Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: Classroom Management Style for a Class with Slow Learners

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT STYLE FOR A CLASS WITH SLOW LEARNERS
Reza Renita
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Abstract
Classroom management style plays a significant role in the teaching and
learning process. Teaching slow learners may have different challenges that make the
teachers consider what styles of classroom managementsare suitable to them. It makes
the researcher curious about the classroom management style that is suitable to teach
slow learners. This paper was aimed to investigate what English teachers do to
manage the classroom and to teach slow learners. This study is expected to help preservice teacher’s especially English teachers to picture what classroom management
style is appropriate for teaching slow learners.The researcher used classroom
observation protocol and interview to gain the data. The participants were three
teachers from different schools in Salatiga and Semarang. All of them were English
teachers in that school who teach a class with slow learners. The data were classified
by the types of classroom management style based on instruction, rules, assessment
and class setting. The results show that the teachers use authoritarian and authoritative
styles in teaching slow learners.
Keyword: Classroom, classroom management style, slow learner.

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