“The Effectiveness of Using REALIA in Teaching English Vocabulary to the 3rd Grade of Elementary School Student in SD BENTAKAN I BAKI SUKOHARJO”

This report is written based on the job training done by the writer as an English teacher in SDN Bentakan 1 Baki Sukoharjo. There are three objectives stated in this final object report. They are: (1) to describe the process of teaching English Vocabulary using some educational tools that are usually known as realia; (2) to find out the difficulties of teaching English vocabulary to the elementary school student by using realia; (3) to solve the problems found out in order to make the learning process better. This final project report is divided into four chapters. They are; chapter I: Introduction, chapter II: Literature Review, chapter III: Discussion, chapter IV: Conclusion and suggestion. The data of this report is obtained from the writers’ observation and experience when she taught English lesson. During conducting the job training, the writer used some steps to make the English teaching and learning process run smoothly. The steps covered greeting, warming up, motivating strategies, presentation strategies, skill practice, and assessment. The result shows that there are some difficulties faced by the writer. But, the difficulties can be solved as fast as possible to make the learning process run effectively

Digital-based instruction: Chances and challenges in English language teaching context

The use of Digital Based Instruction (DBI) nowadays seems to have many obstacles and difficulties. It is due to lack of digital literacy both lecturers and students. Meanwhile, many advantages also emerge through the use of DBI. It becomes the reason for the lecturers to keep on trying to develop their digital literacy to occupy the need of DBI to their English Language Teaching (ELT) class. This study aimed at revealing the chances and challenges of the implementation of DBI. Descriptive qualitative was employed in this study which involved the use of observation and interview as the instruments. The participants of this study were five English lecturers and 200 students. The findings showed that the chances of applying DBI cover activating students, elevating digital literacy, provoking students’ creativity, and creating new application. While some challenges are also emerged. It is due to limited devices and access, and limited digital literacy. The implementation of DBI could provoke the elevation of digital literacy and creativity if we could handle the challenges

TEACHING WRITING USING THINK-PAIR-SHARE VIEWED FROM STUDENTS’ LEVEL OF RISK-TAKING

Writing is considered as the most difficult skill to master compared with the other skills because it involves many language elements such as content, organization, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics. The research examines the effect of two independent variables (Think-Pair-Share and Direct instruction method) on dependent variable (Writing Descriptive skill). The samples were class A1 2016 as the experimental class and A3 2016 as the control class. Each class consisted of 32 students. The instruments used covered the risk-taking’s questionnaire and writing test. Before applying the questionnaire of risk-taking, it was tried out to class A2 2016 to find out the validity and the reliability of the instrument. Meanwhile, before conducting the writing test, it needs to test the readability of the writing instruction. The treatment was conducted in eight meetings, and the 9th meeting was allocated for the post-test. The data were then analyzed using ANOVA and Tukey test. From the analysis, it reveals that: (1) Think-Pair-Share is significantly different from direct instruction method to teach writing; (2) the students with high level of risk-taking have better writing than those with low level of risk-taking; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and the students’ level of risk-taking. Even though Think-Pair-Share is effective to teach writing, teachers must consider about the students’ condition, in this case their level of risk-taking.Keywords: Think-Pair-Share, Direct instruction method, Writing descriptive text, Risk-Takin

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LESSON STUDY TO PROMOTE LECTURERS’ SKILL IN TEACHING ACADEMIC WRITING

Lecturers find it challenging to teach writing especially academic writing, since students face difficulties in learning during the study process. This situation may happen because of the inappropriate way of lecturers in covering the material; of all the lecturers should have a good mastery of the materials to be given.  Lesson study seems to fit the lecturers' method of practice teaching to improve the skill of teaching writing skills. The study aims to describe the implementation of lesson study by five lecturers to promote the skill of teaching writing. A descriptive qualitative research design was employed with observation and interviews, which were used as the instruments to gather the data. Five lecturers joined the lesson study along with the 45 students in the class. The result shows that using lesson study can promote the lecturers' skill in teaching academic writing by guiding the students in learning, explaining the material of academic writing and varying teaching methods

PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN TEACHING WRITING: THE IMPLEMENTATION AND STUDENTS’ OPINION

Writing becomes the most challenging skill for the students as it needs more time to develop and tend to raise problem to students. Therefore, project based learning is offered to solve the problems in writing. Some experts believe that project based learning (PBL) can provoke the students to get new knowledge through their own project. This research reports on the implementation of project based learning in teaching writing. The objectives of the research are to know the implementation of project based learning in elevating the students’ ability on writing and to know the students’ opinion of the implementation of project based learning in teaching writing. Qualitative was used as a research method and classroom action research as a research design. The participants of the research were fourth semester students in one university in Cimahi, West Java. The collected data were obtained through observation, writing test and interview. Then, data were analysed based on triangulation. As result, it was found that the implementation of project based learning in teaching writing worked well. It could be seen from the students’ responses during the implementation of this method as they gave positive opinion toward the method used; they actively involved in learning process. PBL was proved on helping the students wrote well. Besides, the project given engaged the students in solving a real problem and answering it. In other word, this project could develop the students’ critical thinking and it could be a meaningful project for them

IGA As a Method to Promote Students’ Speaking Ability

Speaking is one of productive skills that should be learnt by the students. Nevertheless, the students faced difficulties in speaking. Therefore, Information Gap Activity is offered to solve the students’ problem in speaking. This research focuses on implementing IGA in teaching speaking. It aims on describing the implementation of IGA in teaching speaking and discovering the strengths and weaknesses of IGA. This research employed classroom action research. The first researcher acted as a lecturer and the second as an observer. This research was conducted on two cycles; each cycle consisted of three meetings, one pre-test and post-test. The participants of the research are 40 students of first semester of IKIP Siliwangi. Observation sheet, speaking test, and interview were used to collect the data. The data, then, were analyzed qualitatively using descriptive statistic and data triangulation. Based on the result, the implementation of IGA could develop the students’ ability in speaking. Besides, there were three strengths and one weakness in implementing IGA; they are: IGA could motivate the students in learning better, it coud help the students to improve the score of speaking, and it activated the students to work in a pair well. In other word, this method created a chance for them to help each other. Besides, the students could solve the problem by exchanging information. However, the weakness found in this research was this method, IGA, needed much time to apply so that the researchers felt that it was hard to use perfectly due to the limited time.     Keywords: Information Gap Activity, Speaking Ability, and Classroom Action Research

RISK-TAKING AND STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY: DO THEY CORRELATE?

The students’ speaking ability somehow depends on some psychological issues such as motivation, self-esteem, or risk-taking. This research aims at examining the correlation of students’ speaking skill especially with their level of risk-taking. The method used in this research is a quantitative research method with the correlational design. The Null hypothesis was “there is no correlation between Risk-taking and Speaking Ability”.The researchers used the speaking test and questionnaire about risk-taking as the instruments to gather the data. Before examining the correlation between those two variables, the normality test was conducted. The result showed that the data were in normal distribution so that the analysis was statistically continued using Pearson Product Moment. From the calculation, sig. 2-tailed of both risk-taking and speaking were 0.000 which was lower than the level of significance (0.05). It means that the Null hypothesis is rejected and the final result told that there is a correlation between Risk-Taking and Speaking Ability. While the Pearson correlation reached the point of 0.685 which means that the correlation between those two was large. Finally, we could conclude that risk-taking can be an issue to take into account choosing some methods of teaching speaking