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personality development of the child, or focuses on the mother character, since she might suffer from some kind of personality disorder.
2. Suggestion for Teaching-Learning Activities
Since a novel potrays such life experiences as close to what appears in the actual world, people can learn much about life from reading literary works.
Literary works, especially novels, always bring moral values for the readers to learn. It also often brings moral values in the story. Since language is a very broad
subject, it can take many kinds of source. Here, novels are good sources to learn language because of the wide variety of themes we can find in them.
In this part, I suggest this novel to be used in teaching Speaking V for the fifth semester students of English Education Study Program.
The Implementation in Teaching Speaking
Since The Crocodile Bird has many interesting topics to discuss, we can use this novel to teach English, especially to teach speaking. One of the topics that
is interesting to discuss is the topic of killing in self-defense. The topic of killing in self-defense is a critical issue in nowadays world which is full of threats. The
students can practice their critical thinking as well as practice their speaking ability and learn from other’s opinion. Some activities for the debate are:
1. The teacher already distributes the literary text for the debate a week before the class. In this case, I choose chapter three of The Crocodile Bird
because it contains a plot when Eve has a rape trial and kills her assailant. Then, the teacher asks the
students to find and read more
information about the topic given and tell them to be ready for the next week debate.
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2. The teacher divides the class into two major groups and divides those two majors into several smaller groups. The first major group agrees with
Eve for killing the foe, and the second group disagrees about the killing. Then the teacher explains the rules of the debate and assigns the groups to
prepare their arguments and opinions. 3. The teacher starts the debate by choosing a group randomly from the pro
groups to present their arguments and opinions in three minutes. 4. The teacher gives the same turn to a group from the con groups to present
their ideas and arguments in three minutes and to disprove the previous pro group.
5. The pro groups disagree the con’s arguments by giving logical reasons 6. After all groups have a chance to speak, the teacher stops the debate. The
teacher leads the students to make a conclusion of the debate. However, the teacher does not choose any winner. The aim of this class is to practice
speaking. In the end of the class, the teacher gives suggestions for the students’ performance.
