Nursyazwani Binti Tolos (Tesl Sem7)

What is happening in the classroom? Students are not able to respond appropriately in formal and informal situations for a variety of purposes.

E.g. When teacher greet them. “How are you?”/ “Where are you going?”

Unable to use English words in their daily life.

Focus: Listening & SpeakingAm I giving my learners what they need?

Yes, I give them a stimulus and drill with guidance.

e.g. Q&A sentence structure (dialogue)

They practice to use the related words repeatedly.

e.g. substitution drills, transformation drills, chain drills

What do they really think about the lessons?

Boring, because they practice on the same sentence structure throughout the lesson.

What do they expect from me as their teacher?

Provide them with communicating learning environment.

Provide most important sentence structure regarding to the situation in their daily life.

They can practice the same materials in different ways.

What would they like more of/less of? They like to do role play activities.

They do not like writing activities.

What are their preferred ways of learning?

Collaborative learning. Visual learning.

Activity 2.2: Writing your reflection about past teaching experiences.

Nursyazwani Binti Tolos (Tesl Sem7)

What is problematic about my teaching?

Time managementLanguage usage – S unable to understand difficult word.Not challenging activities.

Why does the problem exist? The lesson goes in 1 hour but the students take a lot of time when completing the activity.Teacher use word that are not within student`s vocab.

What is the worst case scenario? Too much time assisting the students.Textbook based.Translate into Bahasa.

What have I done to address the problem?

Get advice from supervisor and guidance teacher.Collaborative activities.

What else can I do? Provide materials that relate to the topic of the day.

What are the factors in my own history and experiences that made me interested in this area of inquiry?

When teacher teach only listening and speaking which drill on the same materials, students feel bored.

Activity 2.3: Preparing the problem statement

Nursyazwani Binti Tolos (Tesl Sem7)

Briefly restate your problem situation:Students not able to respond to the teacher`s greeting automatically

Root cause:Grammar error, students are not motivated to use English in daily life, lack of practices.

Actions:Role play, drilling, drama, collaborative activities, direct question, provide students with the most important structure and sample regarding to the topic of the day.

Decide on an action from the list above as research focus:To overcome the problem of students Students not able to respond to the teacher`s greeting automatically, I will provide students with the most important structure and sample regarding to the topic of the day using drilling technique.

Activity 2.5: Stating your research focus.