Abstract:
The objectives of this research are to identify the kinds of interaction
based on the characteristics of the students and teacher interaction, to describe the
most dominant factor in the interaction between the teacher and students, and to
describe the interaction beetween the teacher and students in the learning process.
This research belongs to a descriptive qualitative research on teacher and
students interaction in English learning process. The data of this study are the
interaction between the teacher and the students in the classroom. In order to
analyze the data, some steps are conducted. The data is taken by recording the
classroom interaction. The subject in this research is the grade VIII A of SMP
Negeri 1 Sapuran, there are 32 students and one English teacher. The researcher
uses observation for technique in collecting data. Flanders’ Interaction Analysis
was used to identify and analize teacher-students talk in the classroom interaction.
The result of this study showed there are 10 categories of interaction, 7
categories belong to teacher talk, 2 categories of student talk and 1 category of
silence. The researcher concluded that the teacher was dominant in the classroom
interaction. The percentage of the teacher talk was 59.16% and students’
participation was 35.50% and the rest, silence was 5.34%. The interaction
indicates that the teacher is more indirect in her teaching.
