• Marzieh Rezaie

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• Annita Lashkarian

  Author

Among different types of discourse, classroom discourse is a special type of discourse that
occurs between teacher and students and among the students in classrooms (Nunan,1993).
Classroom discourse largely consists of explanations, instructions, descriptions and arguments
Due to the importance of classroom discourse in educational setting, this study attempts to
review different aspects of classroom discourse. The results of this study shows that the type of
students' and teachers' discourse, the types of questions and the patterns of classroom discourse
can be different in different classrooms and in various learning situations. Besides, the results of
previous studies showed that IRF (Initiation-Response-Feedback) is a typical pattern of
classroom discourse.

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