Abstract
This research was a descriptive quantitative research which aimed to describe the amount of teacher’s language input in the junior high school EFL classrooms in Padang. The research was undertaken at four junior high schools in Padang. Five English teachers who taught grade 7th were participants of this research. The data were collected through classroom video recordings and stimulated recall interview with teachers. Video recording of classroom interaction were conducted to look at the amount of teachers language input. Researcher, then, analyzed the transcripts by using conversational analysis to look at the amount of the teacher’s language. Simple counting of the target language used by the teachers revealed that on average five teachers during interaction with the students used English as target language for 41,10 %. In addition, teachers used Bahasa Indonesia for 56,24 % and Bahasa Minang for 2,71 %. The results revealed that teachers used less English than Bahasa Indonesia and Minang, which means that teachers did not yet, provide their students with sufficient language input