Procedural Questions Types of Teachers’ Questions occur in Micro Teaching Class

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This chapter presents the conclusion and some recommendations of the research. The purposes are to given brief and clear description about the result and to give some suggestions. The suggestions are aimed to future teachers and the future researchers as well.

A. Conclusions

Based on the findings and discussion in the chapter IV, there are seven women’s language features expressed by 12 participants in Micro Teaching Class. They are hedging and fillers, intensifiers, tag questions, raising intonation, super polite forms, hypercorrect grammar and lack of humor. The total of women’s language features found during this class is 114 utterances. There are 48 utterances indicate hedges and fillers. Fillers occur in the beginning of the sentences and in the middle of the sentences. First, they indicate a pause in order to let the speaker think before starting a new idea and continuing the idea. The second is that they show the existence of meaningless particles. The existence of hedging is lower than fillers. There are only 4 hedges appear from 12 participants. It is used as to ask in polite way. There are 5 intensifiers occur during the teaching process from 12 participants. Not all of them express this lexical. The use of intensifiers is often found when the speakers want to underlie the idea of a topic. Raising intonations are found expressed 31 times by 11 participants. One of them does not express this feature. This feature does not only appear in statement PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 43 sentences but also in order and command expressions. The use of super polite forms which occur in asking for help and commanding in polite way are 31 sentences. For hypercorrect grammar, there are 12 hypercorrect grammars during the teaching process. Tag questions are found in functional and grammatical forms. Lakoff’s hypothesis on female’s sense of humor is correct. In Micro Teaching Class, all the participants do not show the sense of humor. The second conclusion is drawn based on the findings on the types of teacher’s question. From the findings, it is seen that there are three types of teacher’s question used by the teachers during teaching process. They are procedural questions, convergent questions and divergent questions. The total number of the questions is 176 questions. Convergent question has the most number of utterances while the lowest is divergent question. The rest is procedural questions. The procedural questions appear as the part of classroom procedure setting. Convergent questions occur when the teachers want to seek the content of the material given, previous information or short response type while divergent is the opposite.

B. Recommendations

Hence, this section is divided into three sections. The first section is recommended for the English Language Department, the second is for the future teachers and the last is for the future researchers. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 44 1. Recommendation for English Language Department English Language Department is the facilitator of Micro Teaching Course which means that future teachers’ teaching skill is also seen as their responsibility. The result of the second research problem shows that divergent question has the lowest percentage during the learning process. This type of question as what Richard and Lockhart have explained is gained to know students’ way of thinking. It helps the students to think critically. Since this question is the lowest frequency question to be asked, the researcher recommends the department to provide not only chance to have teaching practice but also provide materials on types of teacher’s question. This material will help the teachers to prepare themselves as good future teachers. They will not only have knowledge on teaching performance but also in questioning skill. So then the teacher will not miss the important of stating some types of questions which is known to help the students think critically. 2. Recommendation for Future Teachers Future teachers need to prepare themselves earlier because being a good teacher is not only about mastering material that is going to be taught. It is also about how teacher encourages the students to blow out their mind or way of thinking. Types of questions used by teacher in classroom are one of the media used. Being stated by good question, the students will train themselves to think wider. Divergent question is one of them since it does not appear in Micro teaching class. Future teachers have to accustom themselves to state divergent questions in the class instead of procedural and convergent questions.