front is the best one where they could pay attention to the lecturer and interact with the lecturer well. It is different if they choose the back row where there are many
distractions. In group work, the students could also grow their own care and willingness to the other friends. The boys are able to help to move the chairs or tables
when they have to do group work activity and group performance in front of the class. The students could help each other because there are some students who are not
really comfortable with traditional seating arrangement when they have to do group work activities.
4. For Future researcher
Based on the research results, most of the students’ and lecturers’ have positive perception on traditional seating arrangement. Nevertheless, there are some students
who perceive traditional seating arrangement in a negative way. Therefore, the researcher hopes that there will be another researcher who is willing to conduct
research related to the traditional seating arrangement or to design any assessment to maximize the best use of traditional seating arrangement in teaching and learning
process so that the students are comfortable in the class. 80
REFERENCES
Adams, Raymond S. Biddle, Bruce J. 1970. Realities of Teaching: Explorations with Video Tape
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Altman, S., Valenzi, E., hodgetts, R.M. 1985. Organizational Behaviour: Theory
and Practice . Florida: Academic Press, Inc.
Ary, D., Jacobs, L.C., Razavieh, A. 1990. Introduction to Research in Education.
4
th
Ed. Florida: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc. Borich, Gary D. 1996. Cooperative Learning and the collaborative Process. New
Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Brown, Douglas H. 2001. Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to
Language Pedagogy .2
nd
Ed. San Francisco: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. Chaney, A.L., and T.L. Burk. 1998. Teaching Oral Communication in Grades K-8.
Boston: AllynBacon. Clark, Don. 2001. Training Room Design.
http:www.nwlink.com~donclarkhrdseating.html accessed on March 30,
2001. Cohen, L., Manion, L., Morrison, K. 2000. Research Methods in Education. 5
th
Ed. New York: Routledge Falmer.
Cusick, Nicole.1999. Typical Classroom Seating Arrangements in US Elementary Schools. http:ematusov.soe.udel.eduEDUC390.99F accessed on January
23, 1999. Dosen-dosen PBI USD .2006. Panduan akademik program studi bahasa Inggris
untuk dosen dan mahasiswa. Yogyakarta:Universitas Sanata Dharma.
Fraenkel, J.R, Wallen, n.E. 1993. How to Design and evaluate Research in Education
. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc. Gerlach, Vernon S. 1980. Teaching Media a systematic approach. 2
nd
Ed.. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Good, Thomas L and Brophy, Jere E .1973. Looking in Classroom. New York: Harper and Row Publisher.
81
