What do you think about teaching lower semester in microteaching class?

90 APPENDIX 4b Students’ Responses on the Open - Ended Questionnaire Questions 1. What do you think about teaching lower semester in microteaching class? 081214001 A Teaching lower semester in microteaching class was really challenging because I did not only prepare lesson plan, material, etc but also build up good communicationcooperation with the lecturer of lower semester class. 081214005 A It was so challenging. 081214006 A It is a challenging for me. 081214009 A Interesting 081214011 A Challenging, interesting, it is good to improve our skill in teaching students. 081214012 A It is very important for us to improve our skill in teaching and it gives many benefits for us to practice teaching better. 081214013 A I think it is important to improve my self-confident 081214014 A Teaching lower semester is useful to improve our teaching skills. 081214015 A It was very challenging for me. Actually I was not confident to talk in front of the students. I was worried if the student didn’t understand what I meant. 081214017 A I can be more confident in teaching and I can learn how to teach and manage the class 081214019 A I think it is interesting enough because I had more experience about teaching skill and it looked like in real class if I will be a teacher. 081214021 A Challenging, motivate me to be better. 081214023 A I’m so interested in the teaching junior 081214025 B It is very useful to accustom us in the real situation of teaching learning activity. 081214026 B It’s challenging, but fun. 081214028 B It is good for us. We can practice teaching. 081214031 B Good. It helps us to face the real students in High School or Elementary school. 081214032 B Challenging, interesting. 081214034 B It was hard at the first time but it was fun as well. 081214035 B It’s very good to improve our confidence, our teaching skill as well. I prefer teaching lower semester rather than my friends in class. 081214036 B It’s challenging and it will gives us more knowledge in PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 91 teaching. 081214039 B It is very interesting and challenging. I enjoyed teaching lower semester class because they are very enthusiastic. They are very kind and smart students so there is no difficulty to teach them. 081214065 D It was interesting, useful and memorable. 081214067 D It is very challenging. 081214068 D I think that teaching lower semester is really important. It enables us to teach better before going on macro teaching in real school. 081214069 D It is very helpful to motivate me to teach better. 081214070 D It’s fun and helps me to learn more. 081214071 D It is interesting. For the first time in the beginning I felt very afraid with them, but after that I felt more relaxed, and it seems that I need more time. 081214072 D Interesting and useful. 081214075 D It is challenging because I have to teach the real students in university level whose English is as good as mine. It makes me to be more creative in teaching so that the students will be interested to the lesson. 081214076 D It’s a good practice before we jump to teach real school students. Teaching simulation in class is not enough, so teaching lower semester is necessary to at least have a feel of how a real teaching should be. 081214077 D Teaching lower semester students is very challenging and interesting. I like doing that. There is a mysterious sense that makes me addicted to do it again. 08121408x D Challenging. 081214083 D It was challenging but also very fun 081214084 D It is challenging …… but difficult things. 081214087 D I think that is an interesting experience because we have the same subject study program. Actually, when I teach in lower semester, I find so many difficulties such as in preparation and bigger class. However, teaching lower semester is unforgettable experience. I really enjoy it. 081214113 D It’s important to practice our ability in teaching before we teach the students in real school ie. Senior High School and Junior High School in the next semester. 081214116 D Good because we can learn many things and improve ourselves of our teaching skill. 081214121 D It’s challenging 081214xxx D It is very challenging. 081214088 E This is challenging activity and it makes us more ready to teach the real students outside. 081214092 E It’s challenging. It’s need more preparation and energy. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 92 It’s good to practice all skills we get from microteaching class. 081214096 E Not really interesting. 081214097 E I think it was interesting because I could practice my teaching in the real classroom. I could be a teacher for the real students, but it was little bit easy rather than teaching in micro class with my mates as the students. 081214099 E I think it was challenging because I was afraid of being stuck in the class and having inappropriate materialsexercises. After all, it’s interesting to teach lower semester students. 081214103 E It’s good practice of teaching. We can learn how to teach in the real situation. 081214108 E It is challenging, so I can improve my teaching skill. 081214125 E I think it is a good practice to prove our teaching skill based on the theory we have learned. It is more challenging than teaching our friends in the classroom.

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