Providing Students with Opportunities to Develop Their Skills
66 perhaps do not call the students, spend only a little time with the students and
track the students into a low ability group. On the contrary, lecturers who implement positive self-fulfilling
prophecy would call the students more often to answer the questiosn or to re explain the teachers’ explanation. High expectation is closely related to this
section. “You have to get an ‘A’ means an expectation. I usually give warnings
‘what is needed’ to certain class. What kind of exercises that may be needed from this class, which one is needed to be strengthened. For
example, we need a good time management, need more listening or reading exercises. That is the examples of warning that I give to my
students in order to make the students reach the target I set from the
beginning.” – Mr. Daniel, 13032015 Mr. Daniel shared when he believed in his students, he would do something to
make his students be on track with him and obtain a maximal achievement based on his target that he set from the beginning of the class. When he thought that his
students need more practice in listening or reading or any other skills then he would try to give the students more exercises. Mr. Daniel said that lecturers need
to know what students’ need in order to help the students pass the course. Different to Mr. Daniel, Ms. Richa often directly pointed her students to be more
active in her class. “For the discussion I will point them, I will point them to be the speaker
of the group, so that they feel like I give them trust, I want to hear them speak as well not only the active students but them as well.” - Ms.
Richa, 11032015
Although each of lecturer did different strategy in making the students engaged to the les
son, those strategies can be classified as lecturers’ implementation of self- fulfilling prophecy. The way Ms. Richa pointed the inactive students to speak is
67 because she expected that all of her students are active in her class or at least tried
to engage with the class activity.