期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：4
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Teacher is a prominent person in classroom. Teaching styles will determinehow teachers set their direction and focus in teaching. This article investigatesteaching styles among Malaysian chemistry secondary school teachers via verbalinteraction. Characteristics of these teaching styles were determined in order to makecomparison among different teaching styles. Twenty three of chemistry secondaryschool teachers and their students in Kuala Lumpur were involved in this study. Nonparticipantobservation was applied. Ninety two classroom observations were audioand video recorded. Besides that, semi-structured interview with the teachers werecarried out. Data were analysed using cluster analysis to identify their teaching styles.Findings from this study found that in laboratory lessons, 95.65% of the teachers’emphases were on group activities and teacher’s explanation or instruction.Meanwhile, 65.22% of the teachers showed teacher-centred approach, i.e. givingexplanation in theory lessons. Characteristics of the teaching styles were investigatedin terms of type of teacher’s question and student’s question. Regardless of teachingstyles, teacher’s questions and students’ questions were of closed-ended questions,and managerial questions. Based on the findings, teaching style for chemistry lesson isproposed.
