Educating Student Character Through English Lessons

Umi Supriyati(1*), Siti Aimah(2)


(1) Univeristas Muhammadiyah Semarang
(2) Univeristas Muhammadiyah Semarang
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


Educating student character through English lessons represent character education is an effort to in still good habits so that students are able to behave and act based on the values that have become their personality. Educating student character through English lessons an integral part of the lesson plan and communication student. This is achieved through identifying learning outcomes and a suitable communication them. For this purpose, a thermal power plan was identified as a site to be good habits by students. The educating student character was planned to help students to achieve the learning outcomes. A number of questions in form of surveys, related to the learning outcomes, were prepared and given to the students to answer. The pre-study, after-study, and post-study surveys were aimed at priming the minds of the students, gauging the level of satisfaction, and assessing the level of retention of knowledge, respectively. Students found this method very useful and they were able to remember a fair bit of information after about semester from the educating student character. Our assessment of this exercise is the objectives have been achieved.  


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educating student character, learning outcome, outcome-based education

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