ASHLEIGH SAYER’S METHOD OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING IN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS CLASS TO SIXTH SEMESTER ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS AT IAIN ANTASARI BANJARMASIN ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010

Abstract

Abdu Subhan, 2010. Ashleigh Sayer’s Method Of Communicative Language Teaching In Psycholinguistics Class To Sixth Semester English Department Students At Iain Antasari Banjarmasin Academic Year 2009/2010. Thesis, English Department. Tarbiyah Faculty. Advisor : (1) Dra. Hj. Nida Mufidah, M. Pd, (2) Nani Hizriani, M.A. This study describes Ashleigh Sayer’s method of communicative language teaching in psycholinguistics class to sixth semester English Department students at IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin academic year 2009/2010. The problems in this research including: how are the communicative language teaching method and techniques used by Ashleigh Sayer in teaching psycholinguistics to the sixth semester English Department students? And what is the response of the sixth semester English Department students regarding her method and techniques? Based on the statement of problem above, this study is supposed to understand better about Ashleigh Sayer’s method of communicative language teaching and techniques used by Ashleigh Sayer in teaching psycholinguistics to sixth semester English department students and the response of the students regarding her method and techniques of teaching. The writer uses subject and object in this research. The subject of this research is one native English teacher and all the sixth semester English Department students at IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin academic year 2009/2010. There are 62 numbers of student which consist of 37 males and 25 females. The data collection used: observation, interview, documentary and questionnaire. Data processing in this research is divided into five stages, they are editing, coding, scoring, tabulating and interpreting. Then all data analyzed descriptively and quantitatively and use inductive method to make conclusion. The result of the research denoted that Ashleigh Sayer used communicative language teaching method and applied some techniques which are adopted from communicative method it self. Some techniques that Ashleigh Sayer used in her class including: pair-work, group-work, learning by teaching, writing logs, English communication, informal greeting, showing agenda, independent participant, circle setting, authentic material, media, ignoring errors of grammar, reading activity and questions and answers. The response of the students regarding her method and techniques is classified into high category. It is based on the numbers of students who like her method and techniques very much is 43 students, 14 students who quite like, 5 students less like an no student dislike her class. It can be concluded so because when Ashleigh Sayer was teaching in her psycholinguistics class to the students, she teaches in a very good way which the approach is communicative approach. Communicative method lets the students practice more their language and the teacher always makes the students able to enjoy and less shy in the class which will help the teacher to teach all the material.