IMPROVING STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN CLASS BY STRENGTHENING TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION

Serdar Saparov, Dewi Rochsantiningsih, Hefy Sulistyowati

Abstract

This study focuses on the implementation of teacher-student
interaction strength in improving students’ participation in a bilingual boarding
high school in Central Java. The goals of this study are, (1) describing whether
and to what extent teacher-student interaction improves the student
participation in class, (2) to identify the advantages and difficulties in
implementing this strategy in this research. I adopted Classroom Action
Research (CAR) which requires four steps, namely planning, implementing,
observing, and reflecting. The participants are 23 high school students. The
methods of data collection are observation, diary, interview, photograph, pretest,
and post-test. In analyzing data I used (1) constant comparative technique
by Burns (1999) (qualitative), (2) descriptive statistic technique (quantitative).
After analyzing the data, I found out that the change in participation in class
was seen clearly and all the responses from the students were positive.
Moreover the average score of students` speaking skill increased from 62.77 to
84.51.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20961/edj.v4i3.40074

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