scholarly journals Technology as an Educational Equalizer for EFL Learning in Rural China? Evidence from the Impact of Technology-Assisted Practices on Teacher-Student Interaction in Primary Classrooms

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guofang Li ◽  
Youngeun Jee ◽  
Zhuo Sun
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Rural Students ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Primary Classrooms ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teacher Student Interaction ◽  
The Impact

Based on a conversational analysis (CA) of eight videoed EFL lessons from technology-enhanced primary classrooms in a rural suburb of a major city in China, this study examines the nature of technology-assisted practices and their influence on teacher-student interaction in the target language. The analysis revealed that the technology-assisted practices mainly served as an alternative presentation tool to meet a range of traditional pedagogical goals and facilitated minimal spontaneous language use among the students. The findings call for research to explore better pedagogical use of technology to promote students’ active language production to truly achieve educational equalization for rural students.

scholarly journals Exploring the Influence of Teacher-Student Interaction on University Students’ Self-Efficacy in the Flipped Classroom

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Lin Li ◽  
Shanshan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teacher Student Interaction ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of teacher-student interaction on undergraduate students’ self-efficacy in a Chinese university setting. Students came from natural science, management, economics, medicine, engineering and humanities. The empirical results demonstrate that teacher-student interaction has positive impact on students’ self-efficacy and their preference of the flipped classroom. Furthermore, the positive relationship between teacher-student interaction and students’ self-efficacy is partially mediated by students’ preference of the flipped classroom. Educators should focus on student-centered learning and motivate students’ preference of the flipped classroom. Students should be encouraged to actively participate in the flipped learning as well. It contributes to the reform of the flipped classroom and improvement of teaching quality in the universities.

10. TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 186-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Kelly Hall ◽  
Meghan Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Teacher Student Interaction ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Recent Developments

This chapter reviews literature on recent developments in teacher-student interaction and language learning. Based on a sociocultural perspective of language and learning, the studies are drawn from three types of classrooms: first language classrooms; second language classrooms, which include contexts in which the language being learned in the classroom is also the language of the community; and foreign language classrooms. Foreign language learning contexts are those in which exposure to and opportunities for target language interaction are restricted for the most part to the language classroom. Across these three areas, attention is given to studies that investigate the specific means used in teacher-student interaction to promote language learning.

Interaction as method and result of language learning

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Kelly Hall
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Teacher Student Interaction ◽  
Language Classrooms

The premise of this paper is that the interactional practices constituting teacher–student interaction and language learning are interdependent in that the substance of learners' language knowledge is inextricably tied to their extended involvement in the regularly occurring interactional practices constituting their specific contexts of learning. After laying out the central components of a theoretical framework for understanding the interdependent nature of interaction and learning, I provide an overview of the Initiation–Respond–Feedback organization (IRF), a ubiquitous classroom interactional practice, and then examine two instances of the IRF taken from two language classrooms. I pay particular attention to actions in the IRF that give shape to learners' developing understandings of, and skills for, using the target language. After briefly discussing the likely consequences of extended participation in the IRF in terms of L2 outcomes, I suggest directions for future research.

scholarly journals Teacher-Student Interaction in EFL Classroom in China: Communication Accommodation Theory Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Zheng Weizheng
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Communication Accommodation ◽  
Communication Accommodation Theory ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teacher Student Interaction ◽  
Accommodation Theory

Foreign language teaching highlights the cultivation of the learners’ communicative competence, because the main purpose of learning a foreign language is to use the target language to communicate. However, many students in higher institutions in China cannot speak English fluently after having learned English for more than ten years, although they have mastered abundant knowledge of grammars and enough vocabulary, which mainly results from lack of interaction in classroom teaching besides the natural language environment. Classroom interaction is the key to effective teaching in EFL classroom. So, using strategies to promote the interaction in class is necessary. This paper explores the interaction between teacher and student in EFL classroom from the perspective of Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT). Data was collected from 540 minute video samples of three English teachers’ classroom teaching. This study aimed: 1) To identify whether the teachers use communication accommodation strategies to develop the interaction，when they are faced with the difficulties in EFL class; 2)To answer which strategies are often used in EFL classroom? Findings showed: 1) Communication accommodation strategies happened in Teacher-student interaction; 2) Communication accommodation strategies such as approximation, interpret ability, emotional expression and interpersonal control are the basic strategies which were employed by the three participants in each session of EFL class; 3) Interpret ability and strategy of discourse management such as face-maintenance, turn-taking, topic control, asking referential questions, conversational repair and feedback occurred frequently according to the discourse. 4) The more accommodation strategies the teacher used, the better the interaction in the classroom was.

scholarly journals Impact of teacher’s interaction pattern for seventh grade student

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Khumayda Shofiyul Khaliyah ◽  
Dzul Rachman
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Interaction Pattern ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teacher Student Interaction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Student Contribution

Classroom interaction is essential for English foreign language student. Additionally, discourse analysis is the examination of the language used by members of a speech community. The objectives of this study to describe the pattern of teacher-student interaction used by the teacher in the classroom at MTs Nurul Ummah Yogyakarta and to reveal the impact of teacher-student interaction pattern to the student contribution on the MTs Nurul Ummah Yogyakarta. This research employed discourse analysis. Includes English teacher and seventh-grade students of MTs Nurul Ummah Yogyakarta as the participants. Data were collected through observation and recording. The collected data were analysed by Walsh using discourse analysis. Findings show there are 30 patterns in 18 exchanges of teacher-student interaction in the classroom. The type of designs are: IR, IRE, IRRE, IRRF, IRREIRE, IRRRE, IRF, IRFRRRERE, IRR, IRRRRRRE, IRRFRE, IRI, IRRRRRE, IIIII, IIRE, IRFRE, IIRE, IIIR, IIR, IEIRRI, IRFR, IRRRRRRRRRRRRE, IRRRRRRRER, IEI, IRRRRF, IIIIRRF, IIIIRR, IRRII, IRFII, IREI. The impacts of the type interaction pattern to the student contribution are: student can repeat the teacher initiation, a student could express their idea, a student could ask the question on the teacher explanation, student response appropriate for teacher talk.

Teacher-student interaction and management practices in Pakistani English language classrooms

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahmad ◽  
Aleem Shakir ◽  
Ali Raza Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
English Language ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Wait Time ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Teacher Talk ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Teacher Student Interaction ◽  
Language Classrooms

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the amount and type of teacher-talk, frequently asked questions and feedback provided by the teacher on learners’ performance in a language classroom. For this purpose, a lecture was recorded from a secondary level English language classroom of a public sector school and interpreted in the light of teacher-student interaction and classroom management model by David Nunan. Results revealed that the maximum amount of time (i.e. 80.1%) was consumed by the teacher which was appropriate. However, certain deviations from classroom management principles were also observed regarding frequently asked questions (i.e. 50% of the total questions were elicitation questions) and the feedback (it was ‘romantic’ in nature). Moreover, wait-time was sufficient but it was of no use to the learners. The study concluded that classroom practices did not conform to the principles therefore, it proposed to ask questions and provide feedback appropriately.

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