THE IMPACT OF TEACHER’S TALK TIME ON STUDENT MOTIVATION TO PRACTICE SPEAKING IN THE CLASSROOM
Abstract
Teacher’s Talk is often discussed in educational setting especially in
teaching and learning process. This study’s aim is to find out the impacts of
teacher’s talk time on student motivation to practice speaking in the classroom.
This research involves student at English Education Department of UMY (EED
UMY) who attended Listening and Speaking for Academic Purpose Class. They
shared their individual opinion concerning on Teacher’s Talk Time in the
classroom. This study uses qualitative research design and provides descriptive
qualitative research. The researcher used interview in collecting the data. There
were four participants in this research and they were all student of 2015. The
researcher used random sampling to choose participant in every classes. To
analyze participants’ answer the researcher used three steps in qualitative research
namely open coding, axial coding and selective coding.
Research showed that EED UMY student perceived that they belonged to
intermediate level. Teacher’s proportion talk time was around 50-60 % and
student talk time was around 25-40%. This research also revealed that Teacher’s
Talk offered some advantages and disadvantages which had influenced student
motivation in learning. These advantages were student had many inputs, student
had a model and student had a better comprehension of material. This study
presented some disadvantages about the effect of teacher talk in the classroom.
These were student felt bored, lack of concentration, lack of motivation, lack of
opportunity to speak, lack of self-confidence, and lack of student independence.
Based on the research findings, some recommendations were finally presented