individual presentation has already reflected the characteristics of self-directed learners. It is also to find out whether the nature of the course that encourages the
students to learn and master the materials for the presentation can really motivate the students to become more independent because it will influence their readiness of the
students to develop self-directed learning.
B. Problem Formulation
Considering the research background explained above, the research is going to find the answer of two questions:
1. What do the students carry out for the individual presentation? 2. What are students’ perceptions towards the use of individual presentation as a way
to develop their self-directed learning?
C. Problem Limitation
This study focuses on the use of individual presentations to develop self- directed learning in Seminar on Language Teaching course of Sanata Dharma
University. The writer finds that although there are some courses on the individual presentation given to the students, the nature of the Seminar on Language Teaching
course gives more influences to the self-directed learning. It is because having individual presentations encourages the students to be more responsible towards their
learning process. In Seminar on Language Teaching course, the lecturer does not give any materials before the students start doing the individual presentation so that the
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students have to find and learn from any references or sources independently. The lecturer also assesses the students’ understanding towards the topic from the way they
deliver the materials to the audiences through the individual presentations. The more the students understand the topic when having individual presentation in front of the
class, the higher scores they will get for this course. This motivates the students to perform better during the individual presentation because it affects more on their final
results. Therefore, to limit the scope of this study, this research focuses only on the implementation of individual presentations in Seminar on Language Teaching course.
D. Research Objectives
The study has two objectives in order to answer the previous problem questions.
1. To describe the process of the individual presentations in Seminar on Language Teaching course the preparation and the presentation.
2. To gain students’ perception towards the use individual presentations in Seminar on Language Teaching course as a way to develop self-directed learning.
E. Research Benefits
