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THE EFFECTS OF DRTA AND LC STRATEGIES ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF NARRATIVE TEXTS BASED ON ENGLISH SCORE LEVELS
Full text linkAbstract: Accelerating state development and promoting international relationship are the aims of Indonesian EFL teaching that require the students to have a good ability in reading. Therefore, teaching reading strategies to students is very essential to help them seek knowledge in this globalization era. Literature Circles (LC) and Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) are two strategies which are believed help students to have better comprehension. This study aimed at investigating the effects of DRTA and LC strategies on reading comprehension achievement of narrative texts. Forty eight tenth graders of MAN Baturaja were chosen randomly on the basis of their English score levels and assigned equally into LC and DRTA groups. Reading comprehension test was administered to the students before and after the interventions. The results indicated that both LC and DRTA strategies made difference on students’ reading comprehension significantly (Ï0.87). Keywords: LC, DRTA, reading comprehension achievement, ten grader
TEACHERS’ DEMOTIVATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING: CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS
Full text linkTeaching and learning process is the core of education that determines the quality of education. Therefore, if there is a quality decrease of education, the first thing that should be evaluated is its teaching and learning process quality. EF-EPI (English First- English Proficiency Index) in 2014 released that Indonesian score was 52.74 which was far from the highest score. In addition, EFA global monitoring report of UNESCO (2014) also points out that Indonesia belongs to ten countries which account 72% of the global population of illiterate adults. Those results show that quality of education in Indonesia still dissatisfied. The quality of teaching and learning process depends on three aspects; (1) the students’ participation level on learning activities, (2) teachers’ roles in teaching and learning process, (3) learning environment. The second aspect is considered as crucial thing focussed by the experts since teacher is the manager and leader of learning process. Recently, not only students’ motivation but also teachers’ motivation affects students’ academic achivement. It is assumed that dissatified results of Indonesian education quality is caused by demotivation of teachers. This paper is aimed at discussing the causes and solutions of teachers’ demotivation in ELT
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON THE USE OF RUNNING DICTATION TECHNIQUE IN LISTENING CLASSROOM
Full text linkAbstract: Running dictation, a variation of dictation technique, is considered as a motivational teaching technique since it encourages the students to move around and work in groups. It offers a dynamic atmosphere during the listening classroom. The students were asked to read and memorize a short text, tell the phrases / sentences to the other group member who will write down the text. This study aims to describe the students’ perceptions on the use of Running Dictation Technique in listening classroom. 25 students of English Education Study Program participated in this study. A questionnaire consisted of 30 questions was administered to the sample of the study at the end of the classroom intervention using this technique. The results showed that mostly students agree that running dictation was beneficial to help them improve their spelling, pronunciation, and listening comprehension. Keywords: Running dictation technique, listening classroo
RUNNING DICTATION TECHNIQUE AND LEARNING MOTIVATION: THEIR EFFECTS ON STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT
Full text linkAbstract: Listening is considered as a basis of English skills. Unfortunately, students mostly have problems on word recognitions that make them have undeveloped vocabularies that automatically affect their listening comprehension. Running dictation was believed as a motivational teaching technique that can minimize these problems. This study was aimed at investigating the effects of running dictation toward students’ listening comprehension achievement viewed from their learning motivation. This experimental study applied a 2 x 2 factorial design. Fifty students of English Education Study Program were chosen randomly on the basis of their learning motivation and assigned equally into two groups. The result showed that running dictation successfully improved students’ listening comprehension achievement (?<0.000); there were also significant difference of achievement between experimental and control group (?<0.000). Meanwhile, the ANOVA result showed that there was no interaction effect between techniques used and learning motivation on their listening comprehension achievement (?=0.867). Keywords: listening comprehension achievement, learning motivation, running dictation technique
An ESP needs analysis for management students: Indonesian context
Full text linkNeed analysis is an essential part for teachers who teach English for specific purposes. Through need analysis, teachers can determine an effective course design which is suitable for learners’ reasons of learning. This study was conducted to find out the needs of Management students, Economic Faculty of Baturaja University, in learning English. In gathering the data, the researchers distributed a questionnaire, adapted from Hutchinson and Waters, to the thirty students who were chosen randomly. From the data, it was obtained that 56.52% of learners’ goal in learning English is for their future job career. Then, 73.21 % of the learners admitted that they were still in beginner level and 43.47% had difficulties in Speaking. They expected that by having English course, they will have better verbal communication that enables them to speak with colleague fluently. Furthermore, it was also found that learners want some varied activities. The result of this study will become a valuable input for lecturer in designing an appropriate teaching material for the learners
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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