ADJES (Ahmad Dahlan Journal of English Studies)
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Student Teachers’ Perceptions of English Lecturers’ Competences
Get PDFAbstractIt is important to know the competence of lecturers because competent lecturers are needed to produce competent graduates. Students are good informant to know the lecturers’ competence because they intensively interact in the classroom. This research is to know the students’ perception of the lecturers’ competence focusing on the level of competence and the strengths and weaknesses of the competence. The result shows that students perceived positively on the pedagogical, personal, and professional competence of the lecture
Voicing Change: A Comparative Reading of Selected Works by Pramoedya Ananta Toer and Katharina Susannah Prichard
Get PDFAlthough coming from different historical and political backgrounds, Indonesian Pramoedya Ananta Toer and Australian Katharina Susannah Prichard both have used their writing to rehearse their concerns with the social and political situations in their respective societies. In The Girl from the Coast (1987) and Coonardoo (1929), they create the setting for a staging of the effects of colonial, racial and gender ideologies on the lives of marginalised and oppressed individuals. Through the characters of The Girl and Coonardoo respectively Pramoedya and Prichard hold up a lens to an awakening concern with minorities in specific periods in Indonesian and Australian societies. The novels’ main female characters serve thus as spokespersons for an agenda of social and political change that characterise the work of Pramoedya and Prichard.   This paper will examine how these two novels depict marginalised groups in Indonesia and Australia and the significant role these groups play in both challenging and sustaining a national memory. To this extent it is concerned with how they are positioned as well as how they position themselves in the patriarchal and colonial societies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pramoedya’s and Prichard’s shared perspectives on political and social matters lead to some comparable aspects in the way they depict the social dynamics in the texts. Readers are led to see the tensions between identity and class/race and family and nation through the eyes and the voices of the marginalised women characters. Keywords: comparative literature, voicing change, Pramoedya, Prichar
Good and Bad English: How to Deal with Language Variation and Change in Language Learning
Get PDFAbstractLanguage practitioners often seem language phenomena as degeneration or decay. This is something misleading and need to be taken seriously into consideration. Purists and prescriptivists should see the phenomena not only from the normative point of view but also from the science of language itself, which is still forgotten. This article thus attempts to propose insights from linguistics related to the term good and bad language, with the focus on good and bad English. Is there any good and bad language? The answer to the question can only be given at best by elaborating the linguistics concept. This discussion is of benefit for language learning of which it is closely related
Improving Teacher Professionalism trough Lesson Study
Get PDFAbstractBeing professional teacher is a process of acting and reflecting continuously developed by the teachers collaboratively. Lesson Study facilitates teacher to experience learning through collaborative work among them. This enables teachers to establish professional development and create a community for learning. This paper aims at elaborating the experience of senior high school at Yogyakarta in implementing Lesson study as a break-through to enhance the teachers’ professional development incorporating with three mechanisms of Lesson Study. This school has conducted Lesson Study for about 5 years. The study resulted that 80 percent of teachers achieve their competence in planning, doing and reflecting the lesson through observing other teachers performance and being observed interchangeably
Which English and Whose Cultures Should Be Taught To Empower Our Students?
