Soal PCK Bahasa Inggris

Middle school English teacher Mr Wanto has introduced a series of expository texts to improve students' thinking skills. These texts cover pressing environmental issue like climate change, deforestation, pollution, and conservation efforts. Wanto aims to raise awareness and foster responsibility toward the environment. However, many students show disinterest in the material, resulting in shallow answers and lack of depth. During listening activities, students appear distracted and lack engagement, missing core values and messages. Wanto believes that understanding and internalizing environmental conversation values is crucial for academic growth and global citizenship development. To address this issue, Wanto is exploring student-centered learning strategies that emphasize active participation, critical thinking, and personal connection to the content. He aims to create an engaging and interactive learning environment where students can see the relevance of environmental issues in their own lives and communities. He considers various approaches, such as project-based learning, collaborative group activities, and discussions, to encourage students to reflect on their impact on the environment. By making the learning experience dynamic and relatable, Wanto hopes to develop a positive attitude toward environmental conservation and better understand the values embedded in the expository text. Given this situation, which of the following student-centered learning strategies would be most effective in helping Mr. Wanto achieve his goal?

• Assigning additional reading and comprehension exercises on environment topics to reinforce the material.

• Implementing a series of lectures and PowerPoint presentations to clearly explain the environmental issues.

• Organizing a classroom debate on the cause and solutions to climate change to promote critical thinking and engagement

• Conducting project-based learning activities where students create and present solution to local environmental problems.

• Encouraging students to write essays on their personal views regarding environmental conservation and share them with class.

Learning planning that emphasizes students on the process of obtaining information by doing observation or experiment to find answers or solve problems for questions or problems formulations with critical and logical thinking, the choice of the right learning strategy is …

• Cooperative

• Problem Solving

• Inquiry

• Discovery Learning

Which is the appropriate direction for reporting the narrative text into short poetry/poem?

• "Write a short poetry of the narrative text!"

• "Read the text above and tell your classmates the story!"

• "Read the text above. Then retell it with a short poetry!"

• "Read the text and find the moral values!

Which of the following is NOT true about the principles of the Direct Method?

• Correct pronunciation and grammar are emphasized.

• Grammar is carefully taught deductively.

• Speaking and listening are taught.

• New teaching points are introduced orally.

Mr. Dika is aware that his students consistently make grammatical errors in his grammar class. He then designs to conduct classroom action research by applying which of the following strategies?

• Error analysis.

• Contrastive analysis.

• Inductive method.

• Mind-mapping.

• Communicative language teaching

What is the teacher's empathetic communication strategy when he/she knows that his/her student answers the question wrongly?

• Instruct him/her to read the learning material for the second time.

• Ask her classmate to help him/her respond to the question.

• Repeat the question to help him/her answer the question correctly.

• Ask him/her to do it at home as homework.

A teacher should know how extrovert students learn in the classroom. The following activities can make them more comfortable in learning EXCEPT.…

• working on worksheet independently

• presenting materials in front of the class

• answering questions verbally

• solving problems with others

To assess student's ability to read a passage, the teacher sets up 15 questions, five questions on topic identification, 7 questions on specific information, 3 questions on inference. Which of the following indicates students' mastery on reading if the cut off score for mastery is set up at 80% overall?

• One correct answers on topic identification, nine on specific information, and 1 on inference

• Two correct answers on topic identification, 6 on specific information, and 3 on inference

• Three correct answers on topic identification, 7 on specific information, and 2 on inference

• Four correct answers on topic identification, 6 on specific information, and 1 on inference

Most students in a class like acting activities with English. To challenge the students to describe the beauty of our country. Suitable and creative learning activities for them would be ….

• Providing a poetry, reciting the poetry, and acting it out in pairs

• Observing video shows, writing a poetry and class performance the poetry

• Reading a passage, creating a picture based on the passage, learning the pictures created

• Providing them with pictures, and then writing a descriptive text based on the pictures

Student 1: Tomorrow is the deadline for choosing our classes for next semester. Student 2: Yeah, I saw the email they sent us this morning. Student 1: Have you decided if you're going to take Archaeology or History of Art? Student 2: Not yet. I'm still on the fence about it. Question: What issue is the student having difficulty figuring out?

• How to get motivated to go to class.

• Where to sign up for classes.

• Where her next class is.

• Which class she should sign up for.