Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes towards Teaching Grammar during Their Teaching Practicum

Abstract

As ED students learning to teach English, they need a real life situation experience about teaching called teaching practicum. The teaching racticum gives students images and motivation before they work as teachers. In regards to that, it is necessary to find more studies about pre-service teachers. This study aims to find and describe pre-serviceteachers’ attitudes toward teaching grammar during their teaching practicum which makes this study descriptive. The subjects of this study were ten ED students who were taking the teaching practicum in SMP N 1 Banyubiru and SMP N 2 Tuntang. In this study, standardized open-ended interview used to obtain the data which were gathered on 10th – 31th December, 2014. The questions were adapted from Nguyen and Hudson (2010) and Jolanta (2007) who also conducted a research on pre-service teachers. The results of the interview were analyzed using a content analysis technique. Most of the participants had positive attitudes toward teaching grammar. Participants’ opinions and feeling are described in this study. From the finding of this study, some suggestions were also proposed to increase the pre-service teachers’ quality.