The implementation of separate corners of seating arrangement to facilitate the interaction between students and teacher in speaking activity at SMPN 27 Surabaya

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Adytiara, Letizia Nuzulil (2018) The implementation of separate corners of seating arrangement to facilitate the interaction between students and teacher in speaking activity at SMPN 27 Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Most of English teachers in EFL countries have difficulties infacilitating a successful speaking activity in their classes, especially in seventh grade classes. Seventh graders tend to be shy so that the teachers have to find many ways to make the speaking activity alive. One of the ways to facilitate a great interaction between the students and teacherin speaking activity is using “Separate Corners” seating arrangement. This study is aimed to describethe implemention of “Separate Corners”seating arrangement to facilitate the interaction between students and teacher in speaking activity at SMPN 27 Surabaya. Moreover, this study was also aimed to find out the interaction between students and teacher during the implemention of “separate corners” seating arrangement.This study was carried out on 39 seventh graders of 7C class at SMPN 27 Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia during academic period of 2017/2018. Classroom observations and interviews were conducted to obtain the data. An observation checklist adapted from Harmer and Ramsden (2001) for implementationthe separate corners of seating arrangement and Brown for the interaction and an interview guideline were used as the instruments. The findings show that out of 13 implementation points, the teacher only did 11 points. The points which were not implemented by the teacher include the group’s classification based on the students’ skills and group-swapping. The findings also show that within three classroom observations, the teacher and the students almost fulfilled all the points of interaction between the students and the teacher.