An Analysis of Elicitation Techniques in Classroom Interaction Used by English Teachers at SMAN 1 2x11 Kayutanam

The purpose of this research is to describe the elicitation techniques used by English teachers in classroom interaction. Type of this research was a descriptive research. The participant of this research were 4 English teachers who taught first until third grade of SMAN 1 2x11 Kayutanam.The data was collected through video recording, observation sheet and interview in four classes. Conversation Analysis (CA) was used to describe and analyze the data. The finding of this research showed that there were five elicitation techniques used by teachers, they are: asking questions combine with picture, text, dialogue, non verbal language and other techniquesthat were designed by the teacher. Asking question with dialogue is frequently used by English teachers in eliciting information from students. Besides, asking question combined with non verbal language was rarely used by the teachers. In using elicitation techniques, teachers asked some questions. They are yes/no questions, display questions and referential questions. In applying those questions, English teachers asks display question and yes/no question to a great extent while referential question was asked rarely. Moreover, the students‟ responses toward elicitation techniqueswere nominated by simple answer and silence.There also some aims of using elicitation techniques in classroom interaction. They are to create interaction, to maximize students‟ talk, to get students‟ attention, to encourage students‟ new ideas, to check students‟ understanding, to engage the students‟ background knowledge and to improve students‟ motivation in learning English. It can be concluded that the teachers tended to use similar technique in every meeting as a result the process of classroom interaction was dominated by teacher talk.