A Study Of The Main Factors Influencing Teacher-Student Turn-Taking Pattern And Teacher Talk In The Senior High English Class

Teacher talk plays an important part in the second language classroom.However, the majority of the teachers, especially English teachers pay more attentionto their own teaching plan and teaching tasks, rather than the students’ expectation.Therefore, it needs to be studied that how to improve the students’ languageproficiency and communicative competence.First, the thesis describes the traits of the turn taking organization in theclassroom discourse. Yielding turns and retaking the floor to invite student performactive part in classrooms are the main methods for the teachers to encourage thestudent to talk more, and the main pattern of turn-taking is the model of IRF.However, it has some limitations when the quality and the quantities ofturn-taking to be considered. In addition, teachers still occupy the major classroomtime, the research studies the types and the patterns of teachers’ questions and thekinds of feedback in class with regard to generating appropriate teacher-studentinteraction.The thesis’ aim is to find the effective way to let the teachers make good use ofturn-taking, question types and feedback types to create student-orientated classroomatmosphere and enhance the students’ communicative ability.