Promoting Project for Enhancing Students’ Skill  

Oleh:

Fatmasari, Fajria

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 394-402.
Topik: project; students’ skill; vocational
Fulltext: hal 394.pdf (16.58MB)

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As ASEAN Economy Community has declared to be started by the end of 2015, it is big opportunity for any worker candidates around ASEAN countries to take part in other countries, including Indonesia. It becomes a big challenge for a university or vocational school to prepare its students becoming qualified worker candidates with a great communication skill, especially in English, as it is the acceptable language for countries worldwide (lingua franca). Based on the phenomena, there were many methods introduced for enhancing students’ communication skill in English, especially for those who were not majoring in English Department. Here, project was promoted for exploring skill of freshmen or first year students through building a business plan. Business plan was chosen for the ease in developing their interestby implementing basic theories into some points. They were description of product, human resource, marketing plan, and financial projection. It was well understood that the process of making the business plan also required the skill for seeking the data through internet. Thus, the students combined all skills to finish the project. The project were presented orally and obtained comments from reviewer and audience. There were benefits be taken: (1) Students were accustomed to bring out their words by transferring theories into the plan; (2) Students were doing self-learning of passive skill by sequencing supervisory; and (3) Students were invited to communicate actively, through written business plan and oral presentation. Still, it needed improvement due to specialty of the university, college, or vocational school.

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