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Weblog as an Appropriate Online Medium in Teaching Writing
Get PDFThis research aims to develop weblog as media in teaching writing of senior high school students.It is a research and development (R&D) study that follows ASSURE model proposed by Heinrich and developed by Smaldino, Heinich, Molenda, & Russell (2005:49). The procedure of developing media consisted of analyzing learner, stating objective, selecting media, utilizing media, requiring learner participation, evaluating and revising.The product was examined by the media expert. After conducting the first test, the second test was conducted by English teacher and students. The subjects of this research were the eleventh grade students of PGN 1 High school. The subject consisted of 19 students of class XI. The researcher used an interview and questionnaires as the data collecting technique. The questionnaires were distributed for needs analysis and expert validation. English teacher and students’ responded toward the developed weblog. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics for the questionnaires and the qualitative analysis technique for the interview.The findings revealed that the developed weblog as online media in teaching writing is categorized “very good†by experts with the mean scores put on 3.82. The result score of tryout is 3.48 and categorized as very good. The English teacher’s response towards the weblog show the range of average mean score on 3.69 categorized “very goodâ€. Therefore, the developed weblog is very appropriate to use in teaching and learning process of writing
Poster Presentation: Undergraduate EFL Student’s Experience
Get PDFThis article briefly reports student’s experience on the use of Poster Presentation in an Indonesian EFL classroom. Its focus is to share the activities, to recognize student’s perspectives framing it and identify the benefit of Poster Presentation. Participants included a class of thirty-five, 1st-year English Education department in one of universities in Tasikmalaya, west java Indonesia; 23 females and 12 males. The findings revealed that most of the students demonstrated positive vibe and were satisfied toward using Poster Presentation activities; enjoying group poster preparation, stimulating good personal presentation, fostering student’s activeness and creativity and they reported a desire to engage in similar practices in the future
Variety Of Second Singular Pronouns In Serawai Language
Get PDFNopriansahUniversity of Dehasen [email protected]Â Â Â Abstract: This study focuses on the use of various second singular pronouns in Serawai language spoken in the village of Maras, the District of Seluma, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia. It aimed to provide a complete and valid description of the form, meaning, and context of various second singular pronouns in the language. The data were collected by using observational methods. The techniques applied in collecting the data were interview, reading some supporting literatures, recording the language production, and taking field notes. In analyzing the collected data, the researcher used the referential identity and distributional methods. While dividing the key factors, equalizing, differentiating, equalizing the main points, segmenting immediate constituents, substituting, and deleting are techniques applied in analyzing the data. By analyzing the forms, meanings, and functions of the objects, it was concluded that the two lexicons found were a variety of second singular pronouns in Serawai language. Whereas, the selection of using one of the variations was closely related to the social context of the speaker and the speech partner. The result of this study is expected to be useful for the development of linguistics.Keywords: form, meaning, variety, second singular pronouns, serawai languag
Cross Cultural Rhetoric Awareness of Undergraduate Thesis Introduction Section Written by Acehnese EFL Students
Get PDFAbstract: This study investigated cross cultural rhetoric awareness of introduction section by Acehnese EFL students. This study aimed at describing the rhetorical pattern and determine the cross cultural rhetoric awareness by looking at the rhetorical pattern in Introduction section. A qualitative method and content analysis were used in this study which analyzed the Introduction section. The data of this research was English undergraduate thesis written by ten Acehnese students as the documentation was applied as the instrument. The data were collected from two Islamic institutes in Aceh. The research was conducted by using documentation analysis. The result of the analysis demonstrated that the English writings by Acehnese students maintained the inductive style and the idea of the paragraph is circular. However, the use of markers is enough to be considered. The conclusion led to the rhetorical pattern of the Acehnese students which is in oriented style. Indeed, the implication of the finding showed that the students’ cross cultural rhetoric awareness toward English writing convention, especially in academic writing, is lo
DEVELOPING A SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL OF MALAY TOURISM FOR VOCATIONAL STUDENTS IN PONTIANAK WEST KALIMANTAN
Get PDFThis study develops a supplementary material of Malay Tourism suitable for vocational tourism students (VTS) in Pontianak, Indonesia. The study focuses on the specific product phases consisting of analysis, design, development, and evaluation. The need analysis reveals that VTS need a particular material supporting tourism industry that can cover the skills of English and enhance their motivation and activities of learning English. Based on the design and development process, the product provides five units of learning materials namely introduction; cultural sites; festivals and attractions; arts and crafts; and transportation and accommodation that those parts are covering the content of Malay tourism and supporting facilitation. All of the components represent the findings of the analysis process. The product also provides appropriate pictures, instructional guides, maps, grammar guide, and words of wisdom in which packed in a travel guidebook. The evaluation is conducted to secure the suitability and the responses of the participants using the validator, the teacher and students questionnaire that this supplementary material meets the need for the tenth-year students at SMK Pariwisata CBK Pontianak. The evaluation also provides the feedback from the participants in the revision process
