Proceedings of International Conference on English Language Teaching (INACELT)
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Trend mapping of students' thesis in English Education Study Program of IAIN Palangka Raya
Get PDFThis research aims to map out the trend of students’ thesis in English Education Study Program of State Islamic Institute of Palangka Raya from 2012 to 2016. This research belongs to qualitative approach and the design is case study research as the objective of this study is to identify, analyze, and map the thesis trend among the students of English Education Study Program of IAIN Palangka Raya. To make this research focus, writers limit the research only in mapping out the subject of the study, the topic/theme of the study, and the method of the study. The findings show that from 317 theses, junior high school students are the most targeted subject where there are 104 theses conducted on them. Meanwhile, writing is the most explored topic/theme as 88 theses are administered toward it. Lastly, there are 139 of theses by the students of English Education Study Program of IAIN Palangka Raya from 2012 to 2016 that apply experiment method which makes it becomes the most used method
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Incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading online newspapers by the third-semester students at the English Education Study Program of IAIN Palangka Raya
Get PDFThe objectives of the study are (a) To measure the effect of reading online newspapers toward students’ vocabulary acquisition incidentally by the third semester students at the English education study program of IAIN Palangka Raya and (b) To describe the third semester students’ attitudes at the English education study program of IAIN Palangka Raya towards learning words incidentally to acquire vocabulary through reading English texts and online newspapers. In this study, The researcher used the quantitative method with the quasi-experimental design. The population of the study was the third-semester students at the English Education Study Program of IAIN Palangka Raya which consist of 45 students. The researcher used clustering sampling in this study and took two classes as a control class and experiment class. Then, the result of this study showed that (a) there was a significant effect of reading online newspapers toward students’ vocabulary acquisition incidentally with tvalue was higher than ttable (-(2.179) ≤ -6.150 ≥ -(3.055)). (b) The third-semester students had positive attitudes at the English education study program of IAIN Palangka Raya towards learning words incidentally to acquire vocabulary through reading English texts and online newspapers. Because of the mean score were for reading English texts was 3.62-4.00 and for reading online newspapers was 3.46-4.15 classified into moderately agree to agree. Besides that, the students give positive attitudes while reading process
Collaborative writing in small groups: Learners’ perceptions
Get PDFThis study explored learners' perceptions of the implementation of collaborative writing in small groups. Seventy-five learners of Diploma three who take a writing class were asked to write a paragraph using a collaborative strategy as one of their classroom activities. The learners have divided into three different classes that each class consisted of twenty-five learners. This small number of learners maintained the effectiveness of classroom activity. The learners worked in a group of three learners developed a paragraph using a collaborative strategy. At the end of the class, the lecturer asked the learners to answer a questionnaire and an interview to get data about the students’ perception of the implementation of collaborative writing in small groups. The learners’ answered were analyzed and described. Learners' reactions to the collaborative writing experience mostly were positive. The learners said that in collaboration, the learners discussed and shared ideas among the member of the group that helped them to gather more idea and knowledge for their writing. Besides, they mentioned that they increased the grammatical and lexical accuracy of their paragraph. On the other sides, there were five learners who have different perceptions for some reasons; felt shy to deliver their idea, lack of English competence, time-consuming, and prefer to have individual work. Overall, the finding of this study was in line with other previous research findings of collaborative writing
Critical thinking (CT) skill in reading class
Get PDFCritical thinking (CT) skill is one of the important skills for the 21st century. According to Vdovina (2013), Critical thinking is associated with thinking quality and, if sufficiently developed, provides learners with a more skillful way of communicating with other people, acquiring new knowledge, and dealing with ideas, beliefs, and attitudes. According to Fahim and Aghaalikhani (2014), by utilizing critical thinking skills, students can use the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers – concepts and principles that enable them to analyze, assess, and improve thinking. They will be able to work diligently to develop the intellectual virtues of intellectual integrity, intellectual humility, intellectual civility, intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice and confidence in reason. Fahim and Aghaalikhani (2014) further state that in order to maximize the teaching of critical thinking, critical thinking should be integrated into the process of English Language Teaching (ELT), specifically, in reading skill. Since the teachers are those who are responsible for making the students successful in the classroom, they need to know critical thinking skill. Therefore, this paper aims at sharing ideas about the designs of questions in enhancing critical thinking using Bloom’s taxonomy and Socratic questions (Paul’s taxonomy of Socratic questions)
Preventing negative effects of using technology in English teaching material by integrating local wisdom
