But in what ways is the Participant Point System (PPS) implemented? what are the benefits and difficulties of implementing the PPS and what are the high school students’ responses to the implementation of the PPS? Pia Zakiyah in her research paper The Implementation of Participation Point System In A Senior High School English Teaching is presents the investigation of those questions in a senior high school English teaching that collected through observation, …show more content…
However, there are several difficulties in implementing PPS related to the interaction between the teacher and the students; teacher may try hard to make some students to be confident to participate, especially for low proficiency students. Teacher makes a lot of efforts in preparing appropriate questions to be adjusted with the learning material difficulty level and might also find it hard to give equitable opportunities for all the students to participate in the learning activity. When the PPS is implemented, the teacher had to pay attention to the student participation framework. In this study, it was concluded that the teacher mostly implemented PPS with low cognition-high participation activities. Thus, the students tended to frequently forget what they had learned even though the students were able to apply or review what they had got. The learning activities were fun but also …show more content…
She manages to investigate all of the questions of her research. Based on her investigation, implementing PPS in English teaching allows teachers to gain students’ attention more easy. The teacher can make the class atmosphere more interesting and interactive. Furthermore, by implemnting PPS, the teacher is able to motivate most of the students to be confident in using English so that the students will participate actively. It will be also easier for teacher to assess the students’ scores.
Evaluation (Positive features 2)
Nearly based on her findings of the questionnaires and interviews, students response on implementation of PPS are positive. From the students’ point of view, PPS implementation makes the English learning more fun and interesting. Almost all of the students stated that PPS implementation makes the students actively participate and it also motivates them to learn English better. It also helps them to enhance their confidence and make them more competitive. Moreover, the students stated that PPS implementation helps them to focus in the learning process and enrich their vocabulary because they have to speak in