13 research outputs found
Individual Preferences: a Reason to Use Code Switching to Teach English
No full textIt is usual for non-native EFL teachers to use code switching and or code mixing as a medium of instruction due to a number of factors such as inadequate oral ability of the teachers, complexity level of teaching topics, curriculum and poor basic English of the students. However it is unusual if the teachers of great oral ability maximize if not always use code switching for most of the time during instruction. The present article tries to explain the code switching and or code mixing performed by the EFL teachers in senior high schools spreading over the West Timor land, the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur and the factor of “individual preferences” as their reason why teachers of great oral ability favor to use code switching and or code mixing during classroom instruction like those of lower or inadequate oral ability of English. The data recorded and presented in this article prove that the teachers use code switching in four types that might be similar or different from those in other places in Indonesia
An Analysis of Cognitive Processes in EFL Writings by Two Grade Eight Indonesian Student Writers
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Nilai Pendidikan Tuturan Ritual Ka Nggua pada Masyarakat Paumere Desa Kerirea Kecamatan Nangapanda Kabupaten Ende
No full textThis study raises the educational value of the utterances of the Ka Nggua ritual carried out in the life of the Paumere people. This study aims to describe the educational value of the Ka Nggua ritual utterances carried out in the life of the Paumere people which are beneficial for the education of values, character and for the preservation of culture for the local community. The results of this study explain that the educational values contained in the ritual utterances of Ka Nggua, namely (1) the value of religious education as the main value in the life of the Pau mere people, (2) the value of moral education which teaches honesty, sincerity and openness, (3) ethical values teach self-awareness, sensitivity, adaptability, responsibility (4) cultural values that teach respect, inherit and preserve cultural customs, and (5) social education values that teach the nobility of cooperation, mutual cooperation, mutual assistance, mutual respect, cooperation, maintaining unity and brotherhood
An Analysis of Texts Written by Third Semester of Undergraduate Students of English Education Study Program
No full textThis writing aims at finding out the kinds of texts written by the students, analyzing students’ texts’ constructions, and finding out their problems in writing English texts. This study employs descriptive qualitative method. It describes deeply the finding that related to aims of study above. The data of this result is taken from the written forms of English texts by the third semester of the undergraduate students of English Education Study Program of Widya Mandira Catholic University. The research shows that there are six kinds of texts written by the third semester of the undergraduate students of English Study Program of Widya Mandira Catholic University. Those kinds of texts are narrative text, descriptive text, recount text, comparison/contrast text, cause-effect text, and expository text. Some of Students’ text writings are cohesively, coherently and grammatically correct. However, some other students present incohesive, incoherent, and grammatically incorrect in writing English texts. Furthermore, there are several problems faced by the students in writing English texts, namely: transferring ideas in writing, lack of vocabulary, problem in using grammar, difficult to start writing, lack of reading sources, problem in organization of writing, and inconsistent in developing idea
PASCOAL MARCAL BELO “AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITTEN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE BECORA – DILI IN SCHOOL YEAR 2016 / 2017”.
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AN ANALYSIS OF SPONTANEOUS ENGLISH CONVERSATIONS AMONG SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF THE ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SAN PEDRO UNIVERSITY IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018
No full textThe aims of this study are describing the topics conversed by the second semester students of the English education department of San Pedro University; analyzing what are students’ conversations for; analyzing how students converse with their friends; and analyzing what are students’ strengths and weaknesses in English conversations. To reach these objectives, this research was designed in a descriptive qualitative study. All the data were obtained through observation, documentation (recordings), and interview. The data was collected and analyzed through descriptive approach. And after analyzing the data on the basis of research questions dealing with English conversations among the students, the researcher finds that there are different topics that conversed by the students, and all those topics are very contextual with the real life of students; or in other words, the topics present what students’ lives are. The students did English conversations in order to develop their ability to speak English confidently and pronounce English words correctly; encourage them to use appropriate grammar and vocabulary in English speaking; help them to produce and organize their ideas logically; and develop their communication competence such as oral presentation and story-telling. There are several findings deal with how do students converse with their friends: they do their conversations with big motivation; they begin their conversations with good starting point; they present good turn taking in their conversations; they present good cultural act in their conversations; they conduct their conversations with low accuracy; they conduct their conversations with low fluency; they present cohesion and coherence in their conversations; and they end their conversations with good closing point. And in conducting English conversations, there are strengths and weaknesses. The strengths found in students’ conversations are: students have big motivation in doing English conversations, using very simple vocabularies in their conversations; conversations run spontaneously and naturally; more reactive or responsive in doing conversations; creating good use of conjunctions and determiners; and giving good extended answers to the questions appeared in conversations. While the weaknesses found in students’ conversations are: students are still poor in vocabulary, still weak in using proper grammar, pronunciations and intonations are not so good affected by local language so much.  
