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Figure 1 :
Foreign Language Interaction Analysis FLINT System
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1. Dealing with feeling: in a nonthreatening way, accepting, discussing, referring to, or
communicating understanding of past, present, or future feelings of students.
2. Praises or encourages: Praising, complimenting, telling students that what they
have said or done is valued. Encouraging students to continue, trying to give them confidence, confirming answer are correct.
2a. Jokes: Intentional joking, kidding, making puns, attempting to be humorous,
providing the joking is not at anyone’s expense. Unintentional humor is not included in this category.
3. Use ideas of students: Clarifying, using, interpreting, and summarizing the ideas of
students. The ideas must be rephrased by the teacher but still recognized as being students’ contributions.
3a. Repeats students’ response verbatim: Repeating the exact words of students
after they participate.
4. Asks questions: Asking questions to which the answer is anticipated. Rhetorical
questions are Not included in this category.
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5. Giving information: Giving information, facts, own opinions or ideas, lecturing or
asking rhetorical questions 5a. Correcting without rejection: Telling students who have made a mistake the
correct response without using words or intonations, which communicating criticism.
6. Gives directions: Giving directions, request, or command which students are
expected to follow; directing various drills, facilitating whole-class and small-group activity.
7. Criticizes students’ behavior: Rejecting the behavior of students; trying to change
the non-acceptable behavior; communicating anger, displeasure, annoyance, dissatisfaction with what students are doing.
7a. Criticizing student’s responses: Telling the students about their response that is
not correct or acceptable and communicating by words or intonation criticism, displeasure, annoyance, rejection by word or intonation.
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St udent response, specific:
responding t o t he t eacher w it hin a specific and limit ed range of available or previously pract iced answ er. Reading a loud, dict at ion, drills.
9. St udent response open-ended or students-initiated:
Responding t o t he t eacher w it h st udent s ow n ideas, opinions, react ions, feelings. Giving one f rom among
many possible answ ers t hat have been previously pract iced but from w hich st udent s must now make a select ion, init iat ing t he part icipat ion.
10. Silence:
Pause in t he int eract ion. Periods of quiet during w hich t here is no verbal int eract ion.
10a. Silence-AV: Silence in t he int eract ion during w hich a piece of audiovisual
equipm ent , e.g. a t ape recorder, filmst rip pr oject or, record player, et c., is being use t o com municat e.
11. Confusion, w ork-oriented:
M or e t han one person at a t ime t alking, so t he int eract ion cannot be recorded, St udent s calling out excit edly, eager t o part icipat e
or respond, concern w it h t he t ask at hand.
11a. Confusion, work-oriented: M ore t han one person at a t ime t alking, so t he
int eract ion cannot be recor ded. St udent s out of order, not behaving as t he t eacher w ishes, not concer ned w it h t he t ask at hand.
12. Laught er:
Laughing and giggling by t he class, individual, and or t he t eacher .
13. Uses t he native language:
