UNVEILING THE STUDENTS’ OPENING AND CLOSING SKILLS DURING THE MICRO TEACHING IN EFL CLASSROOM

Abstract

Opening and closing the lesson is one of the basic teaching skills in Micro Teaching subject. Micro teaching is a subject that prepares and trains the teacher candidates to be able to practice teaching. Every teacher candidate needs to comprehend and practice opening and closing the lesson skill in teaching practice. The purpose of this research was to describe the teacher candidates’ performance in opening and closing the lesson skill in Micro Teaching Subject. This research was categorized as a descriptive qualitative. There were five teacher candidates of the undergraduate students of the English study program of Timor University chosen as the sample. The researcher applied random sampling techniques to select the participants. The researcher used recorder and rubric to assess the basic teaching skills as the research instruments. In the procedures of collecting data; the researcher applied observation and recording techniques. The data of oral language were transcribed into written form and then the data were analyzed. The research findings reported that greeting and asking the students’ condition, checking the students’ attendance, prayer, and introducing the topic were very good, attracting the students’ attention, mentioning the learning objectives, and using probing questions were good. While closing the lesson; reviewing the material and , giving homework/tasks were very good while giving feedback, informing the next topic and motivation were good.