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lesson, but in each beginning of a learning topic. It can be done by establishing students’ curiosity, being warm and enthusiastic, varying learning activities, using
teaching aids, and others. The teacher may also give instructions and relate materials with students’ prior knowledge. Mentally prepared students are those
who know the purpose of their learning, what they are going to learn and how they will learn it. Students who are focused and motivated will enjoy, be more
enthusiastic, and have better response towards the learning activities. Closure is aimed to give a review and encouragement on what the students
learn, to know their achievement as well as to provide feedbacks for the teaching- learning activities conducted. It can be done by making a review and giving
assignments or tasks to apply what the students have learnt. Closure is also done not only at the end of a lesson, but at the end of each learning topic. Closure will
encourage students to apply their knowledge and motivate them to learn more. However, induction and closure technique does not include routine
activities which are done by teachers, such as checking students’ presence, asking students to prepare their books, asking students to pray before going home and
others. Those activities may need to be done, but they are not included to induction and closure technique. Induction and closure technique is activities
which have direct relationships with the materials taught or learnt.
B. Problem Identification
Unfortunately, some Indonesian English teachers still do not realize the importance of induction and closure technique. They just directly go to the main
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activities without building students interest and focusing them on what is going to be learned. The same problem also occurs in setting the closure. Some teachers do
not make a review on what has been learnt and even mostly they just directly give homework and then dismiss the class. This kind of teaching surely will not make a
better atmosphere in English language teaching; in fact, it will make it worse since students will not be interested in learning it.
Based on informal observations, most of English teacher candidates, studying in English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teachers Training and
Education in Indonesian universities have acknowledged this lack of students interest and motivation as a great problem that must be solved. They would like to
make English to be more interesting for the students by building their attention, interest and motivation to learn it. They also make the English learning to be more
interesting by making a review on the whole activities and encouraging them to actively study by themselves through various interesting activities. Unfortunately,
some teacher candidates have another problem; they do not have enough references about the sets of induction and closure technique in English language
teaching. Therefore, more references in setting induction and closure technique will give more variation on their English language teaching resulting on students
higher interest and motivation to learn and master it.
C. Problem Formulation
Based on the previous explanation, the problem of the study will be formulated into these following questions:
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1. What are the steps of the induction and closure technique conducted in the
English language teaching in SMK BOPKRI Wates, Yogyakarta? 2.
How does the induction and closure technique affect the students’ English mastery?
D. Problem Limitation
