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R: Do you often speak using English with your teacher inside and outside the
class
S1: only if I need some clarifications or to know something from the explanation.. or if I want to check my answers.
R: is it inside or outside the class S1: inside.
R: how about outside? S1: sometimes only via SMS
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From those conversations above, the researcher finds that Tiwi has not fully experienced adequate learning from interactions, since she only has rare
interactions to teacher and friends. Tiwi has also never spoken to teacher if someday for example she meets the teacher at the corridor. This also shows that
Tiwi is still lack of interaction on her learning process. Below is what she said in the interview.
R: How about if someday you meet Ms. Maria at the corridor and then you make conversation?
S1: I ’ve never done that stuff
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Tiwi also told the researcher that in her opinion, the student will be too busy to find the meaning of what the teacher said instead of paying attention to
the material. It shows that Tiwi has not been ready for intensive communicative English class which involves frequent interactions. The conversation is as follow.
R: What do you think if the lesson in class is involving active English use more frequently, is it helpful or the opposite?
S1: If the teacher uses English too much we will get confused. Maybe we will
be too much left by what the teacher said… while we still find the meaning
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94 Later, Tiwi in her opinion said that more discussion and question and
answer section during the class will be helpful. The conversation is as written below.
R: What do you think if the class is involving more discussions or question and answer session
… is it helpful or the opposite?
S1: discussion will be much helpful IS114614LLF-LI
Tiwi‘s preference in discussion rather than listening and speaking to teacher using English shows that interactional activity during the learning process is possibly
able to be established although it involves minimum use of communicative English.
From the interview with Tiwi, it is also revealed that the class is dominated with grammar-based teaching and learning activity. This situation
shows that communicative English activity through interaction has not been well established yet. We can see the conversation below.
R: What do you usually learn or do in English class? S1:
