LITERACY AND SENSE MAKING
Abstract: Copy pasting has
been one of the most frustrating phenomena in our academic life. It is found and ranged from students’ simple formative paper
to end-of-course assignment.
This article presents semester
1 students’ level
of competence in
sense making. The data was taken from the documents of students’ power point
presentation in Literacy
class at English
Applied Linguistics State University of Medan. Prior to the
presentation, the researcher assigned
the students to
devide the slides
into 5 sections, i.e:
introduction, connection, application,
reflection, and connection as
part of problem-based
learning design. The findings
show that only
33% of the
presentations deliver the information completely in these 5
section, while 67% do not. In connection section, which is assigned for
thepresentation of the main content of
the article, it
is found that
only 11% of the
presentation deliver complete
information about the
research which include the
background (reasons, problems,
objectives) of the research,
the techniques in
collecting data, the
theories used to analyze
data, the findings,
and the discussion,
while 89% do not. Analysis on the content of the slides show that only 33%
of the presentation put relevant informations, while the rest (66%) do not.
Further analysis of the content of the slides show that 66% of the
presentations contains copy paste and only 33% represent the
sense making ability.
The findings imply
that the level of the students’
ability in sense making is very low. It is suggested to
find ways to
improve this area of
literacy skill by empowering all subjects.
Author: Sri Minda Murni and
Mutsyuhito Solin
Journal Code: jppendidikangg130064
