There are a lot of factors determining the success of learning process. Leaning media is one of them that can contribute to the excellent learning process. In this digital era, infographic either digital or printed is regarded as a suitable media for speaking as it is able to help students to present effectively. The combination of brief information in points and graphics helps the students in delivering particular topics to the audience that also develops the students’ speaking skill. The infographic in this research was conducted in projects for mechanical engineering students. The topic chosen for the research was ‘describing the excellence of a city’. It is one of the topics written in the curriculum for English 1 subject. The research applied a case study in which the data collection was gathered using observation, interview, and questionnaires. The results indicated that the infographic project could facilitate the speaking activities. The students showed positive responses in creating infographic, working in group project-based learning (PBL), and presenting the infographic content. These conditions indicate that the infographic project was successfully employed to facilitate the students’ speaking activity.Â
Early childhood education (PAUD) is an early stage education where children are introduced to several languages other than mother tongue such as national and foreign languages. One foreign language that can be introduced is English. The introduction of English can be carried out in various ways such as singing, reading, and story telling. Story telling is believed to be able to give moral messages, introduce culture, introduce vocabulary, and stimulate children's imagination and creativity. The community service activities were carried out in the play group and day care Aviciena. The school program to develop fun reading is considered in line with the teacher storytelling capacity building activities. This activity is expected to improve the ability of teacher's story telling so that the teacher is able to bring stories not only in Indonesian but also in English. In addition, several story telling visual facilities were given to this institution to support the success of story telling activities.
The current educational demands are to prepare students for the 21 st century by integrating soft skills and ICT through some learning models. Ledward and Hirata (2011) state that the 21 st century skills are a the combinations of knowledge, specific skills, proficiency, and literacies to be successful in future work and real life. They add that the 21 st century skills also need technological literacy and include proficiency in critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and team work. HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) is one the innovations that should be developed to prepare the learners ready to face the global competition in the 21 st century. HOTS is the continuous phase of LOTS (lower order thinking skills). In the Bloom Taxonomy, LOTS consists of remembering, understanding, and applying, while HOTS consists of analyzing, evaluating, and creating. The skills developed in the HOTS are known as 4C; collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. In relation to the English instruction, lecturers and teachers should implement learning that promotes or introduces students on HOTS through language skills. In this research, the HOTS is based on the project for mechanical engineering department. authentic materials exist in the college workshop laboratory, hangar, and airplane museum near the college. The results were the learners enjoyed the learning and improved the engagement in a group work, the critical thinking in finding fruitful information, the creativity in creating presentation, and the speaking skill in presenting in front of other people.The three main skills in HOTS; transferring knowledge, critical thinking, and problem solving were shown in each project. The 4C skills; creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication also supported the HOTS improvementThis is an open access article under the CC-BY-SA license.Dewanti Ratna Pertiwi (HOTS based project in mechanical engineering department) increased from 48 to 57 students. During the action, the students were given the same instrument, journal logs to write their perception on the project. The result is presented on Table 8.
The study was conducted to improve the low vocabulary mastery of technical terms appeared in English for mechanical engineering purposes at STT Adisutjipto. The students are required to master the technical terms of the three offered concentrations; energy conversion, aircraft maintenance, and manufacture. A blended learning was chosen to improve the students' vocabulary mastery through an action research study. It was divided in two cycles and the data were collected through the journal log, observation sheet, questionnaire, test, and interview. The result indicated that the students enjoyed and improved their vocabulary mastery. The blended learning was seen effectively improving the vocabulary mastery.
In the context of ESP, needs analysis is the first step to develop a program. Needs analysis is conducted to investigate the present students' mastery and the need of the future work field. This study aims to investigate the needs analysis of English for aeronautical engineering. The study employed a survey technique in the form of distributing questionnaires and interview for the lecturers, and centre of quality insurance. Indonesian qualification framework to standardize the graduate of aeronautical engineering with the national criteria is used as the source of developing the research instruments. The result of the study is expected to be able to build the foundation of developing better English course for aeronautical engineering students.
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