The Investigation On Interaction In Intermediate-level Oral Chinese Classrooms Of Foreign Students In Xinjiang

Intermediate spoken Chinese is a very important stage for the foreign students to learn spoken Chinese, it not only strengthens the ability of the primary stage of learning, but also lays a solid foundation for improving spoken Chinese. Classroom teaching is an important part of students’ language learning, speech interaction between teachers and students is the basic way to carry out classroom teaching. It will help to improve the students’ interest in learning as well as the students’ communicative competence.This research mainly uses the classroom observation to find out the status quo of the intermediate spoken Chinese classroom interactions, by recording the real intermediate oral Chinese courses, and then by using text transcription method of the recording material, statistical analysis was carried out on transcripts. Statistics and analysis are developed from the three aspects of classroom: activities, teacher’s language and the language of the students. The classroom activity is analyzed from the four dimensions, teaching content, interactive forms, discourse content and topic control, teacher’s language is described in five dimensions, from the amount of the teacher speech, language choice, language characteristics, teacher’s questioning and teacher’s feedback, and the teacher’s language features includes three aspects, lexical density, speed and average length of T-unit. Their language of the students is analyzed from students’ discourse and language choice. This paper also uses the questionnaire to survey the effect of classroom interactions. On the basis of the survey, summarizes the interaction between teachers and students, and puts forward some suggestions to form a better interaction in the classroom. Hoping to improve the efficiency in intermediate oral Chinese classes, and also provides references for the teachers of Chinese language teaching.The first chapter explains the reason for my choosing this topic for my paper. It defines the relevant concepts, discusses the meaning and the purpose of the study,and research on classroom interaction are reviewed. According to the description of interactive classroom teaching of Chinese as a foreign language, I hope to provide a research background and reference for teaching, meanwhile to introduce the research design and research methods of this study, defines the research object.The second chapter and the third chapter is the main part of this paper. In the second chapter, the transcribed audio recordings were collected, described respectively from the three aspects of the interactive status: classroom activities,teachers and students language.The third chapter analyses the statistics of the questionnaire, describes from the four aspects, the effect of classroom teaching, classroom culture, teachers behavior and students’ participation of classroom interaction.The fourth chapter summarizes the full text, and puts forward the suggestion of a good classroom interaction.The results of the study shows that, to the foreign students in Xinjiang,the interaction ratio in oral Chinese class is high, the classroom activities are slightly different; the amount of teacher’s talk is far more than the students’, teachers mostly use Chinese, intermediate language is not frequently used; teachers question more,ways of giving feedback use interpretation and repeated questioning, students don’t ask questions too much; T unit average length and the speed of the teachers’ speech are suitable for students to understand, lexical density is slightly higher.Finally, this paper puts forward some suggestions on building good classroom interaction, suggesting the teachers to increase the teacher group’s interaction;increase more comprehensible input, while focusing on the effective language output;reduce the teachers’ lexical density; diversify teacher’s feedback form, and increase the probability of positive evaluation.