تحليل التفاعل اللفظي لدى أعضاء هيئة تدريس مركز اللغات بكلية مسقط Analysis of Verbal Interaction of ELC Faculty at Muscat College, Oman

Document Type : Original Article

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Muscat College, Oman.

10.18576/ijlms/040201

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to observe and evaluate the extent of the use of verbal communication of the language center’s faculty in Muscat College. The study employed the binary approach in which the researcher applied two instruments for data collection. The two methods used are Flander’s verbal interaction analysis card and the interview. The samples of the study were 10 Flander’s verbal interaction analysis cards and 5 interviews. The results of the study showed that the overall rate of verbal interaction of the sample was good. However, the sample showed acceptable level of some skills like accept pupil’s ideas, encouraging pupil’s talk initiation, asking questions and silence and confusion. The results also found that teacher’s direct influence is the most common activity in the classroom.

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