Plenary Lecture

Direct/Indirect Language Use of Teachers

Associate Professor Isil Acikalin
Anadolu Universitesi
Education Faculty
Department of Foreign Languages
E-mail: iacikali@anadolu.edu.tr

Abstract: This study is concerned with teachers’ language use in classroom. Teachers may use either direct or indirect language style which may be related to the structure of power relationship that teachers and students build in classroom.
It is true that the use of politeness formulas and indirect stating are associated with good and effective teaching. So the study aims at investigating to what extent elementary school teachers use polite and indirect discourse studies.
The results will be evaluated according to the questionnaire given to the teachers of elementary school. The questionnaire is formed according to the topics that arouse in the focus group meeting.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Isil Acikalin is a faculty member at the Department of Foreign Language Education at Anadolu University/Turkey.She has a MA. And Ph.D. in English Linguistics with emphasis on sociolinguistics.She conducts research on language variation,linguistic gender differences,Turkish medical language and communication of doctors with their patients.She has published several research studies in both national and international peer-reviewed jourbals.