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CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT STYLE FOR A CLASS WITH SLOW LEARNERS Reza Renita
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Abstract
Classroom management style plays a significant role in the teaching and learning process. Teaching slow learners may have different challenges that make the teachers consider what styles of classroom managementsare suitable to them. It makes the researcher curious about the classroom management style that is suitable to teach slow learners. This paper was aimed to investigate what English teachers do to manage the classroom and to teach slow learners. This study is expected to help pre-service teacher’s especially English teachers to picture what classroom management style is appropriate for teaching slow learners.The researcher used classroom observation protocol and interview to gain the data. The participants were three teachers from different schools in Salatiga and Semarang. All of them were English teachers in that school who teach a class with slow learners. The data were classified by the types of classroom management style based on instruction, rules, assessment and class setting. The results show that the teachers use authoritarian and authoritative styles in teaching slow learners.