EDMODO AS EDUCATIONAL SOCIAL NETWORK IN TEACHING COURSE DESIGN OF EYL
Get PDFThis research is conducted to find out Edmodo can increase student’s ability in learning course design of EYL and student’s perception in learning course design of EYL by using Edmodo. A mixed method was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. In answering those two research questions, the researcher used test (pre-test and post-test) to collect quantitative data and also used interview as data gathering technique to collect qualitative data. The findings of the research showed that: (1) Edmodo can increase student’s ability in learning course design of EYL. It is proven by the score of Independent T-test -0,741 and sig (2 tailed) was higher than degree of significance (0,462 < 0,05). (2) Student’s perception in learning course design of EYL by using Edmodo showed that Edmodo in learning course design of EYL can help students more understand the materials because they can get more information about materials of EYL especially course design of EYL; they can discuss the materials each other anywhere and anytime; they felt more interesting and happy; they are more confident to express their ideas, therefore they can be more active in learning course design of EYL
Understanding CDA: Histories, Remembering, And Futures
Get PDFThe aim of this library research article is trying to give us a deep understanding of what Critical Discourse Analysis is. The article starts with a discussion of the origin of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), then exploring interdisciplinary based on the theory proposed by Fairclough renowned expert in DA field, in the last part of the article discussed the principles of CDA form Fairclough point of view. The present article uses a descriptive qualitative approach from reputable references which is relevant to the topics.Â
Representation of Communicative Competence in English Language Textbooks in Indonesia
Get PDFEnglish textbooks play a paramount role in teaching process, and are expected to contain appropriate contents that can support students to acquire required competences for effective communication. The expected contents should contain different aspects of language abilities or competences well-known as communicative competence. Thus, the present study is aimed to explicate the representation of communicative competence aspects in the spoken dialogue instances contained in Indonesian EFL textbooks. Three English textbooks, prepared and designed under the auspices of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, are selected for the analysis. The findings suggest the textbooks have not provided sufficient dialogues that give useful models for students to use in communication. Amid the scarcity of the models, the available dialogues also do not much reflect how authentic spoken dialogues occur in real-life communication due to inadequacy to reflect real-life communication as insufficient representation of the communicative competence particularly in contained dialogue models
Vocabulary Mastery by Using Storytelling
Get PDFAbstract: This research investigated 80 students of Diploma III Architecture of Samarinda State Polytechnic to see their vocabularies mastery trough storytelling. Telling the stories is one of the best way to find out the students' English Mastery. Some obstacles are also found in learning English trough performing storytelling in the class such as the suitable material and text for the students, the lack of ability of the students and the teacher in conducting story as well as the readiness and the nervousness of the storytellers. As an English lecturer, the researcher also finds that how to improve vocabularies is one of the students' problems in learning English. It is proved when the students are asked to tell a story in front of the class. In this research, the students needed telling stories before they had the English vocabulary test. From the test, it could be concluded that the highest score was 92 got by one (1) student while the lowest score was 46 got by one (1) student. Meanwhile, the average score was 78 that classified fair (B). There were two (2) students who got below 50 that classified Fail. The results show that even the students' English mastery were satisfied but the students still need to practice how to tell the story in a good way so that they will master in all aspects.Keywords: Samarinda State Polytechnic, Students' Mastery, Storytellin
The Effectiveness of Flip Classroom with Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) Method to Teach Reading Viewed from Students’ English Learning Interest
Get PDFThe study is aimed: (1) To know whether Flip Classroom with STAD method is more effective than Traditional Instruction to teach reading; (2) to know whether the students who have high learning interest have better reading comprehension than those who have low learning interest; and (3) to know whether there is an interaction between Flip Classroom with teaching methods and students’ learning interest. The population of the research is the First year students of Public Health. The samples were from two classes. In taking the sample, cluster random sampling approach was used. Each class was divided into two groups (the students who have high and low learning interest). Then, the techniques which have been used to accumulate the information had been questionnaire student learning interest and reading test. The data were analyzed by using multifactor analysis of ANOVA 2x2 and Tuckey test. There are some research findings: (1) Flip Classroom with STAD method is more effective than Traditional Instruction to teach reading; (2) the reading comprehension of the students who have high learning interest is better than that of those who have low learning interest because; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and learning interest for teaching reading. It is concluded that there is an interaction impact among methods and students’ learning interest for teaching reading. Flip Classroom with STAD is suitable for students having high learning interest and Traditional Instruction is suitable for students having low learning interest