STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS TEACHER TALK IN ENGLISH CLASSROOMS

Abstract

he present study investigates on students’ perception toward English teacher talk. It aims to know
what the kinds and the impacts of teacher talk used by English teacher to English teaching learning
process. Then, the students’ expectation of an ideal English teacher talk is also important to be
investigated in order to conduct a better one in the future. The data is collected from interview of
16 students of any programs which is recorded and then transcribed. The additional data about
kind of teacher talk that used by English teacher is taken from classroom observation. Since this
research explores the students’ perceptions which come from the students’ experience, qualitative
approach is considered as an appropriate research design. The result of this research is presented
descriptively in order to reveal the students’ perception comprehensively. It was found that in
giving question, students prefer referential question to display question. In fact, teacher more often
used display question than referential question to initiate students. In ways of giving feedback,
when students produce incorrect or no answer, teacher usually used informing to follow them up.
However, students prefer to be encouraged by the teacher. When students produce correct answer,
they still prefer to be summarized, rather than being just simply praising.