Method of language teaching Descriptive text

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D. Method of language teaching

According to Brown 2001 :16, method is ”a generalized set of classroom spesification for acc omplishing linguistic objectives”. For teachers, methods become one of essential parts in teaching process. When the teachers have understanding about methods, they can recognize and apply it in class. There is no the best method. There is only a suitable method used in teaching. The best method is a method which is suitable to be applied in class based on the needs in teaching. There are several methods of language teaching: 1. Grammar Translation Method, Some charateristics are described as follows: a. Classes are taught in the mother tongue, with little active use of the target language. b. Much vocabulary is taught in the form of lists of isolated words. 2. Direct Method Some charateristics are described as follows: a. Classroom instruction was conducted exclusively in the target language b. Both speech and listening comprehension were taught 3. Audiolingual Method Some charateristics are described as follows: a. New material is presented in dialogue form. commit to user 9 b. There is much use of tapes, language labs, and visual aids. Brown, 2001:18-23 Based on the explanation of all the methods above, we can assume that Grammar Translation Method is the suitable method in teaching the fourth grade elementary students. They can receive the material easier if using this method. Genre Based is also suitable method to teach descriptive text to them.

E. Descriptive text

Descriptive text is one type of genres of a text. In the Competency-based Curriculum KTSP for elementary school, they only learn about descriptive text. Pardiyono 2007:33 stated that, descriptive text is a kind of text which is aimed to describe a particular person, or livingnon living things. There are several steps in teaching descriptive text , described as follows: 1. BKOF Building Knowledge of the field The purpose is to prepare the student’s readiness in following the class by greeting the students, reviewing the last material, and introducing new material.

2. Modeling

The purpose is to intoduce new text for the students by giving an example of a text. In this step, the teacher provides a text and deconstructs it, based on: a. Social function commit to user 10 b. Generic structure and content in the forms of questions of skimming and scanning : What, Where, When, How, and others. c. Language features 3. Joint Construction of text The purpose is to guide the students to reconstruct a new text of the same genre in a group, guided by the teacher. 4. Independent Construction of text The purpose is to train the students to produce a new text of the same genre individually, guided by the teacher. commit to user 11

CHAPTER III DISCUSSION