The Implementation of Students Center Learning Principles in Teaching and Learning Process

Abstract

The teaching and learning in Indonesia follows the trend in currents English language teaching that focusing on developing learners’ communicative competence and on promoting active language learning strategies in classrooms. The change is the approach to language teaching from teacher-centered to students-centered. The aim of this research was to find out the teachers implementation toward the principles of students centered in teaching and learning process. This study was mix method research, where the sources of data were the result of observations with three English teachers of SMAN 2 Sungai Penuh, the data were collected from the teachers activities when they teach English. The finding of this research indicates that the teachers have variety of way in implementing students-centered learning principles in teaching and learning process. The variety of implementation of its principles seemed on the teaching activities and classroom instruction implemented by the teachers in teaching and learning process.