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B. Field Notes Grade
: 8E DayDate : Tuesday, October 8
th
2013 Time
: 07.00-08.20 2 contact hours Time
Activities Situations
Notes Teacher
Students
7.00 Greets students
Asking students how they do, if
there is anyone absent, and if there
is any assignment Greeting the
teacher back
Students properly reply
Fresh since it is in the
morning and the first lesson
of the day.
Students look enthusiastic
All use English at this time
7.08 Reminds students
that there are still students who
haven’t got the turn to perform
related to the role play about
expressions in the last meeting.
Agreeing and some students
prepared themselves
7.10 Prepares her
checklist and scoring papers
Get in front of the class in pairs
in turns. There are total 7 pairs.
The other students who
have got their turns have a
chat with their peers, some
pay attention, some just read
something. Nearly all of
them performed successfully.
Their speech are mostly good,
some just need to speak up.
Many add gesture as in the
real communication
and none reads . Overall
performance is excellent.
146 7.35
After scoring, the teacher gives
compliment to the students for their
performance then provides some
advice and encouragement
Telling the students that she
needs to calculate the score since
there are several aspects that she
needs to evaluate. Paying attention
to the students, sometimes
responding to what the teacher
says. Some are with Indonesian
and some use English in
Indonesian way.
A student asks about the grade
in the role play. The other
students are then quiet waiting for
the teacher’s reply
Teacher mostly uses English for
this time combined with
some Indonesian in
minority.
Students uses Indonesian to
ask
The teacher mixes English
and Indonesia
7.40 Asking the
students to open their student books
in a certain page about text. She
explains about recount text, what
it is, gives examples about it
and asks the students if the can
give other examples.
The teacher gives list of words taken
from one text in the students’ book
and asks them to Students take
their books and pay attention to
the teacher.
Several students give such
examples without having
to be appointed
Taking their books and write
all of the words down
Students focuses on the
teacher’s speech
The teacher mixes
Indonesian and English but
repeats some terms
consistently such as ‘past
experience’ and ‘past verb’
147 find the meaning.
The students are given time about
10 to 15 minutes
Repeating the asked words.
When the students still ask, she spells
the words. Students ask the
teachers to repeat some
words because they have never
heard them before
The teacher seems to avoid
writing the asked words in
the whiteboard. Sometimes she
says the word in Indonesian way.
A student asks the teacher
politely to write those words on
the whiteboard but the teacher
ignores the request and
starts spelling.
8.00 The teacher
confirms if the students are
finished and then tells the students
to open certain page about a short
recount text where she took the words
from. She asks the students to read
them. Students read
the text. Some make use of
their translator or dictionary
8.13 The time is
running out and the teacher gives a
chance for students who can
give the correct translation for the
words given according to the
text with available markers. Each
student writes for one word.
Several students race for the
markers and write the word.
148 The teacher tells
the students to give the meaning
8.18 The teacher
checks the words by asking the class
if the meaning is right quickly.
There are two incorrect
meanings and she asks the students
for correct answers.
Students confirm the
about the right answers.
A student gives the correct
answers. The teacher asks
students using several repeated
classroom languages such
as ‘Is it correct?’ ‘What
do you think about this?’ ‘is
it true?’ Students mostly
answer with English but
direct to the point.
8.22 The teacher gives
points for all who wrote the word
meaning and those who correct the
meaning. She gives homework
to answer questions about
the text and offer the other students
a point if they can send her the
summary of the text the next day.
The teacher apologizes for
extending the time a little bit, closes
the lesson, and greets the class
after that. Student pay
attentions
The students greets back in
English
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Grade : 8B
DayDate : Tuesday, October 8
th
2013 Time
: 09.50-11.15 2 contact hours Time
Activities Situations
Notes Teacher
Students
9.50 Greets students
Asking students how they do, if
there is anyone absent, and if there
is any assignment Greeting the
teacher back
Students properly reply
Several students are
not paying attention and
jesting one another.
All use English at this time
9.55 Asking the
students who have not performed for
speaking test.
The teacher asks if they are ready yet.
The teacher ignore that kind of reply
and appoints the other students to
performs Some students
who haven’t raised their
hands
Several answer not seriously that
they have not.
A pair of students come
up followed by other 9 pairs
Other students are talking
each other. Not much
paying attention to
the performers.
Many students perform poorly.
They still bring notes in their
performance. The
pronunciation is not clear and
they do not speak loud
enough. It even takes time too
long for some pairs of student
to finish their performance
since they do not really
memorize and need to check
their notes.
10.40 The teacher gives
comments on the performers and
their performance. She encourages
them to be better next time
Students pay attention to the
teacher. The teacher
uses Indonesian and
Javanese dominantly in
this class for this occasion.
150 10.47
Asking the students to open
certain page in the students’ book
about recount text. She explains about
recount text.
She tries to open communication by
asking the students the example of
recount text.
The teacher corrects the
student and invites more to give more
examples Students open
the page .
A student sitting in the front row
tries to answer in Indonesian with
low voice.
Several students give more
answers, still using
Indonesian. Teacher mixes
the language but Indonesian
is more dominant.
11.00 The teacher asks
the students to write down some
words taken from one text in the
students’ book and tell them to find
the meaning.
The teacher walks around to see if the
students are doing right.
Students take their books and
write down the words.
There are some students asking
the students to repeat the words.
Several students open their
laptops and discuss with
their to find the meaning of the
words
Taking their books and write
all of the words down
The teacher deploys
Indonesian mostly but still
repeats some terms as the
previous class consistently
such as ‘past experience’
and ‘past verb’. Different from
the morning class, she
writes the words down on
the whiteboard.
151 11.13
The teacher asks if the students have
finished.
Being aware that the time is out, she
makes the task homework and
tells them to read the text so that
they can find the correct meaning of
the words given.
She closes the session and greet
the students Several students
respond that they have not
finished.
Students greet her back.