STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS LECTURERS’ TEACHING METHODS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESSES AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITASMUHAMMADIYAHYOGYAKARTA BATCH 2012
Abstract
Lecturers’ teaching methods play an important role in teaching and learning process. It is because lecturers’ teaching method gives big influence in the students’ ability. Each lecturer has different characteristics to transfer his or her knowledge to the students. It depends on their skills and their attitude.Whatever the methods used by the lecturers in teaching and learning process, the students should grasp the material successfully to achieve the learning objective. This study aims to investigate the students’ perceptions towards lecturers’ teaching methods in teaching and learning process. This research used qualitative research methodology, this research took place in EED UMY with the respondents from students in academic year 2012. To collect the data the researcher used interview to the six respondents. The researcher also used coding to analyze the data. The result of this research showed what the lecturers teaching methods implemented at EED UMY based on EED UMY students’ perceptions and how the lectuers teaching methods implemented at EED based on EED UMY students’ perceptions. There are six methods in this research include presentation, demonstration, discussion, drill and practice, role play, and the last is games.