Teachers/Public Speakers' Expression Recognition And Coping Strategies To Students' Classroom Attentional Status

As a common response in public speaking and a kind of classroom problem behaviors with highest rate, desertion has the features of crypticity and hard to recognize and cope. Understand how teachers perceive and Attribute students' classroom desertion, and explore methods for how to enhance teachers' ability to cope with students' classroom desertion reference to public speakers' performance are significant to the professional development of teachers.The present research has employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. 153 teachers were first took a questionnaire, so as to get to know the cognition of classroom desertion. Secondly 6 teachers and 6 public speaker were interviewed in depth, used the video of students' expression in classroom. Through the interview transcripts and discussion with caution, the major findings of the research are:1. Most teachers perceived classroom desertion as a common classroom problem behaviors which happened in each class. And one of three students often desert. Most teachers attribute it more to factors of students themselves, and less to teachers' factors.2. The teachers with better speechcraft showed more confident in coping classroom desertion. With the teaching age growing, the ability of coping classroom desertion also was enhanced, but the speechcraft doesn't enhance significantly.3. Visual clues are the most important clues in recognizing classroom desertion, subject more easily focused on facial expression than action clues.4. The result of recognizing the expression of students in three videos is: expert speaker group did better than novice speaker group, expert teacher group did a little better than novice teacher group. On the whole public speaker group had better performance than teacher group, especially in recognizing "Difficult to understand" task.5. There are significant differences in coping strategies to classroom desertion between teacher group and speaker group. Teachers tend to use suppression strategies which has side effects on interference the teaching process, speakers tend to use speechcraft to improve lecture effect. Teacher group also show lacking of strategies to deal with the problem.In further discussion, researcher point out that teachers can refer to speakers' strategies to cope with classroom desertion, and give more advise to training methods in the professional development of teachers.