An Analysis Of Efl Writing Development Of Undergraduate English Education Department Students: An Indonesian Context
No full textThis research aims at finding out: 1) kinds of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) essays written by the fourth semester students of the Undergraduate English Education Department, School of Teachers Training and Educational Sciences, Nusa Cendana University; 2) how the students develop as EFL student writers; 3) elements of EFL writing that the students can produce well; and, 4) elements of EFL writing that the students fail to produce well. This research using desctiptive-qualitative method was conducted from March to September, 2019. Its research subjects were the fourth semester students of the department. Since the department has four classes, the researchers chose two classes purposively as their research subjects. The instruments used to get the data were writing tests conducted twice, that is, the first one on 18 March and the second one on 18 September, 2019. In doing the first test, the students were each asked to individually handwrite an essay whose topic was free for an hour. In writing their essays, the students were not allowed to use any dictionary and they were not allowed to discuss it with their friends. After it was written, the researchers collected the essays, asked the students for clarrification on their unclear hand writings. Six months later, that is, on 18 September, 2019, the same essays were handed back to be revised/edited by their relevant writers. The time used to edit/revise each essay by each relevant writer was an hour and they were not allowed to use a dictionary or to discuss it with their friend(s). In addition to these writing tests, the researchers also studied the students' curriculum document to have an insight into any courses they join that could have influenced their writing development. The focus of the researchers' documentary study was on subjects related to EFL writing. The data were analyzed descriptively focussing on four major elements of EFL writing, namely: content; organization; word choice, sentence structures, and paragraph structures; and, mechanics of writing (i.e. punctuations and spelling). The data collected were analysed descriptively. It is found that students produced three major kinds of written products, that is, informative, expressive, and a combination of both, but none was included in creative writing. The students had two distinctive ways of development, that is, good and poor development in terms of content; organization; word choice, sentence structures, and paragraph structures; and, mechanics of their writings (i.e. punctuations and spelling). The elements of EFL writings that develop well and/or poorly vary among the research students: some develop well, for example, in relation to content, but poor on word choice and other elements of EFL writing
The Analysis of Cross-Border Potensial Economic Development Strategies
No full textAbstract: The major purpose of this study was to analyze the potency of frontier region of Belu, the province of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) with Timor-Leste as the strategic opportunity for regional, national and international economic development. Descriptive method and empiric approach are used to analyze the development by mean of comparing process in theoretical model based on several cases in other countries that succeeded or failed to develop cross border areas. The result shows that the cross boder areas of Belu (of Republic of Indonesia) Batu Gede (of Timor-Leste) has potencies that can be develop such as agriculture, commerce, service and tourism areas. These can be seen in the commodity interaction that had been increasingly exported from Indonesia to RDTL until the last few years that is since 2006, such as oil commodity, plantation product, fishery product, industrial and diligences product, and mixed goods. The main products of NTT exported to Timor-Leste are construction materials, electronic goods, kitchen condiments, mattress generator, cement, drought fish, onions, vegetables, mixed goods and oil. On the contrary, commodity imported from Timor-Leste to Indonesia significantly increases until the last few years, such as green beans, candlenut, coffee seed, copra, beef and cow's skin. The data show that commercial activities based on the potencies motivate the desire of the citizens to grow up marketing activities that in turn can lead to making public economy in frontier areas
