TEACHER’S DIRECT FEEDBACK TO STUDENTS’ SPOKEN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IN SPEAKING CLASS (A Case Study at Private Religious Junior High School In Ciamis)

Abstract

ABSTRACT This research reports on the teacher uses direct feedback in teaching speaking descriptive text, and the student perceptions toward direct feedback in speaking descriptive text. Furthermore, direct feedback in teaching speaking descriptive text also give the student new experience in learning speaking, the student perception also showed the positive reaction from them. Using direct feedback in teaching speaking is the way to make the student more confidence and interest in learning English. The teachers expect that in the future the student can make self correction. In conducting this research the researchers used qualitative research in which case study was employed to collect the data from participants. The participants in this research were an English teacher and twenty students of eighth grade students at Private Religious Junior High School. There were three instruments used by the researchers in conducting the research such as observation, interview and questionnaire. The findings of the observation and the interview from the first question showed that there are ninth steps of using direct feedback which were used by the teacher in teaching speaking to the students. The conclusion is the use of direct feedback in speaking descriptive text can make the student more interested, will not make the student get any bored and keep student motivation. The researcher suggested that the English teacher who want to look for alternative technique, method and strategies in teaching speaking can implement direct feedback as an easy way to increase student motivation and interest in learning process