Peer Review: PYI: From What You don’t Know to What You have Learned with Board Game

Abstract

Pen Your Ideas (PYI) Series by LBPP LIA is a writing lesson in itself because it follows the orderly stages of English teaching containing pre, while and post activities. The topics for Intermediate Levels which are discussed is on local content and CLIL stressing on paragraph development methods. Teaching and learning about contents is not always interesting due to the unfamiliarity of the topics and the lack of knowledge. This might bring the students into frustration and boredom when dealing with certain topics because the book itself lacks communicative activities. In addition, the teaching steps are predictable in every level. Therefore, it is necessary to elaborate on the strategy of teaching and learning. This research intends to apply the use of Board Game as a technique to expose the students on the material of local contents and CLIL included in PYI. The subjects of the study are Intermediate 2 and 3 students in Term III and Term IV for Friday-Saturday Class. The action is conducted on August to November 2015 at LBPP LIA Banjarmasin. Two sessions are conducted in Intermediate 2 and the other two sessions are in Intermediate 3 class. Pre and posttests are given to measure the knowledge of the students before and after the treatment. Questionnaire is given to the subjects to gather their opinion on the technique implementation. Positive improvement in students’ knowledge and student- student interaction is expected after the utilization of the Board Game.