TEACHER TALK IN TEACHING WRITING INTERACTION OF TECHNICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN SMK SWASTA TELADAN MEDAN

This present, study focuses on the teacher talk in teaching writing which
conducted in a eleventh grade classroom of SMK Swasta Teladan Medan and to
describe how the categories teacher talk affect the students’ learning process
during the teaching writing to the eleventh grade of SMK Swasta Teladan Medan.
In this research, the FLINT is used to identify the categories of teacher talk occur
during the learning process. Moreover, this study is conducted on the form of
descriptive qualitative research where the researcher as the non-participant
observer on the classroom. The subject of this study is a vocational high school
English teacher and the eleventh graders of SMK Swasta Teladan Medan.
From the data that has been taken, it is obtained that the categories of
teacher talk used by the teacher in teaching writing interaction in the eleventh
grader of SMK Swasta Teladan Medan are deals with feeling, praises or
encourages, jokes, uses ideas of students, repeats students response verbatim, asks
question, gives information, corrects without rejection, gives direction, and
criticizes student behavior. Moreover the categories of teacher talk used also have
been proven to help the students understand better about the subject and elicit
students’ contribution during the learning process.
In conclusion, the researcher has found that the teacher who teaches
writing in an eleventh grade classroom of SMK Swasta Teladan Medan has
performed some categories of the teacher talk from FLINT.