Classroom Description: Structure II

Setting:

A private university in Surabaya, Indonesia

Faculty: Faculty of Teacher Training and Education

Study Program: English Education

Mission: To produce teachers of English for elementary and secondary schools.

Name of the Course: Structure II

Learners: They are 3rd semester students. The class consists of 30 students – 23 females and 7 males – ranging from 19-22 years old. Their English competence is intermediate and post-intermediate. The students come from various parts of the country who possess different levels of education.

Course Goals:

Students possess the ability to:

§  Understand, use and produce compound sentences with their various forms of subject, direct object, indirect object, subject complement, object complement, object of preposition and appositive using:

• Present tenses (simple and progressive)
• Past tenses (simple and progressive)
• Future tenses (simple and progressive)
• Present perfect tenses (simple and progressive)
• Past perfect tenses (simple and progressive)
• Future perfect tenses (simple and progressive)

§  Understand, use and produce active and passive sentences in their various complex forms, meanings, and uses using the tenses taught.

§  Write English passive sentence constructions correctly.

Learning Strategies:

§  Lectures

§  Group discussions

§  Homework

Assessment:

§  Assignments

§  Quizzes

§  Mid-term test

§  Final-term test

Student needs:

They need to master all tenses both in active and passive sentences and several sentence constructions and apply them in contexts. It needs in-depth understanding of forms, meanings, and uses of various tenses so that they can apply correct tenses in appropriate contexts. Possessing this ability is essential for the students as they will use them when they become conduct their teaching practices in schools.

Computer literacy:

The English Department possesses several laboratories with many computers connected to the internet, which are Multimedia Laboratory, Digital Language Laboratory, Reading and Writing Laboratory. Wi-Fi is also available for those who want to use their laptops. All students have ample computer literacy and most of them have Face book accounts.

Each classroom has a computer, LCD projector, a big screen and two whiteboards on two sides of the wall. However, the computer is not connected to the internet.