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IRF (Initiation-Response-Feedback), The model produced by Sinclair and…
IRF (Initiation-Response-Feedback)
2. Concept & Principles of IRF
a. Concept
This method of information exchange in the classroom has been criticised for focusing more on the student stating what the teacher wants to hear than than actually communicating.
Example:
The teacher asks a student for rules for using the present perfect, the student responds, and the teacher determines whether or not the answer is correct.
The teacher initiates, the learner responds, the teacher gives feedback.
b. Principle(s)
For IRF, building good communication in the teaching and learning process requires not only fluency, but also accuracy.
3. Examples of IRF in ESL classroom
Teacher: What is the capital of Malaysia.
Student: Malaysia.
Teacher: Well done
Teacher: So, now let's open our books.
Student: On page 13?
Teacher: That's right.
Teacher: In the past, people used to misbelieve that the earth was flat.
Student: Flat?
Teacher: Exactly!
Definition of IRF
1.This a fairly typical and predictable structure, comprising three parts: a teacher Initiation, a student Response, and a teacher Feedback, commonly known as IRF, or IRE: Initiation, Response, Feedback/ Evaluation.
3.Feedback is an important feature of the three-part exchange because it allows learners to see whether their response has been accepted or not. Frequently, feedback entails some kind of evaluation, such as good, right, ok.
2.Initiation (I), leads to the question,which prompts the student response [R],and then feedback (F) is to what the learner has said (“Right, yes”).
4. Theories of IRF
b. Michael Halliday Systemic Functional Grammar Model
a. Sinclair and Coulthard’s Rank Scale Model and Birmingham Model
The model produced by Sinclair and Coulthard derived from the rank scale model
originally developed by Halliday, which initially concentrated on theory of grammar.
The end product of Sinclair and Coulthard is the Birmingham Model, also known as The Discourse Analysis model (DA), or at the level of echange, the Initiation-Response-Follow-up structure (IRF). It came from Sinclair and Coulthard research concerning the structural description of discourse found in the classroom.