The Impact of Classroom Interaction Patterns on Enhancing Learning in EFL classes

Abstract

Classroom interaction is an important concept in language teaching and learning. It is helpful for the students’ learning process. The purpose of this study is to reveal the different patterns of classroom interaction, its impact on enhancing learning in EFL classes and how can the teachers encourage classroom interaction. In the practical part, the researcher uses different data collection instruments which are the classroom observation and questionnaires for both teachers and students that are conducted to second year foreign languages class of secondary schools of Mostaganem during the academic year 2019/2020, so that this work contains quantitative and qualitative methods.The teachers’ questionnaire is intended to investigate the teachers’ views about the interaction in the classroom and its patterns and techniques. The students’ questionnaire is intended to demonstrate students’ level of interaction and the effect of its patterns on their achievement. There were adequate results about the effect of the classroom interaction on the learners’ achievement.