英语教师课堂话语功能性特征研究

Functional Features of Teacher Talk in English Classes

教师话语已经成为英语教学研究的一个重要领域。在中国语境下的英语课堂中,教师话语有其自身的特点:它既是交流媒介也是学习者学习的目标语。许多的语言学者已经从语言学及话语分析角度对其进行了大量研究。全面认识英语课堂教师话语的功能性特征对研究教师话语非常重要。因而对教师话语的五个主要功能性特征即教师在课堂中的话语量、母语使用、教师提问、交互调整和教师反馈的研究,有利于对教师话语的进一步研究。

Teacher talk has become a major field of researches on English teaching. In English classes under the Chinese context, teacher talk has its own features：it is the target language as well as a communicative tool. Many linguists have studied teacher talk from the perspectives of linguistics and discourse analysis. It is crucially important to have a thorough understanding of functional features of teacher talk. This paper aims at give some relevant sum maries of five major functional features of teacher talk, that is,the amount of teacher talk, use of L1, teachers＇ ques tions, interaction modification and teachers＇ feedback, in the hope of offering some references of later researches on teacher talk.