This study investigated the perceptions of teachers of the Junior High and the Senior
High Schools on the Communicative Language Teaching ( CLT ) in Irian Jaya province,
Indonesia. Forty- six participants were involved in this study, i.e., twenty JHS teachers,
twehty SHS teachers, four headmasters and two supervisors. Three instruments:
questionnaire, interview and field study were employed to collect the data. Interviews
and field study were carried out by the researcher in Indonesia. Spearman's rho was used
to correlate answers about teaching principles of CLT and chi-square tests were used to
examine responses on the relevance of subjects and the influence of the course on
professional knowledge and teaching skills. The participants' opinion on the most and the
least useful units was discussed based on the calculated frequency. The problems faced
by the participants in implementing CLT were analyzed. The benefits of CLT were
analysed and categorized into positive and negative points. Results indicated that both
teaching levels have positive perceptions on CLT. Both groups showed an overall
similarity in problems faced in their teaching, on the usefulness and the relevance of
units presented in the Teacher Training despite some minor differences. It is argued that
it is necessary for the teachers to give consideration to the teaching of vocabulary. It is
also desirable to train the teachers to design tests which are valid and reliable.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219329 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Siahaan, Rosemary, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Rosemary Siahaan |
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