Influence Of Teachers' Feedback Techniques On The Classroom Interaction

Since the late 1980s, there are plenty of studies about classroom as language environment in the research field of second language acquisition (SLA). Most of studies are about classroom language, especially the descriptive studies of teacher talk, the studies of the verbal interaction between the teacher and the student, and the experimental studies of the relationship between classroom language and language acquisition. Teacher feedback is an important aspect in the field of second language classroom research. But in domestic research, there are still not enough researches about teacher feedback.This dissertation regards social interaction theory as the main theoretical foundation. The interaction theory is an important concept of SLA under the condition of classroom, which involves the relationship between language input and language output. Teacher feedback is the important factor of classroom interaction, namely teacher's comment response for the learner's verbal performance. The key idea of social interaction is the intermediary. In language classroom, teacher feedback naturally is the important media of the teacher-student interaction. Therefore, in foreign language classroom, the teacher, as the intermediary person, promotes the classroom teaching through the verbal interaction, including the classroom interaction. Based on the analysis of numerous literatures, the...