Teacher's Talk of The ESP Instructor's Teaching Speaking at the Communication Science Department

THE PURPOSE of presenting this study is to reveal the
process of implementing teacher's talk in class. Besides, this
study tried to explore the reasons for implementing teacher's
talk and how to its implementation in ESP class. This study
used descriptive qualitative research by involving 3 (three)
ESP instructors who teach Speaking I (basic speaking) in the
first-year students of 2018/2019 at the Communication Science
Department of UMM. Observation and interview were two
main instruments to gather the data. Observation was used to
collect information about the teacher's talk during the process
of teaching and learning in the class while interview was used
to cross-checking the collected information from observation
notes about the teacher's talk activity.
The result of this study showed that the ESP instructors
who taught speaking at the Communication Science
department used two types of teacher's talk; indirect and
direct influence. There were five reasons for the instructors
of ESP to use teacher's talk in teaching speaking; first, to
encourage the students to speak active in the class, second, to
raise up the confidence of the students' speaking skill, third,
to motivate the students that English was not difficult to use
in teaching and learning process in class, and fifth, to make
students accustomed to English. There were three stages of the
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instructors to deliver teachers' talk in teaching speaking; using
guided instruction, teacher modeling, and collaborative task
by asking a student to work in pairs.