TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STUDENTS CENTERED METHOD IN COMPARISON TO TEACHERS CENTERED METHOD IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL IN RIAU PROVINCE.

Abstract

The objective of the study was to know the teachers perception toward the implementation of Students Centered Method (SCM) in comparison to Teacher Centered Method(TCM) to the secondary school students Riau province. The subject of the study was 28 the secondary school teachers of six regencies in Riau province. The result of the study indicated that English teachers moderately to highly supported the implementation of SCM in teaching reading. They showed their greater agreement to SCM method than TCM in terms of conditional, conceptual , instructional, and students-learning perspectives. The comparison of teachers' perception toward the implementation of SCM were significantly greater than their perception toward TCM in teaching reading. For classroom assessment, grammar and vocabulary mastery, and content learning for instructional perspectives dimension and memorizing strategy and everyday reading habit for students learning perspectives dimension, teachers showed positive perspective to TCM than to SCM but there was no significant differences on means value of both methods. Lastly, there were no significant differences on teachers perception regarding their, ages, sex, education except for those teaching experiences above 20 years but with no significantly differed on mean value of both .