A Case Study Of Classroom Discourse Quality Of EFL Practice Teacher

In the EFL classroom,the teacher talk directly affects the quality of the classroom,the learning attitude,learning enthusiasm and the output ability of the students.Therefore,researches on teachers' classroom discourse have caused many scholars' attention from home and abroad.Generally,English classroom discourses of in-service teachers are the main objects of previous researches,but few studies have focused on the practice teachers' classroom discourse.Practice teacher is the future strength,and the standardized use of teachers' classroom discourse is a main part of classroom teaching effect.Thus the combination of these two can help improve the teaching ability and organization ability of practice teachers.So it is worthwhile to study practice teacher's classroom discourse of the college English department.The object of this study is the trainee graduates of Yanbian University English education department.By adopting a combination method of observing the class and questionnaire,this paper analyzes the trainees' using condition of classroom discourse during the internship from four dimensions---the teaching language,questioning language,feedback language and words quantity,and then points out the deficiencies.The findings show:first,as for teaching language,English intern teachers use English to teach,which can provide students with a certain amount of target language input.But there still exist some problems---the teachers lack background knowledge,have limited knowledge,use too much mother tongue,and can't use English fluently.Second,about classroom questioning,the questions are full of tendency,waiting time is not enough and more display questions are used than referential questions,which can' t effectively lead students to output the target language.Third,with respect to feedback discourse,English intern teachers can realize the effect of positive feedback,but the form of feedback words is too single,the language is so limited.Fourth,as regard to the amount of words,the practice teachers take up most of the classroom discourse,which reduce the opportunity of students to participate in classroom discourse communication.Based on the above findings,some suggestions are given as the followings:first,observe the classes of expert teachers or the classes of National teacher skills competition winners',and transcribe the teachers' lecture.Second,make and memorize the teaching language,questioning language,organizing language,feedback language and other commonly used language in English class.Third,summarize the deficiency and improve by recording and comparing with the teacher's classroom of experts.