Focussing on teacher talk in motivating students in the English Language classroom at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) / Alauyah Johari

This paper looks at the various aspects of teacher talk in the English Language classroom. This is based on classroom observations and unpublished classroom research done over a period of ten years. Teacher talk is dealt in three aspects:
amount, quality and timing of teacher talk. A more detailed discussion is done on the timing of the teacher talk. Finally suggestions are made to help teachers use teacher use his/her talk to benefit everybody in class.