Communicative Teacher Talk in the English Classroom

Xuelian Lei

Abstract


Communicative approach has become popular in ELT in recent years. Good teacher talk lays focus on how effectively it could promote genuine communication in the classroom. In this essay, communicative teacher talk is studied, and its features are explored based on authentic classroom transcripts, and a summary of the existing problems is provided.


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English Language Teaching       ISSN 1916-4742 (Print)   ISSN  1916-4750 (Online)

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