CHAPTER V CONCLUSION, IMPLICATION AND SUGGESTIONS
Appendix 4: Transcript of Interview
THE TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW A. (Teacher A)
Q : Good morning Sir, how are you?
A : Good morning, I am fine thank you
Q : May I ask You some Questions about Genre-Based Approach, and its implementation in the class
A : Yes, please
Q : before, I would like to know how long you have been teaching English?
A : It is about eighteen years
Q : Now talking about teaching English in Indonesia, the curriculum requires English teacher to teach by using Genre-Based Approach. How often have you been trained about this approach?
A : I think Two times.
Q : Can you explain what Genre-Based Approach is?
A : In teaching learning process materials that I teach by using determining text types based approach, and text have different in purpose and function, different generic structure and grammatical features. In teaching learning process the students are expected to understand text type and teacher teach them by using two cycles in four phrase; oral cycles and writing cycles. The phases that are building knowledge of the field, modeling, joint construction and independence construction.
Q : In using Genre-Based Approach, English teachers use different kind of text such
as narrative, descriptive, procedure, recount. What does this means to you?
A : Curriculum emphasize that the students must be able to differentiate kind of text
and master in both oral and written as input.
Q : When you teach English using different kind of texts, Is there any particular language skills that you give more attention to and emphasize on? Can you explain why?
A : No particular language skill, but the student are taught four language skills, listening, reading, writing, and speaking. Because in teaching Genre-Based Approach, the teacher emphasizes two activities oral and writing in four phases.
Q : Can you tell me any learning strategies and classroom activities that you use for
teaching writing using a particular type of text?
A : Use collaborative strategic reading (CSR) jigsaw and cooperative learning, etc.
Q : What aspect of writing that you emphasize on when teaching writing using a type
of text.
A : The student are expected to be able to write in different text types.
Q : How do you assess your students’ learning achievement or progress in writing?
A : The student are able to determine topic, topic sentence, controlling ideas and conclusion, they are also expected to be able to make a composites by using coherence and cohesive. They are able to make short paragraphs in one man idea. Check how good idea of writing or compositing
Q : Can you give me some example of writing tasks or exercise that you use in your
teaching practice?
A : I ask my students to write the text based on the focused genre. For example I am
teaching narrative. I start the exercise from the generic structure. The first structure is orientation. The students are trained to write the orientation of a story. After that they practice to make Initiating event, and so on, and so on until the whole story is performed.
Q : Among the 12 types of text to be taught in Senior high school, which type of the
texts that you most frequently teach to your students?
A : I teach all text type, depend on the grade.
- at the tenth grade : The are recount, narrative, procedure, description.
- At the eleventh grade :They are description, narrative, spoof, exposition usually lead hortatory exposition .
- At the twelfth grade :They are narrative, explanation, discussion review and news item.
- The most frequently :narrative, it is broad materials.
Q : What are the difficulties when you teach writing using a type of text and how do
you overcome the problems?
A : the difficulties teaching writing using a type of text are a. they are weak in mastering vocabulary.
b. They often get difficulties in differential social functions of types of genre, and grammatical feature.
c. they are also weak in developing ideas, cohesive and coherence.
To overcome those a problems by using :
- determine the type of text that they are going to write.
- Make a draft.
- Make types planning.
- Teacher shows the writing model.
Q : Do you use any other particular strategies, methods, or approach to teach writing?
A : yes, use top down strategies for experience students they down need teacher’s
guidance very seriously.
- I also use bottom up strategies its for inexperience they need teacher’s guidance seriously.
- The experience students can help the inexperience students.
- Cooperative learning.
Q : Compare to teaching writing using a type of text, which one do you think the
most effective for developing students’ writing skill?
A : using a type of text is more effective for developing student’s writing shell.
Because they know and nester type of text.
Q : Do you use the curriculum cycle strategy in teaching using text in your classroom?
A : yes.
Q : Suppose that you start with BKOF. In your opinion, what is the purpose of doing this stage?
A : I use this phase to promote and raise the students prior knowledge to focus the
materials.
Q : How about modeling of the text?
A : giving the model of discussion, teacher’s model.
Q : The next, Joint construction?
A : The activities on this phase are. students do the tasks in group after that They do the tasks individually.
Q : What product do you expect your students produce in the stage independent construction?
A : The students are able to write a good composition and present it in front of class.