THE APPLICATION of CLASSICAL CONDITIONING USING THORNDIKE MODEL for ENGLISH LEARNING ACTIVITY

Abstract

Learning activities have two aspects there are student and teacher. When both of them can collaborate in the class so it can be called as learning activities. The teacher will be called success in teaching, if they have to used an appropriate method to teach in the classroom activity. The teacher applied a classical conditioning using Thorndike model in learning activity. Classical conditioning is process of learning which is the learner will gives a response if they have a stimulus. Thorndike model is behavioral responses to specific stimuli are estabilished through a process of trial and error that affects neural connections between the stimuli and the most satisfying responses. Whereas the learning activity is learning processes carried out by teachers in such a way as to create active students asking, questioning, and expressing ideas. The objectives of this research are to describe the natural condition of students readiness during English learning activity and to explain the application of Thorndike model in english learning activity. This research used descriptive qualitative. There are some methods of collecting data in this research. The first step is observation, then interview, and the last is transcription.