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b. The roles of Teacher Talk in managing classroom
Teachers need some media to transfer their knowledge to students and also to manage classroom. Based on Qican 1999 as cited by Xiao-yan 2006, “teacher talk
is used in class when teachers are conducting instructions, cultivating their intellectual ability and managing classroom activities”. There are still some other
functions of teacher talk. Nunan 1991 as cited by Xiao-yan 2006 also pointed out that “teacher talk is important not only for the organization of the classroom but also
for the processes of acquisition”. It is important for the organization of the classroom because it is through language that teachers either succeed or fail in implementing
their teaching plans.
c. The functional features of teacher talk
Since teacher talk also contains some classroom languages employed to communicate with learners, hence, it is needed to categorize some functional features
of teacher talk. Those features are:
a Teacher’s questions Richards and Lockhart 2000 as cited by Xiaou-yan 2006 says that
“questioning is one of the techniques which are frequently used by teachers and serves as the principal way in which teachers control the classroom interaction”. In
addition, in some classrooms, over half of class time is taken up by question-and-
24 answer exchanges. Some classroom languages which are frequently used to question
students or to get students’ response are greeting, eliciting and checking learning.
b Teacher’s feedback In language classrooms, feedback on a students’ spoken language may be a
response either to the content of what a student has produced or to the form of utterance. “Teachers need to motivate their students learning progress in order to give
them evaluation of the students’ response” Cook, 2000, as cited in Xiaou-yan, 2006. Feedback can be given by means of praise or by any relevant comment Richards, J.
and Lockhart, 2000. This technique also employs one of the classroom language functions namely giving feedback, which is aimed to motivate and encourage
students after they do a certain performance.
5. The Role of Interaction in Bilingual Class
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