TEACHER AND LEARNERS TALKS IN ENGLISH CLASSROOM AT SECOND GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 17 JAMBI CITY

Teacher and learner talk can be defined as the language used by the teacher
and students to interact in the classroom. In a classroom interaction, talk serves
many important functions. The aims of this study to know (1) The types of teacher
talk occur in English classroom. (2) To know the types of learners talk occur in
English classroom. (3) To identify what information of teacher talks to the
teaching learning process at Second Grade of Junior High School 17 Jambi City.
This research was qualitative research. The technique of collecting the data were
observation and interview. The data was analysed by using Foreign Language
Interaction (FLINT) System.
The research of the study showed that the types teacher’s and learners’ talk
that occurred in the classroom base on FLINT theory: Types of teacher’s talk:
Deal with Feelings, praise or encourage, uses ideas of student, asks questions,
gives information/lecturing, gives direction, criticizes was not found. Learners
talk there are: student response-Specific, student initiation, silence or confusion.
The types of teacher talk inform the teaching learning process were based on
FLINT theory the teacher never criticizes students behaviour and students
response during the learning process. In addition, the teacher used the same
expression in opening class. Furthermore, the teacher never did any jokes or
humour during learning process.