MALE AND FEMALE TEACHER'S INITIATION IN ENGLISH CLASSROOM INTERACTION

This study was about male and female teacher’s initiation in English classroom
interaction. The aims of this study were (1) to find out the types of male and
female teacher’s initiations used in English classroom interaction based on
Sinclair and Coulthard Model, (2) to find out the reason why male and female
teacher used the types of initiation. The design of the research used qualitative
research. To answer the problems of the study, the data were collected in three
ways by observing, video recording and interviewing. The data were analyzed
based on Sinclair and Coulthard theory (1975). The result of this study were the
following, (1) there were nine types of initiation used by male and female teacher
in English classroom interaction, namely, boundary, teacher inform, teacher
direct, teacher elicit, check, re-initiation (i), re-initiation (ii), listing and repeat. (2)
the reasons in use of types initiation by male and female teacher. Those were
affected by male and female teacher belief which belongs to the presage category
and context category which refers to the class in which the teaching process takes
place. They had different ways when doing initiation in English classroom
interaction, which is they had their own ways in doing interaction with the
students. Even though they had different ways but their aim just making the
students comprehended and could knew what the teachers said.