AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHING METHOD USED BY TEACHER FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN IN 8thA GRADE TO IMPROVE THEIR READING
SKILL AT SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 2 MALANG
THESIS
By:
ANNA FAJRIANI
09360286
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHING METHOD USED BY TEACHER FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN IN 8th A GRADE TO IMPROVE THEIR READING
SKILL AT SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 2 MALANG
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in Education
By:
ANNA FAJRIANI
09360286
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillah, all praise belong to Allah the Almighty for his guidance, blessing and affection, the reseacher can finish this thesis.
The researcher would like to express her deepest gratitude to Drs. Taufiq Burhan, M. Pd as her first advisor and Santi Prastyawati, S. Pd, her second advisor, for their suggestions, invaluable guidance, advice during the consultation period, their comments, and corrections during the completion of this thesis.
The reseacher’s sincere gratitude and appreciation are also extended to the teachers and Headmaster at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang who had given her the opportunity to conduct the research.
Finally, a special thank goes to the reseacher’s beloved Family (her father Ibrahim, her mother Siti Hadijah, her two sisters Ayu and wiwik, her two brothers Ari and Adi, then her beloved angel Yusfi Lumansyah) and the reseacher’s beloved friends (Gala, Linda, Tyas, Sulis, Ety, Bina, Siti, Azizah, and all) for their encouragement, love, care, and prayer so that she can finish this thesis.
Malang, 1 February 2014
AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHING METHOD USED BY TEACHER FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN IN 8th A GRADE TO IMPROVE THEIR READING
SKILL AT SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 2 MALANG
ABSTRACT
English subject is one of the subjects that the students should achieve in teaching learning process not only for normal students but also for autistic students. In teaching-learning process the students need a lot of factors to support their achievement, for instance the factors of students itself, teacher and also teaching methods.
The purpose of the study is to know the kinds and how is the implementation way the method for an autistic student in the classroom.
The use of teaching method of teaching reading in inclusion school is very important. Because the teaching methods help the students to understantd the lessons taught by teacher, so the goal of teaching and learning process can be more effective and will be easy to achieve.
The research design used in this study is descriptive qualitative research, because the researcher wants to know the kinds and the implementation of teaching methods used in teaching-learning process for autistic students in 8thA grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang.
The research was conduct at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang. The researcher took an autistic student in the 8thA grade and two teachers as the English teacher. The researcher took them as the subjects because the researcher was interested in teaching-learning for autistic, also there is just one autistic student from two classes. That’s why the researcher took one class.
The result from the research are the teachers used two kinds of teaching method, they were direct method and grammar-translation method. In the implementation of teaching method, the teacher has not found the obtacles in the implementing of teaching method used, although there is an autistic student in the classroom. In conclusions, the teaching method used by teacher can improve the students’ achievement in learning English in reading subject, especially for autistic children. It is suggested for all English teacher to use the effective teaching method and also appropriate approach and technique of teaching English in order to make language teaching to be attractive and pleasant, so the students will be active and also understand the material given.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Method ... 6
2.1.1 Kinds of English Teaching method ... 7
2.1.1.1Grammar-Tranlation Method ... 8
2.1.1.2Direct Method ... 9
2.1.1.3Cooperative Learning Method ... 10
2.1.1.3.1 STAD ... 11
2.1.1.3.2 Jigsaw ... 12
2.1.1.3.3 Group Investigation ... 13
2.1.1.4 Reciprocal Teaching... 15
2.2 Definition of Reading ... 15
2.2.1 Vocabulary and Comprehension ... 16
2.2.3 Word Recognition ... 18
2.2.4 Fluency ... 18
2.3 Definition of Autistic ... 18
2.3.1 The Characteristic of Autistic Children ... 19
2.3.2 The Causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder ... 20
2.4 Teacher in Inclusive School ... 22
2.4.1 Collaboration... 24
2.4.2 General Teacher Collaboration With Special Teacher.. ... 24
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design ... 26
3.2 Subjects of The Study ... 27
3.3 Instruments of the Study ... 27
3.3.1 Observation Checklist and Field Notes ... 27
3.3.2 Interview ... 28
3.5 Data Collection ... 29
3.6 Data Analysis ... 30
CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS 4.1 Research Findings ... 31
4.1.1 The Teaching Method Used by Teacher For Reading Skill In Eight A Grade at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang ... 31
4.1.2 The Implementaion Of The Teaching Method Used by Theacher for Reading Skill in Eight A Grade at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang.. ……… 32
4.1.2.1 Direct Method in Reading Teaching……… 32
4.1.2.2 Grammar-Translation Method in Teaching Reading... 33
4.2 Discussion ... 34
5.1.1 The Teaching Method Used by Teacher for Reading
Skill in Eight A Grade at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang ... 37 5.1.2 The Implementation of The Teaching Method Used
by Theacher for Reading Skill in Eight A Grade
at SMP Muhammadiyah Malang ... 37 5.2 Suggestions ... 38 REFERENCES ... 39
APPENDICES
I. An Approval of Observation II. Observation Checklist III. Interview
IV. The Result Of Observation Checlist And Field Notes V. The Result Of Interview
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1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
Chapter I of this research presents such topics as: background of study,
statement of problem, purpose of study, significance of study, scope and limitation,
and definition of key terms. Each section is presented as follows.
