Features of Teacher Talk in the Context of Less Commonly Taught Languages
The following research paper investigates the types of teacher talk in the context of less commonly taught languages present in the teaching practice of three student instructors who are teaching Russian and Mandarin to young members of the community in Bloomington, IN. The classes were offered t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages |
| Online Access: | http://www.ncolctl.org/files/Jncolctl-vol-22/Feature-of-Teacher-Talk.pdf |
| Summary: | The following research paper investigates the types of teacher
talk in the context of less commonly taught languages present in the teaching practice of three student instructors who are teaching
Russian and Mandarin to young members of the community in
Bloomington, IN. The classes were offered through a project that
was founded by the Center for the Study of Global Change in
cooperation with other Title VI National Resource Centers,
Language Departments and the School of Education at Indiana
University, Bloomington. Findings suggest that the instructors use a variety of display questions and evaluative feedback. Since the
student instructors are a part of the project on a voluntary basis, they have motivation to help students learn the language as well as improve their own teaching through debriefing sessions and training provided by the project. The ethnographic methods used for the purpose of this research helped gauge student instructors’ awareness of their own teaching practices and specifically, features of teacher talk. |
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| ISSN: | 1930-9031 1930-9031 |