The Strategies in Building an Active Learning Environment in English Classroom: Pre-service Teachers' Perceptions

Anang Yuniyanto Wibowo,Okta Widia Sari,Bambang Widi Pratolo,Fahmi Fahmi,Nurul Ihsan

doi:10.13189/ujer.2020.082544

Abstract

The study is aimed to investigate the strategies and preparations for building an active learning environment. The study involved five students who had a good experience in teaching for at least one month to two months and are considered capable of creating an active learning environment in the classroom. The in-depth interview structure conducted in this study has two main objectives, namely: (1) to identify what kind of strategies that can be applied to implement the active learning environment in the classroom; and (2) to find out what must be prepared by the pre-service English teachers in conducting the teaching and learning process at school. The findings of the study showed that there are four main strategies and three main things that should be prepared by the participants in building an active learning environment. The strategies are: Combining student's interests with instructional media, Providing motivational videos to improve student's enthusiasm, Applying TPR method to enhance student's vocabulary, and Practicing English through web-based learning. Meanwhile, the preparations to run the strategies are: Adjusting the teaching environment, Selecting learning resources, and Supplying interactive media to increase student's interest in learning English. Thus, these findings can be used as reference for English teachers who are facing the problems in building an active learning environment during teaching and learning process.

Highlights

Active learning is a learning activity that involved students actively with their peers in learning process [1]
An active learning environment cannot be achieved if the students are shy and nervous in their learning process [4]
This study is aimed to investigate the strategies that can be done by pre-service English teacher in building an active learning environment that are preferred by the students

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Active learning is a learning activity that involved students actively with their peers in learning process [1]. Other study asserted that active learning involves an interaction between the students and the teachers [2]. The common problem that can hamper the student’s confidence and creativity in learning is the lack of active learning environment. This problem surely decrease the student’s productivity in learning especially the implementation of English language itself in the classroom. Creating an active learning is not an easy task, the teacher needs preparation and some strategies to accomplish it. An active learning environment cannot be achieved if the students are shy and nervous in their learning process [4]. The learning strategies is needed to build an active learning

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