English Education Journal
Vol 5 No 1 (2015)

TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ TALKS AND THEIR NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN THE CLASSROOM INTERACTION

Hafadhotul Husna, Arina (Unknown)
Hartono, Rudi (Unknown)
Sofwan, Ahmad (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Aug 2015

Abstract

This study were aimed to find (1) the pattern of teacher’s talks and  students’ talks occurred during the classroom interaction, (2) identify teacher’s nonverbal communication and students’ nonverbal communication interpreted in their talks. This study was descriptive qualitative method. The participants of this study were one English teacher and 38 students of second semester of Cendekia Utama Nursing College. It used Flanders Interaction Analysis Category System (FIACS), to analyze teacher’s and students’ talks and Zoric’s and Smid’s Taxonomy to identify nonverbal communication. The result showed that the most dominant pattern occurred in the classroom interaction at ESP class was the students’ participation. The teacher spent (55.7%) while students spent (40.3%) in their time. Teacher produced both direct talks and indirect talks. The amount of direct talks (29.1%) was higher than indirect talks (26.5%). It followed by content cross (34.7%), teacher support (14.3%) and continued by teacher control (6.7%), silence or confusion only spent a little time (4%). The result of nonverbal communication showed that teacher and students used more in oculasics and kinesics. They intentionally made eye contact when they communicated each other and used such facial expression, gesture, body signals, eye movement and head position to support their communications.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eej

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

English Education Journal (p-ISSN 2087-0108 e-ISSN 2502-4566) is a quarterly journal published by Graduate School of Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia, in the months of March, June, September, and December. It is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to enhancing and disseminating ...