The Importance of Teacher’s Oral Feedback in the Class Participation of 7th Grade Students of SMP Taman Dewasa Ibu Pawiyatan Yogyakarta

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the types of oral feedback used by English teachers of seventh grade students of SMP Taman Dewasa Ibu Pawiyatan Yogyakarta and identify the impact of oral feedback used by teachers on students' participation in English classes. This study was descriptive-qualitative and was conducted at this private junior high school. The English teacher and seventh grade of junior high school were selected as the subjects of the study.

It was found out that the English teachers used six types of oral feedback. The oral feedbacks included explicit corrections, and clarification requests from Lyster's and Ranta's classification, as well as rewarding, approving, punishing and constructing the way forward-mutual critical appraisal from the classification of Tunstall and Gips. This oral feedback had an impact on students’ participation. From the results of observations, the students’ participation in learning English are categorized into active participation, selective participation, minimal participation, and passive participation