AN ANALYSIS OF AN ENGLISH TEACHER TALK IN THE CLASSROOM INTERACTION AT THE EIGHT GRADE OF SMPIT IQRA’ BENGKULU IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2019/2020

This research aimed to investigate teacher talk used by the teacher based on Chaudron’s
theory in a classroom interaction at the eighth grade of SMPIT IQRA’ Bengkulu in the
academic year of 2019/2020 and to investigate the most frequent of teacher talk used by the
teacher in the classroom interaction. The design of this research was descriptive quantitative.
The subject of this research was an English teacher who though English at the eighth grade of
SMPIT IQRA’ Bengkulu. The data collected by observing 6 times class meeting. Researcher
identified teacher talk used by the teacher into the observation cheklist and observation tally
sheet is used to find out the most frequent of teacher talk used by the teacher in the classroom
interaction. The result showed that a teacher used several teacher talk of chaudron’s theory.
These are: slower rate of speech, pauses, simplified pronunciation and exaggerated, simplified
vocabulary, declarative statement and self-repetition but the teacher did not used slower degree
of subordination. Then, the most frequent of teacher talk used by the teacher is Slower rate of
speech, consist of 34%. This modification was important for the students, since they were still
developing and adapting the target language.
Keywords: Teacher talk, Classroom interaction