A Case Study of Student-Teacher Interaction in Chinese Classrooms at Brigham Young University, USA based on FIAS

Abstract

This study uses the Flanders Interaction Analysis System (FIAS) to conduct a case study of Chinese language classes at Brigham Young University in the United States. Based on the video observation of the classroom, an interaction behaviour matrix was used to quantify the teaching style, teacher-student question and answer data, with the aim of summarising the characteristics of teacher-student interaction behaviour in the classroom environment where Chinese is taught by native American teachers, and to consider the Chinese classroom in China based on the principle of “taking the best and removing the worst”.