The use of drama to develop English speaking autonomous learning

Rini, Setia (2019) The use of drama to develop English speaking autonomous learning. Working Paper. SEWORD FRESSH.

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Abstract

For several years there has been an appreciation and huge awarenesspertaining to the importance autonomy of learners and the role of individual andgroup learners in leading their process of learning inside and outside theclassroom. Nevertheless, in real teaching and learning process, it is not alwaysvisible how to encourage and develop learners dealing with this role, and how toensure they are ready to perform it. The topic of autonomy of learners is widelydiscussed and acknowledged among social scientists and observers but perhapsto its complex and myriad characteristics, the autonomy of learners has not beenstudied widely up to present day. To fill this gap, this qualitative research wasconducted to investigate the use of drama to build autonomous English learningtowards the students of International class program of IAIN Salatiga batch 2018.There are twenty students of fourth semester along with the range of age between19 and 20 years old as the subject of the research along with two problemstatements: the first, how is the process of students’ autonomous English learningprocess before and after the implementation of drama performance in the class?The second, what are the Strength and the weakness of the use of drama toimprove autonomous English learning process of students? After conductingfourteen meeting of implementing the drama performance there were twoconclusions: the first, it can be concluded that the use of drama performance isan effective method to develop autonomous learning habit of students. They areable to develop their potential in maximum way and be able to learn together intheir peer learning group. The second, from the given questionnaire’s answers,dealing with the strength of the use of drama in improving student’s autonomouslearning, it can be seen that there are 16 students who felt that dramaperformance can improve students’ speaking ability, mastery of vocabulary andboost their self-confidence. Pertaining to the weakness of the use of drama inbuilding autonomous learning there are 17 students who said that there is noweakness in the use of drama to build autonomous learning.

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