THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH CLASSROOM DISCOURSE IN SMP NEGERI 1 TEBING TINGGI

This study is concerned with the structure of English classroom discourse in SMP Negeri 1 Tebing tinggi. The objectives of this study were to describe the structures of English classroom discourse, to describe how the structures are linguistically realized and to reason for the realizations of the English class structure. The source of the data in this study were English teachers and also the students while the data of the study are the utterances from the teacher and the students and semiotic markers as marked in the text. The instruments used for colleting data were video tape recorder and researcher’s fieldnote. The data were collected by observing and recording the utterances uttered by the teachers and students and writing all semiotics that teacher and students did in the classroom while teaching learning process and classifyed them into types of exchanges as Sinclair and Coulthard theory. Based on the data analysis, it was found that the structure of English classroom were teacher elicit, teacher direct, teacher information, boundary, pupil elicit, check, repeat, reinforce and reinitiation. The structures occured dominantly were teacher elicit, teacher direct and teacher information. These structures were dominantly realized by IR structure. There were some reasons why the realization as the ways they are. The teacher control interaction in class more dominantly caused the teacher talk more than students talk consequently impact to the teaching technique became conventional teaching. English as a foreign language was also one point made the students afraid of uttering the utterances in teaching learning process.