The policy of ‘Independent Campus-Freedom to Learn’ known as MBKM is currently participated by the students in Indonesia as it could provide the credit transfer of 20-60. This research aimed to investigate the students’ perceptions on the implementation of MBKM. The participants of this research were 98 students of Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta. The method used was a descriptive analysis design. The instrument used was a questionnaire completed by the students who already joined MBKM programs initiated either by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology or their study programs. The results showed that the students’ knowledge of MBKM policy was very good (92%) and their interests in MBKM program was also very good (98%). This research had some implications. The students’ involvements in MBKM programs increased and the capacity on the attitudes and skills also improved. Thus, this influences the sustainability of MBKM in the future.
This research aimed at investigating the students’ perceptions of Moodle-based LMS in English learning and the benefits of using Moodle for the students. There were 94 students or respondents from one of the private universities in Jakarta used to describe the data as well as to analyze it. The method used in this research was a survey with qualitative description. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The result showed that there were positive responses of the students dealing with Moodle-based LMS in online learning asynchronously. It was therefore expected that lecturers should have been able to develop and design more learning contents or materials and the activities to upload as online learning better in the future.
The purpose of this community service program is to improve the English competence of the community in the Setu Babakan Betawi Cultural and Natural-based Village, Jakarta. The English training is part of the efforts to pioneer English villages in the tourist destination area. This activity was carried out using a training method with English needs analysis and problems faced by the community related to English mastery through interviews, observations, tests and questionnaires as well as to develop English teaching materials for the surrounding community. This service involves community mobilizers, the manager of the Setu Babakan Betawi Cultural Village and the village community, especially teenagers who are active in youth organizations. The results of this activity show the passion and enthusiasm of the community to learn English and improve the community's self-confidence as well as their English speaking skills in the context of daily conversation in the Setu Babakan Area. Thus, it is very important to do sustainable English training in response to initiate English village.
Reading is a receptive skill that students require, and it takes work to teach reading. Thus, teaching strategies for reading skills attracting students' interests are the keys to better reading comprehension. This study aimed to investigate EFL teachers’ strategies in teaching reading skills in lower secondary schools, how they implemented the strategies in teaching reading comprehension, and the student's responses. The method of this research was a qualitative design. The subjects of this research were six EFL teachers of SMPN 28 Tangerang, Banten. The instruments of this study were observation and interview. The study results showed four strategies the EFL teachers used in teaching reading skills: Scaffolding, Think-aloud, Question Answer Relationship (QAR), and Teacher as a Center. Thus, it is suggested that EFL teachers use various teaching strategies for reading skills to improve students' reading skills. The variety of EFL teachers' strategies would provide more pleasant and exciting learning atmospheres, encouraging the students to be interested in reading English texts.
Podcasts are digital audio files that can be accessed by everyone with an internet connection where the content is ready to be listened to without minding the time and place. Currently, podcasts are listened not only for entertainment but also for educational purposes, one of which is to improve students' listening skills. This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using podcasts on students’ listening skills at Vocational High School No. 18, Jakarta. With one group pre-test post-test design, this research utilized the pre-experimental method, which was conducted in three meetings. The samples for this research were 33 students of Accounting Department chosen randomly. To gather the data, the researcher used a listening test with 15 multiple choices and a 10 fill-in-the-blank form as the instrument, both for the pre-test and post-test. IBM SPSS 24 was used to perform quantitative analysis on the data. The result of the data analysis revealed that the students’ mean score in the post-test was higher than in the pre-test (87.03 > 55.15). Thus, it was found that the significant value was 0.000 which was lower than the alpha of 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05). It can be concluded that the Hi is accepted and the Ho is rejected. This study recommends that teachers should consider podcasts in teaching listening skill.
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