Verbal Interaction Between Teacher and Students in The Classroom Interaction

Abstract

This study deals with verbal interaction between teacher and students in the classroom interaction. This study attempted to answer the two formulation of the problems, namely (1) What are the styles of verbal interaction used by the teacher in the classroom interaction, and (2) What is the dominant style of verbal interaction used by the teacher in the classroom interaction. This study applied a desctiptive qualitative method. The source of data was obtained from Verbal Interaction done by English Teacher in SMP YWKA. The technique of data analysis used theory of sugiyono (2016), namely data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The reasearch finding shows that there were two styles of verbal interaction used by the English teacher; (1) Expressive Style and (2) Aggressive Style. And then, the dominant style used by the teacher was Expressive Style. The Expressive style was the dominant one because expressive style used by everyone to get closed with the others. Including teachers: Of course, the teacher must get closed with their students in order to have good interaction in the classroom