English teaching in vocational high scho

English Instructional Procedures

The next component of learning needs to be analyzed was

procedure that basically refers to the activity the students need to do in accordance with the input. In so doing, the questionnaire was designed to record the four basic skills teaching-learning activities the students’ preferred. The findings could be briefly illustrated as follows: 62.5% students preferred listening to dialog and answering the questions, the types of speaking activities the students preferred were role play and practicing dialog and monolog, for reading activities they (87.5%) dominantly liked to find the meanings of vocabularies in the text and also finding the main ideas of the text while others liked reading text and answer comprehension questions, and, lastly, the writing activity they preferred was completing gaps in the sentence and arranging jumbled sentence to be a text (84.37%).

In addition to the four basic skills teaching-learning activities, the questionnaire was also designed for eliciting information related to the students’ preferences on the teaching of vocabulary and grammar. The item number (18) regarding to vocabulary teaching, a majority of students (seventeen students or 53.12%) declared that they preferred to list new words from text and looking up the meanings in the dictionary. Meanwhile, five (15.62%) students preferred matching English words with the meanings, whereas some of them preferred doing crossword.

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Moreover, regarding to the grammar activities, they (56.25%) preferred correcting the mistake of sentence structure, seven of them (21.87%) preferred writing sentences as the given examples while the others liked to identify and correct the mistakes in sentences, and the others claimed that they preferred to identify the mistakes in the sentence.