The use of lesson transcripts for developing teachers' classroom language  

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Cullen, Richard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 29 no. 1 (Mar. 2001), page 27-43.
Topik: Lesson transcripts; Teacher development; Teacher's Questions; Tanzania
Fulltext: Cullen_Richard.pdf (347.6KB)

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For many teachers of English throughout the world, competence and con®dence in using English in the classroom is seen as the most important skill to attain, yet it is an area that is often neglected on pre-service and in-service training courses. This paper reviews various strategies for addressing language needs on teacher development courses, ranging from pro- viding separate language provision to incorporating language development within the meth- odology component of the course, and discusses how transcripts of lessons, showing short excerpts of classroom discourse, can be used to draw teachers' attention to the language the teacher uses in the classroom. Transcripts can be used to develop awareness of, and promote practice in, the language used for various categories of teachers' verbal behaviour, such as eliciting ideas and contributions from the students, giving instructions, explaining, and giving feedback/dealing with errors. This paper focuses in particular on the use of lesson transcripts to develop teachers' skills in asking questions in the classroom and their understanding of the pedagogical role teachers' questions play in the foreign language classroom. It explores dif- ferent ways transcripts can be used on teacher development programmes to do this with references to examples taken from secondary school English lessons recorded in Tanzania.

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