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万方数据 万方数据 Research on English Teachers’ Verbal Feedback in Senior High School English Classes By Liu Feng Under the Supervision of Professor Xie Jinqiu A Thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education in Foreign Language College Anhui Normal University November 2012 Acknowledgements At the point of finishing this paper, I’d like to express my sincere thanks to all those who have helped me in the course of writing this paper. My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to Professor Xie Jinqiu, my supervisor, for her constant encouragement and guidance. She has walked me through all the stages of the writing of this paper. Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this paper could not have reached its present form. Second, I am also greatly indebted to the English teachers in Wu Hu: Mrs. Cui, Mrs. Zhang, Miss Zhang and Mrs Hu who have instructed and helped me a lot in the past two years. Other teachers gave me a lot of useful information and helped me finish the interview. Last my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who gave me their help and time in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the paper. They also helped me finish the survey and interview. So to all of you, thank you for being in my life. I Abstract The teaching process is mainly launched by in a series of discourses including teacher’s initiation, student’s response and teacher’s follow-up. Teacher’s follow- up means teachers’ verbal feedback on student’s response. According to different focuses, teachers follow-up discourse can be divided into three categories: content feedback, form feedback and theme feedback. This paper aims to investigate the characteristics and distributions of different English teachers’ verbal feedback in senior high schoo