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UTILIZING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING TO RAISE PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHERS’ CRITICAL THINKING
Full text linkAbstract: Pre-service English teachers are prospective teachers that need to master not only four English skills
but also another supporting skill, critical thinking. Critical thinking can be considered as an essential substance
contributing to the success of pre-service English teachers learning English. Some skills in English such as
listening, speaking, reading and writing can be successfully achieved whenever they are critical, since critical
thinking is also the ability allowing the students to express everything freely. Unfortunately, utilizing critical
thinking is not as simple as seen. Therefore, project-based learning was utilized to accommodate the use of the
pre-service English teachers’ critical thinking and how their critical thinking is raised. By conducting descriptive
qualitative design, this research aims to elaborate the utilizing project based learning to raise pre-service English
teachers’ critical thinking. The research was conducted in TEYL Media class for the sixth semester consisting of
35 pre-service English teachers. They were divided into some groups, each consisting of 3-4 people assigned to
make a project within 6-12 weeks, in the forms of producing teaching media for TEYL. Each group had to
present regularly the concept of teaching media in front of the class to get some suggestions, feedback, or
comments. When they got approval from the lecturer, they could start making the media and then, tried out the
media in front of the class again. Thus, by utilizing project-based learning, the students’ critical thinking can be
raised effectively.
Keywords:Project-Based Learning, Pre-Service English Teachers, Critical Thinkin
USING DIGITAL VIDEO TO RAISE STUDENTS’ MULTI-LITERACIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
Full text linkTeaching English for Young Learners is not as simple as people thought. There are a lot of things toconsider. One of them is fostering young learners to be multi-literate. It means that they need to master more than one skill in their life. The skills or abilities are listening, speaking, reading, writing, counting, et cetera, with the sources either from hardcopy (books) or softcopy (internet). Therefore, it is needed a medium to help the young learners to achieve multi-literacies, that it is a digital video. This mini-research aimed to use digital video to raise students’ multi-literacies in TEYL, by utilizing descriptive qualitative design. The mini-research was conducted in English course for the age of 9-10 years old. It was done for a month in total of 4 meetings, with duration about 60 minutes. The teacher was successful to use digital video combined with picture series. The students felt happy and interested, since they firstly watched the digital video “sleeping beauty” before being asked to arrange picture series. The teacher also explored some vocabulary in the video and tried to contrast them with reality in surrounding. The kind of activity helped the young learners to communicate cross culturally. In fact, communicating cross culturally was also one of additional skill that indicated the students as multi-literate people. All in all, based on the findings of interview, the researcher also recommended conducting further research
Critical Thinking in ELT: Theory and Practice
Full text linkCritical thinking may be considered as an essential substance contributing to the success of students learning a language, in this English. Some skills in English such as listening, speaking, reading and writing can be successfully achieved whenever students were critical, since critical thinking is also the ability allowing the students to express everything freely. Unfortunately, utilizing critical thinking is not as simple as seen. There should be a regular and consistent process done to encourage the students to be critical. Thus, some approaches, methods, techniques or media need to be applied in order to succeed the achievement of being critical thinkers. Thus, this paper reveals some theories and practices based on reviewing some articles of critical thinking in English Language Teaching (ELT).
