Script Journal: Journal of Linguistic and English Teaching
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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) through Role Play and Task-Based Instruction
Get PDFThis research focuses on several aims, first whether Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) through Role Play and Task Based Instruction best implemented in English learning process in STIE Madani Balikpapan.Second it aims to prove whether Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) can improve students’ English skill based on TOEFL score. Third, it aims to find out students’ perception about the implementation of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in English learning process in STIE Madani Balikpapan.It is a combination of quantitative and qualitative research in which survey, experiment, and interview are done related to the aims of the research. The sample is 37 students from two classes that took English Practice/TOEFL subject in academic year of 2019-2020. The result stated that Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is best implemented through role play and task based instruction.CLT helps students to better achieve their TOEFL score since there is an increase between the pretest and the post-test. Through the use of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach in class, students feel they have interest more in learning English, do not feel afraid in making mistake again because they know they are still learning, and it helps them better in communication. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a better promising way of learning English since in which students are practicing English as if they are using it in real situation.Further suggestion is that to make use of this approach in classroom activities and encourages students to actively participate in each activities, whether in classroom or outside the classroom.Â
Polysemy and Metaphorical Extensions of Temperature Terms: Warm and Cool
Get PDFThis study focuses on describing the concept and the extended senses of warm and cool in English. As these temperature terms contain more than one semantic representation, this study aims at finding out the prototypical meaning, the extended senses, and the relation between the prototypical meaning and the extended senses of these lexemes. The word warm has three extended senses, namely: (1) friendly, (2) pleasant to other senses, and (3) near the goal of the game. Furthermore, the word cool whose prototypical meaning is “having a low temperature†has four senses, namely: (1) calm, (2) unfriendly, (3) fashionable and (4) agreeable. These three words which are originally expressed to describe the degree of heat are extended to describe other human physical experience. The extension of those senses is motivated by metaphors as the temperature domain is pervasive to express non-temperature entity. The discussion highlights the relations between the central sense and the extended ones. The relation of the senses enables us to draw the semantic networks of polysemy warm and cool
Mapping Schools’ Strength in Inclusive Education Learning for Building Language Competence in Wetland Ecological Awareness
Get PDFThis research aims at mapping schools’ strength in facilitating the inclusive education learning towards for building language competence in wetland ecological awareness. It is descriptive in qualitative approach. The respondent is teachers in three schools, namely state junior high school 13, 15, and 21 in Banjarmasin. The instrument used is questionaire and interview. The results state that there has been positive teachers’ perception about inclusive education dealing the adaptation of the curriculum and/or individual learning plans, teaching and learning materials for learners with special needs, communication skill in accordance with the characteristics of children with special needs, and the minimum completeness criteria for children with special needs that are in accordance with their abilities and needs. There is also positive perception about Banjarmasin as the peat area, loving the river as the manifestation of taking care of the river, and the ecological education to maintain and keep Banjarmasin as a city of a thousand rivers inserted in certain subject. However, in practice, all teachers do the task based on limited knowledge and experience. Strengthening language competence so that the teacher can interact wih the learners for special needs inspite of limited knowledge and experience should be conducted
Analysis of Abstracts in Scientific Papers Written in English Using Corpora
Get PDFResearch article abstracts are the gateways to communicate the research findings. This function and the significant contribution in disseminating the knowledge production have been the issue of academic research studies across disciplines. Abstracts, indeed, after titles, are the most read section freely available online. However, despite the impressive output contribution to the academic discourse community, both national and international and much research developed on abstracts, investigations particularly contrasting article abstracts published in Ecuadorian and North-American journals are scarce. The study examines the rhetorical organization and the linguistic realizations of abstract written in four disciplines, by first identifying the move structure and then their linguistic realizations, including verb tense, clauses, modals and stance markers. The contrastive analysis of English and Spanish texts is based on a corpus of 120 abstracts from the fields of humanities and science. Results showed that abstract published in Ecuadorian and North-American journals from four disciplines do put more emphasis on purpose, method, and product (results) in order to introduce the new knowledge. Throughout the corpus present, past tense, and hedges were the most frequent categories. The present tense commonly occurred in M1-M2-M5. The similarities and differences in the rhetorical organization and linguistic realizations of abstract moves might be attributed to the context of publication; however, such rhetorical and style choices remain quite unclear, in terms of conventional patterns or authors’ preferences
Bilingual Education In Indonesia: Between Idealism and the Reality
