Effective Groupwork Strategies: Faculty and Students’ Perspectives

Rezaei, Ali Reza

doi:10.5539/jel.v7n5p1

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“…In situations where there is a shorter amount of time available to complete a group task, such as an in-class collaborative learning exercise, it is suggested that smaller groups were more appropriate. Another supporting research conducted by Rezaei (2018) states that the students need their instructors to communicate with them more often and create rules and procedures for students' communications after class. Moreover, instructors should train students in the basics of teamwork and how to work in groups effectively, and they recommend teachers to be very clear in their expectations for group projects.…”

Section: Group Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

ELT Students’ Perceptions of Classroom Management during Teaching Practice: Difficulties and Solutions

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Latief

Laksmi

2021

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Teaching practice becomes one of the challenges for ELT student teachers to carry out the theories they have learned into practice. In view of the challenges, ELT student teachers of Universitas Negeri Malang may also have difficulties in managing a classroom. Therefore, this study was conducted to know the ELT students’ perceptions of classroom management during teaching practice, focusing on the difficulties and solutions. A quantitative with a descriptive research survey was used as the research design. An online questionnaire and interview were used as the instruments to collect the data. The result of this study shows that ELT student teachers 2016 of Universitas Negeri Malang have many difficulties in setting the rules and procedures, especially for group work. The result of the questionnaire depicts that some students break the rules (83.4%), difficulties in handling students who were not willing to work with their friends (67.9%), difficulties in ending the teaching and learning activity that reinforces discipline (66.7%), difficulties in engaging students’ interests at the beginning of teaching and learning activity (57.1%), and difficulties in handling students who bother their friends when they have finished a task (51.2%). For ELT student teachers who will be doing their teaching practice, it is essential to understand and deepen the knowledge of managing the classroom. Moreover, student teachers need to set clear instructions for group work and negotiate with the students whether they want to make groups by themselves or randomly chosen by the teacher. Lastly, give extensive activities for “disruptive students”. Keywords: student teachers, teaching practice, classroom management Abstrak: Praktik mengajar menjadi salah satu tantangan bagi mahasiswa ELT untuk mengimplementasikan teori-teori yang telah dipelajarinya. Melihat tantangan tersebut, mahasiswa ELT Universitas Negeri Malang sebagai calon guru mungkin juga mengalami kesulitan dalam mengelola ruang kelas. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui persepsi mahasiswa ELT tentang pengelolaan kelas selama praktik mengajar, fokus pada kesulitan dan solusi. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif, survei deskriptif. Instrumen yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data adalah angket dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa KPL Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Negeri Malang tahun ajaran 2016 mengalami banyak kesulitan dalam menetapkan tata tertib dan prosedur di dalam kelas selama praktik mengajar, terutama saat kerja kelompok. Hasil kuesioner menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa KPL mengalami kesulitan dalam menetapkan aturan dan tata cara kerja kelompok karena ditemukan beberapa siswa yang tidak patuh (83,4%), kesulitan dalam menangani siswa yang tidak mau bekerja dengan temannya ( 67,9%), kesulitan dalam mengakhiri kegiatan belajar mengajar yang melatih kedisiplinan (66,7%), kesulitan dalam menarik minat belajar siswa pada awal pembelajaran (57,1%), dan kesulitan menangani siswa yang mengganggu temannya saat mereka telah menyelesaikan tugasnya (51,2%). Bagi mahasiswa KPL Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris yang akan praktik mengajar, sangat penting untuk memahami dan memperdalam ilmu pengelolaan kelas. Selain itu, mahasiswa KPL perlu memberikan instruksi yang jelas saat kerja kelompok dan bernegosiasi dengan siswa apakah mereka ingin membuat kelompok sendiri atau dipilih secara acak oleh guru. Untuk “siswa yang mengganggu”, mahasiswa KPL dapat memberikan tugas tambahan. Kata kunci: guru siswa, praktik mengajar, manajemen kelas

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Section: Group Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

ELT Students’ Perceptions of Classroom Management during Teaching Practice: Difficulties and Solutions

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Latief

Laksmi

2021

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“…In addition, the other benefit of working in group work is the students will learn to become team players. In his study, Rezaei (2018) found that group work is used to improve the students' teamwork skills. This is based on the opportunity created to get the students to cooperate in completing tasks given.…”

Section: Group Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It will also train them to be accountable of the individual parts assigned given to them. Nevertheless, Rezaei (2018) pointed out that even if the students view this as a beneficial to them, they prefer to be evaluated individually for their respective contributions. Hence, this shows that the students view group work as an opportunity to perform as a good team player.…”

Section: Group Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Tubb’s Engagement Model with Critical Reading

Ibrahim

Rahmat

Shahabani

et al. 2021

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Since critical reading has been assumed as critical, there are actually certain ideas and concepts that reflect how critical is this critical reading. Critical does not mean critical as in difficulty or failure in reading but more of looking into the skills, processes and the activities when reading. Group engagement has been said to improve team members’ critical thinking skills. This study is done to explore how group interactions facilitate critical reading activities. Specifically, this study explores how group work encourages critical reading through the processes of orientation, conflict, consensus, and closure. 72 participants responded to the instrument (a questionnaire). The questionnaire has 5 sections, demographic profile, orientation, conflict, consensus and also closure. Data is analyzed using SPSS version 26 to reveal percentage for the demographic profile and mean score for the variables. Findings indicate that group engagement facilitates critical reading in several ways. The study suggests that communication during group interaction improves learners’ critical reading.

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“…Next the study by Chang & Kang (2016) Next, the study by Razaei (2018) was done to investigate what makes group work to be successful. The researcher asked the faculty (instructors and learners) why they gave group work assignments to their students and what their opinions about the best practices in creating effective group work environment for their students are.…”

Section: Past Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%