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Increasing the Students’ Awareness of Stressed Syllable in Pronouncing English Words
Full text linkThis study explores how to increase the students’ awareness of stressed syllable in pronouncing English words based on activity-based approach. The approach in this research employs traditional techniques which consist of IPA habituation, drills, and stress marking. The research involved 32 selected sophomore students majoring in English. The research was carried out quantitatively by providing the students with 61 words containing stressed syllable prior and post class treatment in the fom of pre and post test. The findings pinpoint the improvement of students’ pronunciation. Given the result of the post-test, it comes to light that all of the students have better pronunciation and better ability for syllable stressing.Â
Functionalism-Related Framework and the Influence on Language Instruction
Full text linkFunctionalism is one of the basic ways of thinking in linguistics while the language instruction is a complex process dealing with the language use. This article aims at giving a critical review on functionalism-related function and the influence on the language instruction area. The topics covered in this article are the definitions of the general explanation of functionalism, linguistic inputs, philosophical inputs, sociolinguistic inputs, needs analysis on language instruction, and the influence of functionalism on language instruction
A Study of the Mastery of Complex Sentences of Pre-Service English Teachers
Full text linkThis study reported a research conducted to find out the mastery of complex sentences of students of Writing 5 of an English Education Program in Indonesia. The participants of the research were 24 pre-service English teachers in a Writing 5 class at an English Education program in Indonesia. It used document analysis as the main method of data collection. The study obtained some important findings. First, complex sentences containing multiple clause structures became the most frequently written of all, and among the four types of complex sentences, ones containing multiple clause structures became the most frequently written of all complex sentences. Secondly, students’ mastery of complex sentences containing noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses was good. Their mastery of complex sentence containing multiple clause structures, however, was surprisingly very low despite that the students had obtained relatively good results on the three above-mentioned basic types of complex sentence. Keywords: Mastery, complex sentences, noun clauses, adjective clauses, adverb clauses, multiple clause structure
Fostering Social Caring Through Multicultural-Based Language Learning
Full text linkSocial caring can be interpreted as affection and attention to other people which can later be manifested in an appreciating, accepting, and helping behavior. The behavior is not automatically possessed by each individual. Instead, it should be learnt, understood, internalized, and implemented in daily life. This article aims at discussing the strategies to enhance students social caring through multicultural awareness in language learning. Social caring serves as character values which appreciates diversity. It needs to be internalized from the very early age so that each individual understands how to deal with diversity. One of the alternatives in supporting the implementation of social care character is through multicultural-based learning activities. Hopefully, this type of learning leads students to appreciate diversity.  Keywords: character, social caring, multicultural-based activitie
Applied Jigsaw Technique in Increasing Narrative Writing Ability
Full text linkThis aimed to know using of jigsaw technique in increasing narrative writing ability students’ grade seven Junior High School Muhammadiyah Lampung 3 year 2016/2017. This research of population was all students’ Junior High School Muhammadiyah Lampung 3, it consisted of four classes. It used random sample which consisted of thirty students and grade seven Junior High School Muhammadiyah Lampung 3 Kec. Labuhan Ratu Kedaton. This research was class action research , the data was analyzed to know increasing students’ narrative writing ability, the researchers used technique of collecting documentation, interview and observation . Data analysis was conducted by taking the average score of the pre-test and post- test in cycle 1 and cycle 2. The result of research showed that the average of result on cycle I was 67,40 while cycle II was 78,30 and there was increasing namely 10,63
An Analysis of the First Language Acquisition: A Two Years Girl
Full text linkAs a natural process, human innateness understood as the ability in acquiring first language since birth. First language acquisition is related to this field of study. This study will focus on language acquisition of a two years girl who become the object of observation. However, the understanding of language acquisition and learning, then what factors are associated with language acquisition are regarded to be necessary to explain. Furthermore, on the discussion part, the analysis of the language acquisition on the object observed, both in terms of phonology, lexical, pragmatic, and the factors that influence the process of first language acquisition for the object observed are disscussed
