本研究目的有三：(1) 找出英語課堂中言談次序的通則，(2) 描述此 q則
的運作情形，(3) 由此針對英語教學提出一些建議。本研究分析七卷 語
課的實況錄影，每一卷 50 分鐘；並選其中二卷，鉅細靡遺，全程記C
研究結果發現，就說話順序而言，發言流程一貫遵循師→生→師→生 師
的模式，沒有生→生對談。再就下一位發言者的選擇而言，僅止於老 v積
極運用技巧以選擇發言者，學生既無法「自選」，也不能「擇他」。此外
，本文也透過具體的實例，說明一般英語課堂中，「當即經營」local
management)為老師特有的權利，學生所能控制的頗為有限。如此 A勢將
造成參與機會的不均。此現象明顯地反映於下列各方面：下一發言怐瑪嚝
隉B互動角色、言談主題、順序、結構、以及言談長短、發言的跡 H、和
機會的分配等。 @ 上述情形與自然會話運作相去甚遠，離開教室，學生
自將很難適應自 M言談的方式。因此，為了改善語言教學，本研究建議教
室言談次序應予眺s，俾能於教室裏提供學生主動發言及配置發言的機會
；使其在互動線 W，更能接近自然會話的一端。

This study aims to: (1) identify rules of turn-taking in
English classes, (2) describe their operation, and (3) make
suggestions on language teaching and learning. In this study,
seven 50-minute videotaped ESL classes are analyzed with two of
them fully transcribed. It is found that in terms of speaking
sequence, the exchange of turns follows the T-S-T-S-T pattern.
There are no S-S exchanges. In terms of speaker selection,
only the teacher applies turn allocation techniques in an
active way. Students exert neither self-selection technique nor
current- select-next technique. The analyses sketched provide a
concrete empirical basis for how the idiosyncratic turn-taking
system in English classes marks a distinct differentiation of
participation rights, realized in the following aspects:
speaker selection, turn order, interactive roles, turn topic,
turn structure, turn length, turn regulators, and turn
distribution. And, the locally managed component is largely the
teacher's domain; students are quite limited in this respect.
This unique pattern is quite different from that in natural
conversations. Students may know how to function in teacher-
imposed turn, but they don't know how to function in natural
situations. So, to improve language teaching and learning, a
new turn-taking rule is recommended. It is suggested that
classroom discourse move along the interaction continuum toward
forms of turn-taking which are more to the end of natural
conversation and which provide students the opportunities of
initiation and turn allocation.
This study aims to: (1) identify rules of turn-taking in