BETTER CLASSROOM TECHNIQUE IN A CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION FOR EFL LEARNERS OF MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY

Lely Refnita

Abstract


The EFL learners in a multilingual society face learning problems both on skill-based and content-based instructions. The problems are caused by linguistic and non-linguistic factors. In accordance with this, better classroom techniques in skill-based and content-based instructions should be developed in such a way that the EFL instructions run well. This paper, which is derived from the result of a research conducted in 2015, particularly discusses an appropriate model of classroom technique which is better used in a content-based instruction for EFL learners at university level in a multilingual society. The analysis and pedagogical discussion are aimed at formulating and finding a better classroom technique in a content-based instruction, namely Research on English Language Teaching (RELT) subject. The data and relevant information presented and analyzed are those of a quasi-experimental research in the design of non-equivalent control group conducted at the English Department of FKIP Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang. The population of this research was students who took RELT subject in 2015/2016 academic year. The sample of this study was 44 students; there were 23 students in class A (experimental group) and 21 students in class C (control group). The treatment given to the experimental group was student-initiated question as the classroom technique, while lecturer-provided question was the classroom technique (the treatment) used in the control group. The data were statistically analyzed by using t-test; the result of data analysis tells that the classroom technique used in the experimental class, the student-initiated question, was significantly more effective than teacher-provided question. It may be argued that student-initiated question is a better classroom technique used in a content-based instruction, RELT subject, for EFL learners in multilingual societies as it ran well at the English Department of FKIP Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang


Keywords


classroom technique, content-based instruction, student-initiated question, lecturer-provided question

Full Text:

PDF

References


Brown, H. Douglas. 2001. Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. (Second Edition). White Plains, New York: Addison Wesley Longman Inc.

Crookes, Graham & Chaudron, Craig. 2001. “Guidelines for Language Classroom Instruction” in Celce-Murcia, Marianne. (ed.). Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language.(Third Edition). Boston, MA: Heinle.

Fraenkel, Jack R. &Wallen, Norman E. 2007.How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education (Sixth Edition). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Gay, L.R. &Airasian, Peter. 2000. Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application. (Sixth Edition). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Gay, L.R., Mills, Geoffrey E., &Airasian, Peter. 2009. Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application. (Ninth Edition). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.

Holmes, Janet. 2013. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics.(Fourth Edition). New York: Routledge.

Joyce, Bruce., Weil, Marsha., & Showers, Beverly. 1992. Models of Teaching. (Fourth Edition). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

McGroarty, Mary. 1996. “Language Attitudes, Motivation, and Standards” in McKay, Sandra Lee & Hornberger, Nancy H. (eds.). Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Nunan, David. 2001.”Syllabus Design” in Celce-Murcia, Marianne. (ed.). Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language.(Third Edition). Boston, MA: Heinle.

Snow, Marguerite Ann. 2001. Content-Based and Immersion Models for Second and Foreign Language Teaching” in Celce-Murcia, Marianne. (ed.). Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language.(Third Edition). Boston, MA: Heinle.

Wardhaugh, Ronald. & Fuller, M. Janet. 2015. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics.(Seventh Edition). Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley & Sons, Inc.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2017 Proceedings of ISELT FBS Universitas Negeri Padang

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

This Proceedings is Currently indexed by:

Google Scholar.

The Proceedings of International Seminar on English Language and Teaching is registered at LIPI