The Analysis of Students and Teacher Interaction in English Learning at the Eighth Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Sapuran in the Academic Year of 2015/ 2016

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.