The Community Language Learning

Experience

Whenever one of you would like to say something, raise your hand and I will come behind you.
Since this is your first English conversation, you may want to keep it simple. We have ten minutes for this activity.
No one speaks at first. Then a young woman raises her hand. The teacher walks to her chair. He stands behind her. ‘selamat sore’, she says. The teacher translates, ‘Good... After a little confusion with the switch on the microphone, she puts ‘Good’ on the tape and turns the switch off. The teacher then gives ‘evening’ and she tries to say ‘evening’ in the microphone but only gets out ‘eve…’ the teacher says again in a clear and warm voice, somewhat exaggerating the word, ‘eve…ning’. The woman tries again. She shows some signs of her discomfort with the experience, but she succeeds in putting the whole ‘evening’ on to the recording.

After the conversation has ended, the teacher sits in the circle and asks the students in Indonesian how they feel about the experience. One student says that he does not remember any of the English he has just heard.

What are characteristics of the teaching/learning process?

According to curran, there are six elements necessary for nondefensive learning. The first of these is security.

How is evaluation accomplished?

If, for example, the school requires that the students take a rest at the end of a course, then the teacher would see to it that the students are adequately prepared for taking it.

How does the teacher respond to student errors?

One way of doing this is for the teacher to repeat correctly what the student has said incorrectly, without calling further attention to the error. Techniques depend on where the students are in the five-stage learning process, but are consistent with sustaining a respectful, nondefensive relationship between teacher an students.





NAMA : ASMAENI