<p><span>The study aims at investigating students' reading fluency through mobile assisted extensive reading in effect and responses. Forty-five students (14 males and 31 females) were involved in the study. The participants were asked to read the materials of graded reading in electronic books by using their mobile phone. To measure their reading fluency, reading rate was counted in word per minute. The results show that mobile assisted extensive reading outperformed the students' reading fluency. </span><span>Some participants commented that mobile based extensive reading was likely to build their reading fluency.</span><span> It indicated that mobile might have the potential way not only for reading comprehension but also for reading extensively. <span> </span></span></p>
Guru dapat meningkatkan prestasi kerja kependidikannya, yaitu kualitas anak didik, baik dari segi psikis maupun mental spiritual. Tujuannya, ialah: (1) Meningkatkan pengetahuan/pemahaman kepada guru PAUD mengenai alat peraga, manfaat, tujuan, dan kegunaan alat peraga; (2) Memperkenalkan bentuk dan pembuatan alat peraga kepada guru PAUD untuk menambah wawasan dan keterampilan; dan (3) Menanamkan sikap profesionalitas dalam mengajar peserta didik terkait pedagogic knowledge. Kegiatan ini dilaksanakan pelatihan pembuatan alat peraga digital untuk menunjang kompetensi pedagogik dalam rangka meningkatkan keprofesionalan guru. Hasilnya, kegiatan penyuluhan dan pelatihan ini sangat bermanfaat bagi semua peserta; 96,2% peserta memahami pemaparan materi; dan 92,3% peserta telah mampu mengaplikasikan alat peraga digital.
This research aimed to investigate the students' motivation in learning Literature using drama technique, to show what kinds of difficulties faced by the students and to show the way how they overcome the problems. The subjects of the research were all the fifth semester students in the academic years of 2014/2015 of UNSWAGATI. There were 12 classes. Each consisted of 25 students. The researcher took K and L class as the sample of her study by using lottre. It means there were 50 students as the sample.Revering to the research questions ad the findings, the researcher found that students had high motivation in learning, facing some difficulties in the learning process like limited vocabulary, cultural gap, the length of the story and feeling shy to act. Concerning the problems, the students had done may solutions. They enriched their action by using gesture, asking their friends, opening notes, reading the script and watching the original videos.There are some suggestions to enhance and find the best way in teaching literature. Practically, in order to gain the learning objective more optimal, lecturer are expected to be more creative in finding drama and enrich the class by teaching them cultural differences. For further researcher, drama is also possible to develope other language skills other than speaking.
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