AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHER TALK IN EFL CLASSROOM AT SMA NEGERI 5 KOTA BENGKULU

In English language classroom, teacher talk plays an essential role in the
classroom interaction since it facilite students to enhance their levels of
comprehension toward the learning materials that are give and further encouraged
them to be more active during the learning process. By using teacher talk, students
are possible to obtained new knowledge or information they needed to learn in a
lesson. However, in the reality students did not actively participate in learning
process. To overcome this problem, it is important for teachers needs to modify
their talk by using some techniques in order to get students‟ responses. This
research reported the types of teacher talk used by English teachers in the
classroom.
The data in this research was conducted by using mix method (qualitative
and quantitative method). The research was conducted at the tenth grade of
SMAN 5 Kota Bengkulu. The data were collected through video recording. The
teachers‟ talk was analyzed using types FLINT by Moskowitz (1971). The
research findings showed that asking question was the most commonly used
category of talk by both of the teachers in English Classroom, while correcting
without rejection was the least. This means that the teachers tended to use indirect
influence rather than direct influence.
Keywords: Teachers talk, Types of teacher talk, Foreign language interaction.