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Publication Date: 2009-Mar
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Communicative Teacher Talk in the English Classroom
Lei, Xuelian
English Language Teaching, v2 n1 p75-79 Mar 2009
Communicative approach has become popular in ELT in recent years. Good teacher talk lays focus on how effectively it could promote genuine communication in the classroom. In this essay, communicative teacher talk is studied, and its features are explored based on authentic classroom transcripts, and a summary of the existing problems is provided.
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Transcripts (Written Records), Lesson Plans, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Questioning Techniques, English Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Demonstrations (Educational)
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