Outstanding High School English Teacher Feedback Stent Features Of Language

English teaching is actually a process of constant interaction between teacher and students, including a series of discourses consisting of teacher's initiation, student's response, and teacher's follow-up. Teacher's follow-up discourse refers to teacher's verbal feedback on student's response to his questions. The author takes great interest in the topic: to what degree does an English teacher's verbal feed-back affect the development of EFL students'language ability and other qualities? Based on classroom observation and audio-transcription, the present research has made a case study of 3 English classes (chosen from the corpus data) presented by three excellent English teachers from senior high schools with focus on the use of their verbal feed-back. The findings of the research are presented as follows:1. The verbal feedback of excellent English teachers serves scaffolding function in developing students'language ability. The high-quality verbal feedback provides comprehensible language input, and meanwhile elicits more and better language output from the learners, whose inter-language can thus be improved in the course of error-correcting through teacher's feedback.2. The verbal feedback of excellent English teachers serves scaffolding function in the development of students'cognitive competence. The high-quality verbal feedback guides students to learn to think, to find problems, to make analysis and seek solutions to the problems, all of which contribute to the development of their cognitive competence.3. The verbal feedback of excellent English teachers serves scaffolding function in the development of students'emotional attitude. The high-quality verbal feedback helps to create a relaxing and pleasant learning environment, which can motivate students to take interest in English learning. In addition, they're inclined to build up confidence and a sense of self-fulfillment in the course of fulfilling learning tasks. The improvement of students'emotional attitude will, in turn, promote their English learning.In short, the study of excellent English teachers'verbal feedback is conducive to the enhancement of the awareness of the scaffolding functions so that English teachers will pay more attention to its effectiveness in use. If so, the verbal feedback will play a better scaffolding role in the development of students'language ability, cognitive competence and emotional attitude.