Get PDFBeginning the 21st century, it means getting into the globalization era. The information will be easy to access from home by using technology. What is happening on the other side of the world, can be quickly known in other parts. Gates between nations are widely open with no barrier. The diversity of the nation’s cultures is gradually melted. This is called by John Nesbit as Global Life Styles. English as an international language is an inseparable dimension of globalization using technology. The field of the ELT material has been deeply pervaded by the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) use. The easy access to technology has made information possible for enhancement of teaching and learning program and about 80% of it is in English (MC – Crum. R. et al., 1986). Some of the technology used in ELT classroom as suggested are Computer-Mediated English, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Web-Based Learning, E-mail, Blogs, Skype, Mobile Phones, I pods, Social Media, the media live streaming such as Google Chrome, etc. However, the use of technology itself has negative sides from the point of view of the native country from its local wisdom. Information that is not filtered properly, potentially causes negative behavior change. The existence of local values which are threatened by the massive wave of global culture is the existence of local wisdom. Therefore, the use of technology in the ELT material as an open door of the massive wave needs the demand of the filter existence of integrating local wisdom.Â
Improving students’ ability in writing narrative texts using short animated stories and mind mapping at class VIII of SMP GUPPI Palangka Raya
Get PDFThis research aims at improving the writing ability of the Eighth-grade students of SMP GUPPI Palangka Raya, in academic year 2016/2017. The problem was that they had a low writing ability. This particular research is categorized as action research to improve the student’s ability in writing Narrative Text using Short Animated Stories and Mind Mapping. The actions were implemented in two cycles based on the class schedule. This research involved 20 students of class VIII of SMP GUPPI Palangka Raya in academic year 2016/2017 and the English teacher was as the research collaborator. The data of the study were in the forms of qualitative data. The qualitative data were obtained by observing the teaching and learning process of writing of Narrative Text, interviewing the students of class VIII and the English teacher, students test, and documentation. The research findings showed that the use of short animated stories and mind mapping was effective to improve the students’ writing ability. They could get students’ attention and increased their learning motivation. It could help the students understand the story better as the video content visual or moving images that could help to imagine the real situation in the story. The students who fulfilled the KKM was only 4 students (20%) in the pre-action, were able to increase their score up to 12 students (60%) in the progress test in cycle I and were able to increase to 17 students (85%) in the post-test in cycle II. It was indicated that they made a considerable improvement in some aspects of writing skills such as grammar, coherence, readability, diction and communicative purpose of the text
Authentic materials existed in the textbook by intan pariwara for senior high school
Get PDFThis research aimed to find out authentic materials and skills contained in the textbook Intan Pariwara for Senior High School. Skill checklist (listening, reading, speaking and writing) on 5 chapters of the textbook and authentic material checklist on 5 chapters of the textbook had been described in the checklist. This research investigated the existence of authentic materials and 4 skills contained in the textbook Intan Pariwara. The researchers used Qualitative approach to fund out the result. The results showed that: There were only a few authentic materials and consisted 4 skills in the textbook Intan Pariwara especially Buku Bahasa Inggris Mata Pelajaran Wajib Kelas XI compiled by Bachtiar Bima M dan Cicik Kurniawati for semester 1
Writing fluency through the use of Guided Questions
Get PDFAn important step in writing is to ask a good guided analytical question to address the central text(s) to write about. Establishing that question might help writing fluency with something to explore or an idea to discover. This Quantitative study with Quasi-Experimental design was aimed to measure the writing fluency of the third-semester students of Prodi TBI IAIN Palangka Raya through the use of guided questions as one of the steps in writing. Through One Way ANOVA formula analysis by using test, questionnaire & observation checklist as the instruments of collecting the data needed, the result found that the guided questions technique is having a significant effect in improving students’ writing fluency
Correlation between students’ L1 frequency use and their L2 speaking ability scores
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to find out the correlation between students’ L1 frequency use and their L2 speaking ability scores in speaking class. The researcher took a class of 3th-semester students of English department at IAIN Palangka Raya of 2016/2017 year. The researcher used correlation design with quantitative approach. For the instrument, the researcher used the questionnaire and students’ speaking test. The researcher used inter-rater reliability to measure the reliability of the test instrument with the speaking lecturer as the second rater. In measuring the correlation, the researcher took a theory of Pearson Product Moment which calculated by SPSS program. The finding of this research showed the result of r calculation for students’ L1 frequency use and their speaking test is -.220. Based on the table of interpretation of r value, the result of r calculated (-.220). This value shows that there is a negative correlation. From the significance (2 tailed), the researcher gets the score .301. It means r>0.05 which showed Ho cannot be rejected. The result explained that there is no correlation between two variables, students’ L1 frequency use and their L2 speaking ability scores of 3th semester students of English Department at IAIN Palangka Raya