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translation studies. retrospective and prospective views

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information: the teacher offers input; the students prove knowledge);<br />

- instrumental (the teacher tries to determine students to act/be<br />

active/perform certain tasks/respond in some way or another);<br />

- regulatory (of control over the students);<br />

- interactional (of creating different interactions: teacher –student;<br />

student-student; student-students);<br />

- linguistic (strictly connected to the teaching/learning activity);<br />

- managerial (the teacher establishes the activities students have to<br />

perform as well as interactional patterns, offers guidance, monitors,<br />

assesses, disciplines students, evaluates);<br />

- affective (the use of a language that shows a positive attitude<br />

towards the students <strong>and</strong> is meant to encourage <strong>and</strong> develop in them such<br />

traits as autonomy, creativity, imagination).<br />

Progression of the dialogue is made through questions of diverse<br />

types or through requests for actions meant to display the students` ability<br />

of<br />

- memorizing things (Name…/List…./Who…?/Where?);<br />

- analyzing problems or situations (Analyse…/Identify…/Compare…);<br />

- evaluating situations/things/qualities<br />

(Evaluate…/Interpret.../Justify…Classify…).<br />

The speech acts that the teacher uses characterize such functions as:<br />

- to inform (accomplished through assertives);<br />

- to verify (through questions by means of which the teacher checks<br />

possible difficulties of reception: Is it /everything clear? Have you any problem<br />

with…; the way in which students observe time constraints: Are you ready?<br />

Have you finished; the students` abilities: Notice…/Look…Can you…?);<br />

- to offer instructions (through directives: Write…/Open your books!);<br />

- to evaluate (through assertives, disjunctive questions or structures<br />

(OK/ Interesting! Good work/Well done);<br />

- to comment (through assertives or disjunctive questions meant to<br />

exemplify/develop an idea/justify/explain/add supplementary<br />

information);<br />

- to draw a conclusion (So…/So far…/Then…);<br />

- to agree with (through word: Very well…/Sure…, facial expression<br />

or nodding);<br />

- to reject (through words or expressions of the type: No, it’s not like<br />

that.../No, it’s not correct).<br />

b) gestural – body language plays an important place in the<br />

classroom life (atmosphere, teaching techniques, types of interactions, turntaking<br />

system).<br />

The nonverbal system becomes a code of semiotic communication.<br />

The teacher’s gesture have a double function; they are either grammatical<br />

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