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THE USE OF PICTORIAL MEDIA TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING AND WRITING SKILLS R Andi Ahmad Gunadi; Nidar Yusuf; Aswir Aswir
PROSIDING SEMINAR NASIONAL & INTERNASIONAL 2018: PROCEEDING 1ST INSELIDEA INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ASIA (INseIDEA)
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Media learning in the form of pictorial media can be utilized optimally to improve students’ speaking and writing skills. Speaking skill, as the first productive skill, is regarded as an oral spoken process for expressingthoughts and feelings, reflecting on experiences, and sharing information. On the other hand, as the second productive skill, writing refers to student’s skills in expressing ideas or messages through written form. This paper has objectives: 1). knowing students' speaking and writing skills; 2). utilizing pictorial media to improve students' speaking and writing skills. A descriptive qualitative research method is employed with 22 respondents from Grade 1 SDN Iwul 01 Parung, Bogor. The data are collected by observation, group discussions, interviews, and research instruments. The pictorial media are made in 2 shapes, namely the pictorial of the dots and the picture intact. The results of research: 1). Student speaking skills: the pictorial media are made in the form ofdots, 14 or 64% of students are correct in the names of animals and fruit plants; benefits of animals and fruit; where animals live and vitamins contained in the fruit. 2). Student writing skills: the pictorial media are made in the form of intact pictorials, 18 or 82% of students are correct in writing the names of animals and fruit plants; benefits of animals and fruit; where animals live and vitamins contained in the fruit. In conclusion, by utilizing the media, the learning process became more interesting, the subject matter was presented clearly. Keywords: learning media, pictorial media, speaking and writing skills
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION: UMJ and UTM TEACHING PRACTICE PERSPECTIVES Iswan Iswan; Aswir Aswir
PROSIDING SEMINAR NASIONAL & INTERNASIONAL 2018: PROCEEDING 1ST INSELIDEA INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ASIA (INseIDEA)
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This paper reports on an international collaboration between two universities, one private university in Indonesia (Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta, UMJ) and one public and world class university in Malaysia (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM). Both collaborative action plans were implemented through projects in program development, faculty exchange, graduate student/teacher field experiences, pre-service student’s internship mentoring and also conjoined research in the area of a foreign/second language teaching and teacher development, and educational technology. Over a three-year period from 2015-2018 reported that UMJ, i.e Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan (Faculty of Education) sent students for teaching practice to Fakulti Pendidikan UTM in four batches with 65 preservice students. In March 2018, UTM sent seven students to do internship program atUMJ. This collaboration commitment portrayed a smooth international partnership between universities and hoped to be continued in other field of collaborations. Keywords: international collaboration, teaching practice program, UTM, UMJ