Student - Teacher Interactions In English Classes In Four Schouls In Addis Ababa

The purpose of this study is in general to find out thernkind and frequency of verbal and non-verbal behaviours thatrntranspire when teachers and students in four selected twelfthrngrade En~lish classes in Addis Ababa interact.rnFindings show:rnthat three teachers did 75% to 84% of the talk inrnthe class;rnthat the remaining teacher did 57% of the talk whereasrnsilence and confusion accounted for 4 - 8%;rnthat student talk ranged from 12% to 18% in the threernclasses and 35% in the fourth one;rnthat nearly all teachers were more direct than indirectrnin th8ir influence;rnthat Amharic was used along with English in two ofrnthe four classes;rnthat nearly all the teachers in this study commentedrnpositively or negatively on ideas expressed byrnstudents;rnthat although students' participation in class discussionrnwas minimal. the teachers did a great deal ofrnprompting;rnthat on the average the teachers put emphasis on therncontent area about 59% of the time and,rnthat on the average 32% of the time, the teachersrnand students remained in the same category forrnperiods longer than 3 seconds.

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