STUDENT'S ATTITUDES TOWARD PROJECT BASED LEARNING AS STIMULI FOR INTEGRATING THE LANGUAGE SKILLS

Cici, Riksa Wiliyanti and Desi, Wijayanti Ma’rufah and Srihidayanti, Srihidayanti (2015) STUDENT'S ATTITUDES TOWARD PROJECT BASED LEARNING AS STIMULI FOR INTEGRATING THE LANGUAGE SKILLS. In: Language Centre of UPI.

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Abstract

Encountered with ever-changing curriculum within its different teaching model arouse vary attitudes from the students. However, negative or positive students’ attitude toward teaching strategies will influence their learning process. Students’ low motivation as the negative attitude become one factor which makes literacy of Indonesian students belongs to the low level group. The implementation of new 2013 curriculum tries to maintain this problem by offering new teaching models which project based learning is one of the offered models. The purpose of the study was to investigate the students’ attitudes toward project based learning as stimuli for integrating the language skills. This study applied cross-sectional survey-based design which was carried out in 2014–2015 education-instruction year in a private vocational school. Totally 33 students in the second grade of this school participated in the study. The close-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interview was applied to elicit students’ attitudes toward the implementation of project based learning. The questionnaire and interview data were qualitatively analyzed. Results of the study revealed that students show a positive attitude towards the implementation of project based learning and they have the same voice regarding their integrating language skills which stimulated by the project based learning. Finally, some pedagogical implications that would help increase the students’ attitudes were presented.

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