The effect of teacher - learner interaction on speaking ability of Iranian EFL learners

The ultimate aim of learning a language is to use it in communication in its spoken form.Classroom interaction is a key to reach that goal. Thus, the idea that interaction should beimplemented in the classroom became more and more popular especially in second or foreignlanguage classroom. The present study aims to investigate the effect of teacher-learnerinteraction on speaking ability of the students. To this end, forty students who were learningEnglish at a language institute in Yazd were selected to participate in the study. They wereassigned to one control group and one experimental group. Students in experimental group hadteacher-learner interaction. Pretest, posttest, and some interviews were conducted duringexperimental phase of the study and in fact, the data of the current study was collected during 8sessions of treatment. Descriptive statistics was applied for data analysis. The results of the studydemonstrate that teacher-learner interaction has significant effect on speaking ability of thelearners and the average of accuracy and fluency of experimental group was higher than ones ofcontrol group. The present study also has some pedagogical implications for both learners andteachers.

Keywords:

Teacher-learner interaction , speaking ability , EFL learners