While writing my report throughout the week I came across an interesting point in teacher student interaction.
I am not sure how relevant this is but I what became clear in my transcript was that if there is a dominant student in the class, teacher talk time increased. This became apparent when I opened the floor to the students for a chance to respond but the same student volunteered twice, so I ended up answering the question myself and talked through the answer in order to avoid this dominants student from controlling the classroom discourse.
I may really need to change turn taking techniques to avoid this type of situation, will make a concerted effort to try and clear this problem up. Any of you guys experience the same thing?
This happened to me today! That's really interesting. I actually had 2 students who dominated the class and TTT definitely increased. I never noticed it until now.
ReplyDeleteI have to work on this too. With Korean students, nominating students (and teaching students to nominate students that haven't spoken yet) largely eliminates this problem, but with non-Koreans it does become an issue. When one or two students do most of the volunteering and are completely comfortable with it, many other students in the same class start to allow it to happen and find a comfortable spot in the wallpaper...
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