Application of Blended Learning (Discovery Learning, Role Play & Simulation, Cooperative Learning, and Collaborative Learning) to Increase Activity and Achievement in Public Speaking Course

Abstract

. Public speaking courses have taught that the importance of communicating well and can communicate with the public by being a good public speaker. Awareness of the ability to communicate in public also makes the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences Political Science, University of Andalas make public speaking courses as a compulsory subject for students. The course with the weights 3 credits. This requires the Department of Political Science student in order to be able to communicate well in public. Output is expected after the Department of Political Science's students learn public speaking is that will not only be good at politics and understand politics, but they are expected to become a political figure who knows how to convey the message to the audience. The method used is research of class action, which means the basic idea that a person / people doing research of this class action. This classroom action research using qualitative methods to describe data. The purpose of this study isdescribe the application SCL Discovery Learning methods in enhancing activity and learning achievement in public speaking courses Students Politics second semester.