KINDS OF TEACHER TALK IN PROMOTING CLASSROOM
INTERACTION
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Wieke Nur Shanti
112008079
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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KINDS OF TEACHER TALK IN PROMOTING CLASSROOM
INTERACTION
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Wieke Nur Shanti
112008079
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Anita Kurniawati, M. Hum. Lany Kristono, M. Hum.
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Kinds of Teacher Talk in Promoting Classroom Interaction
Wieke Nur Shanti
Abstract
The study attempts at finding what kinds of talk that teacher uses in promoting classroom interaction. The focus of this study was teacher’s questions and teacher’s feedback. These two categories are mostly found in promoting or starting the classroom interaction. This study was conducted in Bethany elementary school Salatiga. The subject of the study was one English teacher from the second grade and four times classroom observations were done in collecting the data. The data used descriptive method to describe what kinds of talks and which talks were mostly used in promoting classroom interaction. The data analysis shows that teacher talks consisted of questioning and giving feedback. Teacher’s questions are divided into three parts, they are: procedural questions, convergent questions and divergent questions. Whereas teacher’s feedbacks were divided into two parts, they are: feedback on content and feedback on forms. The results show that teacher used convergent questions and feedback on content mostly in promoting classroom interaction.
