Previous Relevant Studies Some Categories of Effective Language Teaching

students’ and teachers’ beliefs, it can bridge the gap between them in teaching learning process. However, different beliefs that teachers and learners hold towards the process of language teaching might negatively influence the effectiveness of language teaching process. Effective language teaching defines as meaningful and appropriate teaching process. Teaching process can be effective when the goals of education reached. There are some aspects regarding language learning such as grammar teaching, error correction, target language use, culture, computer-based technology, communicative language teaching strategies, and assessment. Students and teachers might have different perception about how an effective English language teaching should be done. Students might think that grammar teaching is more effective than teaching using communicative approach while teachers think the opposite. To determine and prove the existence of differences between students’ and teachers’ beliefs about effective English language teaching, the writer conducted a study through questionnaire. In conducting this study, the writer took 5th semester students and teachers of English Education Department of UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta in academic year 20152016. Moreover the writer limited the study only on the items that have significant difference between the teachers’ and students’ responses that will be discussed. By knowing the different beliefs between teachers and student, the finding hoped could help the teachers to bridge the gap between the students and help teachers to improve their teaching instruction. So, the teaching process can be effective. 26

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. Place and Time of the Study

This study took place at SMA Negeri 3, Tangerang Selatan. The research was carried from September 8 th to 15 th , 2016.

B. Research Method

This research is conducted to run a detail and comprehensive comparison between students’ and teachers’ beliefs on effective English language teaching. How students think and how teachers think about effective English language teaching. This research is qualitative method. The nature of qualitative research is no intervention, randomization and data manipulation. 1 Besides that, the researcher conducts qualitative research method because researcher intends to identify a part of students’ behaviour, as qualitative researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meaning people bring to them. 2 The design of this study is survey study that will be used to collect the data. The questionnaire was distributed among the participants and they were required to answer the closed-ended questions based on their past experiences of participating in the language classes. 1 Mahyar Ganjabi, Effective Foreign Language Teaching: a Matter of Iranian S tudents’ and Teachers’ Beliefs, English Language Teaching Journal, 2010. p.46. 2 Denzin, N. K., Lincoln, Y., The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Third ed., California: Sage Publication, 2005.