Teacher Talk in Encouraging Students’ Participation in the EFL Classroom

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10.2991/assehr.k.200325.098How to use a DOI?

Keywords

EF, instructional and management talk, students’ participation, teacher talk

Abstract

This research paper presents the investigation on the most teacher talk used in an EFL classroom, how it encourages students’ participation and the students’ perceptions of the teacher talk and their performance. In this research, the writer employed a descriptive qualitative design. The data were gathered from video-recording and interviews where the participants were an English teacher and 36 seven grade students in Bandung. The findings indicated the organization of teacher talk in terms of instructional talk and management talk in teaching English language classroom for young learner provide students many opportunities to participate actively in the classroom. It contributed to increasing students’ participation by giving initiation which leads the students to give responses, and students indicated a positive perception and attitude toward the teacher talk and their performances. The most teacher talk used were giving correction, asking instructional questions, giving an explanation, giving instruction, asking management questions, encouraging students, and answering management questions. Students’ participation that encouraged the most was participation in class discussion, answering questions when called on, volunteering to answer questions, offering ideas spontaneously, and discussion with partners. Active participation is useful for students in creating opportunities for new learning experiences for language learning.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yanty Wirza
AU  - Ummu Imro’atus Sholihah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/31
TI  - Teacher Talk in Encouraging Students’ Participation in the EFL Classroom
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 287
EP  - 293
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.098
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