4 students’ interest and involvement in the main activity of the lesson body.
Therefore, the researcher would like to observe how the student teachers’ ability in implementing or conducting set induction in beginning of their teaching
activity. It is important to build and create an interesting and meaningful activity as the beginning of the learning activity in the classroom in order to reach the goal
of effective, meaningful and objective-oriented learning.
B. Problem Formulation
Through this research, the researcher formulated the problems which are presented in three questions, as follows.
1. How is the set induction conducted by the student teachers in their teaching performance in PPL?
2. What are the problems faced by the student teachers in conducting set induction?
3. How do the student teachers overcome the problems?
C. Problem Limitation
The limitation of this topic takes place on the performances of student teachers of the English Language Education Study Program ELESP, Sanata
Dharma University. They are conducting their teaching practice in formal schools in their 7
th
semester. The students who are conducting this teaching practice have already obtained the knowledge of pedagogy, which they will need and apply in
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STELLA DUCE II Yogyakarta in the odd semester of 20102011 academic year.
D. Research Objectives
There are some objectives that can be found by doing this research: 1. to describe how the student teachers conduct the set induction in the
teaching practice in PPL 2. to find out the problems that will be faced by the student teachers in
conducting set induction 3. to find out how the student teachers overcome the problems
E. Research Benefits
This research is beneficial for the lecturers, students and the other researchers who concern with the teaching practice. Toward this research, the
researcher finds some benefits, in order to develop the ability in teaching practice especially for student teachers themselves. For student teachers, toward this
research, the researcher can give information to the students about the importance of set induction in teaching activities and to give some information about the
problems that occurs in conducting set induction in the class. For lecturers, in this research, the researcher would like to inform the
lecturers about some factors that make set induction difficulties to be implemented or problems that may occur in conducting set induction in the class. Furthermore,
toward this research, the researcher would like to give input to Program
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that still occur from the students in implementing set induction in teaching activities.
For other researchers, through this scientific writings, the researcher expects that there will be other researcher who will give additional references and
information about this research. Moreover, it is expected that there will be the next researcher who try to investigate deeply more specific about the
implementation of set induction or the effects of implementing set induction to the students’ learning achievements.
F. Definitions of Terms
