Teacher talk plays a very important role in English language teaching and learning. This study aimed to investigate the attitudes of first year EFL students towards teacher talk in English speaking classes at a university. It also examined how teacher talk was actually carried out in these classes. | TEACHER TALK IN ENGLISH SPEAKING CLASSES AT UNIVERSITY NGUYEN NU QUYNH HUONG1 LE PHAM HOAI HUONG2 1 MA student University of Foreign Languages Hue University 2 University of Foreign Languages Hue University Email lphhuong@ Abstract Teacher talk plays a very important role in English language teaching and learning. This study aimed to investigate the attitudes of first year EFL students towards teacher talk in English speaking classes at a university. It also examined how teacher talk was actually carried out in these classes. The participants of this study included 120 first year EFL university students. The data were collected through the questionnaire interviews and audio-recorded classroom observations. The findings of the study revealed that first year EFL students had positive attitudes towards teacher talk in English speaking classes. It was also found that all teachers used both English and Vietnamese when teaching and they tended to use English language more frequently than Vietnamese language in English speaking classes. Additionally they often used English to give oral instructions information related to the lectures and to ask questions. Based on the study findings some implications were suggested for EFL teachers and students in order to enhance the quality of teacher talk in English speaking classes as well as to help students to understand their teachers speech more effectively. Keywords Teacher talk EFL students. INTRODUCTION In English language teaching teachers play a pivotal role as language input providers and language models to be imitated by students. It cannot be denied that in teaching process teachers who implement the specific communicative acts such as lecturing asking and responding questions explaining giving instructions or feedback to students. The kind of language used by the teachers in the process of teaching is known as teacher talk. According to pedagogical theory the language that teachers use in classrooms also .
