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Developing English Materials Using ESP Approach for al-Qur’an and Tafsir Study Program Students
No full textThis study aimed at developing English materials using ESP approach for the first semester students of al-Qur’an and Tafsir Study Program at IAIN Palangka Raya in academic year 2018/2019. In this study, the model of materials development proposed by Sugiyono (2013:298) was adapted with the following steps: need assessment, reference of the research, development of English materials using ESP approach, expert validation, revision, try-out of the materials, revision, and final product. The instruments used consisted of questionnaire, observation, and interview. The data gathered was analyzed and described qualitatively. The students’ need based on the result of questionnaire was English materials using ESP approach. Considering that result, the English materials using ESP approach were developed and tried in 8 meetings. The data collected from try-out showed that the developed materials were applicable to the teaching-learning process and appropriate with the students’ need. Furthermore, the students responded positively toward the developed materials. They were active, motivated, and enthusiastic in doing the activities of the developed materials. English materials using ESP approach in the form of a textbook divided into eight units were the product of this study. The topics were Prayer, Fasting, Zakat, Muamalat, Food in Islamic Law, Property Right in Islamic Law, Inheritance in Islamic Law, and al-Qur’an and Science. The textbook was also supplemented with a list of vocabularies section, a list of regular verbs section, and a list of irregular verbs section
Indonesian EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate in the Instructional Context
No full textThe principal goal of L2 education is to enhance learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC). Hence, this survey study was undertaken with the purpose of exploring Indonesian EFL learners’ WTC especially in a classroom context or the so-called Instructional WTC (IWTC) in order to know the conditions triggering their willingness and unwillingness to communicate using L2. This survey applied descriptive quantitative method where 100 EFL learners from three State Universities in Indonesia were involved as the respondents. The respondents are the English students of IAIN Curup Bengkulu, Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta and Universitas Musamus Merauke Papua. Those universities represent three of five major islands in Indonesia. A questionnaire was distributed to the respondents in order to explore their WTC in six IWTC components comprising communicative self-confidence, integrative orientation, situational context of L2 use, topical enticement, learning responsibility, and off-instruction communication. The findings revealed that group size, classroom environment, students’ cohesiveness, familiarity to the topic, degree of topic preparation, classroom seating arrangement, gender, self-awareness, and familiarity with interlocutors were the factors that affected learners’ WTC. Further studies are highly recommended to deeply explore the teaching activities done by teachers by considering the influential factors of learners’ willingness and unwillingness to communicate as an effort to maximize their WTC
Teaching Practice is not Enough for EFL Teachers: Voices from IAIN Surakarta
Get PDFThis study explores teaching practices for English Language Education program of IAIN Surakarta were implemented to link the gaps between theory and actual needs at schools. Relying on the qualitative approach, this study used content analysis as the main data sources, observation and interview to collect data. The results of the study show that teaching practice for the ELT in IAIN Surakarta indicate restrictions. With overall duration of 16 weeks, teaching practices at IAIN Surakarta is set in 6 credits, each of which consists of (1) micro teaching (2 credits), (2) administrative observation, (3) classroom observation, (4) classroom teaching practices. During the field practices, complaints from mentor teachers appear that practican students are not well prepared in teaching skills and limited knowledge is performed to English competence performance in the classroom. Students claim that preparation in the itinerary of teaching practice they received from campus are not definitely sufficient as too many administrative processes are emphazised and mentoring system does not suffice to equip teaching skill
Distinctive Features Analysis of Foreign Language Borrowing Words in Javanese Language Found in Panjebar Semangat Magazine
Get PDFThe Javanese language belongs to language which has unique phonological system. There are so many foreign language has influenced the development of Javanese. This study is intended to examine the sound change of borrowing word of foreign language in Javanese which is found in Panjebar Semangat magazine. The data is taken from Panjebar and checked using old Javanese dictionary. This study belongs to descriptive qualitative research and used Simak method and Non Participant Observation in collecting the data. The data analysis is done by using Padan method. The result of the study reveals three sound changes of vowels sound and four phonological rules. Then, there are four types of sound change and four phonological rule of consonant sound. The result showed that the sound change of borrowing word in Javanese is influenced by the differences of phonological system between Javanese and the foreign language
Deixis in Judith McNaught’s Night Whispers Novel
Get PDFThis paper aims to examine the types of deixis, the meaning of deixis, and the position of deixis in novel entitled Night Whispers written by Judith McNaught. The authors applied theory of deixis from Levinson (1983) and theory of meaning by Chaer (2013). The analysis of this research uses distributional and referential identity method by Sudaryanto (1993). The results show that there are five types of deixis which is found in the novel with the most-found type is person deixis and the fewest-found type is social deixis. The meanings of the deixis are referred to the speaker herself which is named Sloan, Sloan’s friend named Sara, the time when Sloan uttered the utterance, the span when Sloan lived as police officer, Sloan’s father’s house, Apparition, the thought of Sloan of a group of girl, the thing Sloan wanted Paris to remember, and Sloan’s great-grandmother. The position of the deixis is as Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, and Adverb
