Themes Development Data Reduction
54 from the slides of power point presented in the recollection of vision
and mission development See Appendix B. Moreover, “Skills Development” has five aspects to fulfil as well in order to obtain such
quality demanded by the school. Two of which were the aspects that became the fundamental reasons why such activity should be
developed. They are “Public Speaking” and “English skills”. Therefore, Sidang Akademi is implemented in order to fulfil these aspects. The
document showed that the significances of the implementation were “encouraging student to speak in public, developing the ability of
dialogic communication e.g. discussion, seminar, symposium, and debate, developing the persuasive technique which is not aggressive
and developing the ability of negotiating something”. The implementation of Sidang Akademi was completed with some rules and
guidance for presenting a good presentation. The rules and guidance were distributed to the students in the
first day of the implementation. The guidance book containing the submission regulation and the overview of all themes to be presented by
the students. It was stated that “Draft submission is on every Tuesday a week before presentation, the facilitator returns the draft that have been
checked and corrected on Saturday, and the paper which has been revised will be given to the facilitator and the appointed commentator
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lateness. In the handout, it was clearly stated that “there will be no late submission, otherwise you are not allowed to present”. There were also
guidelines for making the outline. For example, in the handout, there was information about how the outline should be. Here, the researcher
took one example for making argumentative speech. The outline was supposed to contain such information, which was “Statement of your
position on certain issue, Arguments that support your position, Closing Restatement of your position”.
Related to the implementation of the activity, the researcher also gained information from the process of Focus Discussion. The student
started to think the use of the implementation for the future life. This was also supported by the other students as the participant of FGD by
adding the importance of having presentation experience through the implementation of Sidang Akademi Academic Preliminary Meeting as
follows.
Student :”Aku ngerasa perkembangan
selama SA ini membuat aku lebih percaya diri banget. .” Own translation
:
I feel the development during the implementation of Academic Prelimanary Meeting
has the significance in making me confident. The full Focus Group Discussion transcript was
provided upon request.
The following data are the step-by-step processes of the activity‟s implementation. This information was the second point of the
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th
until November 24
th
2015. Sidang Akademi implemented in twelve meeting with the development of different
themes in every week. The day of the implementation was on every Thursday at 3.30 P.M. There were some themes had to develop by the
students in their presentation. They were “Argumentative Speech, Persuasive Speech, Sermon, Debate Australian Parliamentary Style,
Seminar Socrates‟ Technique, and Interview Movie Review”. The students were demanded to be able to present different themes in their
presentation. Furthermore, the information of Sidang Akademi implementation
was also obtained through the observation process. In the observation process, the researcher together with peer-observer got the real
condition of the implementation the activity. The process of observation was done at the first until the fourth meetings. In the first day of the
implementation, “the students got the schedule of the activity, theme they were
to present and the guidance book of the implementation”. There were also themes and topics exploration. Based on the result of
observation, the researcher obtained the information that “the students explored their theme and made the draft based on the the
me they got”. After that, the next activity was choosing the leader of the activity.
“The election was done through the process of voting”. The person elected was responsible for the implementation of Academic
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