The Study Of Verbal Interaction Between Teacher And Students In Classroom And Its Impact On Students’ Speaking Achievement

Abstract

This research was aimed to describe the verbal interaction used by the teacher and students conducted in the classroom and its impact on students’ speaking achievement. This research used qualitative design to analyze the data. 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, class room observation and interview. The subject in this research was the grade VII-3 of MTS Negeri 3 Medan, there were 43 students and one English teacher. The researcher used observation and recording for collecting the data. Flanders’ Interaction Analysis was used to identify and analyze teacher-student talk in the classroom interaction. The result of this study shows that the teacher was more active in the interaction. Meanwhile, the students were less active than the teacher. Based on the finding, the researcher concludes that the teacher was dominant in the classroom interaction. The percentage of the teacher talk was 53%,whereas the students’ participation was 33%, and silence was 14 %. The language used by teacher and students in classroom interaction dominantly is Indonesian, so there is no impact of verbal interaction in classroom on students’ speaking achievement.