Tuesday, February 16, 2016

TUGAS1 TEFL 2

TUGAS1 TEFL 2 

Dear students, this assignment is based on Module 1, 2, an 3.
 
1.      What experience have you ever had to make your students enjoy studying the grammar of English? Does someone's grammar competence is greatly influenced by his/her reading ability?

a.       What experience have you ever had to make your students enjoy studying the grammar of English?
ANSWER: There are a lot of activities that make our students enjoy the grammar lesson. But here I would like to share my experience in teaching grammar which makes my students addicted.

First: teaching Adjective.
            Activity1: explaining about the definition of adjective, function of adjective, kinds of adjective and the position of adjective in sentences. After the students understood what i had explained and there were no more questions, I gave them the examples of adjective in sentences. After that I asked them to mention the entire adjective that they have known. And I wrote it in the board. After we had collected many adjectives I read them and the students repeated after me.
            Activity2: playing a game about adjective, I invited the students to go outside the class, I divided them into 6 groups and each group consist 6 students. I asked every group to sit forming a little circle. Then I explained the rules of the game. I have already prepared several things that they had to describe. One student only described one word of adjective about the thing that I would give to the students. Then I gave them the example. I started from myself, i handed a book then i say “the book is colorful” then I gave the book to the student who sat next to me. The student1 said “the book is good”. Then the book was given to the next student. The student2 said “the book is useful” and so on until it gets the last students of the first group. If all the members of the first group can describe the thing given they have to give the thing to the next group. They have to describe the thing as fast as they can if there is a student think more than 5 seconds the group has to accept the punishment for example get white powder.

Second: teaching present continuous tense,
            Activity1: explaining about present continuous tense, the definition of present continuous, the function, and the rules then gave the students some examples of present continuous tense. After I felt that the students have already understood the material and there were no more questions, I asked the students randomly to give example of present continuous tense using drills. For example:
Teacher: using subject “I” pergi.
Student: I am going.
Teacher: using subject “They” membaca
Student: they are reading.
If I found students who is still confused, I asked them over and over till they really understand.
            Activity2: giving task. For the task, I gave my students 15 minutes to go outside the class to observe any activity which is happening at that time. While observing, they have to write the paragraph about what they see in 15 minutes into 10 sentences using the rules of present continuous tense. After 15 minutes they have to go back to the class.
            Activity3: before collecting their duty, I gave the students 5 minutes to prepare. After I collected all the tasks, I call their name one by one to go in front of the class and read what they have written on their task. The other students must listen and give any corrections. The students who are active in giving correction will get more point.

b.      Does someone's grammar competence is greatly influenced by his/her reading ability?
ANSWER: yes it does. Reading ability really influences someone’s grammar competence. I can see from the students who like reading English story they have better understanding in learning grammar.

2.      Foreign language competence could easily be achieved by communicating with native speakers?
ANSWER: In my opinion, foreign language competence could be achieved by practicing the language that we want to master.  Learning foreign language is nothing without practicing. As I notice, first that students of school is able to learn foreign language but they don’t have much time to practice the language so it implicates that they understand what the teacher say in the target language but they cannot communicate using the target language. Second, every long holiday after examination, my school sends three best students of first grade to go to English Village Kediri for about two months to learn English. And the result is much better because they speak English 24 hours every day in the dormitory, class and wherever. They can speak English even they don’t communicate with the native speaker. Third, I notice that several my friends who work and live in abroad such as USA they speak English excellently perfect. Even before, their ability in speaking English is very poor. So my conclusion is mastering the target language through practicing it, and practicing with native language is the best way.

3.      How will you explain to your students that grammatically well-formed sentences may not always be acceptable? (Kalimat yang benar belum tentu baik atau berterima)
ANSWER: grammatically well-formed may not always be acceptable because learn foreign language means learn the culture of the country where the language is spoken. For example when we learn about English means we learn the culture of England. We have to follow the culture, example in England, subject “I” uses the modal “shall” even using modal “will” is correct but “shall” is more polite. Besides that communication is not only based on the grammar but also based on the contextual. When we speak with our friends we can use informal phrases but when we speak with the public in a meeting we use the formal phrases. It’s impolite when we say “damn, I love what you said man” in a meeting.

4.      TV can be one of the very effective means of developing the learners’ communicative competence. Why?
ANSWER: there are a lot advantages in using TV in developing learner’s communicative competence:
a.       To increase students’ interests in study
b.      To promote students ‘communication capacity
c.       To widen students’ knowledge about the target language culture.
d.      To create a contextual learning media.
e.       To provide flexiblity  the learning content.

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