Abstract
This study was conducted at International Elementary School of Bunga Matahari to find out the type of teacher talk in English classroom interactions and the students’ responses on teacher talk of praises. The descriptive qualitative design was applied and aimed to analyze the types of talk employed by the teacher in the classroom interaction based on FIACSystem presented by Flanders (1970). The data were analyzed using an interaction model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2013) et al. and focused on the teacher and student talk in ICP class. This research employed observation through video recording in order to reach the objectives of this study. The participant in this study were 45 students with 15 students in each class and 3 English teachers. The results showed that by analyzing responses of transcription from the observation, the teacher talk of giving praises is approximately less, giving direction dominates the teacher talk category that consists of direct influence of teacher talk. In addition, the students’ response was dominantly toward teacher talk of praises.
Highlights
In Indonesia, English is taught in elementary schools as local content (Muatan Lokal), so that learning English in the education levels will be easier, due to Teacher talk of praises in English classroom interaction
The research question is stated as the following: “What types of student talk are found in response to praises in English classroom interaction at International Elementary School of Bunga Matahari?”
The study found that there was a significant number of teachers’ talk and the interaction pattern used in the classroom
Summary
In Indonesia, English is taught in elementary schools as local content (Muatan Lokal), so that learning English in the education levels (which are junior and senior high schools) will be easier, due to Teacher talk of praises in English classroom interaction Daud) the fact that English subject is one of the main subjects in high schools. Teachers use English or mix it with Indonesian in explaining lesson. Teacher talk plays an important part in teaching English for elementary school students
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