Types and Characteristics of Classroom Exchanges in Korean Middle School TETE Classes: A Discourse Analysis and Its Pedagogical Implication

This paper describes discourse functions of classroom exchanges in TETE classes. The empirical data comes from a one-year long observation of seventh grade English classrooms. The study observed that there were very few instances of real communication and that the interaction patterns observed in the classes are different from those in natural communication in English. The paper shows that what is needed in the TETE classes is not only the teacher’s use of English but the students’ active participation in meaningful interaction and negotiation. The paper concludes that a prerequisite for more successful and efficient TETE classes is sincere and systemic effort to help and lead students to actively participate in classroom interaction.