"PEER REVIEW: ABCD Requirements of Lesson Objectives Made by the English Department Students of Unlam For Praktek Pengenalan Lapangan (PPL) I Course"

Abstract

Writing a lesson objective is still a challenging task for the English Department students of Lambung Mangkurat University when they do their micro teaching practice in Praktek Pengenalan Lapangan (PPL) I Course. The formulated lesson objectives have to include the ABCD elements -Audience/Actor, Behavior, Condition, Degree- which require distinct characteristics for each. The study examines the lesson objectives of the lesson plans made by the English Department students of Lambung Mangkurat University for PPL I Course in the Academic Year of 2010/2011. There are 91 lesson plans were collected, and there are 91 lesson objectives investigated. The findings discuss the formulation of ABCD requirements in the lesson objectives. It is recommended that the students’ English proficiency must be enhanced because the formulation of a good lesson objective is closely related with the ability to produce grammatically correct sentence.