Abstract
In an attempt to establish systematic characteristics and patterning of the language variety used by foreign language teachers in talking to their students, an experiment was designed to isolate significant features of this linguistic register from the speech of eight native speakers of Czech addressing a group of Stanford students who were studying Czech as a foreign language. It was found that a Foreign Language Classroom Register is a linguistic subsystem that can be defined (1) by rules of linguistic simplification similar to those of the Foreigner Talk and Baby Talk Registers, and (2) by constraints imposed by the social setting, which is the norm of the standard language used in a classroom communication.
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