Wulan Fauzia, 2013 TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN GETTING STUDENTS’ ATTENTIONS DURING TRANSITION
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To deal with problems in transition, getting students’ attention cannot be denied. Students’ attention is crucial because students cannot learn or follow teacher’s instruction if they
do not pay attention. The best tool to get students’ attention is using signal. Marzano, Marzano, Pickering, 2003. The signal could be verbal like chants or songs, non verbal like hand
clapping Cruickshank, et all.2006, video modeling and cue cards McCoy, Mathur, Czoka, 2010.
Considering those reasons this study will find out the strategies of one elementary school teacher in getting the students attention during transition time in order to make effective teaching
and learning process and also wh at the students’ responses are.
1.2 Statements of the problems
The study is held based on research questions as follow: 1.
What strategies does the teacher use to get her students’ attention during transition? 2.
What are the students’ responses to teacher’s strategies in getting their attention?
1.3 Aims of the study
There are two aims of the study. First is to investigate the teacher’s strategies to get students’ attention during transition. The last is to investigate the students’ responses to those
strategies.
1.4 Scope of the Study
Every teacher has their own strategies to keep the learning process running. This study will focus on the teacher’s strategies and any particular actions to get the students’ attention
during transitions or when the learning process is disturbed by the students’ interferences. These
Wulan Fauzia, 2013 TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN GETTING STUDENTS’ ATTENTIONS DURING TRANSITION
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interferences include students’ behavior problems and any students’ attention distraction. In addition, this study also tries to find out students’ responses towards the teacher’s action.
1.5 Significance of the Study
There are some contributions that this study offers. The study is expected to contribute in English teaching method in classroom management especially for teaching young learners by
offering some teaching techniques and suggestions. For teachers and practitioners in teaching young learners, the study will inspire their ways of teaching, offer methods, new ideas, and
suggestions in managing classroom and students’ behavior. This study hopefully can be implemented as one of the new methods in teaching
especially in teaching young learners and in managing classroom. Finally, the result of this study is expected to contribute in the field of education.
1.6 Research Methodology 1.6.1 Research Design
