Classroom Interaction:How far is it, Where should we go?

Classroom interaction is important in second language learning, by creating a language environment to facilitate the input and output of the language learners, which in return influences the second language teaching. As what Allwright(1984) has mentioned that all activities in classroom teaching are realized through living interpersonal communication, interaction is crucial for learners to be immersed in a language environment. Similarly, Wilga(1987) also points out that students can enlarge their language storage and be able to use all the languages that they have learned or unintentionally taken in real life communication by means of interaction. Thus, to put more emphasis on the interaction and raise the awareness of learners and teachers in classroom may show a positive impact on SLL to a great extent, for the reason that interaction bridges the input and the output to help learners as it is expressed in Interaction Hypothesis by Long(1985). For this, this paper aims to do literature review by reading the articles written mainly by foreign scholars since 1960 s. In that period, research methods, domains are categorized. Also, conclusions about gap or niche by previous studies are made. The implication is to help the learner and teacher with a better understanding of classroom interaction and raise their awareness to facilitate second language teaching and learning.