Monday, May 25, 2009

Kuliah 6: Proposal kajian tindakan

Activities for today lecture:


Activity 1:


- write personal information on a piece of paper
- draw a tree with singnature and birthdate together on the drawing

The objectives today activies is to let our new lecturer to know about us.
The way how a person draw the tree can represent the people behavior and personality. Hence, from the drawing, we can actually guess the person although we dont well know about her/him.

Activity 2:

  • Discuss with a partner bout some topic of action research that you had heard in Seminar Pendidikan Serantau last week.
  • Explain in front why that topic can be considered as an example of action research based on Why, What, How and the procedure that had been used in that research.

This activity enable us to gain better understanding on action reseach. Especially on the way to differentiate action research from other research and identify which research can be considered as action research.

Based on my understanding, an action research basically involved four important stages(plan, act, observe and reflect) in the research cycle. Besides, an action research must help to improve somethings in teaching or learning process.
An example of action research which had been discussed between my partner(Tiun Siew Mond) and I is as followed:

Topic: An application of CALLA style in improving listening comprehension ability at English Study Program FKIP, UNRI Pekanbaru.

Why carry out research?

-To improve listening comprehension ability at English Study Program FKIP at University

What had been done?

- Applying CALLA style (listening to longer talks or conversations) in English Study Program

How?

- CALLA style can support students awareness of the content as well as learning strategies

Procedures in the research:

  1. Research was conducted in two cycles and each of the cycle was done in 4 meetings.
  2. Students' listening comprehension ability were taken as research data.
  3. Before applied CALLA STYLE, a pre-test was conducted while post-test was administered after the treatment.
  4. Data were then analyzed by comparing both the pre-test and post-test result by t-table was used to calculate the significant level of the differences.
  5. Reflection on the findings to carry out further investigation

Activity 3:

-Prepare an action research proposal (5 members in a group)

Due date: 28/5/2009