An Analysis of strategies used by English teacher to build effective communication in English class at the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Bukittinggi
ABSTRACT Afri Yasirli BP. 2314059, “An analysis of strategies used by English teacher to build effective communication in English class at the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Bukittinggi”. A thesis, State Islamic Institute Bukittinggi (IAIN). 2019 Communication is acts that very important in education. The process of communication is teacher as a communicator, students as communicant, whiles the forum was a message as a learning material. The goal of communication was made for effective learning process which done by teacher. This research was done based on phenomena in English class in the learning process. It was related to the teacher’s strategies to build effective communication at the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Bukittinggi. The researcher found that the teacher was able to understand the students’ characteristics in achieving learning process. The teacher can understand and know the differences between brave and shy students to get material in the learning process. Moreover, the teacher able to encouraged students to being active and creative in the learning process. The teacher provides opportunities for students to give an opinion that related to the learning material. Besides that, Teacher was enthusiasm in delivering the subject matter. So that it gives motivation for students to carry out communication in teaching and learning activities. Furthermore, the teacher always involved the students in the learning process. The teacher provided an opportunity for students to give opinions in the learning process. This research aimed to discover strategies used by English teacher to build effective communication in English class at the eighth grade of students of SMPN 2 Bukittinggi. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative. The informant of the research was English teacher at the eighth grade of SMPN 2 Bukittinggi. Techniques of data collection were observation and interview. The result of the research showed that there are five aspects to build effective communication have been applied by teacher. This was proven by the application of these aspects in building effective communication such as respect, empathy, audible, clarity, and humble that has been applied by teacher in the learning process. The aspect that was often used by teacher was respect, while the aspect that was rarely applied by the teacher was empathy. Key word: effective communication, strategies to build effective communication