AN ANALYSIS OF HUMOR IN CLASSROOM INTERACTION
Abstract
Humor is essential in educational context in order to build harmonious relationship between teachers and students. This study concerns to the use of humor by teachers in classroom interaction that affect classroom atmosphere and students’ feeling. The participants in this study were the teacher and students at Senior High School in Padang that chosen purposively by considering who usually used humor during classroom interaction. The data of this research comprised classroom observations by using video-recordings and field notes during classroom interaction. It was found that teachers’ humor help the students to be comfortable, enjoyed, and motivated in teaching learning process.Humor made them happy and enthusiastic to learn because of funny thing although the humor used was not sometime relevant to material learning. If the teacher did not use humor in classroom, the students are just silent and boring. After the teacher gives the example of the material in learning with humor statement, the students are excited to learn. Humor is the skill that should be possessed by teachers to motivate the students in learning.
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