THE TEACHING OF INTEGRATED SKILLS OF ENGLISH THROUGH INFOGRAPHIC PROJECT TO INDONESIAN EFL STUDENTS Laily Amin Fajariyah
SMPN 5 Panggang, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Abstract
The teaching of integrated skills of English to EFL students in Indonesia is needed to provide them with the balanced learning among the four skills, i.e reading, writing, listening, and speaking. This is an ICT-based English instructions designed for the Z generations at Grade IX of SMPN 5 Panggang, Gunungkidul, Indonesia who have limited facilities for technologies. The infographic project adapted the process approach of formal speaking (Nation and Newton, 2009: 125-7), the process-based writing (Hyland, 2003: 10-14) and the multimedia-based instructional design (Lee and Owens, 2004). The project consists of some steps, they are: (1) topic selection; (2) design (organizing ideas); (3) development; (4) evaluation; and (5) publication. The products of the infographic project are five infographics of report texts about animals. They are: (1) “Green Turtles”, (2) “American Alligators”, (3) “Orangutans”, (4) “Chameleons”, and (5) “Gorillas”. They were uploaded in social media Instagram (IG) and Facebook. The finding shows that Infographic project is believed to: (1) make students happy during the English instructions; (2) improve students- participation in the English instructions; (3) improve students- comprehension of a report text, (4) improve students- speaking skills in giving information about animals; (5) improve students- ICT literacy especially in creating infograpic through www.canva.com.
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