Using Informal Assessments in Project-Based Learning to Motivate Students to Speak Up: A Classroom Action Research Learned from ESP Courses

Authors

  • Futuh Handoyo State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia
  • Lia Agustina State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4367-0859
  • Setiawan R State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia
  • Manal Laaribi Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat, UM5, Morocco, Morocco
  • Nguyen Thi Hong Chuyen Thai Nguyen University of Education, Viet Nam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33394/jollt.v12i2.9574

Keywords:

Informal assessment, ESP Courses, Project-based learning, Speaking skills

Abstract

An assessment is a way of gathering and discussing data from various sources to gain an understanding of what a student knows, understands, and is able to do with their knowledge resulting from their education to improve their future learning. The purposes of this study were to see the motivation of students to learn the English project suggested in the ESP Course,  Business Meetings Project, and also measured the student's success in language skills, especially oral communication skills.The study was conducted  using an action research method where a questionnaire, students' achievements, and classroom activities were taken as the data. The questionnaire was scored using the Likert scale rating. Students will respond to this scale by rating the motivation factor on a scale. The researchers employed a pre- and post-test to determine how much the students' abilities had improved. The pre-test and post-test mean scores were compared and computed by the researcher using the T-test technique. The participants were 26 students from the Accounting Department of the State Polytechnic Of Malang. The outcome of this study was the successful implementation of the model. The T-test for the first project showed 62,30, the second project had 74,69, and the third project had 79,30.

Author Biographies

Futuh Handoyo, State Polytechnic of Malang

English Lecturer, Accounting Department,State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia

Lia Agustina, State Polytechnic of Malang

English Lecturer, Accounting Department,State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia

Setiawan R, State Polytechnic of Malang

English Lecturer, Accounting Department,State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia

Manal Laaribi, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat, UM5, Morocco

Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat, UM5, Morocco

Nguyen Thi Hong Chuyen, Thai Nguyen University of Education

Faculty of Foreign Language, Thai Nguyen University of Education, Viet nam

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Handoyo, F., Agustina, L., R, S., Laaribi, M., & Chuyen, N. T. H. (2024). Using Informal Assessments in Project-Based Learning to Motivate Students to Speak Up: A Classroom Action Research Learned from ESP Courses. Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 12(2), 1048–1057. https://doi.org/10.33394/jollt.v12i2.9574

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