“Teacher English”: Teacher’s Target Language Use as Cornerstone of Successful Language Teaching

Authors

  • Urška Sešek University of Ljubljana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.2.1-2.223-230

Keywords:

target language use, teacher talk, English for specific purposes, language input, classroom management

Abstract

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.

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ELOPE Vol. 2, No. 1-2

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Published

22.06.2005

How to Cite

Sešek, U. (2005). “Teacher English”: Teacher’s Target Language Use as Cornerstone of Successful Language Teaching. ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, 2(1-2), 223–230. https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.2.1-2.223-230

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1-2 (2005): English Language and Literature Studies in the Context of European Language Diversity

Section

English Language and Literature Teaching

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