Investigating Translanguaging in English Classroom Interaction at Elementary Private School in Medan using Rabbidge Framework

Classroom interaction plays an important role in learning experience. Through interaction, learners are able to develop their comprehension related to learning material. In English learning classroom interaction, language plays important rule to develop language skill and understand subject matter. This article utilizes translanguaging perspective in capturing classroom interaction at elementary private school in Medan. Translanguaging perspective views languages as one unified repertoire in which all linguistics resources are available and active in communication interaction. This article aims to investigate translanguaging practices in elementary private school in Medan using descriptive analysis and Rabbidge framework in analyzing teacher and student’s utterances using translanguaging. Data collecting from classroom interaction was done using audio recording. The findings showed that translanguaging was used in lesson learning phase within IRF turn. Weak Classification was seen in the classroom interaction with strong framing from teacher as the dominant actor of interaction. This article showed in holistic view how translanguaging done English learning classroom interaction.