Farhan Abdurrachman

NAME : FARHAN ABDURRACHMAN NIM : 171230103 CLASS : TBI 6C Speaking and Listening through Drama book on ‘speaking and listening’ that guides teachers into ways of enriching communication in the classroom. There is now a general recognitionamong teachers that in spite of the good intentions behind the inclusion of speaking and listening within curriculum skills, the normal culture of the classroom is such that any practice in these skills is limited by the narrowness and rigidity of that very culture: teachers use the language of the teacher in the classroom and listen to their pupils from their position of authority; and, in turn, the pupils respond in their role as ‘pupils’ and, if they listen to each other, they are attending as one ‘pupil’ to another ‘pupil’, their roles defined and confined. An analysis of the language used in the classroom would inevitably reveal a mixture of teacher ‘instructing or questioning’ and pupil ‘answering’. This is not the best context for expanding ‘sp...