Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: Teachers' Attitudes Towards Communicative Language Teaching in Senior High School
TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS COMMUNICATIVE
LANGUAGE TEACHING IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS
Ratih Widyastuti
Abstract
This study attempts to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards Communicative Language
Teaching (CLT) in senior high schools. Since the Indonesian latest curriculum, students are
asked to be active and teachers should facilitate them, CLT is the most appropriate approach
used in the classroom. However, the implementing of CLT in senior high schools in Salatiga has
not been effective yet. One of the causes of the incompatibility between the existing theory and
implementation of CLT in the classroom may be teacher attitudes (Karavas-Doukas, 1996).
Therefore, it is important to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards CLT.
This study was conducted in three different senior high schools in Salatiga. The subjects
of the study were six English teachers in those schools. The data for the study were collected
from interview using open-ended questions.
The analysis of the data shows that teachers believe that CLT is the most appropriate
approach in improving students’ speaking ability. However, grammar is also important to be
learned in this approach to make the students able to deliver messages of the communication
well. Therefore, when students make some errors in their speaking practice, teachers will make
the correction and give the right examples. Pair or group work is also believed as the effective
way in implementing CLT since it can reduce the tension in the classroom. Teachers’ roles in
CLT are as the facilitator, motivator, and controller of teaching and learning process in the
classroom. Within this sense, the teachers all agree that students are the main subject who
involving directly in this approach.
Key words: Communicative Language Teaching, Teachers’ Attitudes toward CLT, English
Teachers in Salatiga
LANGUAGE TEACHING IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS
Ratih Widyastuti
Abstract
This study attempts to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards Communicative Language
Teaching (CLT) in senior high schools. Since the Indonesian latest curriculum, students are
asked to be active and teachers should facilitate them, CLT is the most appropriate approach
used in the classroom. However, the implementing of CLT in senior high schools in Salatiga has
not been effective yet. One of the causes of the incompatibility between the existing theory and
implementation of CLT in the classroom may be teacher attitudes (Karavas-Doukas, 1996).
Therefore, it is important to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards CLT.
This study was conducted in three different senior high schools in Salatiga. The subjects
of the study were six English teachers in those schools. The data for the study were collected
from interview using open-ended questions.
The analysis of the data shows that teachers believe that CLT is the most appropriate
approach in improving students’ speaking ability. However, grammar is also important to be
learned in this approach to make the students able to deliver messages of the communication
well. Therefore, when students make some errors in their speaking practice, teachers will make
the correction and give the right examples. Pair or group work is also believed as the effective
way in implementing CLT since it can reduce the tension in the classroom. Teachers’ roles in
CLT are as the facilitator, motivator, and controller of teaching and learning process in the
classroom. Within this sense, the teachers all agree that students are the main subject who
involving directly in this approach.
Key words: Communicative Language Teaching, Teachers’ Attitudes toward CLT, English
Teachers in Salatiga