Presenting the Material Assessing the Students

25 teaching and learning process. The process of collecting data can be summarized into two steps.

1. Presenting the Material

To present the materials, the researcher used the pedagogical principles of the Total Physical Response method proposed by Geeta Nagaraj. Whenever teaching and learning process are in the process, the teacher uses the sequential steps as below: 1 The teacher gives a simple command 2 The learners do it. If they don’t follow the commands the teacher demonstrates. 3 The teacher gives further commands. The teacher demonstrates the new command and the class follows. Volunteers perform the command and the class follows. 4 The teacher writes down the commands and the class copies. 5 Later, learners give command and the rest perform the action. 6 Learners are not required to speak at the initial stage.

2. Assessing the Students

According to Madsen 1983:128 there are three simple effective ways to test the listening skill of beginning adults or children. One involves listening and native language responses. Another uses listening and picture clues and the last involves listening with simple task responses. In this research listening test is simply used to evaluate something else. The researcher is sure that having them listen and respond to simple command could check beginners’ word mastery. The researcher uses this kind of test to avoid language skills that have not been mastered yet. 26 Such a kind of test could be conducted individually or in group. In order to get unfair answers, the researcher decided to conduct the test individually. The process is like this. . After delivering the material, choosing the sample of the study tee researcher asked the class to go out of the room. Then the researcher called the chosen students to enter the class. The researcher gave the test then the student answered the test by practicing the commands given. Based on the student’s answer, the researcher recorded the scores including on what number the student gave correct and wrong answers. The researcher also did the same treatment to the next sample.

3.4 Method of Analyzing Data