- How class size can affect students’ English learning achievement?
- Is there any correlation between class size and the students’ learning achievement.
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Sampel Research Background
Introduction
Background
Learning is a process of interaction with educators and learners
learning resources in a learning environment. In learning process one of the factor can influence the learning process is a size of
class. In this case class
size refers to the number of
students in a given course or classroom, specifically either the number of
students being taught by individual teachers in a course or classroom or the
average number of students being taught by teachers in a school, district, or education system. In learning English, class size will be very influence for students, while
English as a second language learning.The number of students in the class has the potential to affect how much is
learned in a number of different ways. As stated by Ehrenberg, Brewer, Gamoran,
and Willims (2001) “class size could affect how students interact with each
other and the level of social engagement”. In the other hand, class size can
affect students achievement. Achievement in learning process is a good result that students achieve in their
learning. Therefor, class size is one of the important factor to achieve
students achievement.
Mortimore and Blatchford (1995) claim that a class of
30-35 could be considered large by British teacher, but experient would be the
determining factor. According to Peraturan
Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Nomor 23 tahun 2013 in Indonesia standart students in the
classroom in SMA/MA not less than 40 students. However, most of school or
university in Indonesia nowdays are put students in the classroom exceed the
standardize. Gilman
and Kiger (2003) stated “the
current focus on reducing class size has become a controversial topic in the
education world, and contradictory findings from various research studies have
yielded speculation about whether smaller classes actually improve student
achievement”. Reichardt (2000) posited that even after years of
research, there were more questions and disagreements than answers and
agreements about the effects of class size on student achievement.
A number of researches have been
done to discover why class size is affecting
students learning achievement. Blatchford (2003) was visted some school and observed
at the same time, while the teacher in the small class spent little time on
control, and there was little need to keep children on task, in the large class
interactions with the children largely involved a constant battle to keep
children’s attention on task.
This research is important
because students do half of learning in the classroom. So it would affect their
achievement. In the class size, we not only can observe the differences of
students achievement, but also how the mechanism throught which the differences
are producted, so it will inrease the convidence that the differences are real,
and not an artifact of some measured. Beside that, the effect of class size may
vary in different circumtances, and indentifying will help us to understand why
the effect of class size are variable.
The researcher will use descriptive study as the method
of this research. While the researcher will use the survey and will collecting
the data of students’ English learning records.
Senin, 09 Maret 2015
20 Example of Research Ideas
1.
The correlation
between the students’ intensive reading abilities both in English and Indonesia language
2.
An analysis of
grammatical error of writing English on Facebook status
3.
A study of
teaching process of paragraph writing through small group work technique
4.
The use of PBL
for students in making short movie as the
media of learning English
5.
A comparative
study between dialogue technique and chain story technique toward speaking
achievement
6.
An analysis of
using idioms in novel “ Diary of Wimpy Kid”
7.
The influence
of teaching English narrative poem towards the students’ reading comprehension
8.
Improving
students learning vocabulary through file card technique
9.
The use of
caption in improving students writing ability
10.
The influence
of the self-directed dialogue towards the students’ speaking ability
11.
The correlation
between students reading comprehension and writing skill
12.
The analysis of Asian values in movie “ Harry Potter”
13.
How to make learning English interesting by using drama
technique
14.
An analysis on verbal and nonverbal communication in
drama
15.
An analysis of students ability in giving presentation
16.
An analysis of moral value in novel “ Scarlet Letter”
17.
Designing
English materials by using movie maker
18.
Teaching
vocabulary through advertisements
19.
Teaching
speaking through information gap
20. Increasing students’ vocabulary mastery through idiomatic
expression in comic strips