EFL TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ TALK IN SPEAKING CLASSROOM INTERACTION

Abstract

This study investigated the teacher and students talk through Foreign Language Interaction (FLINT) system in the speaking class interaction, and it also analyzed the classroom types. This study aims at analyzing the categories of teacher talk, student talk and classroom interaction types used during EFL speaking class. The research employes a qualitative design and a case study by means of two data collection techniques. They are naturalistic obsrvation and document analysis. The research participants of this research were one English teacher and 28 students at the eight grade of MTs Sidarahayu, Ciamis, West Java. In analysing the data, the researcher trancribed the video displaying the interaction and language done by teacher and students during English speaking class, coding, calculating and analyzed the amount of each category of teacher talk and student talk by using FLINT system from Brown (2001, p. 170), coding, calculating and analyzed the amount of each type of classroom interaction adapted from Mingzhi (2005, p.59) frameworks. The findings revealed that both teacher and students applied all categories of talk as elaborated in FLINT system and classroom interaction types. It recommended the teacher to adapt more categories. Based on the result, it can be suggested for the teacher to increase the effective aspect, give more praises, habituate students to pay more attention to the explanation in English in order that the teacher and the students can interact in target language. Thus, interactive teaching learning can be realized.