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