Classroom
Interaction
Classroom
interaction is the action performed by the teacher and the students during
instruction interrelated. They interact
with one another for a number of different reason and on a continued basis
throughout the school day. Classroom interaction covers classroom behaviors
such as turn-taking, questioning and answering, negotiation of meaning and
feedback (Craig Chaudron, 1988: 10)
People learn
throught interaction. Interaction is the natural way for people to learn
(Hiltz, 1994 as citied in Maatta et al., 2012). Since chillhood, people develop
their understanding and knowledge by interacting with peers and adult
(Vygotsky, 1978 as citied in Frey et al., 2009). Even, from the
beginning,educators like Socrates have known that knowledge is built and extended
through interaction (Frey et al, 2009).
Brown (2001)
states that interaction is the collaborative exchange of thoughts, feelings, or
ideas between two or more people, resulting in a reciprocal effect on each
other. It is “human being use language in various contexts to “negotiate
meaning”, or to get an idea out of one person’s head and into the head and into
the head of another person and vice versa “(Brown, 2001). In other words,
interaction is the exchange of meaning (Brown, 2001).
From the
statements above we know that interaction in
the classroom is fundamental, because without it teaching learning process in the classroom will not
exist. A good interaction will make messages transmission success and create a
good interpersonal relationship between the teacher and students, so the
students’ achievement in language acquisition can be increased
