AN ANALYSIS OF CLASSROOM INTERACTION IN READING COMPREHENSION CLASS OF SIXTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of the study is intended to know how interaction in reading comprehension class of sixth semester of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year of 2012/2013. In this research, the researcher focused of interaction characteristic on teacher and students talk in classroom interaction and the activity going inside the classroom. The data of this study are the teacher’s talk and sixth-semester English students’ talk in reading comprehension course activity at Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year of 2012/2013. The researcher uses only one class; class VI A which consist of 29 students. To analyze the data, researcher used an instrument, Flander interaction Analysis Categories (FIAC). The results of the analysis showed that the percentage of content cross’ characteristics was 37.19% of the whole class time; teacher control’s characteristic was 15.37%, whereas teacher support’s characteristic was 19.91%. The rest 24.84% of the class time was student participation’s characteristics.

Keyword    :   Analysis, Classroom Interaction, Reading Comprehension