Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Problem Based Learning by Nur Afni

PBL is a teaching method which uses “problem” as a media in teaching. The students are given some problem and they must solve them. From the problem appears teacher can be identified students’ need in learning so that the learning process can be maximal and get the target.

There are three characteristic of PBL namely Small Group, Problem Based and Self-Directed. In small group, students are encouraged to be not afraid and work together with teacher as the facillitator. Students’ feedback influence the process of learning. In problem based, the problem is the real problem and students are not emphasize to solve but through the problem, it is expected teacher can know students’ lack.

I personally still do not understand this method except what I have written above because this method is not familiar for me moreover the presenter only read her power point without giving any explanation used spoken language, whereas the material is almost completed. Besides that, presenter also did not give the simulation so that it was hard to audience to imagine how this method applied in class.

Direct Method by Hayatun Riza

Direct method is a language teaching method by directly apply foreign language in class and negate the use of native language. In this method, grammar lesson and translation must be avoided because the most important is students and teacher can directly communicate in foreign language. They are expected to master the grammar from practice not from learn it specifically.  So, students are expected to master foreign language as same as they master mother tongue, without learning it first. This way that Direct Method try to apply.

However, apparently, this is a wrong view because, foreign language cannot be learned with the same way as mother tongue. Mother tongue is a language that students use from they were still babies, they use it to communicate everyday in theri daily life and all of people around them use that language too. It surely different from foreign language. Foreign language is only spoken by limited people in their life.

The presenter presented her presentation 50% English but her English is really hard to understand. It is because she still looked very hard to arrange sentences in English so the audience cannot catched what her intend easily. The presenter’ voice was so slow and as if she was doubt so she cannot control the condition of this class.