Title: A suggested technique of teaching English tenses communicatively by using picture stories to the first year students of Junior High School
Abstract: Language is used by people in the word to
communnicate with other people. Among languages in the world,
English is an important language that should be
learned. Learning English does not merely learn the
sound system of the language, but the grammar must also be learned.
English grammar is important to be learned by students of foreign languages because it helps them to communicate better in either spoken and written English grammar has many items, one of them tenses.
Tenses concern the changes of verbs in relating to times. In Indonesian, there are no tenses. Therefore learning tenses brings some problems to Indonesian students. They tend to use their Indonesian grammar as their background knowledge. Besides, the way of teaching English tenses at school is consider into be
both difficult and boring . As a result, they do not
have much interest in learning English grammar,
especially tenses. English teachers should, therefore
provide an interesting way of teaching.
To solve the problems, there are many ways to do,
but this study suggests improving the technique of
teaching English tenses communicatively by using
picture stories as media while teaching English tenses
for the first year students of Junior High School. Picture stories as a means of teaching & English tenses have a great number of advantages. Picture
stories can arouse the students’ interest and motivate them
to learn English tenses .
The picture used in this study is context-oriented type which is useful in introducing
dialogues, practicing structural patterns, or
stimulating oral and written compositions. The
approach that is suggested in the 1994 Curriculum is
Communicative Approach. Therefore, this study uses the
Communicatice Approach in teaching English tenses. And
the method which is used. in this study is Inductive
Method.
In conducting the teaching-learning activities in
the classroom by means of picture stories, the teacher
should follow three basic steps. They are (1)
Preparation in which the teacher deter mines the
teaching objectives, prepares the teaching materials,
prepares picture stories as a media, prepares the
teaching-learning activities, and the evaluation; (2)
Presentation in which the teacher conducts the
teaching-learning activities; (3) Evaluation in which
the teacher evaluates the students to know how far
they have understood the teaching materials given to
them. This study is the results of a library study which based on theories only. The writer has obtained must information from books, papers, and articles to support this study, however, she believes that this study can be applied in a real classroom. Therefore, she hopes that later somebody could conduct & field research concerning this study.
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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