so you have more communicative teaching than grammar? S1: ya.. Something likes that. then, which English learning method do you like, grammar textbook or English conversation?

54 S1: often with Bahasa Indonesia… it is rare to use English. R: I mean… the teaching is more on communicative way or only tenses? S1: Ms. Dinar usually makes a game for us… explains one and then followed by game. Ms. Dinar sometime uses game.. Mrs. Maria only explains. If we do more speaking I think it will make us sleepy R: so you have more communicative teaching than grammar? S1: ya.. Something likes that. IS114614LLF-LLP Tiwi‘s experience above shows that she has experienced and often been involved in communicative English learning and teaching activity during certain teacher‘s class. Meanwhile, the other teacher prefers grammar-based method in class. It means that the communicative approach has been at least introduced at Tiwi‘s school. Later, Tiwi said that she prefers the grammar-based method since speaking is more difficult to remember. It can be clearly found from the following conversation. R: then, which English learning method do you like, grammar textbook or English conversation? S1: I prefer grammar. Speaking is more difficult to remember but writing is easier. IS114614LLF-LLP The conversation shows that although Tiwi previously admitted that she wants to be able to speak communicatively, she still represents the classic students who consider grammar based learning to be a more comfortable activity compared to communicative learning. Based on the interview results with Tiwi, the researcher finds that Tiwi‘s English language learning process is still dominated by a less communicative approach. The findings can be indicated from how rare she can perform communicative activity like discussion and English speaking experiences during her learning process. Meanwhile, it does not mean that the activity totally 55 dismisses any interactive approach, as Tiwi said that one of the teachers still involves games and quizzes in the class, although still most of the learning hours are spent on classic grammar-based or textbook teaching and learning method. Therefore, the researcher concludes that the language learning process o n Tiwi‘s experiences has not yet represented communicative and interactional activity as modern approach of English language learning. b. Rizka Rizka is a female student whom the researcher has picked as the second participant in the interview. Similar to the first participant, from the interview, she said that her process of learning English is dominated by less communicative way since she only does a very little amount of English conversation during the activity. Below is what she said. R: Do you often do conversation or communicate in English? S2: occasionally