Using English in the Classroom Interaction

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b. Using English in the Classroom Interaction

In meeting one and two the English classroom language had been used by the teacher. The students could understand it yet they lacked practice in using it. Added to this, the students still spoke mostly Indonesian during the ELT processes. Therefore it was needed to be handled. The following script was the identification of the problem occurred. C2 : ‗Wong SMP, ini SMA. Dan mereka itu kan, kenapa kok mereka speakingnya bagus, keluar lebih banyak, karena kebutuhannya belum begitu banyak gitu lho, kebutuhan untuk berbicara, kalau menurutku. Nah jadi, gini, mereka kan juga rame to, rame dalam artian ngobrol sama temen gitu, tapi yang bikin mereka takut apa ?’ I think because it’s already senior high school, while mine is still junior high school. And the reason why their speaking is good, and they produce more utterances is because they have the urge to speak, the need to speak , that’s what I think. So, because they are also talkative, in term chatting with their friends, try to discover what they are scared of. C3 : ‗Nah itu.. .’ ‗Exactly ... R : ‗Ya aku belum nemuin itu.’ ‗I haven’t found that. C2 : ‗Apa yang buat mereka takut, jadi itu mereka itu sebenernya kalo misal ya, kalau kamu bisa menerapkan kita harus ngomong bahasa Inggris gitu kan, dobel-dobel kelebihannya, yang pertama mereka praktik speaking bahasa Inggris kan? Yang kedua kalaupun mereka nggak pakai bahasa inggris, mereka diem dan kamu nggak itu, kamu gampang yang ngatur mereka gitu dan kalaupun mereka ramai, dan kamu dapat ruginya susah managenya, tapi mereka ramainya ramai bahasa inggris. Nah itu tadi, apa yang mereka takutin. ’ What make them afraid? So if you could implement some rules that you all should speak in English, you’ll get many benefits. First, they will practice speaking English, don’t you think so? Second, if they don’t speak English, they will remain silent, so you could easily manage them, and if they were talkative, maybe you would have difficulties in managing them, but they were talkative using English. So, please find what they are scared of. Appendix B: Interview 6 Cycle 1 Meeting 2 B3b1 From the script, it was known that the students need an environment which would enable them to practise speaking English. The collaborators detected that there was a possibility for the students to speak more. First, they were already in the senior high school which meant that they had the wider range of vocabulary. Secondly, there was still no urge to speak English more because their motivation 113 was still low. Therefore certain environment should be set to arouse the urge of speaking English, or there should be more stimulating opportunities for them to speak up. The collaborators advised me to conduct only English speaking time which offered many benefits such as the students would produce more English utterances or otherwise they would be silent and easy to manage. The advice then was implemented in meeting three. It was successful to stimulate the students to produce English utterance in certain time limit even though they sometimes stuttered or even used the body language. Because of this, the rule of only English speaking time would be continued to provide the students more opportunities to speak.

c. Introducing the Topic and the Lesson Objectives, Brushing up the