Teacher talk plays an essential role in classroom interaction since it can facilitate students to
enhance their levels of comprehension toward the learning materials and further encourage …

This article reports a study on teachers' use of interaction strategies in English Language
Teaching (ELT) in lower secondary level of education. The study involved eighteen teachers …

Communication has a crucial function in English language teaching because failure in
communication will result in unsuccessful process. Therefore, it is important to investigate …

This paper's main focus is to explore the students' perspectives of politeness practices at the
State University of Makassar. The main problems to be explored are the roles of politeness …

Introducing Discourse Analysis This chapter provides a detail description about the study of
Discourse Analysis (DA) as one important branch in the study of linguistics. I should explain …

This paper is about the questioning powers of the students in the class. The main focus is to
reveal the types of questions produced by the students and to describe their perspectives on …

This paper explores the imbalance between teacher talk time (TTT) and student talk time
(STT) in Pakistani colleges intermediate English language classrooms. The objective of the …

The phenomena of language use in the class still become the object of study ever since the
languages are essential aspects in classroom interaction. It cannot be denied that in the …

Abstract The Use of Speech Acts in Angngaru of Makassar Society. The objective of this
research is to explore the use of speech acts in Angngaru. Through the framework of speech …

The research examined teacher's control of classroom interaction. Studying teachers'
controlling behaviors as a form of antisocial communication was necessary to develop …