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

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Arina Hafadhotul Husna
Rudi Hartono
Ahmad Sofwan

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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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Hafadhotul Husna, A., Hartono, R., & Sofwan, A. (1). TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ TALKS AND THEIR NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN THE CLASSROOM INTERACTION. English Education Journal, 5(1). Retrieved from http://journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/eej/article/view/6839

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