Skills, Teaching in ESL, Classroom, Discrete, Integrated (Published)
This paper reviews skills teaching in ESL classroom which can be discrete or integrated. It includes a brief history of discrete skills teaching according to different methods of English language teaching, and the shift towards integrated approach in more recent years. The researcher also analyses the classroom implications of discrete and integrated skills teaching in order to find out which one is more successful in ESL classroom. Therefore, the purpose of this article is firstly, to evaluate the methodological approaches towards skills teaching; secondly,to explore discrete skills approach in class; thirdly, to analyse integration of skills to make a learner a competent user of language; and finally, to propose the various ways of integration and recommend the teachers for the successful development of the integration of language skills
Keywords: Classroom, Discrete, Integrated, Skills, Teaching in ESL
The Effect of Holistic and Discrete Tasks on English Writing Performance of Students with Different Learning Styles (Published)
This factorial experimental study investigated the effect of tasks (holistic dan discret) and learning styles (visual, auditory, dan kinaesthetic) on students’ English Writing Performance (EWP). The experiment applied factorial design 2×3 with amount of sample 150 students taken randomly stratified from three junior high schools at Buton Regency, Indonesian during school-year 2014/2015. The research hypotheses were tested using two ways of analysis of variance and continued with Tuckey test. The results of the research revealed that: (1) EWP of students given holistic tasks was higher than EWP of students given discrete tasks; (2) statistically, there was no significant difference on EWP of visual students, auditory students, and kinaesthetic students; (3) there was any interaction effect on giving tasks and learning styles on students’ EWP; (4) visual students given holistic tasks reached higher EWP than those given discrete tasks; (5) auditory students given discrete tasks attained higher EWP than those given holistic tasks; and (6) kinaesthetic students given holistic tasks achieved higher EWP than those given discrete tasks.
Keywords: Discrete, Task, Writing Performance, holistic, learning styles