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TYPES OF TASKS GIVEN BY ENGLISH TEACHER IN TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS AT SMA PERTIWI 2 PADANG
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of Requirement for Getting Strata One (S1) Degree
PUTRI WULANDARI ZARMAN NPM. 11040170
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
COLLEGE OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION STKIP PGRI WEST SUMATERA
PADANG
2015
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TYPE OF TASKS GIVEN BY THE ENGLISH TEACHERS IN TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS
Putri Wulandari Zarman*), Syayid Sandi Sukandi*), Astuti Pratiwi*)
123)English Education Program, STKIP PGRI West Sumatera, Jl. Gunung Panggilun Padang.
1)wulanzarman@gmail.com, 2)syayid@gmail.com, 3)astuti.pratiwi@gmail.com ABSTRACT
Task is a one way assesment given by teacher for students. With give task the teacher can know students understand or not understand with material. Tasks can know ability students have.
Its important by teacher before the teacher give a tasks in the classroom. The researcher chooses descriptive qualitative because the researcher wants to describe about what type of task given by English teacher in SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. Participants in this research are selected by using total population sampling. The instrumentation of in this research is interview and document to collect the data. To collest data from interview and document using semi structure and open ended question. Researcher have done interview with teacher. For collecting data the researcher found some task using by English teacher in SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. From all type of the task give researcher for teacher (participants) the teacher use question and answer, Dialogues and role plays, matching activities and then picture and picture stories. In this research, researcher have some suggestion for teacher knows about the types of task in learning teaching process, for readers are given new knowledge about type of task, for researcher is deep analysis about task, another type of task to teacher, can more participants in sample.
Tugas merupakan salah satu cara penilaian yang diberikan guru kepada muridnya.
Dengan adanya pemberian tugas guru dapat mengetahui apabila murid tersebut mengerti atau tidaknya dengan materi yang diberikan. Tugas juga dapat mengukur kemampuan yang dimiliki oleh murid tersebut.Hal ini perlu dipahami oleh guru sebelum memberikan tugas di dalam kelas.Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif yang bertujuan untuk melihat jenis tugas yang digunakan oleh guru bahasa inggris SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. Dalam menentukan partisipan, peneliti menggunakan total sampling teknik. Teknik pengumpulan data yang dipakai dalam penelitian ini adalah interview dan document. Untuk pengambilan hasil interview dan document, menggunakan cara metode semi structure and open ended question. Dari hasil yang ditemukan bahwa guru di SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang menggunakan beberapa tipe tugas. Tipe tugas yang digunakan adalah tipe tugas : question answer,matching activities,dialogues and role plays and picture picture stories. Penelitian ini, peneliti memiliki beberapa saran antara lain untuk guru akan lebih banyak mengetahui tentang task, bagaimana proses tentang task dan untuk peneliti sendiri yaitu mendalami isi task, mencari lebih banyak lagi tipe task dan dapat mencari lagi beberapa banyak participant.
Key Word: Task, Types of task
INTRODUCTION
A. Teaching and learning process is an
interaction between a teacher and student in the classroom. English teacher in teaching English has various styles. Every teacher has different teaching styles that can be used in the classroom. It will make the atmosphere of the classroom will not monotone and the students enjoy the learning process. In
teaching learning process the teacher should know with the knowledge, skill and student understand not understand about material teacher give. For now knowledge, skill students have with the assessment of the students themselves. Assessment is an valuation that can help students in the learning process and know about the skills and knowledge students themselves. One
2 way to provide an assessment of the student is to give the task.
Based on the phenomena, it is found that teacher give to the students at SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. Pre-observation and interview had already been held to the teacher. The teacher give task as her/his thought want to only think to make sure the student understand the material. In learning process the teacher gives pictures and picture stories. In the task the teacher use picture use picture to increase their knowledge what the students learn in order to make them understand about material.
Therefore, researcher interested to analyze another task is given by the teacher in SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. Based on the explanations and phenomena above, the purpose of this research is to analyze what type are the tasks given by English teachers in learning teaching process in SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang
Task is a job that the teacher gave to the students. It is to make the teacher know about the students understanding about the material. According to Ellis in Nunan (2004: 3) who says that task is a work plan that requires learners to process language pragmatically in order to achieve an outcome that can be evaluated in term of wheatear the correct or appropriate propositional content has been conveyed. As stated by Longman (2008: 23) states that task is always activities where the target language is use by the learners for a communicative purpose (goal) in order to achieve outcome
There are types of task given by English teacher. they are Question and answer, Dialogues and role plays, Matching activities ,Communication strategies, Picture and picture stories, Puzzle and problems, Discussion and decision, Listing, Ordering and sorting, Comparing, Problem solving, Sharing and personal experiences, Creative task , jigsaw task, gap task , solving task, decision making task, negotiation and discussion, opinion exchange.
Types of the Task
There are some expert explain about types of the task. According to Pattison in Nunan (2004: 57), there are types
of task Question and answer, Dialogues and role plays, Matching activities, Communication strategies, Picture and picture stories, Puzzle and problems, Discussion and decision. As stated by Longman (2008: 26) states that the tasks have six types: Listing, Ordering and sorting, Comparing, Problem solving, Sharing and personal experiences, Creative.
And Then Ricard in Nunan (2004: 162) there are types of task jigsaw task, gap task , solving task, decision making task, negotiation and discussion, and opinion exchange.
RESEARCH METHOD
In this research, the researcher applies Descriptive Qualitative Research because this research design is appropriate with this research. According to Gay and Airasian (2000:257), a descriptive research determines and describes the way things are.
They also state that descriptive qualitative research is useful for describing particular, localize setting and for exploratory analyses.
