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c. Attributes of the person
Characteristics of the person are the most important source in influencing perception. Those are namely motive, habit, and personality.
According to Huffman et al. 2000: 107, there are three stages of perceptions: selection, organization, and interpretation.
a. Selection: choosing the stimuli that we will pay attention.
b. Organization: organizing the incoming information into patterns that
will help them to understand the information. c.
Interpretation: the use of the information in explaining and giving judgment about the stimuli we pay attention. Some factors which
influence interpretation are experiences, perceptual expectations, cultural factors, and personal motivations and frame of reference.
2. Teaching Strategy
Teaching strategy as a matter of delivering materials to the students is really important because it has an essential effect for students’ understanding.
Cited in Widiati an Yudi, Fraenkel 1980 defines teaching strategy as a combinati
on of “a procedure or operation, grouped and ordered” in a certain place that can be used in the classroom to achieve the learning objectives. The
p rocedure is often called “the position of a technique is at the implementation
phase”. Moreover, Procedure is a tactic and strategy used by the teachers and the students in which the methods are used Richards Rodgers, 2001, p. 17.
Technique is the part of the methods in which the different methods have many
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techniques which are created by the teacher. Based on the previous explanation, teaching strategy is a matter of developing and applying a technique that can be
used in the classroom to achieve the learning objectives. The English hour as the teaching strategy of language teaching has a goal.
The goal of conducting English hour is a communicative goal. It means the English hour as a language teaching expects the students to be able to
communicate and interact with others in English. From the previous definition, it can be concluded that the teaching strategy
is a matter of developing and applying a technique of language teaching by the English teacher in order to help the students to achieve the communicative goal.
The communicative goal means that the students are expected to be able to speak English in which language errors such as grammar and pronunciation are not
considered. It gives a chance to the students to be able to express themselves and interact with others, their friends and teacher, by using English. Since the
procedure is called as the implementation of the technique and procedure is a part of the teaching strategy so that the teaching technique is a part of the teaching
strategy. Furthermore, the English hour belongs to monolingual instruction in which English is the main language of the teaching-learning activities. As cited in
Cummins 2007: 223, Howatt 1984 defines the monolingual principle as the use of TL Target Language in the instruction without involving the first language. It
will enable the students to think about the TL without considering to the first language.
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3. Communicative Language Teaching
