@article{Pangilinan_2019, title={ Classroom Talk in EFL Classes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia}, volume={15}, url={https://ojs.aaresearchindex.com/index.php/spupgsrj/article/view/421}, abstractNote={<p>This study sought to examine the patterns of talk and other<br>patterns that emerged in the classroom talk and aimed to investigate<br>the level of questions, the syntactic structure of questions, and the<br>initiated repairs used by teachers in classroom interaction. There<br>were 10 English teachers from 5 colleges who were randomly selected<br>as participants. The instrument used in the study was the recorded<br>teaching observation of the teachers. The verbatim transcriptions of<br>the video materials were used as the main instrument in examining<br>the teachers’ patterns of talk; their syntactic and cognitive level of<br>questions; and the other-initiation repairs used by them to resolve<br>the issues and to sustain the smooth flow of conversation. The study<br>made use of the qualitative and quantitative approaches and revealed<br>that teacher Initiation-Response-Feedback pattern was mostly used by<br>teachers which signify the restricted adherence of teachers in a one<br>cycle turn of asking questions by the teacher, providing response by<br>student and giving feedback by the teacher. Whereas on the emerging<br>patterns of talk, Initiation-Response pattern emerged which was<br>predominantly used by teachers. This shows that there are deviations<br>on the IRF pattern of eliciting verbal responses from the learners.<br>Teachers used low level type of questions both in the cognitive level<br>and syntactic structure of questions posted by teachers. This means<br>that questions used were not intended to develop students’ creativity.<br>Most teachers preferred to use the hearing repair which is the least<br>sensitive approach in resolving issues. This provided the teachers more<br>opportunities to address the problems in the course of the conversation.<br>The teachers have to accept the responsibility of providing solutions to<br>the identified problems instead of delegating the responsibility to the<br>students to solve the problem.</p>}, number={2}, journal={SPUP Graduate School Research Journal}, author={Pangilinan, Georgeson G.}, year={2019}, month={Aug.} }