Character Education Implementation: A Students’ Perception

Husnuzhan Husnuzhan; Dian Safitri

doi:10.24036/jelt.v13i1.127315

Character Education Implementation: A Students’ Perception

Husnuzhan Husnuzhan⁽¹⁾, Dian Safitri⁽²⁾,
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DOI : https://doi.org/10.24036/jelt.v13i1.127315

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Abstract

Character education becomes a crucial part in educational system in Indonesia. The problems face by late generations which can degrade their character make it more important. The Integration of Character Education with Project-Based Learning (PjBL) in Paragraph Writing class become one of many ways to fix students problem. This research was a quantitative-research which employed questionnaire as the measurement toll. There were 18 items distributed to the samples with 2 different aspects. There were 125 students from academic year 2022/2023 which enrolled Paragraph Writing class in English Department, Universitas Negeri Padang participated as the samples of this research. Students were given a treatment by the lecturer for a whole semester and the researcher found the samples’ perceptions. To find the students’ perceptions, Likert Scale 1 to 4 was used in this study. This study found that the integration of Character Education and PjBL shows very positive result to increase students’ character.

Keywords

Character education, project-based learning, politeness, honesty, paragraph writing

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