teachers and students

2.  Discourse analysis is used to provide a
linguistic description of the interaction which
goes on in EFL classrooms.

3.  It was used for many reasons:
- Using authentic and naturally-occurring data
as a source
- It establishes in the process new insights
into the sequencing of patterns of interaction.

4.  What are the predominant patterns of
classroom interaction between teachers and
students in EFL classrooms?
 Are the interactions teacher-dominated or
student –dominated?
 How are such patterns affected by genders?

5.  The Participants
The classes were single-gender, boys being
taught by male teachers and girls by female
ones.

6.  Data Collection
The classes were observed and audio-taped
using a MP3 player.
The data collector was present in the
classroom as a non-participant observer.

7. Each class period involved:
 Covering homework material
 Teaching grammatical points, a reading
passage, vocabulary items or a conversation
 Listening to a text either as a whole-class
activity or as a pair work

8.  Data Analysis Procedure
- In the teacher talk were such utterances as
‘you’, ‘yes?’
- Some categories were too general to depict
subtle distinctions in the patterns of classroom
interaction between teachers and students

9. - During the analyzing the interaction between
the teachers and the students some utterances
were run into which were not analyzable using
the framework proposed

10.  A large number of discourse acts were
present in Teacher-Student Talk.
 Some discourse acts have been added to
Student-Teacher Talk.
 The interaction between the students
reflected the use of variety of discourse acts.

11.  There was not much difference between
male and female teachers regarding their
patterns of interaction with their students.

12.  There is difference in ‘Criticism’ because it
was present in female teachers’ talk and
absent in male teachers’ talk.

13.  Both male and female students made use of
the same discourse acts in their interaction
with their teachers.

14.  The interaction patterns between the
participants in all three types of talk showed
variation.
 These interactions sharing some
commonalities with the interaction taking
place in natural contexts occurring outside
the classroom

15.  The teachers sould take up the major
portion of all talk occurring in the classroom
 There is not much difference between male
and female teachers.

16.  Female teachers were more supportive and
encouraging, providing the students with a
positive evaluation more often than male
teachers.