Writing is considered as a difficult skill in learning English. That's way the teacher should creative and innovative in teaching writing. One of methods that can be used in teaching writing is PjBL (Project Based Learning). The purpose of this article is to examine the uses of PjBL can improve students' writing capability. It is based on the classroom action research with the subject is the students of fourth semester of English department of Widya Dharma University. The findings of the research imply that PjBL is very effective. The implementation of PjBL improved the students' writing capability. PjBL enables the students to be more active to explore their ideas. By doing the project, the students can work together and share their ideas and knowledge with others. It makes the learning activity is not teacher centered but student centered, because most of the activity is done by the students. It can also improve writing class in a better situation in the way that the classroom situation becomes more alive with various interesting activities, and there is a rising of students' participation.Besides that the teacher in teaching English used traditional or conventional method of teaching.According to Richards & Renandya (in Fauziati), writing is the most difficult skill to be mastered for foreign language learners. This is due not only to the need to generate and organize ideas using an appropriate choice of vocabulary, sentence, and paragraph organization but also to turn such ideas into a readable text (2010: 45).Rokhyati (2014) says that writing is the most difficult language skill, even for the native language users. We need integrated skills to be able to produce a piece of writing, Those skills are understanding grammar, generating ideas (content), organizing ideas (organization), and using mechanics. Rokhyati (2014) adds that many students get difficulty in writing because it is difficult for them to master and integrate the micro skills. Some students may have good ideas and can organize their ideas well, but the grammar and words they use are not correct. On the other hand, some other students have good grammar and master the vocabulary well, but cannot organize their ideas. As a result, the product of their writing is not good.Writing is also considered the difficult skill for fourth semester students of English Department of Widya Dharma University of Klaten. They understand the theory but difficult to practice it. That's way this article describes based on the research about the usage of Project Based Learning (PjBL) in order to improve students' writing capability. PjBL is effective to improve students' writing capability. By doing the project, the students are hoped to practice more in writing and enjoy in the process to improve their writing. WritingBell and Burnaby in Setyawan et al. (2012) state that the writer is required to demonstrate control of a number of variables simultaneously, so it means that writing is an extremely complex cognitive activity. Harris (1993: 10) defines writing as a proc...
This research aims to enhance students’ reading learning process using a genre-based approach during the COVID-19 pandemic through Nearpod. Action research with four stages was applied as a research design. The qualitative data were collected through interviews and teacher’s field notes, while the quantitative data were obtained by students’ reading pre-test and post-test. The qualitative data were analyzed by assembling the data, coding the data, building interpretations, and reporting the outcomes. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive quantitative analysis. Findings demonstrated that students learned how to determine the main idea, make an inference, and distinguish detailed information from the texts. They also considered Nearpod as an accommodating and encouraging tool in learning. The teacher addressed how to reinforce the students’ reading learning process by deep consideration, preparation, and reflection to ensure that Nearpod worked properly. The statistical report of students’ scores for the pre-test and post-test showed improvement from 64.7 to 84.8. The average students’ post-test score was greater than the pre-test. This study revealed that the Nearpod program successfully supported the reading learning process for students because of its user-friendliness and it enabled teachers to monitor students’ progress during the teaching process.
This study aims to know the English proficiency of tourist actors in Klaten. The data of this research consist of primary data and secondary data. Primary data are the data gotten from English proficiency of tourist actors in Klaten, especially in speaking skill. Meanwhile, secondary data are the data from the tourism department of Klaten. This research method is descriptive quantitative. The subjects of this study are tourist actors in temple and water tourist spots in Klaten, which consists of officers, sellers, parking attendants, security, and other tourist actors. The temple tourist spots are Plaosan temple and Sojiwan temple. Meanwhile, the water tourist spots are Umbul Ponggok and Umbul Cokro (OMAC). The choice of those spots is depended on the most foreign tourists among that type of tourist destinations. The result of the study shows that the English proficiency of tourist actors in temple tourist attractions is higher (50%) than water tourist attractions (8,33%). In temple tourist attractions, tourist actors who have high English proficiency is 50%, average is 37.5%, low is 12.5%. In water tourist attractions, tourist actors who have high English proficiency is 8.33%, average is 29.16%, low is 62.5%. This study also got other data that tourist actors in Klaten have important role to support tourism industry in Klaten to attract tourists, both domestic and foreign, but their awareness of it is still low. Most of them still rely on domestic tourists than foreigners.
Sheila is a major character in One Child novel written by Torey Hayden. This study attempts to analyze the novel based on its’ structural elements and to explore Sheila’s chaotic personality based on psychosocial developmental perspective proposed by Erik H Erikson. This research belongs to qualitative research which employs textual data. Textual data are taken from two sources; namely the novel itself as primary data source and the other materials which are related to the study as secondary data source. The technique of data collection is library research. The technique of data analyzing in this study is descriptive. The result of this study shows that the structural elements of the novel present a unity. It appears in the exposition, complication, climax, and resolution of the story. Furthermore, the psychosocial developmental analysis shows Sheila’s chaotic personality mostly caused by her past traumatic experience in her early life. Sheila had past traumatic and chaotic personality namely Mistrust (in stage infancy: birth – 1 year), Shame and Doubt (in stage early childhood: 2-3 years), 3) Guilt (in stage preschool age: 4-5 years), and 4) Inferiority (in stage school age: 6-12 years). The early life of Sheila was not told clearly, but Hayden just told the crucial event and condition of Sheila that made her become destructive, uncontrollable child, and has chaotic personality. Sheila tried to solve her crisis to develop her healthy ego development.
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