The aim of the study was to find out English major students' perceptions towards watching English movies to develop listening skill and speaking skill. This study was conducted at one university in North Sulawesi, specifically on the students who took Listening and Speaking class. The instrument used in the data collection was a questionnaire that consists of three parts for finding out the background of the respondents, English movie watching perceptions, and level agreement towards English movies. The data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and shown in tables of frequency, percentage and mean. The findings indicated that English major students are aware that they can improve their listening skill by watching English movies. Subtitles also can help respondents to understand conversation in the movies, and English movies are believed to be more effective than other media as teaching tools. English major students also believe that they can improve their speaking skill by watching English movies. Students think watching English movies has more direct influence to listening skill compared to speaking skill. Future studies are recommended to conduct interviews of students to gain more information or arrange a test of student listening and speaking skills. Other interesting topics would be to study further about whether English subtitles or Indonesian subtitles is more effective as learning media, and also which movie genre is more effective in English skills development.
Technological developments in the current era provide many conveniences and benefits for various agencies, including educational institutions. Teachers as one part of educational institutions really need to take advantage of technological developments as a means or media in teaching so that learning does not seem boring. In fact there are many teachers who often focus on books oriented. This causes the students’ learning process to be not optimal, especially in learning foreign languages such as English. Of course, if learning only focuses on books, it will make students feel bored and lazy to learn English. Vocabulary as one of the important aspects in English cannot be taught with books alone, because in learning it requires interesting media to be able to make students more enjoy and interested in learning vocabulary. Based on this, this study aims to determine whether using pictures as learning can improve the vocabulary of students. This study used a pre-experimental design with one group pre-test and post-test. The research subject is class VII with the research instrument is a test. In analyzing the data, in this study the mean score formula was implemented. The results showed that picture as a learning medium greatly affects student learning outcomes in terms of vocabulary. Where, there was a significant increase in students' vocabulary after using pictures as treatment. Picture itself makes students more enthusiastic in learning because the pictures used attract students' attention. Finally, this research also explains the potentials that can be used or developed in the future.
This paper discusses the perspectives of students and teachers in a university setting about best teacher characteristics. This is viewed through the perspectives of students and teachers regarding their perceptions of qualities of English teachers, and teachers’ immediacy behavior – verbal or non-verbal - as predictors of student academic motivation. In this study, 126 students and 28 teachers in the English department atState University of Manado, Indonesia were involved. From the questionnaire, this study proved that a teacher was an important personnel in EFL teaching. Both teacher and students believed that a good teacher should display personal and academic attitudes. Both parties also considered that there were certain verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviors teachers performed which could be the source of motivating as well as demotivating the students. This study is expected to give understanding of how teaching English in a foreign language context can be better.
The phenomenon of teaching English and Indonesian language, especially in North Sulawesi, as a second language overlaps, where some argue that teaching Indonesian language should come first so that children will not forget Indonesian language or, in other words, children will master their national language. In this study, the method used is a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The sample used as respondents by the researcher is parents in North Sulawesi who have children who can speak English and Indonesian, in addition, to their mother tongue (Manado language/Regional language), and the respondents consisted of 10 parents. The researcher used questionnaires to gather parents' perceptions of whether the children should be taught English or Indonesian Language first. However, some people think teaching English is very important because mastering English as an international language is necessary. English is suitable for children as their second language, but teaching Indonesian language as the national language is also very important. Therefore teaching between these two languages must be balanced so that it does not only English that can be mastered by children or not only Indonesian language.
This research aims at finding out the perceptions of English teachers on character aspectswhich are not directly taugh. Yet it becomes a priority to asses basic competence. This study attemptsto identify the obstacles for implementing curriculum 2013 particularly student character assessment.As a qualitative research, data are obtained through interviews. The data are taken from the schoolsthat implement the curriculum especially six teachers who are randomly selected out of twentyteachers from each school.The results reveal that most of the teachers perceived that aspects of the should be taughtindirectly. Such perception was based upon the notion that character is not to be taught but to bepracticed. Those teachers were also of the opinion that character assessment does not guarantee thepositive character building. They believed that school must involve the parents and society for thesuccess of the character education. The teachers met the problems in implementing the assessmentsuch as time consuming, complicated assessment process, incompatiblity with big class and the lackof facility.Keywords: perception, character assesment, english teacher, curriculum 2013INTRODUCTION
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