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Parents’ Educational Background and Students’ English Academic Achievement in Higher Education in Indonesia
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Masruddin Masruddin
This research explores the role of parents’ educational background on students’ English academic achievement in higher education in Indonesia. This research describes the difference between the role of parents with a high educational background and parents with a low educational background. It also describes the difference the English academic achievement of students from parents with a high educational background and students from parents with a low educational background. This research uses descriptive qualitative research method. It was conducted at the State Islamic Institute (IAIN) in Palopo, Indonesia. The subject of this research were ten students with a high educational background parent and ten students with a low educational background parent during the third semester in the English Department at IAIN Palopo. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation, questionnaire, and interview as the instruments. The Interactive Model by Miles and Hiberman was used to analyze the data. It consist of three steps, including data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The result of this research shows that there were differences between the role of parents with a high educational background and parents with a low educational background on their child’s academic activity in English learning. The parents from high educational backgrounds are better in communicating, responding, monitoring, motivating, mentoring, and facilitating academic activity in English learning than the parents from low educational backgrounds. It is also found that the students of parents with high educational backgrounds have better achievement than the students from low educational background parents. It can be concluded that parents’ educational background contributes positively on the students’ English academic achievement at IAIN Palopo.
Pragmatics Knowledge and Perspectives of Pre-service English Teachers in Training
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Madehang Madehang
This study examines pre-service teaching students in the English education program in the Faculty of Education and Teaching at the State Islamic Institute of Palopo during the academic year 2016/2017. Employing a quantitative research, this study measures the pre-service teaching students’ pragmatic knowledge and competence by assessing their requests and apologies. There were twenty-two seventh-semester students participating in the study. The study findings showed that the students’ pragmatic competence on request and apology production varied in terms of its appropriateness. The respondents produced 264 utterances. There was a slightly different number between appropriate request (R) and apology (A), 105 and 106 respectively. The total appropriate R and A were 211 (79.92%) whereas the total inappropriate responses were 53 (20.08%). The study also revealed that the frequency of students’ appropriate request (R) and apology (A) responses were higher when the students were in an equal social position/power rank and in higher social hierarchical situations.
The Effect of Internal Factors on Students’ Mathematics Learning Achievement
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Alia Lestari
Regression analysis is the most popular method used to examine the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable. However, in education data, it is often found that independent variable data is classified as qualitative data, so it is not possible to apply this method for analysis. This research utilizes regression analysis method with dummy variable to examine the effect of internal factors consisting of interest, motivation, and intelligence toward mathematics learning achievement. The intelligence variable was examined by students' cognitive potential that is classified as a qualitative variable. The findings showed significant effect of interest, motivation, and intelligence, either partially or simultaneously. The obtained model showed differences in the students’ achievement that have enough, moderate, and good cognitive potential
The Effectiveness of Bibliotherapy and Cinemeducation Techniques to Increase Students’ Multicultural Awareness
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Subekti Masri
The study examines the effectiveness of bibliotherapy and cinemeducation techniques to increase students’ multicultural awareness. The application of the technique is deemed to improve students’ multicultural awareness significantly. Bibliotherapy is a counseling technique that applies the story as a medium to change a person's behavior by self reflection. Meanwhile, cinemeducation deals with a counseling technique that utilizes film to change students’ attitudes. Both these techniques could be used in high schools to make students interact with different ethnicities and religions. As a result, students’ multicultural awareness behavior appears well in the school, family, and community. This study applies single-subject experiment design, especially multiple baselines across subject design. The subject of study was selected based on a score scale of multicultural awareness having a low level of consciousness. It was also based on interview findings with some teachers. The data were analyzed using visual chart analysis consisting of phase baseline, short story, and film intervention. Further, the findings indicate that students’ multicultural awareness behaviors were in a low level to medium level. In addition, the intervention of short stories and films also experience an increase from the low level to medium level after being treated using bibliotherapy and cinemeducation techniques.
