Learning Styles of Australian Teachers in Learning Bahasa Indonesia (Bipa) at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang

This research examines the learning styles (Fleming, 1987) – visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (VAK) of Aus-tralian teachers in learning bahasa Indonesia (BIPA) at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. This research was undertaken to answer the following questions: (1) what kinds of learning styles performed by the Australian teachers in learning bahasa Indonesia at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang? and (2) what kinds of categories of each learning style mostly reflected by the Australian teachers in learning bahasa Indonesia at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang? The data were collected by doing short survey, classroom observations, questionnaires, and interviews with both students and teachers (Robson, 2002). The results of the study shows that (1) more participants were kinesthetic learners. Most of them learnt bahasa Indonesia best through a hand – on method, exploring the world around them, and often relying on what they could directly experience or perform; (2) Its categories mostly suited with the participants\u27 learning style: more time for outside learning, as the participants needed to know more about the language and practice it within its cultural context. Most of them enjoyed very much tasks which involve manipulating materials and objects. Finally, they also liked learning bahasa Indonesia through moving, doing, and touching

Factors Supporting and Hindering the Use of English at International Class Program (Icp) Faculty of Tarbiyah, UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang

This study investigates factors supporting and hindering the implementation or the use of English by the students of International Class Program (ICP) Faculty of Tarbiyah, UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. The primary purpose of this study is to provide recommendations for the Faculty especially the program coor-dinator to acknowledge the problems that need to be solved. This study involved a number of students joining the program. To obtain the data, interviews and questionnaires were distributed to 30 students. After analyz-ing the data, factors supporting and hindering the use of English at ICP were identified. Factors supporting the program are: (1) the students\u27 motivation, (2) the role of lecturers, and (3) the instructional materials. However, some factors hindering the program include: (1) not all students had an electronic English diction-ary, (2) both the lecturers and the students were inconsistent to use English, (3) the poor students\u27 English mastery sometimes also hindered the teaching process, (4) there was no language forums held in English, (5) there was no language lab, (6) the students had not been aware of the importance of practicing English, (7) the ICP students claimed that most of the materials they learned were written in Indonesian. The program coordinator acknowledges the students\u27 interest in learning English. As has been stated before, most of the students have high motivation to learn English. Thus, the program coordinator (1) should notice this and be very sensitive with this situation, because the students\u27 motivation is a very important thing in gaining more English development, needs to give extended role to the lecturers. They are required not only teaching the content materials but also some aspects of English entities, (3) needs to explain clearly that both lecturers and students need to make an agreement regarding the consistency of using English. Key words: factors supporting, factors hindering, International Class Program (ICP

Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia: the Role of School Environment

This paper examines the important role of the school environments to facilitate English program in Indonesian primary schools. The school environment here refers to the environment inside the school: principal, teachers, and foreign language (FL) classroom; and outside the school: the students' parents and the school community. Researchers have investigated teaching English as foreign language (TEFL) in primary schools from different perspectives, such as curriculum, teacher's role, and materials; however, little attention is paid to examine school environment as an important factor to improve the quality of TEFL in Indonesia. The data is taken from the results of my Masters study investigating the implementation of Indonesian language as LOTE program in Kingsbury Primary School (KPS), Bundoora, Melbourne, Australia. Interviews, questionnaires, and observations were employed to obtain the answers as to why Indonesian language was selected as the LOTE program in KPS. The study found several factors supporting the program, and one of the findings relevant to this present investigation was the positive attitude given by the environments. The main reason why Indonesian language was taken as the LOTE program was because there were many Indonesian people who lived around the school and frequently involved in the school activities. This was believed by the school council as important linguistic evidence to establish the program. All the members of the school environment were very supportive. The non-LOTE teachers, for example, occasionally attended the course and watched their children learning Indonesian language. The purpose of doing that, according to the non-LOTE teachers, was to motivate their children to learn it seriously as the children also saw their teachers came and learnt it. The LOTE program was also made possible by the availability of a representative classroom which was fairly large for doing class activities. This classroom was designed especially for the LOTE program and it was completed with printed materials such as books, comics, posters, short stories, and audio visual aids to show the Indonesian family, life and culture. The principal, the LOTE teacher, and LOTE coordinator claimed that having such particular classroom was significant to build the students' motivation to practice the target language when coming into the LOTE classroom because they were immersed with the atmosphere inside the room in which they could read anything written in Indonesian language. Keywords: language, literature, pedagogical approaches, non-native learners

Kepapaan dan Perekat Sosial

Dalam majalah FORBES ASIA yang terbit tanggal 28 Nopember 2005 terdapat satu halaman artikel menarik yang patut dicermati dan ditulis oleh Ferguson, salah seorang wartawan majalah itu. Ferguson mengangkat beberapa hal penting berasal dari wawancara eksklusif dengan Bapak Presiden Yudhoyono pada tanggal 8 Nopember 2005. Salah satu hal penting yang dikemukakan adalah bahwa dewasa ini terdapat sekitar 20% atau angka tepatnya 42 juta orang yang terlibat di dalam USAha kecil dan menengah (baca: ‘small enterprises) yang berperan sebagai ‘sabuk pengaman' (safety belt) ekonomi nasional, yakni tatkala beberapa Perusahaan besar nyaris atau bangkrut pada akhir tahun 1990, yang dampaknya menam-bah semakin bengkaknya angka pengangguran sebagai akibat pemutusan hubungan kerja

Status Gizi Anak Prasekolah Pada Keluarga Berpendapatan Rendah Dengan Ibu Pekerja: Studi Kasus Di Kelurahan Kebon Kalapa, Kecamatan Bogor Barat, Kotamadya Bogor, Propinsi Jawa Barat

