Improving Teacher Student in the EFL Classroom: an Action Research Report.

A common problem for EFL teacher is dealing with a passive class, where student are unresponsive and avoid interaction with the teacher. This is especially true when a teacher seeks interaction in a teacher - class dialog, such as asking questions to the class a whole, expecting at least one student  to respond. This can be frustrating experience for both parties. Obviously, there will be times when no student can answer a teacher’s question, but often student do not answer even if they understand the question, know the answer and are able to produce the answer. Furthermore, student can often be very reluctance to give feedback or ask the teacher a question in front of the class. This reaction research project attempted to explore this problem and sought to create a more interactive teacher - class interchange in one class of Japanese adult English learners.