Teacher’s speech and students’ oral production

Authors

  • Daniela Gomes de Araújo Nóbrega Universidade Estadual da Paraiba
  • Roseanne Rocha Tavares Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Abstract

This article presents some preliminary results of a
doctoral’s research about the relationship between teacher’s speech and students’ smiles in EFL classroom interaction, and its implication to
students’ oral production. Grounded on Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz, 1982) and Conversation Analysis (Marcuschi, 1991; Goffman, 2002; Armengaud, 2006), this study has shown that the students’ oral production tends to be a refl ection of the teacher’s speech, mainly in pair work and individual activities. In group activities, the students tend to perform better. During group activities, the use of students’ smiles tends to refl ect a better oral performance among them.
However, when they interact individually with the teacher, the students’ smiles work so as to block their speech production. In this study, then, the students’ smiles appeared to be a fundamental interactive component in an EFL classroom interaction among students and with teacher, sometimes favoring a more dynamic classroom conversation or not, depending on the specifi c interactional situations of the classroom.

Key words: classroom interaction, teacher’s speech, students’ smiles.

Author Biographies

Daniela Gomes de Araújo Nóbrega, Universidade Estadual da Paraiba

Professora Mestra de Língua inglesa do Departamento de Letras e Artes - DLA - do Centro de Educação - CEDUC, Área: Língua Inglesa, na Universidade Estadual da Paraiba

Atualmente, cursando Doutorado do Programa de Pós-graduação de Letras e Linguística (Inglês) na Universidade Federal de Alagoas.

Roseanne Rocha Tavares, Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Professora Doutora do curso de Letras da FALE/UFAL, atuaa no Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras e Linguísica da FALE/UFAL, na linha de pesquisa acquisição dalinguagem e ensino e aprendizagem de línguas.É lider do grupo de pesquisa P´raticas Interativas do discurso em contextos institutcionais.

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Published

2011-03-30

How to Cite

Nóbrega, D. G. de A., & Tavares, R. R. (2011). Teacher’s speech and students’ oral production. Calidoscópio, 9(1), 50–55. Retrieved from https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/419

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2011): January/April

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Articles

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