UNDERSTANDING TEACHER TALK AT ISLAMIC SECONDARY SCHOOL: A PILOT STUDY

Abstract

This study explores the teacher talk in Islamic Secondary School during the English language classroom. This study follows a research paradigm associated with a naturalistic qualitative inquiry where the main focus is to understand the teacher talk's complexity. The study mainly employed audio recording for data analysis. There were two audio recording sessions in form four classes. The researcher selected two teachers for the audio recording. The findings shows teacher talk time had dominated most of the class time in which Teacher A had talked for 74% of the class time and Teacher B had talked for 68% of the class time.