Analyzing Teacher Talk in Classroom Interaction at Junior High School

Abstract

This article was intended to find out, describe, and analyze Initiation and Follow up as part of teacher talk used by the teacher in classroom interaction. It was focused on identifying the types of initiation and follow up used by the teacher in classroom interaction. The research was conducted at SMPN 34 Pekanbaru. The subject of this research were four English teachers who teaches seven grade, eight grade, and nine grade in the school. This research was a descriptive research with the classroom interaction analysis. The instruments used in this research were Video recording and classroom observation sheet. The data in this research was the result of the identification of transcriptions of classroom interaction videos which used to find the types of initiation and follow up. The finding showed that the types of initiation used by the teacher in classroom interaction were display question, referential question, direction, and invitation. While the types of follow up used by the teacher in classroom interaction were informing, prompt, criticizing, ignoring, and acknowledgment.