Title: Investigating Students' Self-Directed Learning in Mastering English Speaking Skills During the Covid-19 Pandemic (A Case Study of High-Achieving EFL Speaking Skills Students of UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu). In this way, I sincerely declare that the thesis entitled "Investigating Students' Self-Directed Learning in Mastering English Speaking Skills During the Covid-19 Pandemic (A Case Study of High-Achieving Students of EFL Speaking Skills of UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu)" is my true masterpiece. Ari Andre Rianyansa NIM viii. able researcher to research the proposal titled: "Investigation of Students' Self-Directed Learning in Mastering English Speaking Skills During the Covid-19 Pandemic" Peace be upon the Prophet Muhammad SAW, the great leader and good inspirer of the revolution world.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa pendidikan bahasa Inggris UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu belajar mandiri di rumah menggunakan self-directed learning menggunakan media sosial mobile milik brand seperti YouTube, mendengarkan musik hingga menguasai keterampilan berbicara di masa pandemi covid-19. Peneliti menemukan metode yang digunakan siswa bahasa Inggris untuk menggunakan jejaring sosial mereka dengan menonton video belajar percakapan bahasa Inggris di YouTube, mendengarkan musik bahasa Inggris dan mempraktikkannya dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, yang memungkinkan mereka untuk menguasai keterampilan berbicara bahasa Inggris lebih cepat selama pandemi. 19 pandemi. Peneliti menemukan bahwa metode yang digunakan pembelajar bahasa Inggris melalui media sosialnya adalah dengan menonton video pembelajaran bahasa Inggris di YouTube, mendengarkan musik bahasa Inggris dan mempraktikkannya dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, yang memungkinkan mereka menguasai keterampilan berbicara bahasa Inggris lebih cepat selama masa Covid-19. pandemi..
Di masa pandemi Covid-19, siswa dapat menyelesaikan pembelajaran mandiri dengan bantuan Self Directed Learning yang sangat baik diterapkan di situasi pandemi saat ini, karena siswa dapat belajar sendiri tanpa bantuan guru atau orang lain untuk menguasainya. keterampilan berbicara dengan menggunakan media sosial, telepon genggam dan laptop untuk belajar secara mandiri.
INTRODUCTION
- Identification of the Problem
- Limitation of the Research
- Research Question
- Objective of the Research
- Significant of the study
- Definition of Key Terms
Self-directed learning has characteristics that can make students learn well independently in dealing with the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, which requires them to study at home and should be able to use strategies that can do to improve the learning of English, especially in the ability to speak English which is very important. How is UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu students' self-directed learning in speaking skills during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study can make English education students aware that they can use self-directed learning in mastering English speaking skills during the corona virus pandemic.
This research can understand learning materials provided self-directed learning in mastering English language. This study aims to inform students to be self-directed in mastering English speaking skills during the corona virus pandemic. To make it very clear, there are some key concepts such as self-directed learning strategies for improving English speaking skills during the coronavirus pandemic.
Self-directed learning is a strategy that enables students to plan and approach learning, the resources and tools that students use and need to complete the learning process.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Definitioon of speaking skills
Aspects of speaking skills
Mastering of Speaking Skills
Self-Directed Learning
- Definition of Self-Directed Learning
- Self-Directed Learning Steps
- Self-Directed Learning Readiness
- Aspects of Self-Directed Learning
Pronunciation is a skill that a student must master in order to master speaking skills. Students in mastering speaking skills need to be able to master a lot of vocabulary because one does not speak English and communicate with other people. SDL can be considered as a process and a goal that someone must have in order to improve better performance.
Self-directed learning is very important to be applied in the current COVID-19 pandemic situation, because the pandemic greatly disrupts the face-to-face learning process, and students must be able to do self-directed learning to be a solution during the current pandemic . Self-directed learning readiness is highly effective and planned for students to carry out the independent learning process in order to develop an understanding of the lessons they are learning and further deepen the learning they are learning. The above factors are personality factors that must be performed and fulfilled by students in order to perform self-directed learning readiness.
Through this self-directed learning, students will be held responsible for being able to learn independently without the help of others in increasing knowledge and learning independently. Students are expected to manage their time as best as possible in order to carry out the learning process and achieve good learning results. Students must be able to choose good learning materials to get good results from the learning process.
