Teacher’s Oral Feedback Towards Students’Response In Speaking Skill At Smks Eria Medan

The purpose of this study was to describe and to explain teacher’s Oral Feedback
toward students’ response in speaking skill at SMKS Eria Medan. The subject were
the students of SMKS Eria Medan from eleventh grade. The types of oral feedback
such as positive feedback praise, corrective feedback, recast feedback, explicit
correction feedback, elicitation feedback, metalinguistic feedback, repetition
feedback and clarification request feedback. The types of feedback that given by
the English teacher such as: praise feedback, recast feedback, repetition feedback
and metalinguistics (elicitation).There were five reasons why the teacher using the
oral feedback: It gives both the teacher and the students information, appreciate the
students, it providing direction to students, it providing language input to students,
it encouraged students to learn, it encouraged students to be self-sufficient. Teacher
might need to apply and know the types of feedback that are appropriate to improve
students’ achievement in learning English. However, not all teachers are aware of
what type of feedback they use in their classroom and preferred by their students to
improve the students English language achievement. The result of the research
showed that the English teacher mostly used the directly feedback when give
feedback to the students. The researcher used observation and interview for
collecting the data.