commonly happen in young learners’ classroom. Besides that, by interacting with students, the teachers also maintain and improve the students’ engagement
towards learning. The teachers consider about the short span attention owned by the students. Thus, verbal interaction aiming to make the students focus on
learning is important to do. Teachers realize that these kinds of effort were important to be noticed so that the goals of TSs interaction can be achieved
effectively.
5.1.3 Teachers’ Belief in the Source of TSs Interaction
The source of TSs interaction consists of teacher talk and students talk. First, dealing with teachers talk, the teachers believe that teachers talk has
dominant portion in TSs interaction. They manage their talk for different goals. This is why they play some roles in TSs interaction. First, they believe that
teachers should be the controller of the interaction. It aims to lead the students who are having short span of attention to stay focus on the goals of learning.
Thus, the control of the teachers is very important to keep the students progressing on the right track as what the teachers expect. Second, they acknowledge the
students’ potential in developing learning. Thus, they believe that teachers should position themselves as manager. They know how to manage and optimize the
students’ potential to acquire the language the most. Third, instead of playing role as resource, the teachers consider themselves as facilitator. They think that the
students may have the ideas already. Thus, they only need to facilitate the learning and guide the students to find what should be learnt. Besides that, the teachers
also believe that English, Bahasa Indonesia students’ native language and Javanese English students’ local language have each role in TSs interaction.
English deals with promoting acquisition, Bahasa Indonesia deals with facilitating students’ comprehension, and Javanese language deals with influencing students’
atmosphere. The second source of TSs interaction is students talk. The teachers
believe that in TSs interaction, the students only respond if they understand and engaged in the learning. Thus, the teachers are in agreement that they should
provide comprehensible input and chances to optimize output. Besides they ought to create positive learning environment. Consequently, the teachers should
accommodate young learners’ characteristics so that the students are into learning.
5.2 IMPLICATIONS
The investigation of teachers’ belief in this research has revealed some ideas to concern for optimizing TSs interaction in English learning class. First, it
is about the importance of TSs interaction for English language acquisition. There are some requirements to meet in order to enhance the acquisition. First, the
teachers should optimize TSs interaction using comprehensible input English. Second, they should provide chances for students to produce output. Besides that,
young learners have their own characteristics. Thus, to optimize the learning, the teachers should acknowledge it and do some suitable strategies.
