Conversation analysis is very essential to understand how people create meaning in social interactions. Conversation analysis is used to determine how people talk in a social setting. Without understanding conversation analysis, conversations will be ambiguous and meaningless. This research aimed to find out the types of the Turn Taking strategies used by students in Presidential Election EFL debate class and to find out the most type of turn taking strategy used by students in Presidential Election EFL debate class. This study used a qualitative method with Stenstrom’s framework to analyze the turn-taking strategy used in the conversation. Stenstrom (1994) stated that there are three basic strategies in the turn-taking system. This research used descriptive qualitative research method to describe explain, and analyse the type of turn taking strategy. The instrument of this research was the researcher itself. The data of this research was the utterances of tenth grade students’ debate about Presidential Election 2024.The result is the researcher found eight subcategories of turn taking strategies used by the speakers, which are hesitant Start (4%), uptakes (11%), links (6,5%), filled pause or verbal filler (2%), silent pause (33%), lexical repetition (7,5%), new start (2%), prompting (34%) but the researcher did not found three subcategories of turn taking strategy namely alert, appealing and giving up. In this research, the researcher found that the most dominant strategy used by the speakers was holding the turn strategy and the least one was taking the turn strategy. The most dominant strategy used by the student is because they found it difficult to debate using English, so there were many pauses when presenting their arguments.

Aisya , Devia Rahma .   (2024). Conversational Analysis On Turn Taking In EFL Class: Debate On Indonesian Presidential Election 2024. IAIN Kediri