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Students’ Attitudes toward ‘Teaching Journal’ in Teaching Practicum
Rakhmani Puspa Sari

ABSTRACT
‘Teaching Journal’ is used with the hope that later students can reflect on their
teaching for their own teaching skill development to be better in teaching, show
that they are growth professionally as a teacher, and aware of their learning
process. However, the previous studies showed that some students see ‘Teaching
Journal’ is beneficial for them, while others say it is ineffective. Hence, this study
was conducted to find what students’ attitudes toward ‘Teaching Journal’ in
Teaching Practicum are. In conducting this study, questionnaire and interview
were used. There were 82 participants in filling the questionnaire and 10 of them
were interviewed. They are students of ELEP, FLL, SWCU who enrolled in
Teaching Practicum course in the first semester of 2014-2015. The findings show
that students do not like writing ‘Teaching Journal’ with some reasons. Even
though students only write ‘Teaching Journal’ to fulfill the requirement in
teaching practicum, students do not have intention to only make summary and
impress their mentor teaching through ‘Teaching Journal’. Interestingly, they have
different opinions about ‘Teaching Journal’ which tend to be positive for them.
They also stated that they are willing to use ‘Teaching Journal’ as a part of their
learning in teaching.

Key words: students ‘attitudes, ‘Teaching Journal’, Teaching Practicum