Communication skills for teachers in the language classroom

1. Article review by: sadia khalid

2. Introduction
 The art of communication involves listening and
speaking as well as reading and writing.
 Teachers need to be highly skilled in all these areas to
excel in their profession.
 How do they do it?
 Skillful communicators receive information,
understand and synthesize it and express themselves
at a high level.

3. Cont….
Richard
Cullen give
list for
Outside
the
classroom
In side the
classroom

4. Baseline survey of English
Language Teacher
 Research project Bulgaria
 5 case studies .
 English language pre-service teacher .

5. Tentative conclusions of
case study
 Use of eye contact
 Use of body language
 Use of voice
 Use of techniques to gain, keep & spread attention
 Ability to adapt materials & activities to suit the
context
 Flexibility & sensitivity to changing demands of
the lesson

6. Conclusion
 It seems that only a more extensive enquiry
building on these beginning findings will begin to
solve the ‘mystery’ of successful classroom
communication between teachers and their
students.
 The baseline survey of pre-service teacher training
may provide both an opportunity and a
meaningful context for this.

7. Cont…..
 A good teacher communicates concern and caring by
their tone of voice and use of body language.
 In the meantime, the idea of the ‘born teacher’ and
‘born communicator’ remains neither proven nor
unproven.