: Teacher to student dialogue, teacher with studentdialogue and teacher thinking with student dialogue. Whereas there were nosignificant differences in student to student dialogue, individual work dialogue andgroup work dialogue, the whole sample didn't show any movement work dialoguebetween male and female teachers.