Evaluating English for Children Program by Applying Project Approach conducted at English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, Banten

摘要

The program of English for children should be evaluated. It is done in order to get an ideal program. This study applied Project Approach to evaluate teacher's way in teaching, students' activities, and content of the book. The participants of this study were the students of English department and the first grade students of elementary school who were selected purposively, and also an English teacher. This research employed qualitative design. The data was taken from four sources: questionnaire, observation, interview, and document (English book). The result was grouped into three parts. The first, the result from questionnaire involved a teacher and English students showed that the content of English for children program should be changed. The second, by observing the process of teaching English for children, the way of teacher in delivering the material should be evaluated and changed. The third, based on the result of interviewing the teacher of elementary school, it can be stated that teaching learning process still used a traditional way. It affected the way how children learn. The fourth, after analyzing the content and the activities offered in the book, it should be changed both the content and the activities available in that book. The result shows that the book has many weaknesses in terms of content and activities. It has affected the way how English teacher deliver the material. Thus, the children learned English rigidly.