A Synthesis Paper: The Role of Teacher Talk in SLA

Abstract

In the era of the world’s integration, language teaching teachers take a large role in education in general and language learning in particular. One of the most vital issues for teachers is how to convey L2 acquisition through teacher talk as comprehensible input. In order to dig down this part in language teaching, three researchers namely Krashen (1982), Long (1983) and Schmidt (1990) have their own perspective on how educators can approach language learners effectively. However, it indicates that the teacher-learner interaction provides chances for studying through mutual communication and comprehensible input. Moreover, teacher talk states that awareness and attention have a close relationship with one another, hence the learning process needs to help students involve more in the process without being passive. To make it clear, we would like to analyze each researchers’ work and compare as well as evaluate its hypothesis to one another with the purpose of suggesting this understanding as a tool for teacher to enhance their language teaching-learning method.