The Analysis of Teaching and Learning Process in The Great Debaters Movie by Denzel Washington and Its Implementation in Teaching Debate

Abstract

In learning process, interaction between teachers and students must be built to develop the trust and student’s potential, to be able to grow and develop in accordance with the expectations of parents, teachers and the society. Success in learning process is influenced by the performance of learning the role of teachers and students who support each other, interaction with other. The aims are to know the teaching approaches used by Mr. Melvin Tolson in The Great Debaters movie, to describe the roles of teacher in teaching learning process in The Great Debaters movie, and to describe the implementation of The Great Debaters movie in teaching debate. This research is a qualitative research and a descriptive qualitative method. The data analysis is from The Great Debaters movie. The data are collected through: watching the film, identifying to find the data related to the study, classifying the data found, selecting the relevant data, reporting selected data. Then the researcher analyzes the data with some steps, they are: exposing the data, interpreting the data, rechecking and making the data, comparing the data, and concluding in order to answer the statement of the problem. Based on the analysis, there are 3 teaching approaches found in The Great Debaters movie and 3 the roles of teacher in teaching learning process in The Great Debaters movie. There are 27.2% of individual approaches, 36.4% of group approaches, 36.4% of classical approaches, and 12.5% of teacher as motivator, 62.5% of teacher as facilitator, 25% of teacher as inspirator. The implementation of this study can be applied in teaching debate in the XII grade of senior high school semester 1.