Advantages of Interaction Interactive Teaching
language development. Therefore, teachers’ feedback is very crucial to students’ development.
g. Communicative Competences.
Interaction involves all communicative competences like grammatical, discourse, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and strategy. All of those communicative
aspects should work together for successful communication. To succeed the interactive teaching, teachers should realize their role in
teaching and learning activities. Different topic needs a different role. Even, in an activity, teachers sometimes do several roles all together. Here are some roles
suggested by Brown 2001: 166-168. a.
Controller It is widely used in traditional education system or teacher-centered
process. However, teachers sometimes need to control students when they should speak and what language form they should use. In addition Harmer 1998: 3 As a
controller, teachers should be able to control disruptive situation, withdraw over active students and draw out quiet students.
b. Director
Brown makes analogy that teachers are like conductor of an orchestra whom they have a role to keep the process of learning or interaction running
smoothly and efficiently.
c. Manager
This role is dealing with teachers’ role as ones who plan lesson, modules, and courses, and who structure the larger, longer segment of classroom time. In
addition, this role also allows each individual to be creative within the parameters. d.
Facilitator This role is very common in student-centered learning. Here the teachers
facilitate the learning process, making learning easier for students, helping students to clear away roadblock, to find shortcut, to negotiate rough terrain.
e. Resource
As a resource, teachers become a counselor to give advice for students who have a problem in comprehending certain materials or for those who need
additional information about certain materials. Therefore, teachers should be available when the students need them to solve their problem.
Here, teachers should be aware when they have to be controller, director, manager, and the like. Otherwise, they combine those roles in certain case when
they have to do that.