Innovating in English Language Using Task-Based Language Teaching to Teach Eighth Graders of SMP Negeri 6 Purworejo to Analyze Simple Past and Past Continuous Tense in Recount Text
Keywords:
Task-Based Language Teaching, Simple Past and Past Continuous Tense, Recount TextAbstract
This research is a qualitative study. A type of qualitative study, known as basic interpretative study, is aimed to describe a phenomenon and to develop plausible explanations in regard to interpret the phenomenon (Ary, Jacobs, Sorensen, & Razavieh, 2010). The subjects of the study are the teacher and the students of VIII SMP Negeri 6 Purworejo. The data obtained are divided into two parts. The first data are to answer the first research question. It is the implementation of TBLT to teach the students to analyse simple past and past continuous tense in recount text, including the teacher’s actions and the students’ learning activities, collected using observation checklist and fiel note. The second data are the students’ responses toward the implementation, collected using a close-structured questionnaire. The close-structured questionnaire consists of nine questions, asking opinions toward the learning topic, the learning indicators, and the learning progress of the students.
The data were analysed in descriptive manner. Analysing qualitative research consists of organizing and familiarizing, coding and reducing, and interpreting and representing (Ary, et al., 2010). The researcher firstly tried to organize the data into two categories, the data that are likely for the first and the other ones for the second research question. Secondly, the researcher sorted the data to code and reduce it. This is to precisely categorize the data based on the research questions. Finally, the researcher did steps of interpreting and representing. Interpretation is bringing out the meaning, telling the story, providing an explanation and developing plausible explanations, while representation is about how the data are presented (Ary, et al., 2010). This leads the researcher to firstly provide the description of the data and at the same time bring some elaboration referred to related theories and findings developed.
References
English For Nusantara, SMP/MTs KELAS VIII. KEMENTERIAN PENDIDIKAN, KEBUDAYAAN, RISET, DAN TEKNOLOGI 2022.
Ary, D., Jacobs, L. C., Sorensen, C., & Razavieh, A. (2010). Introduction to Research in Education. Wadsworth: Cengage Learning.
Bloom, B. S. (Ed.). (1956). Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educational goals. New York: Longman. Ellis, R. (1994). The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hyde, C. (2013). Task-Based Language Teaching in the Business English Classroom. Master, University of Wiconsin, River Falls. Larsen-Freeman, D. (Ed.). (2001). Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, Third Edition. Boston: Heinle & Heinle. Long, M. H. (2000). Focus on Forms in Task-Based Language Teaching. Langauge Policy and Pedagaogy: Essays in Honor of A. Ronald Walton(10). Nunan, D. (1995). Closing the Gap Between Learning and Instruction. TESOL Quarterly, 29(1), 133-158.
Oller, J. W., & Richard-Amato, P. A. (1983). Methods that work: A smorgasbord of ideas for language teachers. Cambridge: Newbury House Publishers. P.L., J. C., & Too, W. K. (2012). Teachers’ Perceptions in Using Task-Based Instruction (TBI) for the Teaching of Grammar. Journal of Interdisciplinary Research in Education (JIRE), 2(1).
Savage, K. L., Bitterlin, G., & Price, D. (2010). Grammar Matters: Teaching Grammar in Adult ESL Programs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Stevick, E. W. (1982). Teaching and Learning Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vacca, R. T. (1981). Content Area Reading. Boston: Little, Brown and Company Limited.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Retno Dewi Ambarwati
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
