Learning Quality of an English Tutorial Program: Students’ and Tutors’ Perspectives

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10.2991/assehr.k.210427.059How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English language, English tutorial program, learning quality, perspectives

Abstract

The concept of improving the quality of education is one of the paradigms of education management in Indonesia. Thus, learning quality in a program could be taken as an important part in improving the quality of education. Many schools and universities provide language tutorial program, to improve their students’ English Language Skills. Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta is one of the universities which provides English Tutorial Program (ETP). Thus, this study aims to identify the learning quality of this program based on analyzing the students’ and tutors’ perspectives. This research employed mixed-method with embedded design which presented quantitative as primary data and qualitative as secondary data. The researcher collected data by spreading the questionnaire and having in-depth interview. The questionnaire’s samples were 188 respondents consisted of 100 students and 88 tutors. Meanwhile, for interview, the researcher collected data from coordinator of the program, tutor assistant, two tutors and three students. The reliability of the questionnaire’ item was acceptable. The finding showed that the learning quality of English Tutorial Program indicated positive responses on several group of items, namely educators’ skills, students’ learning behaviour, learning climate and learning material. Nevertheless, another result from questionnaire and interview showed that students gained an improvement on their English language skills especially speaking and writing after joining English Tutorial Program. The conclusion concerned more in improving its system on time management of the program and textbook update.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Noer Risky Ramadhani
AU  - Sitthipon Art-In
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - Learning Quality of an English Tutorial Program: Students’ and Tutors’ Perspectives
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 386
EP  - 392
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.059
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.059
ID  - Ramadhani2021
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