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  • Fostering interaction in an EFL class [Elektronski vir] : the role of referential questions, feedback and wait time
    Križan, Agata
    The quality of interaction in any English language classroom is thought to have a considerable influence on learning. In this aspect, questions, feedback and wait time play contribute importantly to ... a successful interaction. The aim of the paper is to provide an insight into the use of questions, feedback and wait time as directly observed in one of the lessons in the course for future teachers of English as a foreign language at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor. By providing the results of the observation, the paper attempts to highlight the significance of such observations in classrooms in which English is taught as a foreign language, as well as to encourage teachers of English as a foreign language to incorporate a similar observation in their classrooms to see what is actually happening during the interaction. This would hopefully stimulate reflection on their own teaching by observing how successful they are in stimulating their students to interact through the use of particular types of questions, to what extent referential questions are used, how long they wait after posing a question, and what kind of feedback they provide, if at all. Only through such observations can teachers observe small, but crucial and valuable fragments, which they may otherwise overlook, and hence missing the opportunity to improve their teaching.
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2016
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 22665736