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Table 2.1 Foreign Language Interaction Analysis FLINT System adapted from
Brown 2007: 217 Concerning Teacher Talk
TEACHER TALK Indirect Influence
Direct Influence 1.
Deals with feelings:
In a non-threatening way, accepting,discussing, referring to, or
communicating understanding of past, present, or future feeling of students.
2. Praises or encourages:
Praising, complementing, telling students what they have said or done
is valued. Encouraging students to continue,
trying to give them confidence, confirming that answers are correct.
2a. Jokes:
Intentional joking, kidding, making funs, attempting to be
humours, providing the joking is not anyone‟s expense.
Unintentional humor is not included in this category.
3. Uses students idea:
Clarifying, using, interpreting, summarizing the ideas of students.
The ideas must be rephrased by the teacher but still be recognize as being
students contributions. 3a. Repeat students response
verbatim: Repeating the exact words of students
after they participated.
4. Asks questions:
Asking questions to which the answer is anticipated. Rhetorical questions
are NOT included in this category.
1. Gives informations:
Giving informations, facts, own opinion, or ideas: lecturing or asking
rhetorical questions. 1.a. Corrects without rejections:
Telling students who have made a mistakes the correct response
without using words or intonations with communicative
criticism.
2. Gives directions:
Giving directions, requests, or command that students are expected
to follow, directing various drill; facilitating whole-class and small-
group activity.
3. Criticizes students behavior:
Rejecting behavior of students; trying to change the non-acceptable
behavior, communicating anger, displeasure, annoyance, dissatification
with what students are doing. 3a. Criticizes students response:
Telling the students his or her response is not correct or
acceptable and communicating criticism, displeasure, annoyance,
rejection by words or intonation.
In line with Flanders, concerning teacher talk, Moskowitz divides the category of teacher talk into two broads categories
“Indirect Influence” and “Direct Influence”. The first category is divided into four sub categories, 1 deals
20 with feelings, 2 praises or encourages, 3 uses of students idea, and 4 asks
questions. Meanwhile the second one is divided into three categories, 1 gives informations, 2 gives directions, and 3 criticizes students behavior. In term of
the foreign language teaching therefore in this study the researcher uses the FLINT analysis system to describe, analyze, and interpret the function of
languages used by the teacher obtained from the class observations data.
2. Krahen’s Input Theory
