Classroom oral interaction in foreign language lessons and implications for teacher development

Abstract

This paper reports on two studies on classroom interaction in an EFL context in Brazil. It presents an analysis of teacher talk and student speech, and students' views on communicative practices in FL classrooms. One assumption is that language classrooms are sociolinguistic environments in which interlocutors use various functions of language to establish a communication system. The studies were conducted at a state university and the majority of the students were doing English as a regular subject. Questionnaires and interviews were used for data collecting; lessons were observed and recorded, and transcripts were produced. A reflection on the characteristics of FL classrooms that may either facilitate language acquisition or impose constraints on the interlocutors' verbal behaviour is developed to discuss how such factors can influence teacher-student and student-student interaction. Finally, connections between the teacher' and the students' views, their engagement in classroom discourse and contributions for

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