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Analysing a Vidio about Teaching of Poetry

Occured at primary stage in India
Teaching was presented on 10 December 2010
published on 7 April 2014
The students in the class about 40 students
taught by Aastha Nayyar
This vidio was one of the six videos for English language teaching (ELT) at the primary stage.


This vidio which  was occured about 27 minutes has three stages, namely the opening stages, contents and closing. On the opening stage, the teacher asked students about something that has a relationship with the material that will be taught is about poetry cows. Then the content stage, the teacher read the poem first and poem were read back by students then read out again together. Then teachers wrote new vocabularies on the board and explain it. Then teachers shared them in three groups to work together in determining whether the group action word, describing word and naming word. In the closing stages, the teacher discussed questions of the poem.There were four things that should be analyzed in this vidio, they are teaching method / techniques characteristic of teaching, correcting students’ error (feedback), Classroom management interaction and expectation.
1.    First, teaching method / techniques characteristic of teaching.
The teaching method that teacher used in this vidio was combine method; Communicative  Language Teaching (CLT), Direct method and Total Physical Respone (TPR). We know that the teacher used CLT by the way teacher taught from beginning until the end of teaching. Teacher emphasized on speaking. Firstly, teacher start the lesson by asking them. It would stimulate them to be interactive. When teacher asked them, they will raise their hands and say “mom please mom, mom please mom” they really wanted to answer. Students in the class were very active. As CLT’s theory; “The teacher facilitates communication in the classroom. In this role, one of her major responsibilities is to establish situations likely to promote communication.” (Littlewood 1981). Next, Direct method. Almost all of process in this teaching  vidio used Direct method, we know it when we see the way students read the poem with reading loudly. Then, they were very active. They might ask or answer the questions to teacher and the important one is they use English for speaking. According to freeman (2000, pg. 31) The  characteristic of Direct method has one very basic rule; No translation is allowed. It was agree with the way teacher taught in this vidio. The last one is, Total Physical Respone (TPR). Sometimes, teacher gave command to the students, such as “Sit down!” or demonstrate how the cow walks. It shows that teacher used TPR method here. According to freeman (2000, Pg. 113) in TPR methode the teacher give commands to students.
2. Correcting students’ error (feedback).
For correcting students, teacher used Direct method. Teacher corrected them directly by conversation practice, such as teacher asked them about their understanding of poem which has been read. Another example is when one of students fault to say “danger” which she means dangerous, then the teacher gave a choice, “danger or dangerous.” Then, the student considered that she was wrong.  It was appropriate with the Direct method theory; “the teacher of this class has the students self-correct by asking them to make a choice between what they said and an alternative answer she supplied.”
3. Classroom management interaction.
interaction between teachers and students were very good. Teacher explained the material in English and students understood what the teacher mean. students were very active and very much enjoyed the learning process. The teacher in this vidio very good in making eye contact with students, she also knew students’ names and students’ responses were very good.
4. Expectation
For class management have to be more effective, because we know that the students were very active but unfortunately they were too much for the narrow class. These conditions will make teacher become difficult to optimize the ability of students. Then for technique of teaching, hopely, the teacher also point students who never raise their hands, so that the teacher can see the development of learners evenly.


Larsen, Diane and Freeman, 2000, Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching. Melbourne: Oxford university press 2000

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