AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ INTERACTION IN ORAL COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH SPEAKING CLASSROOM AT THE STATE POLYTECHNIC UJUNG PANDANG = CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES OF JEJUNOILEAL ATRESIA IN NEONATES WITH PRECISION MATERNAL RISK FACTORS AT DR. WAHIDIN SUDIROHUSODO HOSPITAL FOR THE PERIOD 2019-2024

Aqilah Nurjihan Paramudia, 2024, An Analysis of students’ interaction in Oral Communication in English Speaking classroom at the state Polytechnic Ujung Pandang (Supervised by Abidin Pammu and Hidayatullah).
The research aimed to determine the levels of interaction of learners in using oral English communication (OECI) and to identify the factors affecting student interactions when using Oral English in Communication in speaking English classroom at the state of Polytechnic Ujung Pandang. This research emphasized the factors affecting negatively at Students’ OECI based on I-R-F in Speaking Class Room.
The researcher employed qualitative and quantitative research method design involving 60 questioner respondents and 9 interview and classroom participants selected from four English speaking classes in the period 2023 and 2024 as the research purposive samples. Data was collected by using class room observation, semi-structured interview and questioner from 6 class room meetings. The sample in this study were students of class II A, B and C of D4 Business Study program, Commerce Administration Department, State Polytechnic Ujung Pandang totaling 60 students. The data analysis used were descriptive statistic data analysis for analyzing quantitative data and content analysis for involving data reduction, display and verification for analyzing qualitative data.
The quantitative study results showed that the oral English communication interactional communication frequency levels of learner when performing the speaking classroom activities were moderate. This can be seen from the overall statistical analysis data results only reached 2.74 (56%) from the expected ideal results. The qualitative study results found 10 factors affecting negatively including 5 lack of communicative competency and 5 non-communicative communicative impeding factors. Based on the research results, it can be concluded that the level of oral English communication interaction of learners from the perspective of learners following I-R-F interactional pattern was not optimal to achieve the expected ideal results. Developing or selecting appropriate teaching strategies were suggested to increase the oral English communication frequency levels to gain the expected ideal results.