c. Forming the habit of the students to open minded with their friends.
d. Increasing the students’ motivation in learning.
e. Helping teacher to reach learning goal, because the cooperative
learning method is easy to be applied. 2
The disadvantage of Two Stay Two Stray a.
TSTS needs more time for discussion. b.
Students who seldom work in group will feel difficult to cooperate. c.
Generally, fluent students in discussing usually dominate the discussion.
3. Teaching Recount Text Using Two Stay Two Stray
In two stay two stray, the students will be divided into four students each groups. Then, the teacher will give them a reading material to discuss in the group
and decide how long they discuss in the group. Each group has different material to discuss. When time is up, two of four students in the group will leave the group to
stray to other group to look for the information. While the rest will stay in group explain their material to other group who stray to them. This teaching learning
process gives an opportunity to the students to share their ideas related to material which is discussed. The technique will give the students a chance to discuss with the
group and the other friends. In addition, this technique will give the students sharing and discussing experiences while gathering the information.
In the real situation, the writer would like to explain further about the implementation in the class. First, the teacher explains generally about recount text.
Second, the teacher sets students in a group that consist of four students and give them opportunity to discuss about material given by the teacher. Every group has
different material to discuss. For example, a recount text which consists of some paragraphs divided by the teacher into part per part. Group 1 will discuss paragraph 1,
group 2 will discuss 2, group 3 will discuss paragraph 3, and so on. After their 10
minutes discussion, two students of each group will leave the group to come other group to look for information and the rest stays in their based group to welcome the
strayers from other groups and share their group discussion. This will be carried out for 5 minutes. The strayers group may ask questions or give suggestions or comments
on the explanation of stayers. This is carried out in 5 minutes the time limit should be mentioned: otherwise they will talk about other things. Then, after 5 minutes the
two strayers of each group return to their base group, discuss and make a report for their group. After all activities are already held, the teacher will evaluate them by
giving them a question or quiz about the material. The group with highest score will get the reward from the teacher.
Two Stay Two Stray model:
D. Grammar Translation Method
1. Definition of Grammar Translation Method
The Grammar Translation Method is a method of teaching foreign languages derived from the classical method of teaching language. In grammar-
translation classes, students learn grammatical rules and then apply those rules by translating sentences between the target language and the native language.
Advanced students may be required to translate whole texts word-for-word. The method has two main goals: to enable students to read and translate literature written
in the target language, and to further students’ general intellectual development. In this modern era, there are various methods that can be applied by the
teacher in the classroom in teaching language. But in practically, there are some teachers that still use the grammar translation method in their teaching. As stated by
Cagri quoted form Larsen- Freeman that “the purpose of the grammar translation
method was to help students read and understand foreign language liter ature”.
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It was also can be said that grammar translation method gives an efficient way in
learning vocabulary and grammatical structures. There are two main goals to grammar-translation classes. One is to develop
students’ reading ability to a level where they can read literature in the target language.
The other is to develop students’ general mental discipline. Furthermore, Richard and Rodgers explain the principal characteristic of the Grammar Translation
Method as follow: a.
The goal of foreign language is to learn a language in order to read its literature or in order to benefit from the mental discipline and intellectual
development that result from foreign language study.
b. Reading and Writing is a major study; no systematic attention is paid to
speaking or listening.
c.
Vocabulary selection is based solely on the reading texts used.
d.
The sentence is the basic unit of teaching and language practice.
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Cagri Tugrul Mart, Journal of Advances in English Language Teaching Department of Languages, Ishik University,Erbil, Iraq, the Grammar Translation Method and Use of Translation in
Facilitate Learning in ES: Classes, Volume 1, No.4, 2013, p.103-105