Cognitive Framework Underlying Learning Strategies for Academic Speaking
Full text linkThis article aims to discuss about cognitive framework underlying learning strategies for acadeic speaking. Cognitive framework underlies learning strategies, since there are four stages of encoding process that cover not only the way store things to be learnt but also the way people organize way store things to be learnt but also the way people organize. Moreover, the learning strategies are helpful for motivating the students to be active and creative in order to develop their communicative competence. In the learning strategies, the students are encouraged to participate actively in real communication. Hopefully, this article can give contribution to the teacher and lecturer in teaching speaking skil
PEMILIHAN STATEGI BELAJAR OLEH MAHASISWA BEDA GENDER DI KELAS SPEAKING, IKIP PGRI MADIUN
Full text linkPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh informasi tentang pemilihan strategi belajar di kelas speaking oleh mahasiswa beda gender di IKIP PGRI Madiun. Penelitian ini di fokuskan untuk memaparkan bagaimana mahasiswa laki-laki dan mahasiswa perempuan meningkatkan kemampuan speaking dan untuk mengetahui mengapa mereka memilih strategi tersebut.Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada bulan Juli 2007 sampai Pebruari 2008 di IKIP PGRI Madiun. Berdasarkan masalah penelitian, metode penelitian ini adalah naturalistik kualitatif yang pada akhirnya bisa menghasilkan grounded-theory. Dalam penelitian ini ada 20 informan terdiri dari 12 mahasiswa perempuan dan 8 mahasiswa laki-laki. Data di peroleh melalui observasi, interview mendalam, questioner, dan analisa dokumen. Data yang terkumpul dianalisa menggunakan metode constant comparative buatan Glaser dan Strauss. Sedangkan questioner dianalisa menggunakan SILL yang dimodifikasi dari buatan Oxford dan penilaian speaking menggunakan FSI oral interview yang telah dilengkapi dengan table score dan konversinya.Hasil penelitian dipaparkan berdasar pada masalah penelitian yaitu: pertama, mahasiswa perempuan menggunakan enam strategi belajar secara bersamaan pada saat berbicara bahasa Inggris didepan kelas meskipun frekuensi penggunaannya bervariasi, dengan score SILL antara 3,5 sampai 4,5. Kemudian alasan mengapa mereka memilih strategi tersebut dapat di kategorikan berdasar karakteristik informan dalam mempelajari bahasa, kepribadian, latar belakang psikologi dan latar belakang budaya. Berdasarkan karakteristik informan dalam mempelajari bahasa, mahasiswa perempuan lebih baik daripada mahasiswa laki-laki baik dari segi pengucapan, penyusunan kalimat yang gramatikal dan penggunaan penanda kesopanan. Dalam hasil penelitian juga terlihat bahwa mahasiswa perempuan sebagai pribadi yang sabar, lembut, juga pendengar yang baik meskipun sedikit dipengaruhi budaya Jawa yang cenderung memposisikan mereka sedikit lebih rendah daripada laki-laki. Beberapa mahasiswa perempuan juga terlihat cepat gugup dan lemah pada saat presentasi di depan kelas saat mereka sedang dating bulan. Kedua, berdasarkan questioner mahasiswa laki-laki lebih sering menggunakan dua strategi belajar yaitu compensation dan metacognitive strategies pada level medium dengan score antara 3,0 sampai 4,4. Berbeda dengan mahasiswa perempuan, secara psikologi mahasiswa laki-laki lebih baik karena mereka tidak mengalami masalah rutin bulanan. Lebih jelasnya, semakin banyak strategi belajar yang digunakan oleh mahasiswa maka kemampuan speaking mereka akan lebih baik
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Applying Cultural Project Based Learning to Develop Students’ Academic Writing
Full text linkWriting is considered to be the most demanding and difficult skill for many college students, since there are some steps to be followed such as prewriting, drafting, editing, revising and publishing. The interesting topic like culture including lifestyle, costume, and custom is necessary to be offered in Academic Writing class. Accordingly, this article aims to elaborate the application of a cultural project based learning to develop students’ ability in academic writing. This descriptive qualitative research was conducted in Academic Writing class consisting of 20 students of the fourth semester. The students were divided into some groups, each consisting of 4-5 people assigned to make a cultural project within 6 weeks, in the form of essay. Each member of the groups has to create his/ her own essay and then compile the essays to be a mini-journal. Therefore, one group has one mini-journal consisting of 4-5 essays. To check the content of mini-journal, the lecturer also asked the groups to present in front of the class to get some suggestions, feedback, or comments
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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