TY - JOUR AU - Diah Safithri Armin AU - Maryati Salmiah PY - 2021/03/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Teacher’s and Students’ Interaction in an EFL Classroom JF - KnE Social Sciences JA - KSS VL - 5 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.18502/kss.v5i4.8680 UR - https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Social/article/view/8680 AB - This study aimed to investigate how often the English teacher uses explicit and implicit meanings during the teaching-learning process in primary school, and its impact on the students’ understanding of the English material. This study was a conversation analysis study that involved one class of grade four in a primary school in a city in Indonesia. This study employed qualitative methods, and used observations to collect data, namely by recording the teaching-learning interaction. The data were analyzed by interpreting the recorded script. The study revealed that the teacher used explicit meaning in the entire teaching-learning process, and these explicit meanings made the students understand the English material easily.Keywords: explicit, implicit, children’s cognitive development, EFL classroom ER -