STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION ON ACADEMIC READING AT ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF KALIMANTAN MAB BANJARMASIN
Zulfah Rahmasari
1, Neneng Islamiah, M.Pd
2, Drs.Andrea Chandra, S.E.,, M.Pd
3Islamic University Kalimantan Muhammad Arsyad Al Banjari
1Islamic University Kalimantan Muhammad Arsyad Al Banjari
2Islamic University Kalimantan Muhammad Arsyad Al Banjari
3Email: [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Small group discussion is a way to implement cooperative learning, which is more students – centered than teacher – centered, where student interact and cooperate with each other to achieve individual and group goals. Some research studies have shown the advantage of small group discussion based on students’ point of view. The method of this research study was quantitative descriptive by using Likert - scale. The result of this study found that 23 participants had positive attitude toward small group discussion. Their positive attitude regarding they learned and they enjoyed learning in the small group discussion. Therefore, small group discussion was suitable to be applied in this course to enhance the learning process. What needs to keep in mind is that each group member should be willing to do his/her responsibilities in order to achieve the group’ goal.
Keyword : students attitudes, small group discussion, technique
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INTRODUCTION
In recent times, the problem in our educational world is about the weakness in the learning process. Students are less motivated to develop their reading, listening, speaking and writing.
Commonly, the learning process in the classroom makes the students force their brain and energy to memorize the knowledge without developing or relating them to their life situation. In other words, the lecturers dominate the activities in the classroom and the teaching process is merely passing the knowledge from the teacher to the students. As a factor to determine students’ successful learning teaching, learning technique itself has a board meaning and variety.
In reading skills affect students’ is important to get information. It is a skill that works as a communication way of written text between a writer and a reader. By using this skill, the readers try to understand what the idea or the information of a text wanted to deliver by the writer. Mastering reading skill is also becomes a must for all of the students which are study. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the significance of group in the classroom, because of its real influence the students’ language learning. The popularity of group in the teaching has been beyond the reasonable doubt for many years (Harmer, 2011).
The researcher sees many students at the sixth semester of English Department FKIP UNISKA get difficulties in academic reading so the researcher interested to know students’ attitude by small group discussion in their reading comprehending.
That is the reason why the researcher did this study.
METHOD
Research Design and Setting
Quantitative was chosen as the design to do this research. The type of research was used survey descriptive because the researcher only focuses to describe the students’ attitude by using small group discussion on academic reading.
This research was conducted at UNISKA. This campus is located at Jl. Adhyaksa No. 2 Kayu Tangi, Banjarmasin 70123
Population and Sample
Of this research was all of students at the sixth semester of English Department FKIP UNISKA which comprises 23 students. They were only one class, class A regular morning
Banjarmasin consists of 23 students. Class A regular morning Banjarmasin was chosen as sample using cluster random sampling.
Instrument
In this research, the researcher used a google form is Likert-Scale. The students were asked to answer 10 items by multiple choice Data Analysis
The researcher analyzed the data using SPSS application to find mean score.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
The result of the study shows positive attitude of students toward enthusiasm in learning with small group discussion. In this study, the researcher found that students with positive attitude, from the total of 23 respondents, 16 respondents (69,5%) experience the
“Positive” categorize and the most of the respondents are in the good attitude. It can be seen from the table above, most of the students are agree when learning process used small group discussion. The researcher found that in this case, small group discussion gives a good impact toward the process of learning.
Meanwhile, more than a half of the students (21,7) are in category of “Highly Positive”. It can be a very good learning process by using small group discussion. It can be a very good, this technique makes students more active and enthusiasm in learning English.
Therefore, the are two students which in the category of “Normal”. It can be seen some students are not so interested in small group discussion technique.
It is a normal condition when there are some students less interested in this learning technique. As one of cooperative learning suggestion, which is about processing, it is important for the group to set group goals and it could help them know the work progress of their group.
Based on the data analysis and the result of study, it can be conclude that the result of the most of students who are “Positive” category is 69,5% students, 21,7%
students are in “Highly Positive” category, and 8,7%
students are in “Neutral”. Those are from the 23 students. Small group discussion was suitable to be implemented in learning process at the students on the sixth semester of Islamic University of Muhammad
Arsyad Al-Banjari Banjarmasin batch year 2017- 2018.
CLOSING Conclusion
It can be seen from the table above, most of the students are agree when learning process used small group discussion. The researcher found that in this case, small group discussion gives a good impact toward the process of learning in foreign language.
The findings on this study, could use small group discussion to enhance the students’ learning quality by learning with other students in order to discussed on academic text and assignments. they could share the ideas from each other, so that they also get more information about the text itself. It makes the works easier to be done.
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