AN ANALYSIS OF THAI STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS EFFECTIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS ( A Case Study at Twelfth Grade Students of Santitham Islamic Foundation School, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.)

PUTRI SIRAIT, RIMA (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF THAI STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS EFFECTIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS ( A Case Study at Twelfth Grade Students of Santitham Islamic Foundation School, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.). S1 thesis, UNIVERSITAS SULTAN AGENG TIRTAYASA.

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This research aims to investigate Thai High School students‟ perception of effective English language teacher and also to compare those perception with teaching qualities of English teachers in that school. This research has two research questions. First is about how the students perceive effective English teacher and second is about how English teachers fulfill the characteristics of effective English teacher as perceived by the students. Brown‟s theory (2000) of effective language teacher was adopted in this research. There are four major categories of effective language teacher included in the theory; technical knowledge, pedagogical skills, interpersonal skills and personal qualities. The data were collected by using 3 instruments. The data from close-ended questionnaire were proposed to answer the first research question. The data that gathered from observation were intended to answer the second research question. Semi-structured interview data were intended to get the credibility of the data by applying methodological triangualtion. The participants of this research were chosen purposively, consist of 17 twelfth grade students and 3 English teachers. The close-ended questionnaire data were analyzed quantitatively. Semi-structured interview and observation were analyzed qualitatively by using the theory of Miles and Huberman (1994) regarding the procedure of analyzing qualitative data; data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing and verification. The data analysis of the first research question revealed that students perceived effective English teacher mostly from pedagogical and interpersonal skills. The data analysis of the second research question indicated that English teachers in that school had low teaching competency. They rarely spoke English during teaching. They had low teaching resource, method, approach and media. In conclusion, there was a large gap found between what students expected towards teacher‟s performance with what actually teachers performed; English teachers in SIFS did not fulfill the students‟ perception of effective English teacher.

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