Boosting Communication Skills of Millennial Generation through Bibliobattle

Susanti Agustina, Doddy Rusmono

2017

Abstract

Expressing, listening and arguing skills in communication are important competencies in the 21st Century. Subjects of the present research are millennial generation of 18-21 students highly influenced by technology, internet, social media, and great economic recession. How to boost communication and literacy skills in millennial generation, which have characteristics of wanting to have freedom of expression and speech, appreciating openness, sincerity, and integrity, deals with collaborative and interactive relationship. This phenomenon is examined by an action research method. Informants involved in the present study were 45 students. A sampling technique was used and it employed 40 people sampled with reliability level of 95%. Bibliobattle is a positive competition about technique of studying favorite book (biblio). Bibliobattle action in this study is recorded by audiovisual technology and is published on Facebook. After doing a practice test of 16 times at Bibliobattle challenge, the students show reflection supporting the conclusion and implication for communication skill and psycholinguistics. Bibliobattle elaborates the activities on reading books, audiovisual technology, and social media relevant to psychological characteristics of millennial generation, making reading activity valuable, exhilarating, while characterizing its existence in wider community. The result of the study shows that Bibliobattle is one way to boost communication and literacy skills.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Agustina S. and Rusmono D. (2017). Boosting Communication Skills of Millennial Generation through Bibliobattle.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 365-371. DOI: 10.5220/0007167403650371

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Susanti Agustina and Doddy Rusmono},
title={Boosting Communication Skills of Millennial Generation through Bibliobattle},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={365-371},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007167403650371},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Boosting Communication Skills of Millennial Generation through Bibliobattle
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Agustina S.
AU - Rusmono D.
PY - 2017
SP - 365
EP - 371
DO - 10.5220/0007167403650371