Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze learners' reception of teacher speech, and to clarify how it can influence learning. Here, I focused on an actual reading class, and analyzed the classroom discourse. Analysis of the classroom discourse indicated the following: 1. Investigation of the learners' reception of the teacher speech. The functions of the teacher speech involved, "questions", "explanations", "instructions", and so on, but the main function was "questions". 2. Teachers usually respond to students' answers with evaluation, and this causes the learners to make connections with their own reading, and enlivens dialogue between learners. It also promotes learning. 3. By recognizing differences in the style of the teacher speech, learners recognize the different types of learning. And it causes learners to run engage in higher quality interaction. The conclusion is that learning is improved by effective teacher speech.
