30 QUESTIONING CYCLE MODEL IN ENGLISH LEARNING: THE COLLABORATION OF HUMANISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM APPROACH AT STATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN PALEMBANG Margaretha Dinar Sitinjak dinarsitinjak@yahoo.com Rita Inderawati ritarudisaid@yahoo.com Ida Rosmalina idaroz@yahoo.com Abstract: This developmental research was aimed to design, try-out, and revise the effectiveness of model in English learning in elementary school. The method in this research was Research and Development (R & D). This research began with the development of learning material, learning process, and instrument evaluation that would be tested limitedly in three elementary schools and 6 teachers and would be tested widely in 15 elementary schools and 30 teachers through questionnaire, observation, interview, and result analysis. The improvement of the final product of questioning cycle model in English learning that collaborated humanism and constructivism approach was based on the feedback in the field trial. The special target that wanted to be achieved in this research was to create an interesting model in English learning for students and learning textbook-centered to make English teaching and learning process easy and fun for primary school pupils. Besides, the model could contribute to scientific publication. Key words: questioning cycle model, English learning, humanism approach, constructivism approach English is one of complimentary subjects in elementary school. Based on the Government Policy Number 060/U1993 on 1994 explains that the curriculum in elementary school level include some complimentary subjects can be programmed based on the need and condition of school. As a complimentary subject, English is not forced and required to teach in basic level in Indonesia. This is caused by the chalenges that must be faced when a foreign language will be adopted by school, mainly the constraints related to the teacher like: Does he/she follow a training for teaching English for young learners? Is there instruction book of teaching that can facilitate to face the pupils? What kind of approach that can be applied? The main purpose of teaching English in Elementary School is to introduce the foreign language to the children and try to make the process of learning fun. In other words, the process must be creative and innovative. In the implementation, learning process should be based on the learning orientation. It deals with Marshall (1987, p.8) who states that learning orientation of teacher hopes the students to learn because the purpose of learning is to make them fun. The observation in the previous study found that teachers in some public elementary schools in Palembang adopted teacher-centered method and applied behaviorism approach and used worksheet (LKS) which are difficult for learners. In fact, fun learning is seldom applied because learning orientation adopt