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Pendekatan pembelajaran holistic didasarkan pada filsafat pendidikan yang mengasumsikan bahwa peserta didik akan mendapatkan hasil pembelajaran yang bermakna untuk diri dan hidupnya bila proses pembelajaran dilakukan melalui hubungan antara dirinyadengan masyarakat, lingkungan alam, dan nilai-nilai spiritual (agama).

EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students of vocational high schools are requested to have skillful reading strategies to comprehend specific texts in English. To have a good comprehension, they utilize not only their strategies but also interesting and suitable texts. Therefore, this current study investigated the correlation between students’ perception of the authentic materials and cooperative learning strategy towards students’ reading comprehension. The data of the reading comprehension tests and the students’ perception were analyzed using the multiple regression. The result revealed that (1) there was positive correlation between students’ perception of the authentic materials and students reading comprehension, (2) there was significant positive effect of cooperative learning strategy towards reading comprehension, and (3) there was significant positive effect of reading materials towards cooperative learning strategy. These findings suggested that the choice of authentic materials could motivate students to comprehend ESP texts. Besides this, by doing cooperative learning strategy, the scaffolding could happen so that they could share their comprehension. In spite of its limitation, this study could have certain pedagogical implications to reading classroom activities.

Lembaga pendidikan tinggi memiliki tanggung jawab dalam mengcmhangkan Tridharma perguruan tinggi yang meliputi pendidikan, penelitian dan pengabdian pada masyarakat. Pengembangan tersebut dapat ditumbuhkan apabila didukung oleh suasana budaya akademik (academic culture) yang kuat di lembaga tersebut. Budaya akademik adalah suatu budaya yang tumbuh di perguruan tinggi yang mencerminkan sebuah suasana ilmiah dan ditandai oleh sejumlah aktivitas ilmiah melalui segenap kegiatannya, seperli aktivitas perkuliahan, seminar, kegiatan penelitian yang semua kegiatan tersebut disebarluaskan melalui publikasi-publikasi ilmiah dalam bentuk jurnal-jurnal ilmiah.

The information and communication technology has been utilized by most universities in Indonesia though it is rarely integrated in teaching and learning activities in classes. This paper, as part of a study to foster learner autonomy using technology based approach, investigated the roles of online peer feedback toward learner autonomy development. The data used in this study involved students’ interview transcriptions. The results showed that online peer feedback has facilitated students’ metacognitive strategies and enhanced their motivation to learn writing.

This paper presents how to teach cohesion to EFL students who take English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses at the faculty of economics. The teaching is based on the assumption that the direct involvement of students in selecting course materials and intensive exposure to discourse of economic texts in reading practices can raise students’ awareness and knowledge of the way which the content of connected texts hangs together. This acquaintance can in turn make them have better comprehension of the text.

Despite of Indonesian government’s initiative for enhancing technology in educational practices,
the use of computer to mediate teaching/learning seems to be hesitant. This paper is to expose students’ recognition of learning English reading mediated by computer. Case study was used as research design. Results of the research expose no evidence that students with better English background would be successful in this mode of learning reading. However, students who participate more in learning sessions tend to have better achievement in English reading. Furthermore, students recognize that computer mediated learning reading is interesting and brings benefits from the view point of learning flexibility, interactivity, variety of contents, and performance by which motivate them to complete their own learning. The absence of teacher falls into two: 1) teacher’s absence would lower students’ psychological burden, and 2) explanations from teacher remains needed in face-to-face interaction.

The study investigates the use of Task-based Language Teaching in optimizing children’s language acquisition of EFL in speaking skill. The aim of study is to search the TBLT in foreign language learning, and proof that this approach is one of good way in language learning . The study applied descriptive explorative and pre-experimental research which allow the writer to collect the data in three ways: library, observation, and field research. The result of the study shows that TBLT is affective to boost children’s ability in oral communication in simple utterances: instructing, requesting, and warning. Thus they composed simple utterances to express need, it is encouraged the child himself has inner motivation to learn by themselves in the way at their time playing by learning.

