have already known English well, so that is not necessary for the teacher to talk too much. However, not all students understand English well. Moreover, English
lesson becomes a terrifying lesson since it is considered as a difficult language. Therefore, teacher’s talk is still important to deliver the materials and explain the
lesson to the students. Through teacher’s talk, Senior High School teachers can take advantage on songs, language games, role plays and problem solving tasks
Larsen-Freeman, 2000 so that students will not be bored in studying English. Consequently, they will be accustomed to spoken and written English.
B. Problem Limitation
According the latest curriculum implemented in Senior High School, the method that is generally used in Senior High School is Communicative Language
Teaching. This method is considered relevant because English is seen as a means of communication. Therefore, the teacher is also demanded to practice English in
the talk, especially in teaching the students. Therefore, this research limits its investigation on two major problems.
They include the language used mostly by the teachers and the role of the teachers’ introductory language in teaching English for Senior High School
students. Particularly this research explores the implementation of teachers’ introductory language in teaching all grades of Senior High School students.
These problems are discussed because this research would show how the teacher still plays an important role in teaching and learning activities.
C. Problem Formulation
Based on the research background and purposes, the researcher formulated two major problems in this research. The questions to be solved in this research
are: 1. What is the language mostly used by the teacher in teaching English?
2. How is the role of teacher’s introductory language in teaching English to Senior High School students?
D. Research Objectives
This research is conducted to find out whether the teachers speak in English or Indonesian in English classroom. It means that this research would find out
when the teachers talk in English and Indonesia in English class. This research also aims to know the role of the teachers’ introductory
language in teaching Senior High School students. It can make this research clear that the teacher’s introductory language still plays an important role in English
classroom.
E. Research Benefits
This research is expected to give benefit to English teachers, especially Senior High School teachers and the future researchers.
1. English Teachers The teacher will be more encouraged to use English in delivering the
lesson to the students. The teacher can become a facilitator for the students if they want to practice English in daily conversation. Besides that, the teacher can
know that how important the teacher’s talk in the language classroom. This research is also expected to encourage the teachers to use English as the medium
to transfer knowledge in the foreign language classroom and they can use the appropriate language in classroom. Therefore, the students can practice English
not only in written but also in spoken remembering that the students will face the university life or work life after the graduation which demands to use
English as the medium of international communication. Even though, the curriculum in Indonesia tells that it should be students-
centered activity the teacher’s talk is still needed in the teaching learning process. The teacher should become more creative in designing an English
material so that the students become enthusiastic in learning English. 2. Future Researchers
For the future researchers, this research is expected to encourage the researchers to dig out deeper on teacher’s talk. It is hoped can bring any
information about teacher’s talk. Therefore, the next researchers are interested in doing teachers’ talk research.
F. Definition of Terms
