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knowledge to students. The learning strategies are more important then the out comes.
Through this context students need to understand the meaning of study, its advantage, the status of student, and how to reach it. They should realize that what
they are learning is pretty useful for their future. They learn the useful things for themselves and try to reach it. So, they will need teachers as the director or the
guide. In contextual class; teacher’s duty is helping students to reach their goals.
It means teachers will be more focused on the strategies than the information transfer. The other teacher’s duty is managing the classroom as teamwork that
together to find something new for the class. Basically, contextual approach is only a learning strategy. Like the other
learning approaches, contextual is developed by a goal that has to be more productive and meaningful. Contextual approach can be run without changing a
curriculum used by school. In this research paper, the writer will discuss contextual teaching and
learning as a method in teaching present perfect tense. Why does she want to discuss it? Because she finds that nowadays there is willingness to return to a
thought, that students will learn better if the condition of study is naturally set up. Then, why does she take the present perfect tense as a topic? Because she finds
that, there are some difficulties in learning present perfect tense. It doesn’t like simple past which has definite time. Because of these matters, the writer entitles
this research paper: Teaching Present Perfect Tense by Using Contextual Teaching and Learning An Experimental Study at the first Grade of SMK
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