Tesis
Students’ engagement and teachers perceptions toward bilingual education program / Nurjalia Kairoty
Abstrak
Kairoty Nurjalia. 2024. Students rsquo engagement and teacher perceptions towards bilingual education program. Tesis Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Program Pascasarjana Universitas Negeri Malang. Advisors (I) Yusnita Febrianti S.Pd. M.A. Ph.D (II) Sari Karmina S.Pd. M.Pd. Ph.D. Keywords Students rsquo Engagement Teacher Perceptions Bilingual Education Program Students rsquo engagement is how students react to a condition. Students rsquo engagement is an important aspect of determining the success of learning. Three aspects of engagement are the focus of this study namely cognitive emotional and behavioral. Cognitive is how students comprehensively understand learning in the classroom. Emotional about how they relate classroom conditions or activities emotionally. Behaviors related to how they respond in terms of actions in the classroom. In the scope of this study was carried out in schools that implement the Bilingual Education Program (BEP) namely the State University of Malang Laboratory Elementary School (SD Lab UM). According to previous research students rsquo engagement in bilingual programs has been done quite a lot but focuses on cognitive aspects only. For this reason this study complements the limitations of previous research by studying all aspects of students emotions namely cognitive emotional and behavioral. On the other hand this study also evaluates the UM Elementary School Lab bilingual program by finding out teachers perceptions of the bilingual program that has been implemented since 2010 until now. Therefore the purpose of this study is to answer (1) What are the highest and lowest aspects of students rsquo engagement levels at BEP (2) What are the factors that affected students highest and lowest engagement in BEP (3) How are teachers perceptions towards BEP. To answer the above questions a mixed-method research design was used. The first research question was answered using quantitative data where a questionnaire was administered to 22 students to find out their highest and lowest aspects of engagement using a research framework by (Fredricks et al. 2004). This was followed by qualitative data to answer the second research question through semi-structured interviews of 6 students to understand the factors that cause their highest and lowest aspects. Then the third research question was answered by a qualitative method where 3 teachers were interviewed in a semi-structured to understand their perception of the BEP at SD Lab UM. This study proves that the highest student engagement lies in the emotional aspect at 36.3% and the lowest in the cognitive aspect at 29.1%. The factor that causes emotional engagement as the highest aspect generally because students are happy with their learning and feel safe in the learning process. It is described as follows. First because the learning material delivered by the teacher is relatively easy for students to understand. Second where teachers make learning in a fun way such as often joking so that students do not feel pressured in the learning process. Third students are also happy with their learning because teachers use cool and interesting teaching strategies such as games. Fourth the curiosity of students makes them always happy to follow lessons. Curious about the new material provided curious about the difficulty level of the learning material and curious because naturally it is easy to be curious. Fifth students have friends to talk and play with namely teachers and friends. Sixth because they have someone either a friend or a teacher to help them when they have difficulty understanding the learning material. And finally students are not afraid to make mistakes so when they try to answer and the answer is wrong they do not feel that it is a fatal mistake but rather a process towards the right. On the other hand cognitive is the lowest aspect of engagement. This is due to obstacles or problems in understanding the learning material and also a lack of motivation in students explained as follows. First there are obstacles related to the teacher s voice that are not so clear in the presentation of learning materials that students cannot hear clearly. Second the learning material is difficult so students are slow to master the learning material. Third students confusion in re-explaining the learning material. Students can understand but find it difficult to explain again and or difficult to give ideas or opinions. Finally students are lazy in relearning the material or just doing things related to cognitive processes. Next is related to teachers perception of the UM Elementary School Lab bilingual program. Of the seven aspects that are focused namely (1) vision mission and goals (2) creation of a classroom climate (3) program articulation (4) accountability and assessment (5) quality teachers (6) parental and community participation (7) curriculum and instruction. Of the seven aspects there are 6 positive aspects and 1 negative aspect. The negative aspect is in the 3rd aspect namely the articulation program where at this time the intensity of the principal s supervision of the classroom has decreased and there is also no English competency test to ensure that students bilingual competence can be accounted for. Therefore with this study SD Lab UM stakeholders can review the objectivity of the bilingual program and strengthen the use of English not only as a change of program terms from regular to bilingual but also can implement English more optimally in each subject. Then also as an evaluation to improve the quality of students. By knowing where the highest and lowest student engagement is teachers can maintain even develop students emotional engagement (the highest aspect of student engagement in SD Lab UM) better and find solutions to solve cognitive problems (the lowest aspect of SD Lab UM engagement).