Classroom management- classroom talk

Gives a summary about the most common types of interactions that occur in the classroom, such as individual work, group work, choral responses, collaboration, closed- ended teacher questioning, full class interaction, etc.

• Chaudron (1988)

• Malamah Thomas (1987)

• Penny Ur (1996)

• Flanders (1970)

Interaction involves the process of communication and it can only take place beteween teacher and studen(s).

• True

• False

This kind of communication has a social purpose. It is meaningful and it is done at personal level.

(a)  

Tick the options that talk about the significance of classroom interaction (Chaudron, 1988)

• Students feel confident with the L2.

• Learners break down the target language structures and derive meaning from classroom events.

• Students learn grammar and vocabulary faster.

• It gives learners the oportunity to incorporate target language structures in their own speech.

• Meaningfulness will depend on the extent to which communication has been constructed between the teacher and learners.

This framework´s basic idea was "democratic classroom was preferable to an authoritarian one".

• Flanders´ Interaction Analysis Categories (FIAC, 1970)

• Foreign Language Interaction Analysis System (FLINT, 1967) by Moskowits.

The FOCUS model (Foci for Communication Used in Setting) proposed by Fanselow (1977) was developed specifically for language classes and was considered under five categories:

*source

*pedagogical purpose

*what medium

*how is that medium used

*content communicated

• True

• False

It is appropriate to use the same classroom interactional model no matter the country you are giving a class.

• True

• False

What is "teacher talk"?

According to Nunan (1995) these are the two main reasons for focusing on teacher talk.

• Getting to know our students.

• Organisation and classroom management.

• Because Krashen mentioned it in his Comprehensible Input Hypothesis.

• The teacher is the main source of comprehensible target language input the learner is likely to recieve.

According to Nunan and Krashen teacher talk is more important than student talk (beacuse the former is a model and a source.)

• True

• False