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SKRIPSI ANALYZING THE TEACHER AND STUDENTS CONVERSATIONAL STYLE IN AN ENGLISH CLASS OF NINTH GRADERS AT SMP NEGERI 4 MAGELANG
Conversation is a vital part of human interaction, especially in the classroom,
where it allows teachers and students to share knowledge, feelings, and plans, thus
enhancing learning and relationships. Effective classroom interaction requires
cooperation and awareness of conversational style, which many students often
overlook by focusing only on content rather than delivery. Students who are not
familiar with the conversational style then unintentionally use the inappropriate
conversational style, which results in misunderstandings and poor communication.
Thus, the objective of this study is to discover the types of conversational style
and to find out the reasons of dominant conversational style produced by the
teacher and students in an English class of ninth graders at SMP Negeri 4
Magelang.
This study utilized descriptive qualitative research with conversation
analysis to examine the conversational styles of English teachers and students.
The writer herself was the instrument for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting
the data obtained for this research. The writer collected data through observations,
documentation, and interviews, analyzing it using techniques like data
condensation, display, and conclusion drawing/verifying. The research was
grounded in Tannen's (2005) conversational style theory, which divides it into
high involvement and high considerateness styles. Data validation was done using
expert validation to ensure data validity.
The study found that both teachers and students use a high involvement
style, which involves faster speech, faster turn-taking, introduce to topic without
hesitation, simple syntax, direct content, and frequent questioning. The teacher
produced 171 utterances (46.34%), while the students uttered 117 utterances
(31.70%) that categorized to high involvement style. The teacher used this style as
the dominant style due to awareness of individual student differences and
influenced by several factors such as students‘ IQ and comprehension, gender,
regional background, habit and personal traits. Meanwhile, the students used this
style due to confusion, excitement, desire to share differing opinions,
reflexiveness, and the influence of their emotions and personality.
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