Agustina, Lia (2010) Improving reading and speaking skills through project-based learning for efl students in the form of student-made newsmagazine / Lia Agustina. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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Students of the Accountancy Department of the State Polytechnic of Malang had limited knowledge of English and it was determined much by inadequate strategy applied. Students who are studying at the second year at this department were exposed to English texts provided by the teachers therefore they were not prepared to read authentic texts longer passages or let alone reading them independently. Furthermore students also found hindrances in expressing themselves orally. They were frequently reluctant to express their ideas even when they were asked by the teacher. These students also admitted that their main problem was their limited vocabulary. In this department reading speaking and structure were taught separately not integrated while vocabulary had never been given priority as it was taught during the teaching of other skills. In line with the background of the study the formulated research problem is How can the students-made newsmagazine through project-based learning be implemented effectively to develop English Foreign Language students reading and speaking skills This study was classroom action research with the teacher as the researcher. The action research was implemented for one semester of 14 meetings. It was a one-cycle action research it was planned to be one cycle and this general idea was not changed throughout the whole semester. In this big cycle there were some cycles which were reflected in every meeting. Second year students of academic year 2007/2008 with the total number of 25 students were the subjects of this study. During the implementation of the plan the procedure of project-based learning in the form of student-made magazine was attempted to improve the students reading and speaking skills. The students were assigned to have extensive reading through which they would experience authentic reading exposure and collect new words. Then the new words should be learned and memorized by putting them in sentential contexts on their summaries and synthesis of the articles the students had chosen read and produced the oral report of retelling activities. The students were assigned to summarize 3 authentic articles based on their interest and level of difficulty. The strategies of developing reading skill and summary were prepared by the teacher-researcher who used them as guidance. The student-made newsmagazine was the final product of the students project. From this study some conclusions were drawn. The procedure implemented in the present study was proven effective in improving the students reading and speaking skills. All the subjects got below the score of 6 on their pre-test with the points 60 (for 23 students) and 80 (for 2 students). While the criteria of success of the reading and speaking score should be 7 with the total points 125. After some treatments during the project implementation the result of the students post-test improved into 160 points with the score above 8 for 8 students. A student achieved 155 points with the score above 8. Three students got the points of 145 with the score above 7. A student got the points of 130 with the score above 7. The rest (twelve students) got 125 points with the score 7.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | library UM |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2010 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2010 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/58397 |
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