scholarly journals Teaching Productive Skill Through Vark

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Samsi Rijal ◽  
Nurdiana Arifah

Teaching English as foreign language to Indonesia learners is rather difficult. It can be seen from most of learners who graduated from university, they cannot use English as their language for communication; written or spoken communication. In addition, Most of teachers use traditional method or strategy that focus on teacher or teacher center. So, students are not only active in joining the class but also feel bored. Dealing with this problem, the teachers must change their teaching from teacher center to learner center. Furthermore, teaching productive skill; writing and speaking, the teacher must use the suitable strategy to achieve goal of teaching and learning process. VARK (visual, auditory, read/write, and kinesthetic) which is developed by Neil Fleming in 1987 is one of the strategies which can be used to teach productive skill, because it invites learners more active in joining the class. It also helps learners in understanding the materials easily.

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aprianto Budie Nugroho ◽  
Nining Mayda

This research aims to analyze motivational strategies in teaching English as foreign language at 7th grade of Junior High School 7 Kuningan and to analyze students‟ attitudes towards motivational strategies that were applied by teachers in teaching EFL. The researchers used qualitative research by using classroom observation, interview, and questionnaires. The result taken from classroom observation and interview show teacher 1 and teacher 3 applied motivational strategies completely based on the phases of motivational strategies. Thus, the students responded these strategies positively. On the other hand, teacher 2 applied motivational strategies incompletely because the teacher missed the first phases. This was responded negatively by students. Therefore, the students were actively involved in teaching and learning process conducted by teacher 1 and teacher 2, but the students were passively involved in teaching and learning process conducted by teacher 2. Furthermore, the result taken from questionnaires shows that students gave positive attitudes towards the teacher 1 (88.25%), teacher 2 (79.02%), and teacher 3 (85.71%). Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the way the teachers applied motivational strategies in teaching EFL determined students‟ attitudes towards motivational strategies applied by teachers in teaching EFL.Keywords: motivational strategies, phases of motivational strategies, students attitudes, teaching EFL


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Ni Luh Supartini ◽  
Ni Putu Oka Agustini

Learning English as a foreign language required some strategies to achieve the goal of communication. In teaching and learning process, the teacher and students frequently use their first language to explain the difficult word in English. This study aimed to investigate the language used by the teacher as communication strategies in teaching English as a foreign language and students’ responses toward the use of each type of language instruction in teaching English at Hospitality class. To investigate the study there were 2 teachers and 2 classes of hospitality management class as the subject. The data were collected through observation of teaching and learning process and interview session. The study was designed as descriptive qualitative research and the data were analyzed descriptively. The finding showed that the teacher used the target language frequently, however the used of mixed language to explain some difficult words also found in teaching and learning process.  


Author(s):  
Khudriyah Khudriyah

Abstract The objective of teaching English as foreign language in Indonesia is the students are competence in oral and written language. This study is aimed to know wether or not the objective of the government policy has been reached. The design of the research is qualitative descriptive. the data collection technique used observation, questionnaire interview and documentation.The result of the study showed that the students result of learning English in private schools is very low in which the students did not understand spoken or written text. They even could not practice English orally or in writing. In implementing teaching English, the teachers did not conduct the objective of teaching English has been stated by Indonesia government. Besides, the teaching and learning process, they have conducted, did not apply the teaching language principles. In this case Indonesia government has to  review the teaching and learning process especially in private schools, and the teachers have to consider and learn how to teach the language and language skills.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
R Bunga Febriani

<p>This study emphasizes the use of language shift in the English language teaching classroom. Language shift is a common phenomenon in multilingual conversations, in this case, in the teaching and learning process in language classrooms. The purposes of the study are to find out the use and the roles of language shift in EFL classrooms, how the roles contributed to the Teaching English as Foreign Language in the EFL, and how the language shift affects the process of teaching and in the EFL classroom. The study employed a qualitative approach by using interview and classroom observations as the instruments of the research. The study was a case study in the teaching and learning process of Grammar III to the second-grade students of English department in Universitas Galuh Ciamis. The findings of the study revealed that using language shift while learning and teaching English is useful in the process of teaching and learning English as a foreign language, in this case in the subject of Grammar III subject; and that code-switching as one of the kinds of language shift is necessary and inevitable in language classrooms.</p>


Author(s):  
Dedi Sanjaya ◽  
Lia Agustina

The purpose of tis study was to investigate English as Foreign Language (EFL) students’ achievement in writing skill (descriptive text) through Think Pair Share method. Therefore, the action research design was implemented to match with the purpose of the study. The techniques of collecting the data were writing test, observation, questionnaire, and interview. The result of the study shows that the students’ achievement sustainably improved from the first evaluation, which was 66,4375 to second evaluation, which was 78,125 and to the third evaluation, which was 87,5625. The score continuously improved from the first evaluation to the third evaluation. Observation result shows that the students gave their good attitudes and responses during teaching and learning process by applying the application of TPS (Think Pair Share) method. Questionnaire and interview report shows that students agreed that the application of TPS (Think Pair Share) method had helped them in writing descriptive text. In conclusion, the application of TPS method significantly improved students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.


2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 00034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sondang Pondan Perlindungan Leoanak ◽  
Bonik Kurniati Amalo

In Indonesia, the use of only English as a medium of instruction in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom is highly demanded. The present study investigates how code-switching is perceived by High School teachers in Kupang city, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, in teaching English. Specifically, it aims to find out the teachers’ beliefs and perceptions towards the use of Indonesian language (L1) as their pedagogical instrument in teaching English in EFL classrooms. To achieve that goal, 40 EFL teachers were asked to give their responses to a 24-item of questionnaire which focused on teachers’ roles and beliefs of code-switching applied in the EFL classroom. After analyzing the data, it was found that the teachers applied code-switching to serve pedagogical aims and to facilitate the EFL teaching and learning process. As a result, they used code-switching when explaining difficult words, encourage students’ participation and managing and organizing the classroom. Another finding was that, the teachers also believed that, the advantages in applying code-switching exaggerated the disadvantages in ELF classroom.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
Doni Pesalozy

English is international language that used to communicate between people in the world with different language background. In Indonesia, English as foreign language that taught in the school, so all of Indonesian students learn English as the main subject lesson in the school. In learning process there are lot of difficulties that faced by students, one of them is reading, reading is process gaining the meaning in the text that conveyed by author, students must understand the meaning of the text both of lexical and  phrase, so main idea memory storage as the best technique in teaching English h for the students


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-96
Author(s):  
Arnold Yesid Rojas ◽  
Luis Alejandro Novoa ◽  
Santiago Andrés Sandoval

This article aimed at presenting general trends regarding the role of technology in the English language learning process. The benefits of using technology in the process of learning English, as well as the importance of using technology as a method to teach a foreign language, will be discussed. This study discusses the use of technology as a way to promote teaching English as a foreign language, as well as how it can transform the teaching and learning process.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Muhammad Muhammad

The trend of teaching English as foreign language in 21st century has changed from teacher centered to students centered paradigm which results the need of students’ autonomy in learning process. Then, this research was aimed to depict how the schoology as e-media to promote 25 VII A class students’ autonomy in learning English as foreign language (EFL) in discourse analysis course. This was a case study qualitative research by applying triangulation of the data. The results of this research mentioned that schoology successfully promoted students’ autonomy by considering some facts such as students active participations through logging in and commenting others’ idea; students’ control on deciding learning modes, setting, and materials; and students’ enthusiasm to finish the lecturer’s challenges. One unique thing was that shy students were more active in Schoology. Finally, this research suggests to present schoology in teaching content course.


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