Learning English During Covid-19
- Face to Face Learning
Learning materials, such as face-to-face and distance learning, are implemented according to the elements in face-to-face learning. Online learning is distance learning that is used to provide access to the world of education to continue to carry out the teaching and learning process as usual using distance learning during the current Covid-19 pandemic, which has made education a lot of obstacles. from the teaching and learning process. A distance learning application that uses an interactive system that connects teachers and students to carry out the teaching and learning process using various media such as grub wa, zoom meeting, google classroom, which makes the learning process as it is today.
This distance learning is expected to motivate students to stay enthusiastic in learning and participate in the teaching and learning process even in the Covid-19 pandemic, which makes them unable to study as usual in a face-to-face classroom ( Tsai et al., 2016). Distance learning is a change made by the world of education, which used to conduct face-to-face learning in the classroom and is now carrying out a revolution using learning tools. The implementation of distance learning that is being carried out at this time still has many obstacles that the world of education needs to fix in order to implement even better distance learning that can be applied to distance or online learning.
Distance learning is learning that replaces face-to-face learning, where distance learning is applied to limit face-to-face learning, so that online learning is carried out virtually online, so that this learning does not allow students and teachers to come into contact or face-to-face face meeting (King et al. 2001). The application of this distance learning has benefits that students can gain during distance learning, such as student learning. Distance learning is learning carried out online with the help of the Internet that connects teachers and students to carry out the learning process with the help of the Internet (Kuntarto, E.
In the implementation of face-to-face learning carried out by teachers and students, they need help in the implementation of distance learning and that support is mobile devices such as. Distance education is currently very necessary in the implementation of distance education in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 (Pangodian, RA, Santosa, PI, & . Nugroho, E., 2019). Based on the explanatory theories above, it can be concluded that learning during the covid-19 pandemic is learning that is carried out through distance learning or online using various media that can be used based on a network with the aim of spreading the to prevent covid. -19 that occurs in Indonesia and the world education.
Distance learning is a field of pedagogical education that uses technology-enabled teaching methods that are implemented to deliver instruction to students during the covid-19 pandemic through online distance learning without face-to-face classroom learning. Distance learning is a learning process that allows students to access learning when the teaching and learning process are separated by time and distance, forcing them to learn online during the covid-19 pandemic.
Research Design
Subject of the Research
Data Collection and Instrument
In this procedure, researchers will interview students face to face to get information to them how students can master English speaking skills through self-directed learning using interviews. The data such as photos that we get are student activities to master English speaking skills, use self-directed learning during the covid-19 pandemic. What this tool means is that researchers record students mastering English speaking skills using self-directed learning during the covid-19 pandemic.
Participant observation in this study was student observation regarding mastery of English speaking skills using self-directed learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Independently in mastering English speaking skills during the Covid-19 pandemic using mobile and laptop technology as the media they use. Self-directed learning of UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu students in speaking skills during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Based on the data above, students in independent learning in mastering English speaking skills during the covid-19 pandemic that they use 2 techniques to carry out the learning. Self-directed learning of UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu students in speaking skills during Covid-19 pandemic. Self-directed learning is a very good way for students to master English speaking skills during the covid-19 pandemic which in the current situation makes them unable to study face to face as usual when studying on campus.
They do it by themselves, and self-directed learning is very effective and good for 3-semester English teaching students to master English speaking skills during the covid-19 pandemic. Thus, this study summarizes how self-directed learning improves English speaking skills during the covid-19 pandemic. The researcher can conclude that the problem of the research being done is to find out how self-directed learning is to master English speaking skills during the covid-19 pandemic in online learning at UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu.
In this study, researchers obtained the results of Self-Directed Learning in mastering English speaking skills during the covid-19 pandemic. Then, students self-study in mastering English speaking skills during the covid-19 pandemic, they use the 3 learning indicators, namely ownership of learning, self-management and self-monitoring, extension of learning. So the learning process to master English speaking skills during the covid-19 pandemic is going well.
Thai students' problems in mastering English speaking skills at the Islamic University of Lamongan.
Technique of Data Collection and Research Instruments
