Classroom Interaction: A Case Study of Student Talk in an Efl Classroom (original) (raw)
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INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Teacher talk plays an essential role in classroom interaction since it can facilitate students to enhance their levels of comprehension toward the learning materials and further encourage them to be more active during the learning process. This qualitative study is aimed to analyze the types of talk employed by the teacher in the classroom interaction based on the framework of Flanders Interaction Analysis Category System (FIACS) promoted by Flanders (1970). The data were collected through audio recording and observation for three class meetings, and interview with the teacher at the second grade of a senior high school in Aceh Tengah, Indonesia. The results showed that all of the seven types of teacher talk were found. Among them, giving directions took place as the most applied interaction by the teacher. It indicates that the teacher mostly controlled and provided the students with directions, commands, or orders in the learning process. Meanwhile, the least used were accepting or using ideas of pupils and accepting feelings. From the result of the interview, this matter occurred due to the lack of students’ participation in expressing their ideas and feelings. Thus, this study is expected to be a reference by which teachers could consider the types of teacher talk to be implemented to improve their students’ activity and interest during the classroom interaction.
The purpose of this research was to know what teacher talk constitute in classroom interaction, what learner talk constitute in classroom interaction and what percentages of the teacher and learner talk in classroom interaction. The methodology of research used in this research is interaction analysis. An English teacher and whole learners of VII A grade class at SMP N 2 Sindang were chosen as the sample in this research. The class is in the second semester in academic year 2009-2010. In this research the writer applied interview questions for teacher and learners and FIAC (Flanders Interaction Analysis Category). The result of this research showed that teacher more active than learner in the interaction. The teacher generally did most of talking during the lesson. In the available data showed that the teacher used more in indirect influence of FIAC category, they are; accepting feeling, encouragement, accepting or using idea of the learner, and asking question) rather than direct influence (lecturing, giving direction, and criticizing). It is about 49.6% / 16.4 %. Thus the total of teacher talk is 56.4% of the class time. Meanwhile the learners did more response rather than initiation with percentage 30.4% / 12.4% from the total learner talk is 42.8%. INTRODUCTION Teaching and learning process is an essential communication process between teacher and learner. For the massage, like information or material to be accepted well by learner, the use of effective approach is suggested. The approach must involving teacher and learner interaction. Based on the principle of teaching a language, the main objective of all language learning is the ability of using the target language (Azie and Alwasilah: 1996). This objective can be achieved by means of following various teaching methods among others by using different kinds of learning approach and technique. In English foreign Language (EFL) class, learners are still not familiar with English in daily conversation, except several learners who have background in using English in their home or environments. Because of that reason, teacher has some rule as facilitator to introduce them into new language especially as a model. To implement those functions teacher need to create an interactive climate in language classroom. Interaction is key word for language teachers.