A STUDY OF TEACHER TALK IN INTERACTIONS INEFL CLASSES

Abstract

Teacher talk plays an important role in provoking interactions between teachers
and students. Therefore, lecturers should try to understand what languages would
be more efficient in creating an environment in which students feel more
comfortable and more confident and become more involved in interactive
activities in the language classroom. This study investigated kinds of teacher talk
by lecturers and the most employed of kinds of teacher talk by the lecturers in
teaching English. It was found that: the kinds of teacher talk by lecturers are:
Initiation such as: questioning, invitation, and direction, follow up in term of to no
and incorrect answer such as: inform, prompt, encouragement, criticizing, and
ignoring, follow up in term of to correct answer such as: acknowledgement, and
comment. In ways of initiation, questioning (65%) as the most employed by the
lecturers. In term of follow up in purpose to no and incorrect answer, inform
(30%) as the most employed, and in purpose to correct answer, acknowledgement
(60%) as the most employed by the lecturers.