Do you often do conversation or communicate in English? S2: occasionally after you can master it, what will it be used for? S2:
55 dismisses any interactive approach, as Tiwi said that one of the teachers still
involves games and quizzes in the class, although still most of the learning hours are spent on classic grammar-based or textbook teaching and learning method.
Therefore, the researcher concludes that the language learning process o n Tiwi‘s
experiences has not yet represented communicative and interactional activity as modern approach of English language learning.
b. Rizka
Rizka is a female student whom the researcher has picked as the second participant in the interview. Similar to the first participant, from the interview, she
said that her process of learning English is dominated by less communicative way since she only does a very little amount of English conversation during the
activity. Below is what she said.
R: Do you often do conversation or communicate in English? S2: occasionally
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Tiwi also added that her goal is to learn English to help her when later she is looking for jobs. Here is what she said.
R: after you can master it, what will it be used for? S2:
for the future… for working
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Different from Tiwi, Rizka‘s experience shows that she learns English
purposefully for helping her future in finding jobs or working. This goal is supposed to induct the learning activity with functional purpose; in this term is
communicative approach. Meanwhile from the conversation, Tiwi said that her class involves less communicative teaching and learning activity.
56 Later on, the researcher asked Rizka about the communicative approach in
her English learning process, which covers the presence of discussion and verbal question and answer activity. Regarding with that, Rizka said that she only
performs discussion using English language occasionally during the process. She also said that if teacher asks her to answer a question in English, then she will do
that if she feels that she can. Below is what she said from the interview.
R:
then… do you accustomed to discuss with your teacher or probably with classmates using English?
S2: occasionally … if I don’t understand, I will ask my friends… ask my
teacher… R: Then, if sometime your teacher asks you to speak English. How do you
respond to that situation?
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The conversation shows that the communicative English concept of learning is not established significantly since she only occasionally experiences discussion which
is a representation of communicative activity. Furthermore, as the concept of language learning process discussed in this
research is closely related to communicative method and approach, the researcher looks to find out whether the students‘ teaching and learning activity is focusing
on grammar based method or the communicative one. From the interview, it can be found that the teacher mostly teaches grammar from the textbook. She also said
that she prefers to learn grammar to anything related to communicative English since she still has limited vocabularies. It can be found from what she said below.