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CLASSROOM INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TEACHER AND YOUNG
LEARNERS IN STORY-BASED LESSONS
Aprilian Eli Wahyu Wilujeng
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ABSTRACT
This study was conducted to investigate classroom interaction between teachers and
students during story-based lesson. One research question guided this study: how is
interaction between teacher and students during story-based lesson? The subjects of this
study were five teachers included all students who joined in the classroom in Bethany
Kindergarten and Playgroup Salatiga. Observation was used to collect the data. This
study showed different result from the previous study done by Chen-Ying Li and Paul
Seedhouse (2010). There were four results that found in this study. First, interaction
that happened during story time is only between teacher to student and student to
teacher, the interaction which came from student to student did not appear because the
teacher does not give time to students to discuss the lesson with their peers. Second,
only few students who are willingly to participate actively during story session, this
case happened because those students looks dominant in the classroom and can be
categorized into active learners. Third, exchange knowledge happened when the
students familiar to the story, this case happened because some students have
experience toward the story. The last, interaction also took place in the form of nonverbal action during story session because this action can interpret their thought instead
of doing verbal action. However, every interactions which happened in the classroom is

depend on how the creativity from the teachers to deliver the content of the story.