Education today aims to foster autonomous and critical human beings. To achieve the goals, mutual conversation
which students speak, ask questions, listen and think about others opinions is being emphasized
as a relevant method. Conversation-based appreciation method has been introduced in art education, but
not much has changed in actual classrooms. The purpose of this study is to qualitatively understand the
status quo by analyzing actual classroom environment, mainly the conversation between the instructor and
student. Characteristics of conversation, in different boundaries from general education, school environments
and art education were studied through literature research. Then, conversations in one high school
art class were recorded and analyzed. The result showed the instructor’s degree of participation and way
of speaking influenced students’ dialogic participation. It also showed an implicit rule that set the tone of
the classroom: ‘Instructor decides the course content and method, to which students abide’. The study enabled
the instructor to understand more about the classroom, students, and the language habits to make
changes for improvement.