The stud}’ investigates the use of mind mapping technique in teaching writing. This study was conducted based on the two main problems: 1) is the mind mapping technique applied in the students’ writing skill? 2) Does mind mapping technique affect on the students’ writing skill? The aim of the study was to find out the students’ writing skill after learning using mind mapping. The study applied free experimental designs, using paired simple t-test with the sample of 30 students from the population of 120 students. The result revealed that the mapping technique affected on improving the students’ writing skill.

The study attempts to investigate the effect of the treatments of student-student interactions versus teacher-student interactions to the students’ speaking skills in Conversation in English Programs. The number of the students in. each of the three classes (namely student-student interactions class, teacher-student interactions class and control class is not more than 12 students; an ideal number for student-centered class. Each class teacher of the experiment group (student-student interaction group and teacher-student interaction group) is provided with lesson plan and discussions on the lesson plans were conducted prior to the treatments; while the control group teacher has no interfere at all (from the researcher). The students were given situational dialog test before being treated. After being treated for ten consecutive sessions, the same test was administered again. To meet the prerequisite for normal distribution, the data of pre test and post test were analyzed. After normal distribution test was conducted, to determine the progress from the pretest andposttest, paired samples t-test is used; while comparing the progress of the students’ speaking skills in those three groups, one way anova is implemented. The results of the gain of the students ‘ achievement was again processed using LSD (Least significant difference) test to further analyze and find out the most significant improvement among the three group. The LSD test showed that the average of students’ achievement in the Student- Student Interactions Group far excelled the achievement of the students in the Teacher-Student Interaction Group and the Control Group. It is clearly seen that the progress of students’ achievement in the Teacher-Student Group did not have a significant difference with the progress of the students in the Control Group. To conclude, student-student interactions, in which students are given exposure to use the language in class around 75%, enhance students speaking skills.

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh semakin menurunnya sikap nasionalisme
dikalangan mahasiswa. Pada saat ini nasionalisme seakan-akan tenggelam, kini
nasionalisme menghadapi tantangan besar dari pusaran peradaban baru bernama
globalisasi. Nasionalisme sebagai kemampuan dasar (basic drive) serta daya juang
(elan vital) dari sebuah bangsa bernama Indonesia sedang diuji fleksibilitasnya
dalam arti kemampuan untuk berubah sehingga selalu akurat dalam menjawab
tantangan jaman. Fleksibilitas tidaklah mengurangi jiwa nasionalisme, justu
sebaliknya menunjukkan begitu dalamnya nasionalisme mengakar sehingga dalam
waktu bersamaan tetap hidup dan terus-menerus bermetamorfosis.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui secara nyata tentang pengaruh
pendidikan sejarah terhadap sikap nasionalisme pada mahasiswa program studi
pendidikan sejarah FKIP UHAMKA Jakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode
penelitian kuantitatif serta dianalisis juga dengan kualitatif.
Hasil penelitian memperlihatkan bahwa pendidikan sejarah mempunyai
berpengaruh terhadap sikap nasionalisme dengan hasil harga koefisien R sebesar
0.720 dengan taraf signifikansi 0.000< 0.05, sehingga memperoleh kesimpulan bahwa pengujian menolak H 0 dan menerima H 1 , yang berarti terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan dan positif dari variabel independen pendidikan sejarah terhadap sikap nasionalisme mahasiswa. Hal ini berarti 72% variasi pada sikap nasionalisme dapat dijelaskan dan dipengaruhi oleh variabel pendidikan sejarah, sedangkan sisanya sebesar 18% dijelaskan oleh sebab-sebab lain yang tidak dijelaskan dalam faktor ini. Hal ini menunjukkan besarnya peran pendidikan sejarah terhadap pembentukkan sikap nasionalisme di kalangan mahasiswa. Implikasi hasil penelitian mengisyaratkan bahwa sikap nasionalisme mahasiswa dapat tumbuh dan berkembang apabila pendidikan sejarah yang diberikan kepada mahasiswa dapat menarik dan tidak membosankan. Peran penting dosen sebagai pemegang kebijakan dalam menentukan pembelajaran di kelas tidak dapat diabaikan, karena itu dosen mutlak memiliki wawasan yang luas dan mengetahui berbagai metode dalam pendidikan sejarah sehingga dapat meningkatkan aktifitas dan kreatifitas mahasiswa dalam mengatasi kesulitankesulitan mahasiswa dalam pembelajaran sejarah.