AN ENJOYABLE ENGLISH LEARNING

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Hello my dearest friends! Welcome back to my blog. In this time I would like to tell you some reason, why I choose one of journal to read, and also I would like to give some review of this journal. Happy reading ^^

Reason :

Before I tell the reason, you have to know the title about journal that I read. The title is “Improving English Speaking Ability Using the Team-Games-Tournament Technique”. After you read the title, how does it sounds? It is sounds interesting. Isn’t it? Yeah, me too. The reason why I choose the title is, because it is sound interesting and I want to know more about how this method is implemented for students in the class. Moreover, when people are afraid to learn English, with the team-games-tournament technique, it can increase the desire of someone to learn English and also it can creates a joyful, pleasant and enjoyable atmosphere in the class. Why do I choose speaking journals? Yeah, because speaking is one part of our daily life, and also it is important because speaking is the main basis of daily life as a means of interaction and communication.

Review :

This research was conducted at SMAN 1 Suka Makmur, Aceh Besar. The researcher chose this school because she had a lot of information about the achievements and the behavior of her students concerning their English. The subjects of this study were the researcher and the first year students at SMAN 1 Suka Makmur Aceh Besar and class X-2 in the academic year of 2015/2016. The researcher chose them because they are also English teacher who are basically knowledgeable about both English lessons and the principles of teaching it.

The Team-Games-Tournament is one of the cooperative learning techniques that can be used to improve students’ speaking ability. In this technique the students are grouped in heterogeneous teams. According to Slavin (1995), the steps used for the Team-Games-Tournament technique are as follows.

1.       Introductory Class Presentation

In this phase, the researcher delivers the material for the day to the students, i.e. the activities they will be doing plus giving some motivation to ignite the students’ interest to study. This phase is basically teacher-centered but only takes a very short time, around 5- 10 minutes.

2.       Team Division

In this step, the researcher divides the students into several teams, each with 4 or 5 heterogeneous students which means that the members of each team will be students with different abilities.

3.       Games

Now, the teacher distributes the prepared task. The student teams have to do the task which is presented in numbered pictures. The task will be to tell the story in the pictures orally. Each team takes a turn to present their story to the class.

4.       Awards Group

Lastly, the researcher announces the best team i.e. the team with the best score. This should motivate the other students in the following meetings.

There are also some advantages for this technique, as follows :

1.       The Team-Games-Tournament technique initiates student-student verbal interactions

2.       It gives the students in each team motivation to solve the problems of their task together

3.       It encourages responsibility amongst students

4.       It increases motivation and desire to learn amongst the teams

5.       It motivates the students to compete.

Alright my lovely friends, that’s all about my reason and review in journal of “Improving English Speaking Ability Using the Team-Games-Tournament Technique”. I hope you like it, and see you later. Much love, Yevi.

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