Abstract
Students at universities are still frequently found to have low independency in learning. Besides, lecturers also still have tendency to treat students as if they were young learners, or in other words, the lecturers still use pedagogically oriented teaching methods (POTM); although they claimed themselves to have applied methods of teaching orienting to the characteristics of adult learners or andragogically oriented teaching methods (AOTM). This also happens to the students at English Education Department of Muria Kudus University (EED MKU), and affects their achievement of language leaning, in particular theirs of teaching practice. Some schools in which the students conduct teaching internship consider that the students’ achievement of teaching is still less satisfactory, and they tend to be less creative and less independent in preparing the teaching, particularly related to the use of instructional skills of teachnig, such the use of classroom language and the use of things neeeded in teaching as media of teaching. This is a quantitative study involving 87 students joining Speaking for Instructional Purposes (SIP) classes at EED MKU. The instruments used are pre and post tests of teaching practice in SIP classes.This study aims to compare the effectiveness of implementing AOTM and POTM to improve the female and the male students’ achievement of teaching practice. The results reveal that AOTM is more effectively implemented to improve the male students than the female ones.
Highlights
It is necessary to select the appropriate method of teaching if satisfactory learning achievement wants to be obtained
The following table contains the N-gain data of the female students’ Speaking for Instructional Purposes (SIP) achievement taught by using andragogically oriented teaching methods (AOTM) and pedagogically oriented teaching methods (POTM) which can be used to prove the possibility of that significant difference: Table 2
The following table contains the N-gain data of the male students’ SIP achievement taught by using AOTM and POTM which can be used to prove the possibility of that significant difference: Table 4
Summary
It is necessary to select the appropriate method of teaching if satisfactory learning achievement wants to be obtained. Learners are categorized into young learners and adult learners; and the selection of teaching method should perceive whether the students belong to young or adult learners. In the level of philosophy, there are two kinds of teaching methods. Both of them are not directly teaching methods which can be implemented in the teaching and learning process; but they both contribute philosophical orientation to the kinds of teaching method in the technical or operational level. Andragogy is a philosophical teaching method orientation considered appropriate to be given to adult learners, while pedagogy is the one appropriate to be implemented to the young learners
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