Revisiting the 2006 School Level Curriculum and the Genre-based Approach in the Context of EFL Curriculum Development in Indonesia
Full text linkAbstractThe genre-based approach has been known to characterize pedagogical practices during the implementation of the 2006 school-level curriculum. Despite its prevalent use and overwhelming support by school stakeholders, the efficacy of this approach was nonetheless questionable. This paper aims to revisit the 2006 School level curriculum, its plausibility and compatibality with individual contexts and its bearing on EFL practices. It also disusses the Genre-based approach in terms of its underlying paradigms, and possible variables and contextual factors which might have impinged on its implementation. Some research findings on the adoption of the approach in Southeast Asia context are also presented to provide insights into how the Genre-based approach could be efficiently adopted. This essay concludes with some ideas for the amendment to the 2006 school- level curriculum and how the genre-based approach might still be relevant in the context of teaching writing skills at tertiary education
The Convergence of Onomatope Animal Sounds between Indonesian And English
Full text linkThis qualitative study is aimed at discovering the similarities of onomatope (not onomatopoeia) animal sounds between two unrelated languages, Indonesian and English. The investigation operates on phonological system with some goals to achieve; to describe how sounds of onomatope animal correspond, to explain why the two languages share similarities in their onomatope animal sounds. Â The data in this research are from Indonesian and English comics which are backed up by interviews with twenty-six informants consisting of eleven adults and fifteen children. The interviews are aimed at reinforcing the collected data and also disqualifying several lingual units which under suspicion of loan sound imitations.The research findings reveal that out of 22 (twenty-two) onomatope animal sounds gathered as the research data, there are only 15 (fifteen) sharing the same phoneme distribution after conducting sound correspondence. The phoneme distribution occurs mostly on onset position, the second is on coda position, and the least is on nucleus position. There are three factors which evoke the similarities or that can be called convergence. First, because of similarities in phoneme inventories. Second, because of similarities in phonotactic rules. Third, because of same sound symbolism which apply to both Indonesian and English.Â
Pick the Idea, Organize, Write It Up (POW) & Topic, Reason, Explain, Ending (TREE) for Teaching Cohesive Devices in EFL Students
Full text linkThe aim of this research is to explore how the way I use POW+TREE strategy to improve students’ cohesive devices mastery. This research was conducted in one of junior high school in Surakarta at eighth grade students. Based on the preliminary study, I found that students had writing problems in mastering cohesive devices. I chose POW+TREE strategy to improve their writing problems in mastering cohesive devices. This study used Classroom Action Research (CAR) research design. The CAR activity involves of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The subjects of this study are 29 students in the eighth grade in academic year 2016/2017. The data were collected through writing test, observation, and field-notes.There was an improvement in the students’ score from preliminary study and after the implementation of the strategy. The average score after implementation in cycle 2 was 83.24. As the result of observation sheet, it showed that the students’ interest also increased that was proved by students’ activeness in asking difficult words. The field notes showed that in the teaching and learning process, most of the students enjoyed in writing activity. Hence, it can be concluded that the implementation of POW+TREE strategy was successful for students’ writing ability in mastering cohesive devices.Considering that the strategy had successfully improved the students’ writing ability in mastering cohesive devices it is suggested for future researchers to conduct an experimental research related to this strategy for the same skill
ACTIVATING STUDENTS’ MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES IN SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
Full text linkLanguage competence can be achieved by developing students’ intelligences. However, the fact that students’ potentials and intelligences vary has often been ignored. Appropriate learning activities are therefore needed to help students optimize such intelligences. This article aims at discussing how language teachers contribute to the enhancement of Multiple Intelligences in foreign language teaching, particularly in speaking classes. The paper also reviews the types of intelligences defined by Howard Gardner and proponents of this theory in terms of language teaching as well as exemplifies pedagogical methodologies by which students’ multiple inttelligence can be activated in speaking activities.Â