Younger learners Younger Learners Presentation
Authentic projects to increase student motivation and autonomy in ER class
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.
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Yulia Loekito is a mother of two living in Yogyakarta-Indonesia . Reading and teaching have her favourite since she was a little girl. Her passion of teaching children initially emerged at the age of 19 when she was teaching those with special needs. Those passions linger overtime. Imaginations have always been her nap time companion, until she decides to put those into reality by writing children books. Meanwhile she is also running an alternative learning community emphasizes in language, cultural, and environmental learning, in which extensive reading and extensive listening are constantly applied. She also runs a publishing house that publish children books written in vernacular language and local scripts.
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Nurul Hikmah lives in Yogyakarta. Currently, she works as a facilitator in an alternative learning community that focused on language, cultural, and environmental learning. She teaches and assists children in learning where extensive reading is also implemented as part of the learning activity. She loves books since she was little. Her first encounter with books was when she was introduced to a children's magazine called Bobo. Since then, books became a part of her learning journey. Therefore, she was excited when she got the opportunity to learn and write children book. Ndherek Langkung is her first children book which was written in Javanese, one of indigenous languages in Indonesia. The book was written based on her childhood experience.
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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.
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