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e. Attention to Language and Behavior
The fifth belief is attention to language and behavior. Gebhard and Oprandy 1999, pp. 10-13 state that the attention to language and behavior is
very important because in the use of dictions, the teachers have to avoid vague language in teaching. The vague language can influence their teaching behavior
because the same words can give different meaning for different people. Vague language can lead to the miscommunication in teaching. Therefore, Gebhard and
Oprandy 1999, p. 12 state that “the idea here is to use a metalanguage to talk about teaching rather than to use general statements and words.” Specific words in
written feedback are easy to understand for the students.
f. Avenues to Awareness through Exploration
The sixth belief is avenues to awareness through exploration. According to Gebhard and Oprandy 1999, pp. 13-15 the awareness through exploration can
use four avenues as the suggestion for different method in teaching. The first avenue is problem solving. Problem solving is the avenue of the teacher to
understand the student‟s behavior and solve the student‟s problem. The second
avenues are seeing what happens by trying the opposite and seeing what happens by adapting random teaching behavior. Gebhard and Oprandy 1999, p. 14 state
that “the idea is to discover what we normally do and try the opposite to see what ha
ppens.” The teacher will obtain new ideas for the next activity. The teacher also can adapt teaching behavior randomly.
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The third avenue is seeing what is by contrasting what we do with what we think we do and seeing what is by considering what we believe in light of what we
do. Gebhard and Oprandy 1999, p. 14 state that “one is exploring what we actually do in our teaching as opposed to what we think we are doing.” Moreover
the teachers need to consider about what the teacher‟s beliefs on the practice of teaching. This avenue is to prove that the beliefs match the actual practices. The
last avenue is clarifying our feelings. Gebhard and Oprandy 1999, p. 15 state that “the teacher can explore to gain emotional clarity in the end of teaching.”
Therefore, the teacher‟s feeling about things can affect our behavior because the
teacher needs to explore the emotional side. This belief can be used by the teacher in order to improve their teaching especially in giving written feedback.
g. Personal Connections to Teaching
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