An Analytical Descriptive Study, entitled An Effort of English Teachers in
Optimizing Student Talking Time (STT) that was conducted at the eighth grade of
SMP Nasional Sidareja, revealed the teachers‟ efforts in optimizing STT in the EFL
class. This study was based on five major areas of optimizing STT: classroom
interaction, making an interactive classroom, increasing interaction through pair
work, sustaining interaction through group work, and questioning strategies for
interactive learning. The participants of the study were two English teachers. There
were four teacher‟s efforts in optimizing Student Talking Time
. Making an
interactive classroom by reducing the centrality of the teacher, appreciating for the
uniqueness of individuals, giving chances for students to express themselves in
meaningful ways, giving opportunities for the students to negotiate meaning with
each other and the teacher, making choice both in relation to what students say and
how they say are very effective to create the opportunities in Student Talking Time.
Then, using pair and group work that has various activities also able to make the
students active, enthusiastic, confident and have much time to talk in the class.
Moreover, by giving questions such as knowledge and comprehension questions is
able to stimulate the students to speak and give them a time to practice English