Monday, May 9, 2011

Why Students Difficult to Expressing Opinions?

One day, teacher explaining some actual problems in front of the class. Once completed, he said, "Well, now what do you think about this problem?" Five minutes went by and no students who provide opinion or responses.

Most teachers will confusion face this situation. Are all students don't pay attention or they can't be answered. In educational psychology, especially in teaching strategies, there are times when students are experiencing difficulty in using expressive language skills.

Expressive language related to how one could express the ideas through communication with others. Not a few who have difficulty in responding to or expressing opinions to others.

According to Boyles and Contadino, students who have difficulty in expressing an opinion can be due to several factors, such as:

    * Shy, withdrawn, and had problems in social interaction
    * Delaying the answer
    * Mesulitan cultivate the right words
    * Thought is complicated and not well understood makes it difficult
    * Skipping some understanding of a given teacher (someone else)

Teaching strategies that can be used to overcome this is explained by John W. Santrok in his book Educational Psychology, namely:

    * Give children the opportunity to respond in sufficient time
    * Children may find difficult to express opinions orally, so, we can overcome by having them write it down on paper
    * Give children word clue or help for the child more easily in processing proper diction
    * Give children the opportunity to know the questions to be asked for to prepare themselves for the answer
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