Abstract :
The lack of students’ competence in reading text ability, especially hortatory
exposition text, usually hinders them in comprehending some texts. Therefore, this
descriptive quantitative research is intended to find out how the English teacher
treats the whole seven elements of Contextual Teaching Learning in his teaching
learning process, namely constructivism, inquiry, learning community, questioning,
modeling, reflection and authentic assessment. This research focuses on the “on
going process†of teaching learning itself. The teaching stages as well as the
students respond to them would be the source of the data.
Concerning the teachers’ treatment toward each element underlying the CTL the
researcher concludes that he has treated each of them well, shown by the result of
observation sheet done by the researcher and other two raters. The teacher’s
performance in employing the seven CTL’s elements scored 80% in aspect of
inquiry, 76.6% in aspect of constructivism, 80% in aspect learning community,
76.6% in aspect of authentic assessment, 80% in aspect of reflection, and 76.6% in
aspect of modeling. Only in terms of questioning, the teacher got less satisfactory
performance (60%). The video record shows that the students enjoy the lesson and
are active in the learning process.
Based on the research findings it is suggested that the teacher consider a follow up
treatments to deal with the students’ frequent errors in creating hortatory exposition
text. In relation to the teacher’s questioning technique, it is also suggested that the
teacher give a clear question from the very beginning of the 1esson to eliminate
students’ hindrance in answering the questions. He should consider using guided
questions to help students to tell their ideas