Enhancing English Competencies and Character Building Trough a Bilingual Book

DOI

10.2991/icssis-18.2019.66How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English competencies, character building, bilingual book

Abstract

Mastery of English is an important skill for graduates in the globalization era. In addition, character values are also the main target of higher education. The development of character building-oriented bilingual textbooks is the right strategy for improve the quality of graduates who master English as well as having a character. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to improve students' English skills and build character values. Development of this textbook employs the ADDIE model. The results of the study show that the development of this book involved a team of lecturers and expert in FGD format. According to the students' assessment of the material, in terms of English language skills and character content, character building-oriented bilingual books turned out to be effective in improving English the students’ language skills and character.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fitra Delita
AU  - Sugiharto
AU  - Mbina Pinem
AU  - Tumiar Sidauruk
AU  - Ali Nurman
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Enhancing English Competencies and Character Building Trough a Bilingual Book
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies (ICSSIS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 320
EP  - 322
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icssis-18.2019.66
DO  - 10.2991/icssis-18.2019.66
ID  - Delita2019/05
ER  -