Telah dilakukan penelitian terhadap 30 anak prasekolah dari 30 keluarga dimana ibu rumah tangga bekerja di luar rumah. Pekerjaan yang dilakukan oleh sebagian besar ibu rumah tangga adalah sebagai pembantu rumah tangga (66,7%) dan sisanya masing-masing 16,7% bekerja sebagai buruh dan pedagang kecil. Rata-rata konsumsi energi dan protein keluarga berturut-turut mencapai tingkat 62,8% dan 82,8% dari kecukupan. Tetapi konsumsi energi anak prasekolah rata-rata telah mencapai tingkat 91,4% dan protein di atas 100% dari kecukupan yang dianjurkan. Sebanyak 86,7% anak prasekolah berstatus gizi baik

Penerapan Pengelolaan Tanaman Terpadu Padi Sawah di Kecamatan Toili, Kabupaten Banggai, Sulawesi Tengah

Pengelolaan tanaman terpadu sangatlah membantu untuk lebih mengedepankan peningkatan produktivitas hasil, mempermudah pengendalian hama dan penyakit, penggunaan pupuk lebih efisien, dan dapat meningkatkan pendapatan USAhatani. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu menganalisis penerapan PTT dan faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan penerapan PTT padi sawah di kecamatan Toili. Penelitian dilakukan di desa Tolisu, desa Tirta Sari, desa Sindang Baru, dan desa Mekar Kencana dengan responden sebanyak 80 petani padi sawah. Penelitian dilaksanakan dari bulan Agustus-Juli 2016 dan menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan korelasi rank Spearman. Penerapan padi sawah tergolong tinggi dalam penerapan benih bermutu, sistem tanam, pengairan berselang, pengendalian gulma, hama dan penyakit terpadu, dan panen dan pasca panen, sedangkan varietas unggul dan pemupukan berimbang masih tergolong sedang. Tingginya penerapan pengelolaan tanaman terpadu berhubungan dengan dukungan ketersediaan sarana produksi yang sudah terfasilitasi dengan baik, dukungan kelompok tani sudah sangat aktif dalam kegiatannya, keuntungan relatif sudah sangat menguntungkan dalam penerapannya, kompatibilitas sudah sesuai dengan kebutuhan dan kebiasaan petani, dan observabilitas sudah dapat dicoba dalam skala luasan yang lebih kecil

Kualifikasi Pemuda Tani Perdesaan di Jawa Timur

This research objectives are: (1) to analyze characteristics and qualification of the farmer youth, (2) to explain the implication of famer youth qualification. The research population are all youth in East Java. The technique of data collecting was cluster sampling. The number of respondents are 251 of youth. The descriptive and correspondency data analysis was used to analyse the data. The research results were: (1) The degree of farmer youth education is low category (2) The qualification of farmer youth that have activity in agricultural sector is lower than rural youth that have activity in non agricultural sector, (3) Farmer youth need facilitation to grow and develop their competencies

Adopsi Teknologi Petani pada Sekolah Lapangan Pengelolaan Tanaman Terpadu (SL-PTT)

Field School of Comprehensive Agriculture Land-Use Management (SL-PTT) is agriculture innovation from ministry of agriculture. The SL-PTT program aims accelerating the adoption of innovation at the farm level to increase production in a sustainable manner. The study aims to analyze decision making process by the farmers to adopt and utilize the technology of rice innovation in their land-use and and how much the production level of rice achieved by the farmers in SL-PTT program. The study was planned using survey descriptive correlational on March-April 2014 covered 80 farmers in village of Abbokongeng, Sub District of Kulo, District of Sidrap, South Sulawesi. Data were analyzed and tested using multiple linear regression. The evidence showed that almost all (91,25%) of the farmers applied all innovations, such as: using high qualified seeds, planting system, using appropriate fertilizer and water irrigarion, controlling pests, harvest and past-harvest management. Production of rice were more than 6,000 kg /ha with average profit is Rp 18,969,950/Ha. To increase adoption innovation of technology by the farmers, exntension worker should carry out more intensive approach. Communication between the farmers and the extension worker should be maintained and increased through the SL-PTT program in such that the rice production can be consistently increazed

Kapasitas Kader dalam Penyuluhan Keluarga Berencana di Kota Palembang, Provinsi Sumatera Selatan

Melalui Keluarga Berencana diupayakan mengatur kelahiran anak, jarak dan usia ideal melahirkan, mengatur kehamilan, melakukan promosi, perlindungan dan bantuan sesuai dengan hak reproduksi untuk mewujudkan keluarga yang berkualitas. Tujuan penelitian adalah: (1) Mengidentifikasi tingkat kapasitas kader Keluarga Berencana dalam kegiatan penyuluhan Keluarga Berencana di Kota Palembang. (2) Menganalisis faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan kapasitas kader Keluarga Berencana dalam kegiatan penyuluhan Keluarga Berencana di kota Palembang. Penelitian dilakukan pada bulan Agustus sampai September 2015 di Kota Palembang. Populasi penelitian adalah 4020 kader Keluarga Berencana di Kota Palembang dan pengumpulan data dilakukan kepada 100 kader Keluarga Berencana. Teknik pengambilan sampel berdasarkan area random sampling. Data penelitian meliputi data primer dan data sekunder. Selanjutnya data dianalisis secara kuantitatif serta untuk menguji hipotesis yang telah dirumuskan digunakan uji korelasi Rank Spearman. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tingkat kapasitas kader Keluarga Berencana di Kota Palembang termasuk kategori rendah. Faktor yang penting diperhatikan untuk mengembangkan kapasitas kader Keluarga Berencana adalah: pengalaman, pelatihan yang diikuti, dukungan penyuluh, dan dukungan informas