REPORT-1

    

     According to our results of observation, the language the teacher focuses  on is target language. Although the teacher uses the target language well, students often use their mother tongue and sometimes they don’t answer or they answer in L1.

    Firstly , english teachers have used Grammar Translation Method for years, so these students at our observation school have got accustomed to this method. They expect to translate something from target language into their mother tongue. Thus, they have difficulty in understanding what the teacher said in the target language. They have limited vocabulary knowledge because they focus on just grammar not to make mistakes while they are speaking. They have tendency to translate everything which they hear. Contrary to GTM , the teacher uses Direct Method. There must be interaction between students and teacher in direct method . First language is forbidden in this method. The students always want to speak in first language and try to find the relationship between second language and their first language during the lesson , so the communication between students and teacher doesn’t emerge.. In that , some conflicts occur in classroom atmosphere.

     Secondly, there aren’t enough activity on skills like speaking and listening for improving their communicative competence. They focus on TEOG exam although their book includes many speaking and listening activities. In addition, it is debatable whether these activities are authentic or not. Thus, students don’t set relation between  the activities and real life. In that, lesson is not pragmatic because they can’t meet the needs of communication in their lives.

    To sum up, although constructivism have to be used in our education system, direct method is used by our teacher and our students can not adapt themselves to teacher’s method . They expect that the rule of the teacher is like the one in GTM because the teacher is active while the students are passive. However, the teacher is trying to make them active now according to the principles of DM.

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