Abstract:
The aims of this research are firstly, to describe the speech strategies used by the teacher and students in the classroom; secondly, to know what type of interaction characteristics of the teacher-students talk in the classroom interaction of grade VIII.G SMP Negeri 18 Purworejo in the Academic Year 2012/2013; thirdly, to identify languages used in the classroom interaction by seeing the percentage of English and Indonesian language used for teaching-learning process.
This thesis is a descriptive qualitative study on teacher and students talk in the classroom interaction, particularly on the participants’ interaction in SMP N 18 Purworejo.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 was taken by recording the classroom interaction. The subject in this research was in the grade VIII.G of SMP Negeri 18 Purworejo, there were 40 students and one English Teacher. The researcher used observation for technique collecting data. Flanders’ Interaction Analysis was used to identify and analize teacher-students talk in the classroom interaction.
The result of this study showed that the teacher was more active (the superior) in this interaction. Meanwhile, the student was less active than the teacher (the inferior). After getting the result of this study, the researcher concluded that the teacher was dominant in the classroom interaction. The percentage of the teacher talk was 78.15% and students’ participation was 21.16%. The students’ condition showed that they should be more active because some of them was still confused or gave no answer. The interaction was in three ways communication: inteaction between teacher-students, students-teacher, and students-students.
