Verbal Interaction between Teacher and Students in the Classroom

One of the primary factors that influence the teaching and learning process is interaction. Verbal interaction is the most interaction that happened between the teacher and students in the classroom. The quality of verbal interaction between teacher and students in the classroom affect the result of teaching and learning itself. This study aimed to find out the kinds of verbal interaction between teacher and students in the classroom and to find out which dominance between teacher’s talk or student’s talk. The study was conducted in Junior High School of Darul Ihsan Aceh Besar. The subject of this study was teachers and students in the second and the third grade of the junior high school consists of boy and girl classes. This study was qualitative research. To achieve the purposes of this study the writer used observation which was adopted by Flander’s Interaction Analysis Category to find out verbal interaction between teacher and student. This study also used a semi-structured interview to support data gained from observation. The study found that all teachers used all FIAC categories and the dominance talk was the teacher’s talk. The teachers speak about 61 per cent in the classroom while students 18 per cent. From the result, it suggested that the teachers should give more opportunities to the students to speak and interaction during the teaching and learning process.