Investigating Iraqi English Secondary School Teachers' Classroom Strategies

Abstract

.AbstractThis study is about Iraqi excellentEnglish secondary school teachers’classroom strategies . The studyfocuses on teachers’ classroomstrategies in four aspects: managingclassroom interaction, questioning,teacher’s feedback and errorcorrection. The findings show thatthe teachers use some classroomstrategies that encourage students tospeak at class in order to create aninteractive classroom.The purpose of this study is toidentify and investigate what exactstrategies the excellent teachers useto create an interactive classroom.Two kinds of approaches are mainlyused in the studies of EFL classroominteractions (Chaudron,1988: 1)Behavioral Category: behavioralcategory classifies behaviors of theteacher and students in terms oflanguage skill acquisitionconsequences of the behaviors. Itinvolves the use of a form orschedule consisting of a set ofcategories for coding specificclassroom behaviors. 2) Discourseanalysis: discourse analysis serves asa device for systematicallydescribing the kinds of interactionsthat occur in language classrooms.The researchers aim to account forthe joint contributions of teacher andstudents and describe all the data.1.1The Problem and its Significance Introduction