English teaching in vocational high scho

Teacher’s and Learners’ Role

The teacher’s and learners’ role is the next component to be

analyzed. In terms of teacher’s role, a significant percentage (62.5%) preferred their teacher to be a motivator and facilitator on their learning. Some of them indicated that they preferred their teacher teaching communicatively. As to the learners’ role, there were only fourteen (43.75%) preferred to be not only a good listener but also a good performer while only a small percentage (12.5%) indicated that they preferred to be responsive participants in teaching-learning activities. Some of them preferred to be passive participants.

Setting

Setting that involves the kinds of grouping the students will do the tasks and where they will do the tasks is the last component of learning needs in this questionnaire. The results of item (22) indicated that 46.87% (fifteen) students admitted that they preferred to do the tasks in groups, while eleven students (34.75%) agreed that they preferred to do the tasks individually, and the rest preferred to do whole class work and in pairs.