The researcher chooses descriptive qualitative because the researcher wants to describe about what type of task given by English teacher.
To get the information about the data in this research, the researcher needed source of data in making analysis. The source of data was gotten interview and documents.
According to Gay and Airassian (2000:219) states that interview is a purposeful interaction, usually between two people, focused on one person trying to get information from the other person. It means that, interview is doing between two people in order to get information and opinions related to the type task given by the teacher and students respond. And then researcher gotten from documents. Based on Ary (2010:442), the term documents refer to a wide range of written, physical and visual material. The data in this research is document that taken from task student given by English teacher to know what or evidence type of the task use by English teacher in SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. The data in this research had been taken from the teachers who taught English social students of SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. There were two teachers who taught English. The source of data
3 gotten from document in this case of the students task given by English teacher.
Creswell (2009:182) defines document is one of qualitative data collection approaches come from participants.
In this research, researcher use semi structure interview. Ary et al (2010:438) state that semi structure interview is in which the area of interest is chosen and question are formulated but the interviewer may modify the format or question during the interview process. The researcher do interview by using semi structure interview because the researcher may add question out from the list of question that the researcher think based on her knowledge during interview. The type of question that will be used by researcher is open ended question.
The researcher use it because the researcher was more explore about the information related to type of the task given by English teacher from participants. Dealing to Johnson and Larry (2014:198) open ended question is a question that allows participants to respond in their own words.
Therefore, it was being deeply information because the participants were being more in answering the question during the interview
section.
After the researcher collected the data, the researcher analyzed it based on the instrument which was given. Gay and Airasian (2000:239) state that in analyzing the data of descriptive has to follow these phases: reading/memoing, (the researcher read data. The data were written feedback that had been given by teachers on students’
writing in this research). Describing, in this phase, the researcher described teachers’
written feedback on students’ writing after reading the result was done by the researcher. Classifying, the researcher classified and categorized the data based on the theme teachers’ written feedback: direct feedback and indirect feedback.
Interpreting, after the researcher got the data and all steps done, the researcher interpreted the teachers’ feedback on students’ writing at eleventh grade social students of SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang.
FINDING AND DISSCUSSION
In this chapter about findings of types of tasks given by English teacher in teaching learning process at SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. The researcher present the findings of this research related to the research question the types of tasks given by English teacher in teaching learning process at SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. It would be discussed in this chapter.
Before the researcher presented the finding, the researcher wanted to explain the participants who could participate in this research. The researcher did the data collection began with interview of 2 teachers to get the detail description about the types of tasks given by English teacher in teaching learning process .The researcher interviewed teachers used semi structure interview and open ended question. Then the data from individual interviews were analyzed using interpretative study as a method to do a research, because the researcher analyze the phenomena about tasks given by the English teachers in learning teaching process, then the researcher gets the data by using interview and documents.
In this section, the key findings with reference to research question “What are the types of tasks given by English teacher in teaching learning process at SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang?” are discussed.
Researcher have done interview with teacher. For collecting data the researcher found some task using by English teacher in SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang. From all type of the task give researcher for teacher (participants) the teacher use question and answer, Dialogues and role plays, matching activities and then picture and picture stories. Question answer is these activities are based on the notion of creating an information gap by letting leaners make a personal and secret choice from a list of language items which all fit into a given frame, dialogues role plays is these can be wholly scripted or wholly improvised.
Matching activities is the task for the learner is to recognize matching items, or to complete pairs or sets and then picture and
4 picture stories is Manny communication activities can be stimulated through the use of pictures (e.g. spot the difference, memory test, and sequencing pictures to tell a story).
In this research researcher can find the teacher use some task match with skill teacher use it. Teacher use four type of task, teacher can easy and comfort with type of the task teacher choice it. Because not all type of the task can using and understand by students. All depend of study learning by students today and teacher English what use it.
In SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang the teacher have reason for using type of the task.
Participants I have reason because with question answer, dialogues and role plays, picture and picture stories can easy understand by students especially X and XI.
While another type of the task can using XII.
And then participant II has reason because the teacher wants to improve reading and speaking children ability. So, the teachers using type of the task skill adjust subjects and ability of students.
Based on the explanation above, the teacher in SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang use question and answer, Dialogues and role plays, picture and picture stories, and matching activity. And teacher have reason for use it
CONCLUSION
Related to the findings of this research, there are two points which will be described in this chapter includes: conclusion and suggestion.
Based on the research question that was stated in mention research question before, the purpose of this research was identify and describe the types of tasks given by English teacher in teaching learning process at SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang.
In collecting the data about task given by English teacher in learning teaching English. First researcher interviews the teacher and record. Then, in collected the data about task used document. The participants of this research were two teachers class. The participants are taken by
purposive sampling. The researcher used semi structure interview as instrument.
During interview session, the researcher recorded all information by using Hand phone. After getting the information from participants, researcher analyzed the data by preparation of raw data, close reading of data, creation of category, continuing revision that was stated in the research design.
Based on the interview, researcher found some type of task using by teacher English in teaching learning process. And the teachers have reason why not use all type of task. Teacher has explained when the task use and for skill it is
Based on the documents, researcher found some type of task using by teacher English in teaching learning process. Where is in the task students answered question or task given by English teacher. In each task have specific or direction for answered by students. Teachers give some direction for students before students answer the question.
Based on result of interview, actually the teachers have some type of task for teaching learning process. The teacher use many task in teaching learning process. But the teachers usually use just some types.
Because task using for certain condition.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Researcher would like to express her sincere gratitude to Syayid Sandi Sukandi SS.M.A as the first advisor and Astuti Pratiwi, M.Pd as the second advisor who have her much advice, guisdance, and suggestion in accomplishing this thesis.
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