| dc.description.abstract | Exploring factors that cause students to have low English proficiency in the
university level places English as a compulsory subject to learn. Peer tutoring is a
learning strategy that involves students interact each other to promote learning
activities. EOT program enables students who are less skilled in English being taught
by a student who is assumed as a tutor in various ways. Futhermore, peer tutoring
method provides advantages for students to share their knowledge in a social
experience by a meaningful cooperation.
This paper presented an attempt to describe tutor and tutee’s perception on
EOT program, to look tutees’ opinion being taught by tutor and to know tutor
teaching’s strategy on learning. Meanwhile, this study applied descriptive qualitative
approach which used semi-structured interview. Five tutors and five tutees in
different peer tutoring group were involved. The data were analyzed into five steps,
organizing the data, finding ideas and concept, building themes, triangulation and
summarizing the implications.
The finding of this study indicated that tutees percieved that peer tutoring
provides comfortable learning environment because peer tutor and tutee are at similar
level. Tutees are benefited to have useful materials provided by tutor. They are happy
to study English with tutor and new friends in a group of peer tutoring. Tutees
percieved a good tutor is someone who has a good personality traits, close to his
tutees, care and encourage them during learning. Tutors outlined that there are three
strategies to help tutees improve English skill. Those are mentioned that searching for
resources and prepare the materials before teaching, using games as a learning tool,
giving different approach. Furthermore, it provides to have a teaching experience for
tutor and to improve English skill for tutees. On the other hand, both tutor and tutee
complained to have no class for learning activity. They also encountered difficult to
find a suitable time as they have different schedule.
This study can be resumed from students’ perception on EOT program. As
far as peer tutoring is concerned, it tends to provide open ideas exchange and
comfortable environment. Tutor teaching’s strategies could be the methods of
instruction being applied by tutor to assist tutees and to transform knowledge to
achieve academic goals effectively. This study also highlighted benefits and barriers
for tutor and tutee. It is valuable experience associated with teaching’s skill practice
during tutoring session and EOT program provides effective program to improve
English skill for students. Time management and incomplete facility are the barriers
that need to be accomplished. | en_US |
