Problem Limitation Statement of Research Questions The Research Goals Research Benefits

1.3 Problem Limitation

The researcher would like to define the study by providing a problem limitation. This study is concerned on the teacher talk and the student talk in the young learners’ classroom interaction at Ananda Mentari Kindergarten School Yogyakarta. In this research, the researcher only concerned on investigating verbal interaction only spoken language that occurred between the teacher and students by using Flanders’s Interaction Analysis System FIAS as an analysis technique. This study is based on the three months observation at Ananda Mentari Kindergarten, Yogyakarta. The duration for one observation is 60 minutes of the teaching and learning activities. In this kindergarten, the course begin with a discussion about certain topic follow up with the question-answer season. The participants of this research were taken from a classroom teacher and kindergarten student’s class 4-5 years old of Ananda Mentari Kindergarten School Yogyakarta.

1.4 Statement of Research Questions

The research goals of this study are to find out: 1.What are the predominant patterns of classroom interaction between the teacher and students in young learner classroom interaction? 2. How did the interactions happen in teaching learning at Ananda Mentari Kindergarten School Yogyakarta?

1.5 The Research Goals

Based on the problem of the research, the goals of the research are listed below. There are three research goals of this study 1 to find out the teacher-students interaction patterns during classroom teaching and learning process. 2 To find out PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI the percentage of each interaction pattern. 3 To discover how the interactions did happen in the classroom at Ananda Mentari Kindergarten School Yogyakarta.

1.6 Research Benefits

The result of the study can be used by the Kindergarten school teachers as a reference to deliver the comprehensible teacher talk in young learners’ classroom interaction. In addition, to manage the verbal interaction in the teaching and learning process. As the result, this study can help students to achieve the target language. Practically, the benefits of this research for the participant especially for the kindergarten school teacher. First, teachers become more aware of their talk in the process of a teaching and learning. They will be provided the comprehensible understanding and reflecting about their teaching practices. Further, they become more realize about the variety of teacher talk. Second, the teachers are provided a comprehensible model of the teacher talk in the teaching learning process particularly in a young learners’ classroom interaction. At least, the other teachers can apply this teaching model in their own classroom. Third, the teacher is suggested to increase her teacher talk TT productivity to address the target language to learners. Theoretically, the result of this study will provide the comprehensible information and several benefits in education in the general, especially in motivating the teacher to achieve active young learner classroom interaction in target language. The benefit is to motivate teacher to produce the comprehensible and the suitable teacher talk TT in teaching learning activity. This research provides readers with several transcriptions of various functions of verbal behavior spoken by teacher and many kind of the student’s response. The content of information in this study is also a PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI particularly benefit for the school management to provide certain training and mentoring program to support the teacher’s skill in leading the interaction with young learner. The transcriptions can be learnt by teachers of Ananda Mentari Kindergarten School Yogyakarta to understand and would be more aware of their talk. In term of creating a comfortable and a lively situation, those make the students participate actively in the target language both in the class and the daily communication. The result of this study can also be used as a reference for the other researchers who willing to conduct a study in English teaching-learning process in term of the young learners’ classroom interaction. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 10

CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW