Classroom Interaction Analysis between English and Indonesian Teacher Based on Sinclair and Coulthard Model

This study was about IRF (Initiation-Response-Feedback) analysis on classroom
interaction between English and Indonesian Teacher with students. The aimed of
this study were to describe the processes of Initiation-Response-Feedback are
employed by the English and Indonesian Teachers with students in classroom
interaction based on Sinclair and Coulthard Model. This research used qualitative
research. The data of this study were the utterances that expressed by the English
and Indonesian teacher with students in the learning process. The source of data
was English and Indonesian teacher with the students grade VIII3 in SMP Negeri
2 Tapian Dolok. The data were collected in five ways by Rymes (2009) observing,
recording, transcribing, interviewing and analyzing. The data were analyzed based
on Sinclair and Coulthard (1975). The result of this study were six types of
teacher’s initiation that was used by the teacher, indicated that: teacher inform in
English subject was 7 times while in Indonesian subject was 13 times, teacher
direct in English subject was 63 times while in Indonesian subject was 29 times,
teacher elicit in English subject was 58 times while in Indonesian subject was 25
times, student inform in English subject was 17 times while in Indonesian subject
was 22 times, student elicit in English subject was 17 times while in Indonesian
subject was 5 times and check in English subject was 42 times while in
Indonesian subject was 30 times.