Structure of Conversation Between Teacher and Students In Online English Classroom at The Second Grade of SMA Negeri Matauli Pandan

This research was focused on investigating the structure of conversation between teacher and students in online English classroom. This study was conducted by analyzing the structure of conversation in the online learning and teaching process according to Martin’s (1992) theory. This research only focused on the “move” of the structure principle of interaction especially on information move between teacher and students. The data of this study were clauses from utterances of teacher and students. The data were collected from interaction that appeared during teaching and learning process by using video recording in online English classroom via Zoom application. The findings of data analysis were at the first meeting there were 18 structures, the second meeting there were 27 structures, and the third meeting there were 27 structures of conversation. It was found that the structure of conversation from the three meetings there were some structures which were same and there were some structures that developed from 9 basic structures of conversation theory proposed by Martin because of some aspects such as internet network problem so that miscommunication occurred when interacting.