Teaching 21st Century Skills to Engineering Students Through Project-Based Learning (Social Semiotic Perspective)
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211125.059How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- the 21st century skills; PBL; engineering students
- Abstract
The 21st century skills include 3 main skills and 12 sub skills are indispensable in teaching English particularly for engineering students. Globalization has intensified the demands for communicative engineers having soft skills such as effective communication, cooperation, teamwork, project management, lifelong learning that become the requirements of industries and professional organizations. This descriptive-evaluative research aims at describing the procedure of teaching 21st century skills to Engineering students through Project-Based Learning (PjBL) and evaluating PjBL from student’s voice. The research subjects involved 37 Civil Engineering students of a private engineering institute in Surabaya city. They were instructed to develop English online magazine as their group-projects. Guided using socio semiotic approach, the students eventually could publish three online magazines containing Civil engineering news at the end of semester. The results also revealed that the students learned and experienced a lot about 12 skills of 21st century skills. Moreover, through PjBL, their English language skills developed well specifically in reading, speaking, and writing ones when addressing issues related to Civil Engineering.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Chyntia Heru Woro Prastiwi AU - Dwi Rukmini AU - Mursid Saleh AU - Puji Astuti AU - Chyntia Heru Woro Prastiwi PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/26 TI - Teaching 21st Century Skills to Engineering Students Through Project-Based Learning (Social Semiotic Perspective) BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science, Education and Technology (ISET 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 313 EP - 319 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211125.059 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211125.059 ID - Prastiwi2021 ER -