The Analysis of Verbal Interaction Between Teacher and Students in The Classroom at SMA Negeri 1 Kampung Rakyat in Academic Year 2018-2019

Abstract

For these reasons, the interactions are supposed to be different from the general ones. This condition motivates the writer to focus the study on the classroom interaction. The objectives of this study are to explore the classroom interaction characteristics between teacher and student at SMA Negeri 1 Kampung Rakyat have met Walberg’s teaching effectiveness. The subject of the study was 30 students and one teacher at year ten of immersion class at SMA Negeri 1 Kampung Rakyat. The results of the analysis showed that the most dominant characteristic in immersion classroom interaction was the content cross. It reflected that most of the teaching-learning time was devoted to questions and lectures by the teacher. The teacher spent 57.43% of the teaching-learning time, while the students spent 22.20% of the teaching-learning time. It showed that the students were active enough in the classroom interaction. The interaction in this immersion classroom was in three-way communication; there were interaction between teacher-students, students-teacher, and students-students. The immersion classroom interaction also met the requirements of teaching effectiveness elements made by Walberg (1986). Based on the students’ opinion, the teaching-learning process in the classroom was good enough, however some students felt uncomfortable with the classroom atmosphere and the teacher’s discipline of time.