Teacher Talk discourse analysisAbstract：Teacher Talk (TT for short) refers to the speeches that the teacher uses to speak to students when the teacher undertakes the task in the foreign language teaching. TT can be primarily divided into two types: content language (CL for short) and medium language (ML for short). CL refers to the language of teaching tasks as prescribed in textbooks. ML consists of explanatory medium language (EML) and coordinative medium language (CML) EML refers to the language the teacher uses to perform such teaching tasks as paragraphing words or sentences or illustrating grammar rules. CML refers to speeches used by the teacher for greeting, comments, task switching, discipline regulation, etc. What merits my attention in this paper is ML.TT as the essential medium in language teaching is firstly studied in the field of Teaching Methodology. Different teaching approaches can bring about different styles of TT; and different TT applies different teaching approaches to teaching activities. However, limiting the analysis of TT in the field of Teaching Methodology may narrow the research space of TT and can be fairly disadvantageous in language teaching. This paper adopts an opening view – the perspective of discourse analysis to analyze linguistic forms and their functions as well as effects on learners’ learning, and it firstly sums up several communicative features of TT. Then introduces the researches closely related to the study of TT, and enquires the TT strategies basing on the analysis of the middle schools’ English teaching. Finally, tries to offer further refection on TT.中文题目：中学英语教学老师口语策略探讨The key words: Teacher Talk; discourse analysis; context; classro...
