In this 4.0 era, digital technology and information system technology have integrated with teaching media and tool. From previous studies,Google Classroom is one of technologies whichhas been implemented inScience, Social Science, and Engineering Departments of Higher Institution. Based on PEOU and PU, the resultsare satisfying. Unfortunately, there weren't any studies that showwhether
Public speaking in English is a needed skill for leaders and staffs in any offices and companies in Indonesia. In this globalization era, skill to communicate effectively and efficiently in English during a meeting or a teleconference with foreigners is needed, such as for company product promotion, or during building cooperation. Therefore, public speaking course is occupied by employees since they have an important role for the company development. Since the needs of this skill is high, universities in Indonesia have started providing course of Public Speaking in English. One of them is English Department in Politeknik Negeri Padang. In teaching public speaking, the teacher must teach them to overcome their fear, show their confident, perform perfectly, and used good English. Unfortunately, performing in their reguler class, infront of their classmates and lecturers did not build any of them. An action was taken by asking the students to upload their performance in their personal instagram application. Instagram was chosen since the application provides a variety of video that get shared to instagram daily. View, comment, and like from the viewers would be the important part of building the character of the students to be like a professional public speaker. From several times presenting their public speaking activities in instagram, Categories 'state in purpose' 'organize the content', and 'summarize the main idea' are in level 5 (high) which means highest improvement. Category 'speak clearly with appropriate vocabulary and information', 'uses tone, speed, and volume as tool', and 'appears comfortable with audiences' in level 4 which is between high and average. Meanwhile, it still can be seen that students need more on English knowledge such their numbers of vocabularies and English structure. In conclusion, instagram application can be one of the media for improving students' public speaking skill especially in building the character of a public speaker.
In Indonesia, English for Specific Purpose usually offers to students of non-English Department. Actually, it must also be taught to students of English Department, especially who are in vocational higher institutions. By facilitating the learning of English for Specific Purpose by the institution, they will fit in any kinds of work fields later on. Actually, the process of learning English for Specific Purpose could be integrated in various subjects in English Department if the class is using the right learning material, like Digital Video Feature Project. It is a project assignment for Public Speaking class which is developed to improve students’ English for Specific Purpose by applying Gall and Borg Small Scale Model. The steps are need analysis, planning objectives, developing preliminary forms of product, preliminary field testing, and main field testing. This article is only discussing the last phase, which is analysing the effect of Digital Video Feature Project on the student’ English for Specific Purpose. The sample taken was a female English Department student of Politeknik Negeri Padang. She enrolled in Public Speaking class, and chose English for Environmental Engineering for her English for Specific Purpose. She made a video feature about Waste Bank Program which is established by Padang Environmental Services Department. From the analysis on the student’ self assessment form, the results are the student is more competence writing in the context of Environmental Engineering, is more skillfull as a public speaker in a topic related to Environmental Engineering field, her knowledge related to Environmental Engineering increases, and her social life with people related to Environmental Engineering is also built. In conclusion, video feature project of Waste Bank Program does not only influence the student’s ESP and public speaking skill, but also effect their mind and consideration to support the program.
This research aims to analyze persuasive strategies used by the students of the English Department of Politeknik Negeri Padang (PNP) in creating e-Brochures. Ten brochures are chosen in this qualitative descriptive research. The data are the persuasion strategies applied in the brochures. After analyzing descriptively using Aristotle's rhetorical 'proof; ethos, logos, and pathos are found in the brochures. It is interesting to see that these brochures which talk about the natural view as the tourism destination tend to have some combination of persuasive strategies. It is implied that to create a good brochure, the writer has to consider the norm and value, then convince the reader with some argument or reason, and show his/her feeling about the object of the brochure.
Learning Public Speaking does not only include good speaking English but also gives attractive performance. However, this is not easy due to the fearness and anxiety with various symptoms such as a rapid heartbeat, wet palms, or vibrating sounds. In order to minimize the obstacles, Project Based Learning (PBL) is designed. The students are assigned to be public speakesr sharing the information about agency programs to public. The project was eventually documented in the form of videos. To find out the success of the learning, a qualitative descriptive study was conducted on the video project. The subject of the research was a female student whose public speaking videos were analyzed. The sample was selected purposively because women have greater public speaking anxiety than men do. As the result, at first, the students did not have problems in making the text (content) to be presented, but it was problematic in the delivery. The first video shows public speaking fear that has not been resolved so that delivery occurs at a low level. Secondly, while in the second video it shows self confidence resulting a high delivery capability. It can be concluded that having one real experience as a public speaker makes the student able to overcome public speaking fear or anxiety.
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