EFL Teachers Communicative Teacher Talk in the English Classroom in Ethiopian Context

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newline Abstract newlineThis study intends to investigate EFL teachers of secondary and preparatory perception and newlinepractice of communicative teachers talk in English classroom in the context of Ethiopia .Using a newlinemixed approach, both quantitative and qualitative data were collected from thirty schools newline(fifteen secondary and fifteen preparatory schools) which were selected using purposive newlinesampling method from the Eastern and the Central part of Ethiopia. In general, 145 participants newlinewere selected randomly from the sampled school taking volunteer participants from each school newlineand all of them participated in the survey questionnaire. Among them, ten of them participated newlinein semi-structured interview. Of these ten participants, again six volunteer EFL teachers were newlinealso selected and observed for two to three consecutive lessons taking one participant from each newlineselected six preparatory schools which are partner School of Haramaya University. newlineIn order to obtain adequate data for the purpose of the current study, three instruments were newlineused: Semi- structured interview, questionnaires and classroom observation. After the newlineinstruments checked their validity and reliability in the pilot study and made a little amendment, newlinethe data were collected, tabulated and transcribed as per the schedule of the study. Finally, it newlinehas been found that most EFL teachers have a good understanding of the purpose and the role of newlineteacher talk. However, the data analysis of both the questionnaire and the semi-structured newlineinterview revealed that there is lack of awareness regarding the communicative feature of newlineteacher talk that EFL teachers modify their speech differently, they frequently repeat what they newlinespeak again and again without paraphrasing or saying it differently; and they speak very fast. As newlinefar as some aspect of communicative talk is concerned, the study revealed that most EFL newlineteachers taught that they should know the answer of the question which they may ask their newlinelearner .and it was also observed that that EFL teacher of