Teacher Talk and Student Talk in English Classroom Interaction Analysis: A Literature Study

Talk becomes critical when students discuss tasks, ideas and questions, negotiate to mean, clarify their understanding and make their ideas comprehensible to their partners. During English classroom interaction, students need the effect of teacher talk if they are focused on the English materials. Teacher talk is an important aspect of engaging and facilitating students learning of English. Therefore, it seems important to present a literature review to be considered to analyze the teacher and student talk in the English classroom. This paper presented some questions are: (1) what methods of English interaction analysis the researchers in Indonesia mostly use to analyze teacher and student talk?; (2) what types of teacher and student talk category which are mostly used in teachers and students?; (3) what are the benefits of teacher talk in improving students' English language skills?. This research applied study literature as an approach gained from some articles. This literature study finds that researchers most use the FIAC category system by Flanders and FLINT by Brown to analyze teacher and student talk in the English classroom interaction. Asking questions, teaching, and giving information were most often used by teachers, and initiation and student-talk response in the student talk category. It is a lot of effort for the teacher and student to make classroom language become their daily routine.