STUDENT TEACHERS PREFERENCES, CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES IN READING JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PROJECT-BASED LEARNING CLASSROOM

Abstract

The utilization of reading journal articles has the potential to enhance students' academic achievement by enabling them to meet the essential competencies. Consequently, students are likely to exhibit superior academic performance, with reading journal articles serving as a crucial factor in this outcome.  This study tries to investigate the student teachers' preferences in reading journal articles in research in education lectures. This study also explores student teachers' challenges and strategies in reading journal articles to complete their writing article project. 18 student teachers from the English Education Department of Wiralodra University participated in this study. This case study research used a questionnaire and semi-structured interview to get the data. The findings showed that the students read the journal articles as one of the requirements to write an article. The result also showed that the students preferred reading journal articles indexed by SINTA. Thus, there are five major challenges in reading journal articles. Those are seeking the appropriate journal article, searching the suitable web to seek the article, translating the article, understanding the unfamiliar words, and understanding the content of the article. Then, there are five strategies that the students use to overcome the challenges. These are opening the dictionary both online and printed dictionary, reading the journal articles more than once, sharing with their friends, watching tutorial videos in seeking the journal article and the last is discussing with the lecturers.