Naslov
Explanations and Instructions in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Autori
Čurković-Kalebić, Sanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
UPRT 2006 Empirical Studies in English Applied Linguistics

Urednik/ci
Nikolov, Marianne ; Horvath, Jozsef

Izdavač
Lingua Franca Csoport

Grad
Pečuh

Godina
2006

Raspon stranica
299-305

ISBN
963 642 106 4

Ključne riječi
explanations, instructions, teacher talk, teaching English as a foreign language

Sažetak
The study described in this paper investigates teachers' explanations and instructions at different levels of teaching English as a foreign language. Findings show that the presence of instructions and explanations in teacher talk in the EFL classroom depends, among others, on the level of learners’ language knowledge ; at elementary level teachers give more instructions and explanations than at pre-intermediate and intermediate level. Second, instructions are more frequent than explanations at all the observed levels of language learning. Third, the distribution of the types of content of teachers’ explanations depends on the level of learners’ language knowledge. For example, teachers give much more extralinguistic explanations at elementary level than at other observed levels. The distribution of the areas of content of instructions does not depend on the learners’ language knowledge. Some areas of content (procedures, materials) are much more frequent than other areas of content at all the levels. Fourth, the use of the mother tongue in teacher talk is highly dependent upon the level of learners’ language knowledge ; at elementary level teachers use much more Croatian when they explain and instruct than at pre-intermediate and intermediate level. Fifth, the use of the mother tongue in the teachers’ explanations depends not only on the level of learners’ language knowledge but on the type of explanations as well. For example, linguistic explanations are usually given in the mother tongue at all the levels of language teaching.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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