Classroom Interaction

LESSON 9 : CLASSROOM INTERACTION




▪ Interaction takes place in formal context (classroom).
▪ Before it takes place, it is important that the teacher prepares his lesson planning indetail: experienced teachers prepare more general plans than teachers with no much experience, but to have no plan is to risk a lesson.
▪ If a teacher knows his class he will be able to predicthis students’ reactions to different activities.
▪ The teacher acts upon the students and students act upon the teacher and other students.
▪ Interaction is action followed by a reaction,means acting reciprocally upon each other, it is a two-way process.
▪ Interaction can happen harmoniously or full of tension. Potentially: cooperation or conflict.
▪ Plan of action (lessonplanning) must be carried out in a context of interaction.
▪ No interaction means no communication: if there is a conflict, communication disappears. Only when communication and cooperation takeplace, learning occurs.
▪ Participants: Teachers, students, textbook writers (in a direct or indirect way).
▪ The best communication and interaction takes place when there is something in common(background, experience).



MOTHER TONGUE


Not always is a bad thing using your mother tongue. Normally we do not have to speak in Spanish in our English lessons, but there can bepossible sometimes:
- If there are some grammatical explanations too complex to be understood. Ex. Abstract concepts explanations.
- To explain some aspects such as: false friends.
- Inorder to help them understand an activity to do (our aim is that they do it).
In these cases using our mother tongue helps interaction.
















FLANDERS INTERACTIONANALYSIS CATEGORIES
A) THE TEACHER TALK

▪ Feelings: the teacher tries to clarify an attitude.
▪ Encouragement to pupils’ attention or behaviour.
▪ Accepts or uses pupils’ ideas.
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