Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: Teachers' Perception in Applying Communicative Language Teaching in Elementary School Level

ABSTRACT
English is regarded as an important language to be taught for elementary school
students nowadays. The students are taught not only to be an active listener but also to be an
active speaker so that they can build a communication with the others in a fun and
communicative way of learning. The purpose of this study is to find out what kind of
communicative activities commonly used by the elementary teachers in schools, and what is
teachers’ perception about the advantages and disadvantages in applying communicative
language teaching in elementary school. The participants of this research were 5 English
teachers from 4 elementary schools in Salatiga. This research used questionnaire and
interview to collect the data. The result of this research showed that the most common
communicative activity used by English teachers was discussion, games, role play,
information – gap activity, jigsaw activity, and simulation, also, the advantages and
disadvantages from each CLT activity.
Keywords: Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), activities, advantages,
disadvantages, elementary school.