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Citation: Shao, Kun., Tamashiro, Roy. (2015). Comparing teacher disposition inChina and the USA, research in higher education journal: 1-7.

The main purpose of this article is to compare the patterns of teacher dispositions in China with those patterns in the USA. Teacher disposition including enthusiasm, professional esteem and learning motivation play a big role in the students’ learning and achievement. To know the significance of those variables, fourteen experienced teacher and professors in China and the USA were joining oral and written narratives.

Personally, I think that teacher disposition affected the students’ learning and achievement. and this is not only happen in China and USA, but also in Indonesia as well. Because when I was in high school, I experienced that a motivated teacher will affect my motivation in studying as well. When I like way the teacher delivering the material, I will pay attention more on that subject and of course that will affect my achievement. if the teacher doesn’t really enthusiast when teaching the materials, the students will not motivated to study as well.

When I become a teacher someday, of course I will consider about teacher dispositions when doing learning activities in the classroom. I want to motivate my students to learn English by showing them my enthusiasm in teaching English. I mean, when I teach my students, I have to be enthusistic and well-prepared so that my students will pay attention more in the learning activities.

 

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Citation:

Purwaningsih, Reni., Rais, Ahmad Dahlan., & Sarosa, Teguh. (2014). Improving Students’ Speaking Ability Through Talking Chips, English Education Journal, 2(3):364-371.

 

The purposes of this study are to identify whether and to what extent Talking Chips can improve the students’ speaking ability, and to describe the classroom situation when talking chips are implemented in the speaking class. The method that used in this research is Classroom action research and it conducted in SMA Negeri 4 Surakarta. In this research, the researcher combined the talking chips with drilling technique and discussion.

The main problem of speaking ability of Indonesian student is they are not be able to speak fluently which happen because of the lack of vocabulary and confidence. The reason why they have low confidence and vocabulary is because they do not practice their speaking ability. In speaking class, only few students who actively participate in the classroom. Maybe because they have a high level of confidence so that they often speak up than the other students.

With talking chips method, the students will get the same portion of speaking in the class, so that the domination by some students will no longer happen. Someday, if I’m being a teacher, I will use talking chips as one of my methods in speaking class because it is proven that talking chips can develop students’ speaking skill ability.