Abstract

Classroom instruction, an essential element in second language teaching, can influence students’ understanding and class activities. In Junior English class, efficient instruction contributes to teaching results and students’ language learning effect. This paper studies the differences on classroom instruction between a proficiency teacher and a novice teacher who teach the same class in Grade Seven of a junior school. By observing and recording six lessons given by the two teachers, their classroom instructional words were recorded for analysis. At the same time, the students’ responses for the effectiveness of the instruction were examined by six mini-tests, as well as short interviews. At the end of the study, the teachers were interviewed to give their points of view on classroom instruction. The result shows that classroom instruction does differ between a proficiency teacher and a novice teacher, and the students’ response and acceptability also vary. Based on all of these, suggestions for the teachers are given to make instruction more effective.

Keywords: a proficiency teacher; a novice teacher; comparative study; classroom instruction

Contents

Abstract

摘  要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review on Classroom Instruction-3

2.1 The Definition of Instruction-3

2.2 The Classification of Instruction-3

2.3 The Principles of Classroom Instruction-4

2.3.1 Make Instruction Simple and Clear-4

2.3.2 Give Instruction with Some Aids-5

2.3.3 Check Students’ Understanding of the Instruction-6

3. Methodology-8

3.1 Participants-8

3.2 Research Method-8

3.3 Procedure-9

4. Results and Discussion-11

4.1 The Differences of CI between a Proficiency Teacher and a Novice Teacher-11

4.1.1 The Teaching Case of the Proficiency Teacher-11

4.1.2 The Teaching Case of the Novice Teacher-13

4.1.3 The Comparative Results of the Differences between the Two Teachers-15

4.2 The Students’ Response and Acceptability-16

4.2.1 The Result from Mini-tests-16

4.2.2 The Result from Interviews-19

4.3. Discussion-20

5. Conclusion-23

References-24

Appendix-26

Appendix 1 Class Flashes (Excerpt)-26

Appendix 2 Mini-tests-31

Appendix 3 The Results of Mini-tests-33