The aims of this research are fi rstly, to describe the interaction
used by the teacher and studentsconducted in the classroomof the
eighth grade of SMP Negeri 18 Purworejo in the Academic Year
2012/2013; secondly, to know what type of interaction characteris-
tics of the teacher-student talk in the classroom interaction; thirdly,
to identify languages used in the classroom interaction used during
teaching-learning process.
This thesis is a descriptive qualitative study on teacher and stu-
dent talk in the classroom interaction, particularly on the partici-
pants’ interaction in SMP N 18 Purworejo. The data of this study
are the interaction between the teacher and the students in the class-
room. In order to analyze the data, some steps are conducted. The
data was taken by recording the classroom interaction. The subject
in this research wasthe grade VIIIG of SMP Negeri 18 Purworejo,
there were 40 students and one English teacher. The researcher used
observation and recording for collecting the data. Flanders’ Interac-
tion Analysis was used to identify and analyze teacher-student talk
in the classroom interaction.
The result of this study shows that the teacher was more ac-
tive in the interaction. Meanwhile, the student was less active than the teacher. Based on the fi nding, the researcher concludes that the
teacher was dominant in the classroom interaction. The percentage
of the teacher talk was 78.15%,whereas the students’ participation
was 21.16%.
the students
not balance between Indonesian
and English. Indonesian is 62% while English is only 38%. It
shows that teacher used more Indonesian than English when she
explains the material. The interaction was in three ways communi-
cation: interaction between teacher-students, students-teacher, and
students-students.