during the learning process, besides the students’
test result, for the whole semester to determine the
students’ final score.
The other aspect of the current practice was the
students, covering their enthusiasm and interest,
interaction in the classroom and the accomplishment
of their learning goals. In terms of this aspect, in the
process of teaching and learning classroom the
students have had good enthusiasm seen from their
attention on the teacher’s explanation of the learning
materials and the willingness to do the exercises in
the grammar book or exercises provided by the
group who did the presentation, and discussed the
material with their classmates. However, the
students did not yet practice the materials that have
been learned with their classmates nor asked their
teachers if they have difficulties in understanding the
learning materials. These phenomena could be
occurred due to the view of learning the language
usually focus more on the language form. In fact in
learning English grammar, the students should focus
on the form and the meaning at the same time. This
is in line to the argument pointed out by Bandar and
Gorjian (2017) that learners provided with learning
instruction that focuses on form and meaning
continuously resulting in students better
achievement on English grammar. In addition, the
reluctance in using the language or asking questions
to teachers about the language grammar could be
caused by the boredom of learning the grammar and
the view that language grammar is not important to
learn from their point of view at the time of learning.
It is a misleading thought in interpreting the
communicative approach with its communicative
competence which in fact putting grammatical
competence as the first one of the four competence.
It can be said that grammar knowledge is the prime
element of a language learning process since
itexisted in every language skill.
Finally, regarding the situation aspect of the
current practice of English grammar learning, all
facilities needed for the teaching and learning
process has been fulfilled. The classroom has had a
good tables’ and chairs’ arrangement, lightning and
whiteboard, and LCD projector. This condition has
fulfilled a good environment for language learning
and has provided technology for the learning
language. Larsen-Freeman dan Anderson (2011)
state that technology not only supports the learning
process but also gives a contribution to easing
learners accessing any source for learning the new
language.
The result of the interview on the teachers’
expectation on the grammar learning model showed
that in term of the aims of learning, the students’
mastery of English grammar, the approach, the
material, media and assessment of learning, the
teachers’ expectation are realistic since a good
teaching and learning process involving all of those
elements. The teachers expect to have a grammar
learning course that aims to teach the students the
basic knowledge of English grammar, the parts of
speech, the tenses and the knowledge on how to ask
questions in English. The students are also expected
to master that knowledge as well for the grammar
course. This expectation could be caused by the
view on the importance of this basic knowledge for
learning English. The parts of speech consisted of
nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, and
prepositions are there in English sentences. For the
approach, both teachers expect to have an approach
that combines both the deductive and inductive ways
of learning English grammar. The approach could be
the one called Story-based approach with its four
phases; ‘presentation, attention, co-construction and
extension’ (Adair-Hauck and Donato, 2010). In
other words, they expect to have grammar learning
that focuses on forms and meaning or oriented to
communication. However, the teachers also note that
they still prefer the deductive approach as it was the
one approach they have familiar with, the one they
were taught or trained in during their study time
years ago.
Next, for the material. Both teachers prefer to use
the commercial and did not too fond of the material
designed by the teachers themselves or the
compilation materials. One teacher agreed to use the
materials from the websites that discuss the grammar
materials as it can be used as the additional material,
the other teacher still preferred to used the
commercial textbook. This finding shows that the
teacher did not like to develop the material
themselves, and tend to rely on the commercial book.
This could be due to the ease in finding the book and
use it in the teaching and learning process without
much effort on designing ones that met the
students’needs. In fact, a teacher should design the
course which has clear goals of learning and
materials. Relying on the textbook only will limit the
students’ input on grammar knowledge.
Then for the media, the teachers expect to have
an LCD projector and laptop but they consider using
social media such as youtube and facebook
unnecessary. The preferences to rely on textbook
only and do not open the ways of learning to match
new developments in language teaching will limit
the students’ absorbing knowledge process. The
teacher should allow the students to find out other
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