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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GOOGLE SITE AS E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR TEACHING EFL DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Get PDFThe aims of this study are to find out whether the implementation of Google Site is effective or not for Teaching EFL and to know the student’s perception toward the implementation of google site in teaching EFL. The subject of the study will be English Students Education at Universitas Muhammadiyah Palopo. The samples of this study will be chosen randomly. The data will be from the EFL Test and interview and all documents use by the lecturer in their teaching and learning process. The EFL test used to measure the students’ improvement after implementing the google sites and the interview used to investigate while the interview done to dig more information on how the students’ perception toward the implementation of google site in teaching EFL. However, through the implementation of the media, it can be said to be effective and attract the attention of students in EFL learning
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON GOOGLE MEET VIDEO CONFERENCING PLATFORM DURING ENGLISH SPEAKING CLASS IN PANDEMIC ERA
Get PDFThe aim of the research was to investigate students’ perception while teaching learning process in 16 meeting by having google meet video conferencing. Method of the research used qualitative research by focusing at descriptive analysis to explore students’ perception in English speaking class as it was followed by 13 English students at the second semester of English study program of STKIP Setia Budhi Rangkasbitung who join speaking lesson. Instruments used were observation, questionnaire, and interview. The results of the research about students’ perception emphasized on interaction, teaching learning process, psychological aspects, and speaking skills. The researcher found that interaction showed that there were three patterns of interaction, they were interaction lecturer-students, students-lecturer, and students-students interaction. The three interactions happened well since the number of them was 100% and all students were involved in speaking activity. Teaching learning process was done as usual like in a real classroom such as pre-activity, main activity, and post-activity. In the form of psychological aspects, students were happy, secure, confident, and brave. Data showed 100%, it meant that they did not have any barriers during English speaking class with google meet video conference. Speaking skills in the form of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, fluency, and comprehension. Students kept having their right to learn about those aspects supported by the teacher in google meet. When students did some mistakes, lecturer explained directly in general at the end of class and this way was very helpful for students in learning speaking. From these findings, the conclusion was the usage of google meet video conferencing in the speaking class showed positive respond that students’ perception on google meet showed mostly perceive the advantages rather than disadvantages of google meet video conferencing provided
INCREASING READING COMPREHENSION AND SUMMARY WRITING ACHIEVEMENTS BY USING RAP STRATEGY WITH 100 FAMOUS STORIES APPLICATION
Get PDFThis study aimed to investigate the students’ writing achievement between before and after the students were taught by using RAP strategy with 100 Famous Stories application. It involved 68 students as pasrticipants and used quasi experimental research method. The result of this study were analyzed by using paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test with the SPPS Version 22.The result of the study for the experimental group showed that the significance level of p was <0.05. The critical value of t-table was lower than t-obtained (22.333>2.036) for reading and (9.162>2.036) for writing. In other words, there was a significance difference in reading comprehension and writing achievement before and after the treatments in experimental group. Furthermore, the result of the independent t-test showed that the critical value of t-table was lower than t-obtained (5.936>1.997) for reading and (7.852>1.997) for summary writing, that is to say there was a significance difference in reading comprehension and writing summary acheievement of the eleventh grade students of SMA Srijaya Negara who were taught by using RAP Strategy with 100 Famous Stories Application and those who were not. It concludes that RAP strategy with 100 famous stories application could improve the students’ reading comprehension and writing achievements
TEACHERS’ BELIEFS AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES IN TEACHING CONTENT SUBJECTS THROUGH EMI
Get PDFThe urge of 4.0 industrial revolutions has made the growth of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) in the educational field unbearable. The beliefs of EMI more or less would give a contribution to the teaching and learning process. This study aimed to investigate teachers’ beliefs towards EMI, to find out how the beliefs reflect in their classroom practices, and the challenges that teachers encounter in teaching content subjects through EMI. The qualitative in case study design was applied and questionnaires, observation, and interviews were used to collect the data. The observations and interviews data were analyzed through thematic analysis and the questionnaire data were analyzed by using descriptive statistical analysis. The findings of this study showed that most content subject teachers at SIS Palembang had a strong belief towards EMI. In the classroom practices, it was found that all teachers put into practiced what they believed in teaching content subjects through EMI such as they used English during the class, applied some strategies to illustrate new vocabulary, used prescribed teacher guide books, provided clear and explicit instructions, engaged the students, delivered the content greatly, and rarely did the code switching, The challenges they encountered in teaching content subjects through EMI included language barriers, class discussion engagement, and lesson preparation
EARLY CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE POLITENESS STRATEGY MODEL IN MULTIETHNIC COMMUNICATION
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to describe the strategy model of early childhood language politeness in multi-ethnic communication with different social rules in Bengkulu. The research method used was a cross-sectional study design, with a study of subjects of different ages. The research subjects referred to were children aged 2, 3, 4 and 5 years in Bengkulu. Data collection was carried out by participating and non-participating observations, accompanied by data recording using an electronic recording device and field note cards. Data analysis was performed using flow analysis techniques. The results show that the strategy model for early childhood language politeness in multi-ethnic communication in Bengkulu is using elaborate politeness acquisition model and children's language politeness acquisition model that takes into account social distance when speaking by stringing 3 words when greeting, introducing oneself, expressing respect, thanking. love, apologize, ask permission, ask for help, ask for things, command, and promise. The series of words are meant to reflect the character development of early childhood
