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4.4.2.1 Classroom
A lack of classrooms at KUM is acknowledged by Purwo Interview 1, 02062012, a university manager at KUM: “KUM lacks of classrooms and offices.
The quality of its library also needs to be improved.” In this regard, the School of English Education is impacted by the university-wide lack of classrooms. Although the
School of English Education has the most students of all of the schools at KUM, only 11 classrooms are available for use. As a result, the teaching schedule as arranged by
the Head of the School includes day and night classes up to 40 to 50 students. This significantly influences the effectiveness of the teachers’ instructional practice as
indicated in the following statements from three of the teachers at the School of English Education:
I’m not happy to have night schedule to teach. Night class is not effective at all because the students already feel tired since they have the class started in the
morning. No matter how hard I try to create more interesting teaching, the students seem unmotivated. I found difficulties to change the schedule because
there were not many classrooms available for school of English education Dila, Interview 1, 02062012.
Well you know, the number of the student in one class is too many since English class is ideally only for 25 students. Learning language is not science but a habit,
so if there are too many students in the class, the chance to practice the language is less effective. The students who have the chance to practice English more are
only the ones who are active in the class Ira, Interview 1, 02062012.
Ideally each English class should have around 20 or 25 students but English class in this university has more than 40 students. The problem is because KUM
has a lot of students but has limited classrooms. Therefore, KUM needs more funding to build more classrooms and hire new teachers Edo, Interview 1,
02062012.
The above statements show that the lack of classroom space has an adverse effect on the teaching and learning processes. As Ira notes, ideally, English classes should have fewer
students to provide more opportunities for students to practice their English language skills. The only way to address this issue is to allocate more class rooms to the School
of English Education. However, KUM must provide extra funding to do this, which is another issue altogether.
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equipped with LCD projectors. This up-grade assisted teachers to provide more variety in their teaching and learning activities. However, teachers still require their own laptop
if they want to use the LCD. Unfortunately, KUM still needs to improve its maintenance system as the LCD is often out of order as mentioned below by Yeni
Interview 1, 02062012, an English teacher of School of English Education:
I’m happy when I know that every classroom is now equipped with LCD. Unfortunately, I often find it out of order so that I can’t teach like what I
planned. It happens many times. I really need it as a medium of my teaching. I think the university should improve its maintenance system.
Facilities are of limited use or value if they are not serviced and maintained, while a well maintained system, particularly the maintenance of the LCD projector, will support
more effective teaching and provide a platform for improved student learning outcomes. The next section of this chapter describes the language laboratory at the School of
English Education.
4.4.2.2 Language laboratory
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