Integrating “Daily Learn English Application†to Teach Speaking Skill in EFL Classroom
No full textThe generation who is raised in the digital world has come to believe learning meant to be loud, colorful, and energetic. Teachers who want to reach out to this generation need to use media to grab attention. Teachers must be adaptive, which means that they must begin to believe that integrating technology is an effective way of teaching. This research is aimed at investigating teacher’s belief and practice on the integration of “Daily Learn English†Application to teach speaking skill in EFL classroom. To reach the objective, a case study on an individual teacher was used in this research. Data collection techniques of the research were Interview and observation. The result indicated that the teacher believes that integrating "Daily Learn English" Application could facilitate the teacher in creating an active, creative and fun teaching-learning process and there was no discrepancy between belief and practice as the teacher has been integrating this application in the classroom.Â
Conjunctive Relation in English Advertisement on Child and Teen Magazines
Get PDFThere are many previous types of research about semiotics, language style and image in analyzing advertisements. This study analyzes advertisements by conjunctive relations. This is aimed at observing how the conjunctive relation analyzing the advertisement and constructing the meaning to target readers. This study describes the use of conjunctive relation that results from different stages in the advertisement. The data used advertisements published from August â€" September 2018 in Junior and Teen Magazine. The method of this study is descriptive qualitative. This study used purposive based sampling based on the objectives of the study. In analyzing data, researchers use Systemic Functional Linguistics approach. This step of analysis uses a domain, taxonomy, componential and cultural theme analysis. The study finds out that the advertisement is structured by exposition genre and the message is delivered well to specific target readers; children or teenagers. Besides,conjunctive relation’s analysis finds the invitation meaning explicitly. In conclusion, the language and meaning are easy to understand both the target readers
Listening Materials for Vocational High School Students in Indonesia: Teachers’ Perception
No full textInitially, communication is set up by listening. Students need the ability of listening skill for educational purposes and prepare themselves in social life. This study had the objective to investigate the perceptions of the teachers about the existing listening materials at the vocational high schools in Indonesia. In this study, the researcher engaged seventeen teachers of vocational high schools in Indonesia to be the participants. Data were collected by distributing a questionnaire then followed by an interview toward two participants. The results showed that listening materials met students’ needs, supported by the process of the scientific approach, were appropriate with the objective of the study and students' level of English, related to the syllabus of the 2013 curriculum model included the topic learned. On other hand, listening materials did not improve students’ ability in English, monotonous, made students having less focus, difficult to understand, difficult to build students’ prior knowledge, boring, and uninteresting. Finally, as the teachers’ view, the use of video could be the solution to the problems
The Role of Social Parameters in the Choice of Address Forms used in Kinship domain in Punjab, Pakistan
Get PDFThis study examines the role of social parameters in the choice of address forms used in kinship domain in Punjab, Pakistan. The study targeted 140 respondents in order to test the impact of social factors along with the regional differences in the choices of address forms in kinship domain. Statistical analyses are done by applying t-test for gender in relation to choices of address forms and ANOVA for age, income, education and social class. The study finds out that there is a strong connection of different social parameters not only with language use and practice but also in choices and use of address forms especially in kinship relationships. Moreover, it is highlighted that gender does not influence in the choices of address forms, even the participants belonging to young and middle categories show no significant difference with regard to the choices of address form despite the fact that all the factors and parameters exert influence on the choices of address forms. Hence address forms as being one of the major traits of language and society is affected by all the social factors around and regional differences are also most important as they give identity and ethnicity to the society
The Correlation among English Learning Anxiety, Speaking and Writing Achievements of Senior High School Students
Get PDFThe objectives of the study were to analyze whether or not there were a significant correlation among English learning anxiety, speaking, and writing achievements of the eleventh graders’. The sample of the study were 112 eleventh graders’. They were selected randomly. The study used quantitative research design. The questionnaire and the writing and speaking tests were done to analyze the data. The researcher used foreign language classroom anxiety scale questionnaire to measure the students’ English learning anxiety with five-point likert scale, and speaking and writing tests were used to measure the students’ speaking and writing achievements. Pearson product moment correlation and regression were analyzed by using SPSS. The results of study were negative low correlation between English learning anxiety and speaking achievement (r=-.269 with p<0.01) and English learning anxiety and writing achievement (r=-.213 with p<0.05)