Does Your Talk Engage the Students? The Contribution of Teacher Talk to EFL Students’ Engagement

Teacher talk plays a very crucial to the success of students' attainment in the classroom setting.However, the research on the contribution of teacher talk to student engagement is rare to find.Therefore, this research is an effort to scrutinize the contribution of teacher talk to students' engagement in EFL classroom.To achieve this goal, qualitative study embracing case study was employed.The data were gathered through classroom observations, of an EFL teacher and twenty Senior High School students in West Java, Indonesia.The data were then analyzed using Flanders and SMSLEFA analysis.The result revealed that questioning as the most dominant talk type used by the teacher, has activated students' affective and cognitive engagements.Therefore, it is inferred that behavioral engagement is not much triggered.