A Descriptive Study on The English Teaching Process at One of Junior High School in Banjarmasin

Abstract

In the English teaching process, the teacher should find out appropriate material, media, and method. The teacher gives the materials that are suitable for the syllabus and based on the curriculum. A teacher can affect the success or failure of teaching English process because a teacher can take a decision for every activities in teaching-learning process. The teacher can take the choice of method to be applied in the teaching-learning process. The method of teaching must be practiced in class. This study employed a descriptive method and qualitative approach. The research is conducted at the ninth grade of SMP Negeri 25 Banjarmasin and the teacher as the subject. Observation and interview were used in this research as instrumentations. This study described the material, media, and method in the English teaching process. Based on the results of the study, the researcher concluded that the teacher used material from the textbook for ninth grade “Bahasa Inggris_Think Globally Act Locally". The teacher used visual media such as picture, textbook, whiteboard, and board marker. The teacher used various methods. From the results, it suggested to the teacher should enrich learning and increase students’ knowledge. A teacher should use interesting media in teaching to make the students interested and enthusiastic in learning. A teacher should always use different method in teaching to avoid students’ boredom in the English teaching process.