THE CONTRIBUTION OF STUDENT STUDENT INTERPERSONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA

*34 Learning and teaching can be defined as transferring information and
knowledge to reach learning goal in the classroom. Delivering teaching and
learning process needs an approach. Mostly, approach that is used in the class is
an approach that is centered to lecturer. In this approach, lecturer explains the
materials in front of the class and students only listen to that explanation. Based
on researcher’s experience, students who are talkative in class would be limited to
share their ideas in front of class because of using this classical approach. Hence,
interpersonal skills such as communication, leadership, public speaking and
teamwork could be possibly trained by using proper approach. Student-centered
learning could be a solution by giving contribution in developing student
interpersonal skills.
Additionally, according to the background of this study, researcher was
interested to do the research about description of the contribution that studentcentered
learning gave to develop student interpersonal skills at EED of UMY. In
this research, there are three research questions: (1) How is the implementation of
student-centered learning of English Education Department of Universitas
Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta? (2) What are interpersonal skills developed at
English Education Department of UMY? (3) What is the contribution of studentcentered
learning for student interpersonal skills development at EED of UMY?.
Furthermore, there are three aims of this research: (1) To find out the
implementation of the student-centered learning at English Department of UMY
(2) To find out the three students interpersonal skill developed at English
Education Department of UMY (3) To find out the contribution of studentcentered
learning for student interpersonal skill development at English Education
Department of UMY.
This research used qualitative design to gain the data. Besides, in
answering three research questions, researcher did interview with three students of
class A, B, C from batch 2012 especially in class of Research Method in which
used student centered learning approach. Moreover, researcher chose the
participants based on good score soft skill and also recommendation from the
related lecturer. All the data had been transcribed and categorized by Weft
Qualitative Data Analysis (QWDA).
The result is that student-centered learning had been completely
implemented at EED of UMY. Then, student interpersonal skills developed here
were speaking skill, communication skill, teamwork skill and leadership skill
based on the characteristics appeared. Furthermore, those skills were entirely
developed because of the contribution of student-centered learning in the process
of teaching and learning in the classroom.