Project-based Drama Learning: A Model for Improving Students’ Reading Achievement

Fiftinova, Muslih Hambali

2018

Abstract

This study aims to find out whether or not Project-based Drama Learning could improve students’ reading achievement. Project-based Drama Learning allows the students to learn cognitively, affectively and physically because they did critical reading, character analysis, class discussion, essay writing, scriptwriting, casting and team formation, hot-seat interview, team presentation, drama practices, rehearsal, and drama in stage. One pretest post-test experimental group design was used with the intention of finding out the difference of reading achievement before and after the students learned through Project-Based Drama Learning. The sample was 20 students enrolled in Literature in ELT course at English department at one state university in Palembang. To collect the data, reading test was given to sample before and after the treatment. The results showed that the average score for pretest was 56.05, and the mean score for the posttest was 62.40. T-obtained was 5.146 while Df = 19, with a significance value of 0.000. With a significance value of 0.000 which was lower than 0.05, it can be concluded that there was a significant improvement in students' reading achievement through Project-Based Drama Learni

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fiftinova. and Hambali M. (2018). Project-based Drama Learning: A Model for Improving Students’ Reading Achievement. In Proceedings of the 3rd Sriwijaya University International Conference on Learning and Education - Volume 1: SULE-IC; ISBN 978-989-758-575-3, SciTePress, pages 60-65. DOI: 10.5220/0009994900002499

in Bibtex Style

@conference{sule-ic18,
author={Fiftinova and Muslih Hambali},
title={Project-based Drama Learning: A Model for Improving Students’ Reading Achievement},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd Sriwijaya University International Conference on Learning and Education - Volume 1: SULE-IC},
year={2018},
pages={60-65},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009994900002499},
isbn={978-989-758-575-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd Sriwijaya University International Conference on Learning and Education - Volume 1: SULE-IC
TI - Project-based Drama Learning: A Model for Improving Students’ Reading Achievement
SN - 978-989-758-575-3
AU - Fiftinova.
AU - Hambali M.
PY - 2018
SP - 60
EP - 65
DO - 10.5220/0009994900002499
PB - SciTePress