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Study Review of Teacher Talk Studies in Foreign Languages Class in China

Teacher Talk（TT）has aroused much attention by Chinese scholars since the late 1990s. This paper has systematicallyanalyzed all of the papers on TT published in the key Chinese journals in the past 13 years, and it has found out the following features: research content focuses on questioning, code-switching and conversational chains; research methodology is divided into theoretical study and empirical study, and empirical study is based on conversation analysis by mainly using classroom observation and plus interview and questionnaire as assistant methods; research subject is mainly about non-English major's class based on
cross-sectional study. Besides, the author has discussed the problems on present TT studies and has proposed relevant suggestions on the future research.   

  1. College of Foreign Languages, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
  • Received:2011-05-26 Online:2011-09-15 Published:2011-09-15

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Abstract:

Teacher Talk（TT）has aroused much attention by Chinese scholars since the late 1990s. This paper has systematicallyanalyzed all of the papers on TT published in the key Chinese journals in the past 13 years, and it has found out the following features: research content focuses on questioning, code-switching and conversational chains; research methodology is divided into theoretical study and empirical study, and empirical study is based on conversation analysis by mainly using classroom observation and plus interview and questionnaire as assistant methods; research subject is mainly about non-English major's class based on
cross-sectional study. Besides, the author has discussed the problems on present TT studies and has proposed relevant suggestions on the future research.

Key words: Teacher Talk, research method, research content, research subjects

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