Giving Assignments or Homework

86 Furthermore, she made her own handout and used it in the class, prepared the power point, the movies, listening material, and games for her class in order the whole class to participate. By doing this, she became autonomous. “So interesting..so it was like this..Actually I used material and made my own material, prepared...what’s that..power point, my own movies, listening, games...those were in order for the whole class to participate” 2-V27-1-ET-E-AU. She also made the topics in the textbook given by the faculty to be more specific and adapted the materials according to her students’ need of English. “After I used the book once, then I modified the book, only took the ideas such as introduction, describing jobs, and describing places. I changed them into describing..asking and giving information because in the old version it was talking about giving direction. It was too specific. in my version asking giving information was more general. Why they shoul learn asking giving because it was not very general but later on it focused on making inquiries“ 2-V28-1-ET-E-AU. Her autonomy can also be seen from her effort in making the General English into ESP. It shows that as an English teacher who taught at the accounting department she was be able to control her students’ way of learning and autonomously modified the materials. “ In my class then I made my own teaching materials which were really ESP but still general in the term of there were English skills. It means that there were speaking, reading and listening. But in real ESP there is discussion about English business which really talks about business. In my materials, there was also complaing-how to handle complain. Handling complain which related to busin ess “2-V28-1-ET-E-AU. In her second semester English class, she modified the syllabus and made the teaching materials into ESP which was more suitable for her accounting department students. 87 “Okay I focused more on the specific purpose. It was about getting a job and being an enterpreneur so of course the material was about job hunting and for being enterpreneur, so they were assumed as the people who had company so they acted like person who had a company so the material was about reporting the company performance and then describing the activities of being specific position in a company, handling complains, and then telephoning and then meeting client, things like that. And then for the semester 3 it’s about TOEFL” 3-V20-2-ET-E-AU. Furthermore she stated the reason she modified the teaching materials from the faculty. “And why I gave my own material because based on my experience I got the material from the campus-the General English was too general” 3-V21-2-ET-E-AU. From the statements above it was clear that both Ms. Widi and Ms. Vera were autonomous teachers. It is in line with Benson’s statement 2001: 47 who said that autonomy is “the capacity to take control of one’s own learning”. Both of the teachers had shown their autonomy through their effort in modifying the syllabus, teaching materials and managing the class so that they could fufill their students’ need of English.

2. Awareness

Preparing and designing the materials is important thing to do for teachers. Therefore before Ms. Widi and Ms Vera taught the students, they prepared what they would teach to their students. For Ms. Widi, she did the need analysis before she made the lesson plan and the material. This need analysis was meant to know her students’s need. It shows that Ms. Widi was aware of her students’ need and understand that her students needed English which was different from English for other department students. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI