An investigation on student’s interaction in English outside the school area

Abstract

This writing highlights the students’ interaction in English outside the school area. This paper is focused on exploring the students’ most frequent and infrequent interaction and perception about interaction in English outside the school area to their English improvement. This study was conducted in 2017 with 103 respondents of senior high school students. Mixed method was used as the method of this study. The data were collected through questionnaire and interview. The quantitative data were analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and the qualitative data were analyzed throughMiles and Huberman’s interactive model. The findings of questionnaire revealed that the students frequently interacted with listening (54.85%) and infrequently interacted with writing (40.61%) in a day. In a week, listening was rated as the most frequent interaction (61.65%) and the most infrequent was reading (43.20%). The result of the interview indicated that the students’ interaction in English outside the school area were affected their English improvement in terms of language skills, vocabulary, and pronunciation