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Interaction between teacher and students is an essential part of teaching learning
process. Classroom interaction encompasses the communication exchanges
between the teacher and the students (and among students themselves) together
with all the strategies used by the teacher to:
facilitate
comprehension;
gather and maintain students’ attention and involvement in the
activities;
encourage and ensure the participation of
all students;
provide
feedback, deal with disruptive behaviour;
What is classroom language?
Classroom language is the routine language that is used on a regular basis in
classroom like giving instructions of praise, for example “Take out your books” or
“Please sit down”. This is language that teachers are used to using and students are
used to hearing, but when teaching a language it takes a while to learn this part of
the language. Knowing these language basics reduces the amount that students are
forced to use their mother tongue and increases the amount of the target language
they are using; it makes the language classroom environment more authentic.
Why can teaching classroom language pose a challenge?
Teachers often experience difficulties when trying to integrate classroom
language into a lesson. The difficulty often lies in that many second language
teachers learned the language themselves after childhood, so are not exposed to
authentic classroom language. Those teachers must make a particular effort to seek
out what the correct language is in order to create the most authentic experience for
the students. Students often encounter difficulties when the form in the target
language does not make sense in their mother tongue; students must learn to accept
that different languages work in different ways.
Classroom language is that collection of phrases used for communication
among teacher and students, from "Open your books to page fifteen" to "May I go
to the bathroom?" While emphasis is usually placed primarily on the target
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language, classroom language, too, can be an invaluable way of promoting English
as real communication, student involvement in the lesson, and active language
learning skills. This part will show how an activity can be modified to encourage
the four different kinds of classroom language (requests, choices, leadership, and
manners and values).
1. Practical Purpose for Students: Enabling Students to Get Things Done
Students can be encouraged to use classroom language independently under two
conditions: it helps them to express themselves or have their
needs and wishes met,
and the lesson structure enables them to make decisions and requests. Below are
some examples of lesson structures and the classroom language they enable.
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