MEASUREMENT OF THE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD A WHOLE-LANGUAGEAPPROACH-BASED LECTURE USING SCORE QUESTIONNAIRES
Abstract: The objective was to
investigate students’ attitude toward the implementation of a whole language
approach on Reading and Writing for Occupational Purposes Course in the
academic year of 2013/2014. The approaches employed were phonological and
phoneme awareness, phonic and word study, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension
skills and strategies, and writing. The participants were 15 students of the
English Language Education Department, Universitas Islam Indonesia. SCORE
questionnaire using the Likert’s scale was the instrument. Calculation was to
find out score index and categorization by following Riduwan’s (2007) score
interpretation criteria. The findings showed that in the simple category, two
of ten questions were agreed absolutely (100%), in the clear category, all
questions were agreed for 80 %, in the original category, five of thirteen
questions reached majority of agreement (100%), in the relevant category, one
of five questions was agreed absolutely (100%), and in the enjoyable category,
all questions were agreed by 93%.
Penulis: Nizamuddin Sadiq
Kode Jurnal: jppendidikandd152226
