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f. Small group tasks
The small group in the class we observed were asked to make new sentences with the words on the transcript. Afterward, the groups shared the sentences they
made with the rest of the class. Teacher who use small group activities believe students can learn from each other and can get more practice with the target language
by working in small group.
2.4.6The Total Physical Respond Method
The characterictics of The Total Physical Respond Method are: a.
The students are imitators of the teacher. b.
The teacher interacts with the whole group of the students and with individual student.
c. The methods are introducing to the students‟ native language the meaning is made
clear through body movements. d.
The teacher is director of all students‟ behavior. e.
Formal evaluation is conducted simply by commanding individual students to perform a series of action.
The techniques in The Total Physical Respond Method are:
a. Using commands to direct behavior
The commands are given to get students to perform an action; the action makes the meaning of the command clear.
b. Role reversal
Students command their teacher and classsmates to perform some avtions. Asher says that students will want to speak after ten to twenty hours of instruction,
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although some students may take longer. Students should not be encouraged to speak until they are ready.
c. Action sequence
At one point we saw the teacher give three connected commands. The series of commands is called an action sequence, or an operation
d. Imitation
Students are imitator of the teacher.
2.4.7 Suggestopedia
The purpose of suggestopedia is to accelerate the process by which students tolearn to use a foreign language for everyday communication. The
characteristics of suggestopedia are: a.
The teacher initiates interactions with the whole group of students and with individual‟s right from the beginning language course.
b. Emphasizing vocabulary and speaking communicatively.
c. Students‟ native language translation is used to make the meaning of the dialogue
clear. d.
Evaluation is usually conducted on the students‟ normal class performance not formal test.
The techniques in Suggestopedia are:
a. Classroom set up
Emphasis is placed on creating a physical environment that does not “feel” like a normal classroom, and makes the students feel as relaxed and comfortable as
possible.
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b. Peripheral learning
Student can absorb information “effortlessly” when it is perceived as part of the environment, rather than the material “to be attended to”
c. Positive suggestion
Teachers appeal to students‟ consciousness and subconscious in orede to
better orchestrate the “suggestive” factors involved in the learning situation.
d. Visualization
Students are asked to close their eyes and visualize scenes and events, to help them relax, facilitate positive suggestion and encourage creativity from the students.
e. Choose a new identity
Students select a terget language name andor occupation that places them “inside” the language they are learning.
f. Role play
Students pretend temporarily that they are someone else and perform a role using the target language.
g. First concert
Teacher does a slow, dramatic reading of the dialog synchronized in intonation with classical music.
h. Second concert
Students put aside their scriptd and the teacher reads at normal speed according to the content, not the accompanying pre-classical or Baroque music
– this typically ends the class for the day.
i. Primary activation