DEVELOPING DESCRIPTIVE READING MATERIALS ABOUT PALEMBANG HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to find out the validity, practicality, and potential effect of developed descriptive reading materials about historical buildings. The developed reading materials were for the seventh-grade students. The development research was based on Akker’s three phases: 1) analysis, 2) design, and 3) evaluation and revision. In the evaluation phase, the formative evaluation modified by Tessmer was applied and there were five stages: self-evaluation, expert review, one-to-one evaluation, small group evaluation, and field test evaluation. The validity was determined based on the results of the experts’ review and the product was valid which was categorized as high validity. The practicality was determined based on the result of the one-to-one evaluation and the small group evaluation. The product was categorized as very high practical level. The potential effect was evaluated in the field test. The result showed that the product has a potential effect since the students reached the passing grade score. In conclusion, the developed descriptive reading materials about Palembang historical buildings were valid, practical, and has potentially effective for the seventh-grade students
INVESTIGATING THE COMPONENTS OF OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION IN EFL CLASSROOM: A LESSON PLAN ANALYSIS
Get PDFThis study aimed to investigate the implementation of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) to teach English in a vocational school. This study is qualitative with document analysis. The data were taken from four-session English lesson plans from a vocational school, observation, interview, and library research. The results showed the crucial impact of OBE to ensure the learning outcome, especially in a vocational school. OBE is expected to answer the education challenge in the 21st century to provide students with the required skills and competency. The area of analysis covers three areas: objectives, teaching materials, and assessment. It is recommended that teachers construct concrete materials and action in the viewpoint that the English skills taught can be used in the students' lives in the upcoming time in their future job related to the expertise in accounting. Finally, this study has important implications for accomplishing the framework for the practice and methods of goal setting, classroom activities, and assessment and evaluation of student's performance based on the OBE framework
DEVELOPING LEARNER AUTONOMY IN WRITING THROUGH THE USE OF E-PORTFOLIO
Get PDFLearner autonomy is mandated to be developed by the newest Curriculum of 2013. This research explored the use of E-Portfolio to develop learner autonomy especially in the area of leaner involvement, reflection, and target language use. The mixed method design involving the quantitative and qualitative data was used in this research. The data itself was collected in the naturalistic settings of two vocational high school classes. The two classes were taken from the population which consisted of 440 participants. Inventory tests were specifically designed to measure changes in the participants both before and after a writing program applying e-portfolio documents was given. Meanwhile, document analysis was used to indicate the development of learner autonomy in writing. The results of the initial inventory test show that the profile of initial autonomy development of the population was moderate which indicates that the participants had not yet reached the optimum capacity to carry active involvement, reflection, and target language use in writing it means that a type of preventive intervention such as that of e-portfolio was needed. Whereas, the results of the intervention or experimental study and document analysis suggest that there was an improvement regarding the degree of learner autonomy development. In this case, the results indicated that the requirements of the e-portfolio for the participant to constantly use the target language may have possibly supported the initial autonomy development in writing, while the participants’ independence in deciding aspects of writing in the e-portfolio may play a role in supporting the constructs of learner autonomy especially in terms of learner involvement, and lastly, the segment of learner reflection provided in the e-portfolio may have a critical role to play in the subsequent learner autonomy development of the participants
THE NEED ANALYSIS OF WRITING MODULE WITH EDMODO
Get PDFPaper writing skills for Akamigas Polytechnic Students Palembang had not reached the expectation. They still had difficulties organizing the ideas into written forms and effective sentences. They did not understand the paper writing systematically, how to cite, and how to write the bibliography. They were caused by the use of limited teaching materials, by relying on PowerPoint as the main media. This research aimed to find out what the students needed of Edmodo-writing module. This research is a part of the identification of teaching material needs to explore the needs of the teaching materials. Therefore, this research applied the qualitative approach with descriptive method. The data were collected with a closed-questionnaire and interview. The need analysis showed a percentage of 97.1% of students preferred the Internet as the reference source to any other. Therefore, it is important to technology-based learning media that provided several applications. They could facilitate both lecturer and students to share and to learn the materials. The data showed 87.1% of students needed technology-based teaching materials, such as Edmodo. A percentage of 91.4% of students stated that they wanted technology-based teaching materials that were developed into modules assisted with Edmodo. Besides that, a percentage of 95.7% of students wanted guidelines to facilitate them applying the module and using the Edmodo
CULTURE SHOCK AND CAMPUS PROGRAM IN ELT FOR THAI UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM SULTAN AGUNG AND UNIVERSITY OF AHMAD DAHLAN
Get PDFThe existence of culture shock is undeniably true for foreign students studying in other countries. This phenomenon becomes more common nowadays. It also happened with some Thai students who are studying at University of Islam Sultan Agung Semarang and University of Ahmad Dahlan Yogyakarta. The main objectives of this article are to find out the cultural transition and to analyze the influence of culture shock and campus programs in ELT for Thai Students. This research was under a mix-method combined between qualitative and quantitative research by using purposive sampling. Twentyfour (N=24) Thai university students participated in the study. The analysis technique applied an exploratory mixed-method research design by separating the result both quantitative and qualitative. The online interview along with questionnaires was used to collect information from the students by using zoom and Google form. Data collection was performed from October to December 2020. Based on the questionnaire and interview as the primary data collection, this mini research reveals two findings. Firstly, shock culture and campus programs have a great contribution to the cultural transition in ELT. Secondly, the Thai students coped with the shock by adapting their experiences in academic programs and campus traditions. Campus programs also played a critical role in lessening culture shock