Exploring the Practice of Student-Teacher's Oral Interaction in EFL Classes: Pawe Preparatory and Senior Secondary School in Focus
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2011-06
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Addis Ababa Universiy
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This study explored the practice of Student-Teacher's oral interaction in EFL
classes: Pawe Preparatory and Senior Secondary School, in Benishangul Gumuz
Regional State is the focus of the study). The study involved 93 participants out
of 278 grade 11th students. In other words, the study covers 1/3 of the targeted
population. It also included 4 randomly selected English teachers. As the
students were grouped into 4 sections, simple random sampling techniques were
employed to determine the specific representative sample wanted from each
section. To collect data from the subjects, the study utilized observation using
audio recordings as a major tool and questionnaire for both students and
teachers. Two selected sections were observed twice each. The recordings were
played repeatedly to see, the amount of talking time, the questioning practices,
wait time, and the provision of feedback during student-teacher's 'Oral interaction
practices. The talk was analyzed based on the Flint system adapted from
Moskowitz, 1971. The questionnaires of both the s tudents and the teachers were
analyzed by grouping the similar items together using tabular frequency and
percentage. The results showed that teachers dominated the amount of talk, they
forwarded short answers and/ or knowledge or factual information questions
and none of the students in tum asked the teacher question, not tolerating till
response came from the students, intelTupting learners while expressing their
responses/ ideas for elTor cOlTection are the results obtained. Besides, fear to
speak in front of the class, inability to understand easily the teacher's instruction
and inconvenient classroom seating which impedes s tudents' oral practices were
what they considered as the barners of their oral perfonnance development.
Thus, based on the findings, conclusions were drawn and recommendations
were made.
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Pawe Preparatory and Senior Secondary School in Focus