The New English Education College Students’ Rubric Evaluation on Their English Read-Aloud

Reading aloud has been very familiar for educational and English teaching study. As usual, read-aloud as the way to know students’ competence in pronouncing words of English. A few research discussed about students’ read-aloud competence in reading English text with rubric evaluation. Then, the evaluation can be used as the guidance for teaching intervention on students’ reading skill. The aim of this study was to describe the read-aloud rubric evaluation on the aspects of pronunciation and clarity, fluidity, volume and intonation with expression for the new students of English education program. The rubric was adopted from i-Rubric. Both girl and boy students were engaged in this study. They were about 50 students all. As noted on the results of the study, the level of score in good categories was on the aspect of students’ volume of reading aloud, but on the three other aspects was on the level of fair. The students’ percentage on category of Excellent-Good read-aloud volume was 60% and Excellent-Good read-aloud pronunciation and clarity was only 44%. This was proved that new college students still need more intervention on their reading skill by read-aloud activities in the classroom activities because read-aloud could guide students to enhance their adaption of information processing skill, vocabulary pronunciation, speed of reading, intonation and comprehension.