CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

English Language Education students’ perception toward The Effectiveness of Teaching

1.1 Research Background

In education, there are some supported components that can lead students to

successful and reach their dreams. Those are teachers, students, curriculum, facilities and

infrastructure, and society. Teacher is a one of the important component of it. Pullias,

Young, and Weinstein (as cited in Daud, 2006) argued that a teacher has some roles,

those are as a teacher, as an educator, as adviser and supervisor, and also as a student

model. Teacher’s responsibilities are not to teach the students, but also educate,

supervise, facilitate, and become a someone who loved by their student. Moreover, it is

explained by Syaodih (as cited in Mudri, 2010) that teacher has important roles in

planning and implementing of teaching and learning process. The most important of

teacher in education is that the teacher must have a good quality and capability.

The act of Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia No. 20 year 2003 about National

Education System, Verse 42 (2003: 28) is an effort to improve the quality of teachers as

well as to improve the quality of education in Indonesia. This Act explained about
become Indonesian teachers, they should have good qualification and certifications, and

be stable physically and mentally to fulfill Indonesia’s educational purposes. There are

many methods that can be done to create a good and professional teacher, for example

Practicum, Microteaching, and Practice Teaching Program.

According to Sudjoko (2001), Microteaching is chance to be a teacher in

environmental class. Student teacher will try to be a teacher from the preparation,

learning process and evaluation. The goal of this chance is to prepare, develop and

improve the quality of graduate student teachers who meet the standards of professional

competence. Knight (as cited in Hasibuan and Moedjiono, 2010) argued that trough

Microteaching students will be trained in some basic skills, which are: Skill in the

opening and closing lessons, asking skills, delivering material, skills in using a variety of

learning, giving feedback, managing class, discuss development and skills in using the

media. While the practicum is applied learning to give students practical experience in

teaching and practicing interact with teachers in the school. Implementation of the

program aims to build courage practicum student teacher in teaching and applying the

knowledge that they've got in university.

Teaching Practice Program is a method who is addressed for English language

education students in university, which includes, teaching and improving our skills of

teaching. This activity is a chance to develop the professional competencies required by

the employment of teachers or other educational systems in a school. According to

Hamalik (2003) Teaching Practice Program is a personal English Language Education

student who has a set of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior patterns necessary for

the profession as well as proficient and appropriate use in the provision of education and
teaching. So, when you want to become a professional teacher, it needs enough

experience to fulfill the qualification and certification.

The implementation of this program gives advantage for English Language

Education students of professionalism experience as a teacher. Teaching practice program

has advantages not also for English Language Education students. But, it is for institution,

and the university. According to Utomo (2012) Teaching Practice Program is

implemented for student teacher so they can develop their skills as a teacher and get an

opportunity to implement their knowledge. Later on, the institution also gets benefit from

this practice, improving their academic quality and gives a new innovation for the

institution from a report of Teaching Practice Program.

Considering the importance of Teaching Practice Program, monitoring and

evaluating are needed to find out effectiveness of the program. So, can help the English

Language Education students become professional teachers. Thus, this research aims to

help English Language Education Department in every university to monitoring the result

and evaluation the role, quality and effectiveness of the teaching practice program. This

study will be held in English Language Education Universitas Brawijaya . Teaching

Practice Program in English Language Education Universitas Brawijaya is usually held

for sixth semester students. The students do the teaching practice program senior high

schools in Malang which is selected by the institution. It is usually held for two months

and their teaching practices based on predetermined schedule by school. Yet, this

pandemic of Coronavirus force student teacher make other plan to do this Teaching

Practice Prorgram. This program will conduct in Online, which is the student teacher

gives a material, explanation and teach in virtual learning. So, this is why researcher
 conduct a research about the effectiveness of Teaching Practice Program on Virtual

Learning during this pandemic.

1.2 The Purpose of the study

This paper will focus on several issues; the first is how Teaching Practice Program

can support teaching skills of English Language Education students batch 2017, and the

second is to know the effectiveness of Teaching Practice Program on Virtual Learning to

support teaching skills of English Language Education. The purpose of the study in this

case is to know about how Teaching Practice Program during Virtual Learning can

support teaching skills of English Language Education students batch 2017 and also

know the effectiveness of this program

1.3 Research Problems

Through this research I will get some types of questions which related with

the problem, there are:

1. How do the students of English Language Education students Universitas

Brawijaya know about the effectiveness of Teaching Practice Program?

2. How can the Teaching Practice Program on Virtual learning support their teaching
skills?

1.4 Significance of The Study

The results of this research will give an understanding to me and the others

English Language Education student about the role and benefits of the implementation of

the Teaching Practice Program on Virtual Learning by analyzing their experience of

Teaching Practice Program, participants can offer their opinion about all that they get
 during the activity.

1.5 Definition of Key Terms

In this research, the researcher wants to clarify by giving definitions to some terms of the

research title to avoid misunderstanding and ambiguity among readers. The definition of

key terms is explained as follows:

a. Students’ Perception is students’ awareness related to information or students’ way of

understanding about opinion or believe about technology that is used to improve their

knowledge.

b. Teaching Practice Program is the period of time when you as a student teacher get

first experience in working as the real teacher in the school

c. Virtual learning is a learning experience that is enhanced through utilizing computers

and/or the internet both outside and inside the facilities of the educational organization.

The instruction most commonly takes place in an online environment.