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The Critical Analysis on Silent Way Method in EFL Classroom, the Researcher Recommended Some Point to Be Studied by the Future Researchers THE CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON SILENT WAY METHOD IN EFL CLASSROOM THESIS Submitted by: RAUDHATUL JANNAH Student of Faculty of Educational and Teacher Training Departmentof English Language Education Reg. no: 140203011 FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING AR-RANIRY STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY DARUSSALAM – BANDA ACEH 2018 M / 1440 H ACKNOWLEDGMENT In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful. Alhamdulillah, all praises be to Allah the Lord of universe with His mercies and blessings, the researcher could finish this thesis as one of the requirements for Bachelor degree at English Language Education Department and Teacher Training Faculty of Ar-Raniry Islamic State University (UIN Ar-Raniry) Banda Aceh. Shalawat and salam are also presented to prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) who delivered the truth to human being and guide His ummah to the right path. First of all, I would like to express my respect and my deepest gratitude and sincerest appreciation to Drs. Ayyub AR, M.Ag as the main supervisor and Alfiatunnur, S.Pd., M.Ed as co supervisor, for all their guidance, encouragement, energy, thoughts, suggestions and time during the process of completing this thesis. Next, the researcher’s deepest appreciation is addressed to Dr. Mustafa AR, M.A., Ph.D as my academic advisor, the head of English Language Education Department, Dr. T. Zulfikar, S.Ag., M.Ed, all staffs and lecturers in Department of English Language Education who have shared the knowledge and given the motivation and suggestions to me with care and patience. i Furthermore, I would like to express my greatest thanks to my beloved father Razali (the late) and mother Jamaliah who have always motivated and supported me with all their pray, love, guidance in finishing my thesis, without her love and pray, this thesis not have been possible, thanks a lot for all, may Allah bless them with happiness and strengths in this life and hereafter. Thank you to my close friends who always support me and give me motivation in conducting this research, Miftahul Jannah Abdul Fatah, Diah bunga Nastiti, Jasminur, Rika wahyuni, Najmiatul Fauza, Defi Heldia Rahmi, Santi Rahmadani, Megawati, Misrahul jannah, Jaza Anil Husna, Shafira Munawarah, Yossy Aprilla Ulfa J, Tiara Ulfa, Zulfadli, Nurridha Sunni, Sitti Rahma, TEN 01 2014, CND 11 Muq Langsa, and for all of the people who helped and supported me directly or indirectly in completing this thesis. Finally, I would like to express a great appreciation to English Language Education Department of UIN Ar-Raniry who allowed me to conduct this research and thanks to English Department’s students of unit 01 year 2014 for participating to be respondents during collected the data. Banda Aceh, 18 November 2018 Raudhatul Jannah ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................... i TABLE OF CONTENTS.................................................................................. iii LIST OF APPENDICES .................................................................................. v DECLARATION LETTER ............................................................................. vi ABSTRACT....................................................................................................... vii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION A. Background of Study....................................................................... 1 B. Research Questions ......................................................................... 3 C. Aim of Study ................................................................................... 3 D. Significance of Study ...................................................................... 3 E. Terminology .................................................................................... 4 F. Methodology.................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW A. Critical Analysis .............................................................................. 8 B. Silent Way Method.......................................................................... 8 C. Previous Study ................................................................................. 19 CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHOD A. Location of Research....................................................................... 21 B. Research Design ............................................................................. 21 C. Research Subject ............................................................................ 22 D. Data Collection Procedure .............................................................. 22 CHAPTER IV: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION A. Findings ........................................................................................... 24 1.The Students’ Opinion.................................................................. 24 2. The Activity on Silent Way Method ........................................... 29 3. The Additional Elements of Silent way method.......................... 32 B. Discussion........................................................................................ 35 iii CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION A. Conclusion ...................................................................................... 39 B. Recommendation............................................................................. 41 REFERENCES.................................................................................................. 43 APPENDICES AUTOBIOGRAPHY iv LIST OF APPENDICES I. Appointment Letter of Supervision II. Recommendation Letter of Conducting Research from Tarbiyah Faculty and Teacher Training III. Confirmation Letter of Conducting Research from PBI UIN Ar-Raniry IV. Interview Questions list V. Pictures of Silent way Media VI. Autobiography v vi ABSTRACT This study was conducted to find out the university students’ opinion, activities and additional suggestion about the silent way method in EFL classroom. It took place at English Language Education Department of Ar Raniry Islamic State University. The research participants were the eight semester students of unit 01 from English Language Education Department. The method used in this research was a qualitative research design. The researcher used interview to get the data and the result presented descriptively. Based on this research, the students’ opinion on silent way method was grouped into agree and disagree group’s participants. The agree group was a group of participants that mentioned the silent way method was effective used in teaching English, while the disagree group participants was a group that explained the silent way method was not appropriate in teaching English. Moreover, the activities in silent way method were the students paid attention and did instructions given by teacher. The students were participated actively. In addition, teaching English using silent way method were encouraged to combine with other methods and added instructional media to create learning process to be more effective. Keyword: silent way method, the activities, additional suggestions vii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of study English is a universal language, most of people use it as a tool of communication among the nations in all over the world. As an international language, English is important to be learnt of the people. There are some important techniques that are needed in learning English, such as modeling, imitating, instructing and implementing the method. In learning process, not all students can understand the material only by using one technique, but also need other elements. This is in accordance with Levert (1998, as cited in Abdurrahman, 2015, p. 24), the use of mimicking or modeling in learning process is not enough to produce the sound or phonetic string. For example, in teaching vocabulary the teacher not only becomes a model in spelling the words, but also she/he has to apply the method to make the students memorize it. Therefore, in teaching language the using of method is a significant key towards a successful teaching. According to Nunan (1991, p. 2), method is procedure and practice for orderly presentation of language materials that is used in teaching. In other word, the method is the procedure of teacher in teaching language, and as the effort to make learning effectively. As Xue & Fang states that “the approaches and methods of language teaching have cast light on the language teaching theory and practice” (2007, p. 69). In teaching language, there are a lot of 1 2 methods that can be used for teaching in English Foreign language (EFL) classroom, one of them is Silent way method. Silent way is a method of language teaching devised by Gattecno. In this method, the teacher should be silent as much as possible in the classroom, when the learners are encouraged to produce more language (Richards & Rogers, 1986, p. 81). The procedure of silent way method in teaching language is giving instruction. For example, in teaching vowel sound, teacher will stick five blocks of vowel sound (a,i,u,e,o) on the whiteboard with different colors. Then, the teacher will point each letter without saying the sound for the second times. In the third time, she will mention the sound of the letter. The students will repeat the sound by themselves when teacher points the block of vowel sound. Thus, “student is expected becomes independent, autonomous and responsible in learning” (Gattecno, 1979, cited in Richard & Rodger, 1986, p. 100). The students
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