Margarita Riana
About
Margarita Riana lives happily in Jogja-Indonesia with her small family. She enjoys minding her three children. Besides having busy days as a mother, she teaches English to young learners and has an extensive reading class in Green Meadow Alternative Learning Community. Reading has been one of her hobbies since she was little. When she was in elementary, she got her first picture book. Ever since, her love in reading keeps growing even though her family has no regard for reading as a beneficial hobby. Indeed, she keeps doing her hobby and introducing reading as a fun activity to her students in extensive reading programs.Sessions
Younger learners Authentic projects to increase student motivation and autonomy in ER class more
Wed, Aug 9, 18:00-18:35 Asia/Tokyo
Adolescence is a phase where rapid physical growth with intense hormonal activity takes place. It may lead to diminishing energy to concentrate in academic works. Therefore, even though structured academic learning is difficult to overcome, collaborative works and peer-interaction which enable them to explore their future-role in the society are of their interest. On the other hand, extensive reading activities tend to be individual which are not in line with adolescence’s characteristics. Thus, we conducted authentic projects to bridge it. The project was conducted in a private junior high school in Yogyakarta. A group of 15 middle-grade students aged 12-15 years old participated for 7 months duration. They’ve performed several group-chosen authentic projects, such as: book-procurement, performance, and social-media project. This presentation would also discuss about the success, obstacles, achievement, student’s point of view, and our analysis on its effectiveness. The data are collected and analyzed qualitatively.
