Teacher’s Motives in Applying Communication Accommodation Strategies in Secondary ELT Class
Abstract
The objective of this study is to describe teacher’s motives that underlie the use of communication accommodation strategies in secondary ELT class. This study employed a qualitative approach by observing the strategies used in ELT class and interviewing teacher to ask the reason for performing those features. The participant of this study was one English teacher from secondary ELT class. The result showed that teacher used more convergence features in accommodative strategies rather than divergence. Besides, teacher’s motives in applying communication accommodation strategies were categorized as affective motives to emphasize the closeness with students and cognitive motives to improve students’ understanding in classroom interaction. Teacher was dominant in cognitive motives rather than affective motives when using communication accommodation strategies in secondary ELT class.
Keywords: Communication Accommodation Strategies, Affective Motives, Cognitive Motives
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Holmes, Janet, N., & Wilson. (2017). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 5 Ed. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
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Kääntä, L. (2015). The Multimodal Organisation of Teacher-Led Classroom Interaction.†in International perspectives on ELT classroom interaction, edited by C. J. Jenk and P. Seedhouse. London: Palgave Macmillan.
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Markee, N. (2015). The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction. United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Miles, M, A. M. Huberman, & Johnny, S. (2014). Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, Inc.
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Rastegar, Mina, & Samira S., M., G. (2016). Communication Strategies, Attitude, and Oral Output of EFL Learners: A Study of Relations. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 6(5):401–19.
Sedova, Klara, Martin, S., & Roman, S. (2016). Teacher Professional Development as a Means of Transforming Student Classroom Talk. Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education 57(1):14–25.
Tien, C. (2009). Conflict and Accommodation in Classroom Codeswitching in Taiwan. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12(2):173–92.
Weizheng, Z. (2019). Teacher-Student Interaction in EFL Classroom in China: Communication Accommodation Theory Perspective. English Language Teaching Journal 12(12):99–111.
Womack, A. (2017). Teaching Is Accommodation: Universally Designing Composition Classrooms and Syllabi. College Composition and Communication Journal 68(3):494–525.
Zhang, Y., B, & Howard, G. (2017). Communication Accommodation Theory. in The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication, edited by Y. Y. Kim and K. L. McKay-Semmler. New York, US: Wiley Online Library.
Published
2020-06-16
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