1st Edition

Native and Non-Native Teacher Talk in the EFL Classroom A Corpus-informed Study

By Eric Nicaise Copyright 2021
236 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Native and Non-Native Teacher Talk in the EFL Classroom explores and compares the linguistic features of native and non-native English teacher talk with the aid of corpus linguistics. Setting aside the wide range of audio and video materials available, the EFL teacher is in many instances the main model of English to which students are exposed in secondary-level education. The basis of this... Read more

LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF TABLES

1 SETTING THE EFL CLASSROOM SCENE

2 SETTING THE CLASSROOM DISCOURSE SCENE

3 USING CORPUS LINGUISTICS TO EXPLORE TEACHER TALK

4 DIGGING INTO FREQUENCIES

5 TEACHER TALK IN CONTEXT: LEXIS AND GRAMMAR

6 TEACHER TALK IN CONTEXT: PHONOLOGY AND DISCOURSE

7 A NEW TEACHER EDUCATION MODEL: AN ‘ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES’ APPROACH

8 TOWARDS CONNEcTing EFL TEACHERS

APPENDIX 1: DETAILS OF NON-NATIVE TEACHER QUESTIONNAIRE

APPENDIX 2: NATIVE-TEACHER QUESTIONNAIRE SAMPLE

REFERENCES

INDEX

Biography

Eric Nicaise is a teacher trainer and a lecturer in Dutch and English at University College Louvain-en-Hainaut and a scientific collaborator at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics and TeAMM research group at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.