THE TEACHER'S BEHAVIOR AND THE ANXIETY OF SMP STUDENTS AS REFLECTED IN THE CLASSROOM INTERACTION OF TEACHING SPEAKING

This study is based on the fact that most students did not brave to speak English during the English speaking class in the classroom. This study deals with the teacher’s behaviors towards the students with different anxiety. The objective of the studies are to describe what teaching behaviors do the teachers perform to the students’ with different levels of anxiety, how the teachers perform the teaching behaviors and reasons why do the teachers perform in the way they do. The study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative. Forty students and two teachers of SMP Ikal Medan took a part as the participant in this research. It was found that there were 7 (seven) teacher’s behaviors namely eliciting, forcing, translating, inviting, commanding, asking, and encouraging occured in the interaction between teachers and students with low anxiety level. Teachers delivered 10 (ten) behaviors namely Forcing, insulting, encouraging, threatening, persuading, asking, eliciting, inviting, translating and praising during the interaction with the students with moderate anxiety level. Meanwhile, teacher delivered only 2 (two) kind behaviors namely insulting and punishing towards the students with high anxiety level. Contrary with the expectations, the teachers mostly conducted some good ways in their teaching behavior performance towards the students with low anxiety level if compared to the students with moderate and high anxiety level. Teachers had reasons why did they perform like the way they do, some of them were because of the teacher’s belief in their teaching methods (insult and punish students when students cannot answer correctly, interact only to selected students, etc), teacher’s lack of the skill and knowedge of foreign language anxiety (no any training related to foreign language anxiety), etc.