Journal Critique Article #1 (CCU)

Citation: Lemanski, Jenifer L. , 2012. Western Media Meets Eastern Tradition: Examining The Views Of Chinese-American Women On Beauty. USA. University of Texas-Pan American.

The purpose of the study was to to fill a gap in the existing literature by using qualitative methodologies to examine the views of Asian-American women about beauty. To get the data, the researcher used in-depth interview with 11 Chinese-American women, prompted by mass media images of both Chinese and Western celebrities.

The research was begun with the introduction of different culture which affected to different characteristic. The mass media had been brought a big change to the women, so that it became more important to the women than anything.

To find out the answer of research question, the research used qualitative method of in-depth interviews and auto-driving, a technique in which photos, texts, or other in a snowball-sampling approach through two Chinese-American former classmates of the author.materials are used to help facilitate discussion with the participant. The subjects were obtained 

Journal Article Critique #1 (CAR)

Citation: Arifani, Yudhi. (2016). The Implementation of Team-Based Discovery Learning to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Research Proposal. International Education Studies. 9. 111-119. 10.5539/ies.v9n2p111

This is my first article on my new blog, and it also becomes my first time to write a journal article critique. Actually, this article is about a classroom action research journal. It told how the effective way to write research proposal is. This is an interesting topic because nowadays, the most difficult problem for some undergraduate students is writing research proposal.

The objective of the research was to improve students’ ability in generating a research topic from reputable journal articles, developing thesis proposal draft, and writing comprehensive thesis proposal. It is started from the introduction which is stated that writing research proposal is one of compulsory subjects for EFL students at university level in Indonesia so it becomes hard challenge for every teacher to be able to teach how to write good research proposal.  

The research questions were concluded from the introduction, those are: a) How does the implementation of team-based discovery learning improve students’ ability in generating a research topic from reputable journal articles? b) How does the implementation of team-based discovery learning improve students’ ability in developing their research proposal draft? c) How does discovery learning improve students’ ability in writing comprehensive research proposal?

The research questions were answered by using some theories and research. Begin with the factors improving the quality of research proposal learning, and then the definition, advantages of team-based discovery learning. This research was using a classroom action research as the method, and it contained two cycles in the action. In each cycle, there were four phases those are planning, action, observation and reflection. 

As it’s known that classroom action research can be seen both quantitatively and qualitatively, this research was using quantitative method to measure the reliability and validity of the instrument. In my opinion, this is one of the difficulties in constructing a classroom action research. I haven’t understood whether it is a must or not to measure the requirements of the instruments, because in general, especially in students’ undergraduate thesis, they don’t measure the validity and reliability of the instruments.