Teacher-pupil Interaction in English Classroom

The present research was conducted to discuss the issues between teacher and Students in classroom interaction at the second grade of SMPN 3. It was aimed to get two purposes from the research objectives. First, to investigate how classroom interaction took place in the English classroom. Second, it attempted to discuss the factors that affect classroom interaction in the English classroom. This research employed a qualitative method. The participants of this research were 30 students and 2 English teachers of a second grade. This research used observation and semi-structured interview as the research instruments. The data were analyzed by the framework FLINT (Foreign Language Interaction Analysis) adapted from Brown (2001). The findings of this research showed that the teacher managed the class and gave the students freedom widely to participate in the class. The teacher almost used all the types from teacher interaction and students also participated in the class. The researcher also found the factors that influenced teacher and students participation in classroom interaction during the teaching learning process, for example students lack of vocabulary, students ability and teacher give students opportunity to participated in English classroom.