Open Access“Teacher English”: Teacher’s Target Language Use as Cornerstone of Successful Language Teaching
Author(s) -
Urška Sešek
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
elope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.182
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2386-0316
pISSN - 1581-8918
DOI - 10.4312/elope.2.1-2.223-230
Subject(s) - cornerstone , computer science , first language , mathematics education , english language , argument (complex analysis) , foreign language , language assessment , language education , quality (philosophy) , linguistics , psychology , chemistry , art , philosophy , biochemistry , epistemology , visual arts
In most of today’s courses of English as a foreign language, the learners and teacher share the same mother tongue, but English is the language used to carry out all activities as far as the learner level allows. This means that the teacher’s level of target language mastery plays a significant role in the quality of language teaching and the resulting learning. The paper looks at the functions of teacher talk as a source of input and model language use as well as a tool for managing classroom processes. Based on that, an argument is made for ‘teacher English’ as a case of English for specific purposes