AULAITA SETYA SISWANTO, 121411231012 (2018) LANGUAGE TEACHING TECHNIQUES AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT USED IN TEACHING RECOUNT TEXT AT SMP NEGERI 2 TAMAN. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Airlangga.

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Abstract

English is considered as a foreign language and is established as the compulsory subject in every Indonesia‟s school. In English teaching and learning process, teacher expects the students to always be active. This student activeness can determine how their engagement level towards the teacher‟s teaching technique. Hence, the study focuses to discuss the teaching techniques applied by the teacher in teaching recount text and to identify the student engagement based on the student participation. Subjects were two English teachers and two classes of the eighth grade at SMP Negeri 2 Taman with 37 students in each class. The study adopted qualitative approach and employed classroom observation, data recording, teachers and students‟ interview using stimulated-recall and unstructured interview. The types of teaching technique are identified by theory Grammar Practice Activities from Ur (2006) and the level of student engagement toward the techniques is analyzed by Barkley (2010). This study found six out of nine techniques were applied by the teachers in two classes. These techniques were reception with no overt, reception with minimal response, brainstorm, fluid pair, and semi-controlled small group transactions. Among these techniques, the semi-controlled small group transactions technique invited most student participation and therefore the level of engagement is categorized High Engagement (HE) while techniques reception with no overt response, reception with minimal response, teacher-student exchange, brainstorm, and fluid pair shows low level of engagement (LE) in which the teachers dominate in the activities. It was concluded that teacher should give appropriately challenging activities to increase the level of engagement.

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