Get PDFAbstractTomlinson(2010) states that learners of English all over the world are being tested on a variety of English they do not and never will speak. He further emphasizes that the students are being tested on British and American English and not on Singaporean English or Brazilian English or the International English that they speak.Indeed, language and culture are two sides of a coin. The teaching of language cannot be divorced from the teaching of culture. With the emergence of the notion “World Englishesâ€, it is high time to reconsider which English and whose culture should be taught and introduced to our students. It is the duty of English teachers to determine which English and whose culture to be taught. It is a waste of time, energy, and money to teach a variety of English that has nothing to do with the future life of our students.The paper tries to discuss about the cultural aspects that should be introduced to ourEnglish classes. It is hoped that English teachers realize about the kind of English needed by the students
Implementation of Learning Strategies based on Reflective Learning Theory to Improve Students’ Self-Efficacy in Learning English
Get PDFSelf-Efficacy means the belief in one's capabilities to achieve a goal or an outcome. Efficacy beliefs play an influential meditational role in academic attainment. While Reflective learning can be described as tending to think deeply about the knowledge obtained by study. Reflection is the indication of deep learning because it helps students learn through reflection, precisely because of the established link between reflection and deeper learning. Reflective learning is closely related to improve Self-efficacy. Thus this article aims at elaborating the effective English learning strategies based on reflective learning theory to improve students’ self- efficacy. This paper proposes some actions, i.e. implementing oral reflective learning on action, oral reflective learning in action and written reflective learning. In improving the students’ self-efficacy in learning in the forms of (1) the improvement of students’ appreciation of social resources, (2) the improvement of students’ courage in achieving academic performances, (3) the improvement of students’ consistency for self- regulated learning, and (4) the improvement of students’ social self-efficacy.Â
Paragraph Writing as A Sensibility-Based Productive Skill
Get PDFAbstractParagraph writing in the context of Academic Writing in a number of academies and universities in Indonesia is considered a skill whose mastery needs reasoning or logical thinking besides knowledge of grammatical rules, lexis, and also ability to translate from bahasa Indonesia into English effectively and efficiently.Logical thinking should be exercised ever since the student writers begin their initial up to the final phase of writing a paragraph. They may not necessarily pour down their ideas in sentences the way they like. This is because first of all they have to determine the main idea, also known as topic sentence, that needs formulating from the general subject or topic that is still too broad to be developed. To formulate the topic sentence, they have to exercise their logical thinking. Then, the main idea has to be supported by supporting sentences which are related to one another. The process of writing supporting sentences and their interrelationship should also be based on logical thinking. Finally, the paragraph is closed by means of a sentence which concludes the discussion of the whole paragraph.A paragraph that flows smoothly or, in other words, is readable is, without any doubt, the one that is effective and sensible
Forms of English Learning and Teaching Interactions In an International Oriented Senior High School
Get PDFAbstractIn English learning and teaching process, interaction between participants plays important roles to take and give inputs that emphasizes on the activeness of learners in acquiring the target language. Learners will be more autonomous, self-actualized and self-fulfilled when in learning and teaching process involves them. Interaction can be implemented by teacher’s treatment to learners and learners’ to themselves. Hence, learner will cope with their reality of the world and win their competition to exist confidently in the world using English used by people in the world as one of international languages.This research was on English learning and teaching interaction in an international oriented senior high school conducted to generate the forms of English learning and teaching interaction at the school. The data collection in this research used interviews and classroom observations at the school. The interviews and classroom observations were recorded and then transcribed into written data. The data were analyzed and coded into concepts, subcategories and category which were related to each other. The research was qualitative study and using the grounded theory approach. The participants in this research were divided into five categories: a deputy principal of curriculum, two English teachers, a content course teacher, a tutor and twelve learners at SMA Internasional Budi Mulia Dua Yogyakarta especially at GAC classes that use ACT curriculum. It covered many data texts included from observations and interviews to get understanding deeply between the theories and the practical things in the school. From the data analysis, there are three forms of interaction which occurred in the English learning and teaching interaction between learner and teacher, between learner and learner and between learner and people outside of school
Promoting Metacognitive Strategies to Listening Class
Get PDFListening skill is often ignored. David Nunan (1997) commented that listening is the "Cinderella Skill" which is overlooked by its elder sister "speaking" in SL learning. Speaking and writing skill has become the standard of the knowledge of second language, listening and reading have been turned to be the secondary ones. On the other hand, listening is vital in the language classroom because it provides input for the learner. In fact, most English listening teachers focus on testing learners listening skill rather than on developing the learners’ listening skill. This practice tends to make them anxious and tends to become ineffective listeners. This condition brings about the learners’ difficulties in comprehending listening materials. Good English teachers should minimize such a condition. This article attempts to find ways of creating good atmosphere for listening class. What should we “as teachers’ do to respond the problem? Metacognitive is theory of awareness of what and how to learn. Based on my experience in teaching listening, metacognitive strategies are very valuable for learners to learn listening. Finally, I encourage listening class teachers to promote the strategies to their students. To promote the strategies a teacher should do several steps with the class; discussing learners’ problems, talking the nature of listening, building students’ awareness about the important of learning strategies, training the students about metacognitive strategies, and doing reflection. Keywords: Listening, Strategy, MetacognitionÂ
A Descriptive Review on Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
Get PDFBoth of applied linguistics and educational linguistics are almost the same but they are actually different. By having knowledge about them, one can differentiate and make relationship between them. This article aims at giving a descriptive review on applied linguistics and educational linguistics. The topics covered in this article are the definitions of the applied linguistics and educational linguistics, the relationship, the similarity and the difference between them, and also the scope of each of the two disciplines. Keywords: applied, educational, linguisticsÂ