THE INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION AND GROUP PRESENTATIONS IN THE ENGLISH LEARNING PROCESS AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA

Research findings indicated that the participants found strengths and weaknesses of individual presentation and group presentation in their learning processes. Some strength in individual presentation included making students more vi organized, encouraging students to work more all out, becoming autonomous, having to drill themselves, building their self confidence, improving speaking ability, and making students more active. Meanwhile, the weaknesses of individual presentation were that students should work only with one point of view and many students do not like to conduct individual presentation. Instead, they prefer group work. Moreover, the participants indicated the strengths of groups presentation included being comfortable in delivery, conducting easily, and obtained help from other members to share opinion when needed, training to work in the team, and giving opportunity for participants to socialize with others. In contrast, the weaknesses of group presentation consist of having difficulties in making coordination, finding difficulty in setting times, having difficulty to divide the task, and faced difficulty to understood all of the materials