Public speaking in English is a needed skill for leaders and staffs in any offices and companies in Indonesia. In this globalization era, skill to communicate effectively and efficiently in English during a meeting or a teleconference with foreigners is needed, such as for company product promotion, or during building cooperation. Therefore, public speaking course is occupied by employees since they have an important role for the company development. Since the needs of this skill is high, universities in Indonesia have started providing course of Public Speaking in English. One of them is English Department in Politeknik Negeri Padang. In teaching public speaking, the teacher must teach them to overcome their fear, show their confident, perform perfectly, and used good English. Unfortunately, performing in their reguler class, infront of their classmates and lecturers did not build any of them. An action was taken by asking the students to upload their performance in their personal instagram application. Instagram was chosen since the application provides a variety of video that get shared to instagram daily. View, comment, and like from the viewers would be the important part of building the character of the students to be like a professional public speaker. From several times presenting their public speaking activities in instagram, Categories 'state in purpose' 'organize the content', and 'summarize the main idea' are in level 5 (high) which means highest improvement. Category 'speak clearly with appropriate vocabulary and information', 'uses tone, speed, and volume as tool', and 'appears comfortable with audiences' in level 4 which is between high and average. Meanwhile, it still can be seen that students need more on English knowledge such their numbers of vocabularies and English structure. In conclusion, instagram application can be one of the media for improving students' public speaking skill especially in building the character of a public speaker.
This study aims to describe the students’ understanding and expectations of the FKIP Universitas Bung Hatta about sumbang duo baleh . This research is qualitative research with a descriptive method. The data is in the form of students’ verbal responses to an unstructured questionnaire via Google-forms. Student responses are translated into keywords. The trend of responses is analyzed through simple statistics (percentages). The results of the study show that most students are still familiar with the term sumbang duo baleh. They know this term through non-formal, formal, and informal sources. In general, students can explain the meaning of sumbang duo baleh well and consider the norms still relevant in the digital era. They expect that sumbang duo baleh will be disseminated, taught, preserved, implemented, and developed, especially amid the threat of foreign cultural intrusion related to the globalization process. Keywords: expectations, culture, Minangkabau, sumbang duo baleh, understanding
English Instructional Class which is known as Kelas Berbahasa Inggris (KBI) has been established in several higher institutions all around Indonesia. The aim is to prepare students to be able to compete in international level. Industrial Engineering of Universitas Andalas located in Padang of West Sumatra has operated KBI until now. The licenses to be KBI teachers in this department are getting their degree from English speaking country, passing micro teaching in English for Specific Purpose (ESP) training, and developing teaching subject module. Meanwhile, students who enroll in KBI class are filtered only based on their willingness. During learning process, the students are in English zone. Listen the lectures in English, having presentation in English, writing tasks in English, especially writing internship report and final projectmust be faced and done by the students. There isn't any facilitation for supporting students' acquiring their English. Therefore, being in this class can be frustrating for the students who have lack capability in English. The English book for KBI is created digitally in order to help students in their writing tasks and in the same time facilitate the teachers to teach using the book and CLIL method.
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