1.1Background of Study
Nowadays, most of children have a chance to get an available education. It also
happens for the disabled people. Most formal schools begin to be an inclusive or
inclusion school. They are supported by government and citizen to give a special
attention for it. In fact, the disabled people can easily find inclusion school
information but the tuition fee is commonly very high. A new system in education
has already been implemented in order to help all people, whether normal people or
disabled people – to get their basic right, education.
The concept of inclusion classes is an innovation to meet education for all.
Inclusion refers to instruction for all students, normal and disabled ones, in general
education classroom (Lipsky & Gartner, 1996, as cited in Gargiulo and metcalf,
2008). Based on The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of
2004 (IDEA 2004) in Gargiulo (2008), “The pupils with disabilities (disabled
students) refer to handicapped students who have special needs in education, such as
mental retardation, hearing impairment (including deafness), speech or language
impairment, visual impairments (including blindness), emotional distrubance,
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specific learning disabilities.” In inclusion class, disabled students are at the same
class with their normal peers and they are taught by the same teacher. Inclusion
classes consist of different students who have different needs and different treatment,
therefore to handle these students the teacher collaborates with other teachers of
professionals staffs such as a special teacher or paraprofessionals with specific
training in working with students who have complex special needs, speech and
language problems. Therefore, most of inclusion school have been applied it for
example in SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang.
SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang is an inclusion school where the reseacher
carried out her teaching practice program on February-April 2013. The teachers have
taught quite a lot of innovation, especially for children with special needs. As we
know, the success of teaching learning process influenced by some components
namely the teachers, students, methods, curriculum, facilities and environment. The
learning process will be effective if all components support each other. The method
will help students to understand the lessons taught by teacher. According to Harmer
(2001), method is the practical realization of an approach. The originators of a
method have arrived at decisions about type of activities, role of teachers and
learners, the kinds of material which will be helpful and some model of syllabus
organization. Based on previous research by Wijayanti (2008), the method of
teaching English used by students teacher of the eight semester of English
departement of University of Muhammadiyah Malang at SMAN 02 Batu. The result
indicated that in teaching reading, the teacher used direct method and
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avoid the students misunderstanding in reading text. Whether the teaching method
used by teacher for general education or not be the same for inclusion education,
especially for autistic.
The reseacher is interested in characters of autism children or autistic.
According to Volkmar & Paul, 2003 (cited in Gargiulo and Metcalf, 2008), the
autism spectrum describes a set of developmental delays and disorders which affects
social and communication skills and, to a greater or lesser degree, motor and
language skills. In the fact, they have more enthusiastic in imagination than in
English lesson. However, their teachers have the way to get their attention by
applying innovative teaching method especially in reading lesson. According to
Moats (1999) as cited in Westwood (2008), reading is the fundamental skill upon
which all formal education depends. Therefore, it needs the effectiveness of teaching
method are used from the teacher.
Based on the reason above, the researcher was interested in observing the
kinds of teaching methods and how did to applied it by the teacher in teaching
reading at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang.
1.2 The Research Problems
There are several questions concerning to the research topic, as follows:
1. What kinds of teaching method are used by the teacher to improve the reading
skill for autistic in 8thA grade at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang?
2. How does the teacher implement their method to improve the reading skill for
4 1. 3 The Purposes of the Study
The main purposes of researcher are:
1. To know the kinds of teaching method used by teacher for autistic to improve
their reading skill.
2. To know how the teacher’s method is implemented for autistic in the classroom.
1. 4 Significance of the Study
The result of the study is expected to give significant information to the
teachers, students and other researcher. For English teacher, the result of this study
will give them information regarding the kinds of teaching method when they
teaching reading in inclusion classes. Moreover, it is expected to help the teachers
improve their quality in their teaching and learning process. It can also be used as an
evaluation for further treatment. For the students in University of Muhammadiyah
Malang, the result of this study will help them increase their knowledge regarding
English and kinds of teaching method to make them more interested in learning
English. For the future researchers who want to conduct a similar research, the result
of this study can be used as a reference.
1.5 Scope and Limitation
The researcher only wants to know what teaching method is used by teacher
for autism children in 8th A grade at SMP 2 Muhammadiyah Malang. Because the
limitation of time and knowledge of the writer the object of the study is focused on
teaching method used. The researches of researcher do not include other factors such
5 1. 6 Definition of the Key Terms
To clarify and avoid misunderstanding of the terms which are used in this
research, the definitions of the key term are given as follows:
A teaching method is characterised by a set of principles, procedures or strategies
to be implemented by teachers to achieve desired learning in students (Liu & Shi,
2007, cited in Westwood, 2008).
A reading skill is instantly recognizing and saying a word such as fostering
phonemic awareness, phonic, and word-recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and
comprehension (Duffy, 2009).
Autistic children is a set of developmental delays and disorders which affects
social and communication skills and, to a greater or lesser degree, motor and
