Abstract:One of the professional competences that should be owned by English teachers is classroom English skill since they have to deliver instructions in various classroom context. Consequently, it becomes a challenge for teacher training and education institutions to prepare their student teachers with good English speaking skills for instructional purposes. Student teachers usually have to complete a teaching internship program for one semester at school so as to engage them in a real situation of teaching experience. In that period of time, they will have to use appropriate classroom language when giving instructions to their students. Therefore, student teachers should be provided enough opportinuties for practicing their classroom English skill. In Indonesian English Education Department there is a compulsory course named 'micro teaching class' that should be attended by student teachers before they have a teaching internship program at school. This study aims at describing how peer teaching is practiced by the students of the English Education Department of Universitas Muria Kudus as a simulation activity to use classroom English in delivering classroom's instruction. The study will explore to what extent this simulation can help student teachers improve
One of the skills that must be possessed in the 21st century is collaboration skill. It requires teachers to present or provide it in the learning process, so that later students are expected to be able to implement it in their real life. The study reported in this paper aims to describe the implementation of collaboration skill in the process of teaching and learning. The data collected by means of close-ended questionnaires and guided interview that were administered to 125 freshman students of the English Education Department of Universitas Muria Kudus. The result shows that 84% of the students said that the teacher has implemented the collaboration skill, however from 84%, only 48% is categorized as instructionally effective. It is suggested that the teachers should manage some instructions and control how the instructions are executed. Keywords: 21st century skills, collaboration skill, effective instruction.
ABSTRAKFilm animasi merupakan salah satu media pembelajaran yang dapat digunakan untuk menjembatani pembelajaran agar lebih menarik dan memberikan nuansa lingkungan yang baru bagi siswa. Pentingnya media hadir dalam pembelajaran merupakan alternatif untuk memunculkan rangsangan, keaktifan, keterampilan yang baru bagi siswa dan mengetahui bentuk nyata terhadap aplikasi pembelajaran.Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian kualitatif dengan tipe pemaparan deskriptif. Subyek pada penelitian ini merupakan siswa sekolah dasar yang ada di Kecamatan Dawe Kabupaten Kudus. Pengumpulan data menggunakan simak catat, teknik pustaka, observasi, dan wawancara. Teknik pemeriksaan keabsahan data menggunakan trianggulasi teori.Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan penggunaan film animasi dapat digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran tematik terpadu pada siswa sekolah dasar. Kedua, pembelajaran tematik terpadu dapat diaplikasikan dengan film animasi yang didalamnya menceritakan mengenai tema pembelajaran yang dipelajari siswa. Ketiga, kemampuan keaksaraan siswa dapat meningkat melalui penggunaan film animasi dengan multibahasa sebagai sarana pengenalan bahasa kepada siswa sekolah dasar.Kata Kunci: Film Animasi, Media, Pembelajaran, Terpadu, Keaksaraan, Multibahasa. PENDAHULUANMedia merupakan salah satu penunjang pembelajaran yang perannya dalam kurikulum 2013 sudah menjadi sarana yang penting dalam setiap pembelajaran. Fungsi media menjadi penting manakala setiap pembelajaran berlangsung membutuhkan aplikasi teori yang dapat diketahui secara mudah dan tidak mengeluarkan banyak biaya. Hal itu merupakan kelebihan media ketika dipergunakan dalam pembelajaran.Sumber belajar utama yang dapat digunakan dalam pembelajaran terpadu dapat berbentuk teks tertulis seperti buku, majalah, brosur, surat kabar, poster dan informasi lepas, atau berupa lingkungan sekitar, seperti lingkungan alam, lingkungan sosial sehari-hari. Seorang guru yang akan menyusun materi perlu mengumpulkan dan mempersiapkan bahan kepustakaan atau rujukan (buku dan pedoman yang berkaitan dan sesuai) untuk menyusun dan mengembangkan silabus. Pencarian informasi ini, sebenarnya dapat pula memanfaatkan perangkat teknologi informasi mutakhir seperti multimedia dan internet. Aktivitas peserta didik dalam penugasan dapat menjadi nilai tambah yang menguntungkan. (Trianto, 2010: 121) Melalui pembelajaran tematik di sekolah dasar diharapkan agar siswa dapat belajar bermakna (learning by going). Anak dapat belajar dari pengalaman dalam lingkungannya, dengan adanya pengalaman ini anak dapat menkonstruksi
Speaking is one of the difficult English skills for non-English department students. This is because students must understand how to produce good and correct sentences to pronounce. To produce a sentence, they must master a lot of vocabulary and master how to pronounce it. In addition, to be able to master speaking skills, students must also have self-confidence. This research aimed to know the problems encountered by Non-English Department students in speaking English and their causes and to find out the problem-solving encountered by non-English majoring students in speaking English. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research with a questionnaire and an interview to collect the data. The results of this study indicate that almost all students find problems (linguistic and nonlinguistic) in speaking English. Linguistic problems that are often found are a lack of grammar, poor pronunciation, and the last is lack of vocabulary. The non-linguistics are anxiety, shyness & lack of confidence. The factors causing the problem of speaking English in this study were low motivation, habits & mother tongue, lack of practice & opportunity, and fear of making mistakes. To solve the problem of speaking English is to improve vocabulary and pronunciation skills. Some ways to improve it are by listening and singing English songs, watching English movies to understand English sentences, and using Google Translate to look up the meaning of difficult words and how to pronounce them. In addition, to improve their speaking skills, sometimes students also practice speaking in English with their friends or independently.
Now, with the sophistication of smartphones, students can use Google to find out what is not known anywhere and anytime. One of the searches that students often use in learning English is Google Translate. Google Translate is a free multilingual translation service developed by Google which is used to translate text from one language to another. The students always open Google Translate many times when they don't know the meaning of a word, sentence, and text. The objective of the research was to describe the twelfth grade students' perception towards Google Translate as a supporting media to learn English at SMK Al-Hikmah Mayong. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research and the data was collected by the use of a questionnaire. In this research, the researcher used descriptive qualitative research. The participants were students of XII TAV 1 and XII TAV 2 of SMK Al-Hikmah Mayong which consist of 50 students. The result showed that the students of twelfth grade of SMK Al-Hikmah Mayong had a positive perception towards Google Translate as a supporting media to learn English with the majority of the answers they chose being “agree” that it helped them in learning English. They used Google Translate to help them such as to translate, check pronunciation, spell the word, and check synonyms. However, the results of the text translation from Google Translate are less accurate. It has a much different meaning than the original meaning.
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