AN ANALYSIS OF CLASSROOM INTERACTION BY USING FLANDER

INTERACTION ANALYSIS CODE (FIAC) MODEL OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

STUDENTS OF IAIN KERINCI ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

a. background of the Research

1. English department students as the candidates of english teachers in the future must be
able to use english well for both oral and written.
2. Interactions must be observed to fix any teaching problems in the classroom.
3. Interactions hold important roles in teaching and learning process as it can detect any
problems on the classroom, such as the teaching strategies, teaching media, materials,
and classroom management.
4. Flander Interaction Analysis Code (FIAC) model is an essential model to analyze the
classroom interaction.
5. To analyze the interaction of the classroom can use Flander Interaction Analysis Code
(FIAC) model.
6. There is no current research on the interaction of the classroom in IAIN Kerinci,
especially for the English department students. That is why this research is important to
be conducted.
7. The importance of investigating classroom interaction can be seen from how it has
helped in finding effective ways of preparing teachers, evaluating teaching, studying the
relationship between teaching and learning, and promoting teachers’ awareness of their
teaching and consequently improving it.1
b. Purpose of the Research
1. To figure out the pattern of the interaction of the English department students of IAIN
Kerinci.
2. To figure out the categories of the interactions happen in classes of the English
department of IAIN Kerinci based on FIAC model.

c. Research questions

1
Al-Garawi, Buthayna. 2008. A Review of Two Approaches to L2 Classroom Interaction. Retrieved from
http://www.ub.uit.no/garawi/approaches-tol2-classroom-interaction.pdf
 1. How is the interaction of the English department of IAIN Kerinci?
2. In what categories are the interactions happen in classes of the English department of
IAIN Kerinci based on FIAC model?
d. Review of Related Literature
1. Douglass Brown says that Interaction is the heart of communication where
communication is all about.2
2. According to Dagarin, classroom interaction refers to activities done by both teacher
and students in the classroom where they engage each other toward the lesson given by
the teacher. 3
3. Dornyey says that FIAC model was designed to categorize the types and quantity of
verbal interaction in the classroom and to plot the information on a matrix so that it
could be analyzed and interpreted. 4
e. Method of the Research

The design of this research will be descriptive. There will be three subjects of the
classroom that will be attended. Each lecturer will be attended for three times in the same class.
It will done to see the interaction pattern and interaction characteristic of the classroom, with the
same grade of the English department students (for example students of third year). The
population will be all subjects available for English department students of IAIN Kerinci. The
sample will be chosen randomly for three subjects available for the students.

The instruments of the research will be classroom observation by recording the teaching
and learning process. The second instrument will be interview. For the observation, the
researcher will record the interaction by using hand phone, as well as taking notes to help the
researcher to create the transcription of the interaction. Later, the data will be tabulated and
analyzed. The interview will be done to some students to see the interactions based on their
experience.

2
Brown, D H. 2012. Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. New York:
Pearson Education - Longman
3
Dagarin, Mateja. 2004. Classroom interaction and communication strategies in learning English as a
foreign language. English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries (ELOPE): Studies in the English language
and literature in Slovenia. Journal volume I/1-2: ISSN 1581-8918.
4
Dornyei, Zoltan. 2007. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed
Methodologies. Oxford: Oxford University press
 The data analysis will be done by writing down the transcript of the classroom
interaction. After that, it will be classified into 10 categories in FIAC model. The FIAC model
are seen from three perspectives: perspective of teacher talk: (1). Accepts feelings: it may be
positive or negative and their prediction and recalling are included, (2) praises or encourages, (3)
accepts or uses ideas of pupils, (4) ask questions-may be about content or procedure, (5) lectures-
gives facts or opinion about content or procedures, (6) gives directions-commands or orders, (7)
criticizes or justifies authority-statements to change students‘ behavior; Perspective of student
talk: (8) response, (9) initiation; and perspective of silence: (10) silence or confusion-pauses,
short periods of silence, confusion and incomprehension.

f. Bibliography

Al-Garawi, Buthayna. 2008. A Review of Two Approaches to L2 Classroom Interaction.

Retrieved from http://www.ub.uit.no/garawi/approaches-tol2-classroom-
interaction.pdf on November 15, 2020.

Brown, D H. 2001. Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy.

New York: Pearson Education – Longman.

Dagarin, Mateja. 2004. Classroom interaction and communication strategies in learning English
as a foreign language. English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries
(ELOPE): Studies in the English language and literature in Slovenia. Journal volume
I/1-2: ISSN 1581-8918. Retrieved from
http://www.adas.edus.si/Elope/PDF/ElopeVol1Dagarin.pdf on November 15, 2020.

Dornyei, Zoltan. 2007. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: Quantitative, Qualitative and
Mixed Methodologies. Oxford: Oxford University press.