THE FORMS OF CLASSROOM INTERACTION FOUND IN ENGLISH CLASSROOM AT SMA NEGERI IN BENGKULU (A Comparative Study between Favorite and Un-Favorite Schools in Bengkulu)

Abstract

The problems of this research are: how is the interaction done by the teacher and students in
English classroom in SMA Negeri in Bengkulu?and what are the differences (if any) of the
interaction process found in favorite SMA an un-favorite SMA in Bengkulu? the purpose of this
research is: to describe the interaction between teacher and students and to describes the
differences between the interaction. The forms of classroom interaction were taken from
Malcolm, 1997 and Roestiyah, 1994. They accepting feeling, complement and encouragement,
accepting or uses ideas of students, asking the studentsabout the procedure or content of study,
lecturing, giving direction to the students, criticizing or justifying authority, students response,
students initiative, answering question, silence and confusion, one way interaction, multi way
interaction.
The design of this research was descriptive method; descriptive method is a survey or
observation that describes the situation as being observed. The population of this research is
English teachers and the second year students of senior high school in favorite and in unfavorite
schools. They are SMAN 2 Bengkulu, with 190 students in 8 classes and SMAN 6
Bengkulu, with 150 students in 6 classes. The sample of this research is used randomly
sampling, from SMAN 2 Bengkulu is an English teacher and 42 students and from SMAN 6
Bengkulu is an English teacher and 44 students.
The result of this study shown that, the forms of interaction that dominant used by the teacher
and students interaction in the classroom at SMAN 2 Bengkulu and SMAN 6 Bengkulu. Those
are teacher asking question 64 times (19,16%) and 33 times (15,94%) the teacher ask to
students about procedure and content of study. Students answer question 57 times (17,06%)
and 27 times (13,04%), two way interaction 55 times (16,47%) and 29 times (14,01%), however
there is form of interaction that dominant used in SMAN 6 Bengkulu but it is not dominant used
in SMAN 2 Bengkulu. It is lecturing 18 times (8,69%) the significant differences between SMAN
2 and SMAN 6 Bengkulu interaction, can see from the result in frequency, at SMAN 2 Bengkulu
higher than SMAN 6 Bengkulu, it is caused at SMAN 6 Bengkulu students and teacher
interaction done slowly or teaching and learning process done slowly. Sometimes the teacher
and students discuss about something that is not relationship with material being taught.