Focussing on teacher talk in motivating students in the English Language classroom at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) / Alauyah Johari

• Main Author: Johari, Alauyah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: UiTM cawangan Kedah 2003
• Subjects: English language; Lectures and lecturing; Universiti Teknologi MARA
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11852/1/AJ_ALAUYAH%20JOHARI%20WA%2003.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11852/

This paper looks at the various aspects of teacher talk in the English Language classroom. This is based on classroom observations and unpublished classroom research done over a period of ten years. Teacher talk is dealt in three aspects: amount, quality and timing of teacher talk. A more detailed discussion is done on the timing of the teacher talk. Finally suggestions are made to help teachers use teacher use his/her talk to benefit everybody in class.