Get PDFToday English plays an important role in the development of education. In response to advances and develops the education in this globalization era, English bridges communication among people around the world. The ability to communicate in English becomes crucial. The development in education as an impact of globalization significantly influence the process of teaching and learning concept. Bilingual education becomes necessary, it can stimulate the cognitive ability especially on cognitive function, it can also motivate the bilingual program. Education as a conscious effort to build and develop the quality of human resources and one popular education system promote bilingual education becomes a choice by parents. Using bilingual education become popular and be needed. Indonesian educational policies see this phenomenon as a new modern solution to be practiced in Indonesia's education system for many years. For these reasons, the purpose of writing this library research article paper is to elaborate and give understanding about bilingual eduacation in Indonesia for certain time. The article start with the differences between bilingual and bilingualism, the relation of the bilingual process with executive function, the practice of bilingual education in Indonesia compared by the national standardized school, the challenges and solutions concerning the policy and practices in language teaching and learning focused on bilingual education in Indonesia. The present article employ a descriptive qualitative approach from reputable references which is relevant to the topics
Digital Quiz as Media to Review Material for English Education Students
Get PDFAbstract: This study aims to explain the digital quiz to review learning material. Material Development is a subject that is reviewed by the student and the review done through Quizalize. A digital quiz which is so user friendly and quick interesting. The participants of this research are sixteen students of English Education Department, from University of Technology Yogyakarta. The researchers used qualitative descriptive to analyze the data. Qualitative data are obtained from quiz that has been completed by the students. The result of this study shows that the display of the quiz is interesting, Quizalize provides analysis for each questions, Quizalize also shows the result for each student, grouped students into categories based on their score. The researchers recommend Quizalize as digital quiz that can be used by the teacher to review the material.Keywords: digital quiz, review, material development, quizaliz
Gallery Walk Technique to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill
No full textThis study aims to overcome some problems of students’ speaking ability at the Second Grade Students of Senior High School 6 Bengkulu Tengah, Bengkulu, Indonesia by using gallery walk technique. The participants of this study were 30 students. The method used in this study was Classroom Action Research (CAR). This study was carried out in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four meetings. Each cycle consisted of four stages-planning, action, observing and reflecting. The result of this study showed that the students’ speaking ability was improved after the action was given to the students. Besides, using gallery walk technique could motivate the students to speak up confidently and also could make the students became more active and enjoy in learning process at the classroom. Most of the students gradually gained good scores at the end of the cycle. The minimum score of Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM) of English subject was 71 (seventy-one). In cycle I, the result of the students’ score was failed, where the mean score of the students was 70.29 (poor). However, in cycle II, the result of the cycle showed that there was good improvement. The students’ mean score in this stage was 80.83 (very good). In conclusion, gallery walk technique could improve students’ speaking ability.Â
Investigating Hospitality Students’ Level of Anxiety in English Class and Oral Exam Performance
Get PDFThis study reports on a correlation analysis between the level of foreign language anxiety (FLA) of hotel business students and their oral exam performance. The participants of this study were 103 first-year hotel business students of a private university in Jakarta, Indonesia. Using Foreign Language Class Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) questionnaire, it was found that most business students (45%) have medium anxiety. It was also found that fear of negative evaluation is the main source of the anxiety among students. A two-tailed t-test analysis shows no statistical difference between male and female students in 90% of the questionnaire items. A Spearman-rank correlation coefficient analysis shows a significant negative moderate relationship between students’ oral exam performance with FLCAS result
Internet Use, Reading Habit and Reading Ability of Students of Private Junior High Schools in Kecamatan Ilir Timur II Palembang
No full textThis study was aimed to find out whether or not (1) there is  any significant correlation between reading ability and reading habit, (2) There is any significant correlation between reading ability and internet use, (3) There is any significant correlation among reading ability, internet use, and reading habit of students of private junior high schools in Kecamatan Ilir Timur II Palembang. This study was a quantitative research approach with a corelational research design. The researcher collected the data through 2 instruments namely, reading test and questionnaires. A test was used to find out students’ reading ability and questionnaires were used to find out students’ reading habits and internet use. The population of this study was 803 and 120 for the population. To analyze the data, the procedures were presenting and describing the data, testing the hypotheses, and analyzing the regression. From the results, only internet use and reading ability that had a significant correlation (p-value > 0.05). The result of the regression analysis between internet use to reading ability showed that the correlation between those variables was 16,7%
Cooperative Learning Approach to an English Academic Reading Course
Get PDFThis research aims to get description of Cooperative Learning application using Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) type to improve students’ motivation and independence learning level. The applied research method was classroom action research. The observations have been done during seven cycles to research the subjects; those are students of Basic Academic Reading Class C of 2018/2019 at department of management, faculty of economy, Universitas Islam Indonesia. The result showed that the number of students achieving maximum scores (A) has significantly increased, up to 31% of previous year as the baseline. Meanwhile, the average students’ attendances in entire semester have also increased up to 13% of previous year baseline. The questionnaire was also distributed before and after cycles to measure the changes in students’ perception of their motivation and independent learning level. The result indicated the increase in average score of every aspect in all variables. However, the result of independent sample t-test showed that sig (2-tailed) score of students’ motivation and independence learning level have significant differences. Thus, it is concluded that Cooperative Learning model on Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) type has a positive and significant impact on developing student’s motivation and independent learning level