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A NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR DESIGNING AN ESP-BASED SYLLABUS IN AN ISLAMIC STUDIES EDUCATION PROGRAM
No full textMengembangkan silabus Bahasa Inggris untuk pengajaran Bahasa Inggris di sebuah Program Studi Pendidikan Agama Islam dianggap perlu berdasarkan fakta bahwa silabus Bahasa Inggris yang saat ini digunakan tidak berdasarkan analisis kebutuhan tetapi lebih kepada pertimbangan dosen. Dalam merespon persoalan tersebut, penelitian ini dilaksanakan untuk menyelidiki kebutuhan Bahasa Inggris mahasiswa sebagai landasan untuk merancang sebuah silabus berbasis ESP. Kombinasi pendekatan-pendekatan sistematis untuk desain matapelajaran dari Hutchinson dan Waters (1987), Brown (1995), dan Nation dan Macalister (2010) diadaptasi dalam penelitian ini sebagai pedoman untuk tahapan-tahapan dalam desain matapelajaran bahasa. Tahap pertama yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis sarana dan analisis kebutuhan dengan mengidentifikasi dan menganalisis para mahasiswa, dosen, target, situasi pembelajaran, dan strategi. Dalam tahapan ini, kuesioner didistribusikan kepada 93 mahasiswa dan empat dosen Bahasa Inggris. Selain itu, wawancara dilakukan terhadap para dosen Bahasa Inggris, ketua perguruan tinggi dan ketua jurusan program studi, dan silabus Bahasa Inggris yang ada ditinjau. Hasil dari tahap pertama menunjukkan bahwa para mahasiswa di perguruan tinggi ini ingin meningkatkan keempat keterampilan Bahasa Inggris (berbicara, membaca, menulis, dan mendengarkan), berikut dengan keterampilan turunannya yang berhubungan dengan topik-topik keislaman dan kehidupan sehari-hari, dan mereka juga ingin mengalami berbagai macam strategi pembelajaran dalam mempelajari Bahasa Inggris. Tahapan selanjutnya dari penelitian ini adalah perumusan tujuan berdasarkan hasil dari analisis kebutuhan. Kemudian, tahapan terakhir adalah pembuatan silabus Bahasa Inggris, yang dilandasi dari hasil analisis kebutuhan. Berdasarkan penelitian ini, disarankan bahwa program studi ini dan para dosen Bahasa Inggris menerapkan dan mengevaluasi silabus Bahasa Inggris yang ditawarkan.
Kata kunci: ESP, analisis kebutuhan, desain matapelajaran bahasa, silabus berbasis ESP
Developing an English syllabus for the teaching of English in an Islamic Studies Education Program is considered necessary due to the fact that the existing English syllabus being used is not based on the needs analysis but rather on the lecturers’ judgment. In response to the problem, the study was conducted to investigate the students’ needs of English as the bases for designing an ESP-based syllabus. A combination from the systematic approaches to course design from Hutchinson and Waters (1987), Brown (1995), and Nation and Macalister (2010) was adapted in this study as a guideline for the stages in language course design. The first stage undertaken in this study was the environment analysis and needs analysis by identifying and analysing the students, the lecturers, target situation, present situation, learning situation, and strategies. In this stage, questionnaires were distributed to 93 students and four English lecturers of the college. Besides, interviews were undertaken to the English lecturers, the rector of the college and the chairman of the study program, and the existing English syllabus was surveyed. The results from the first stage revealed that the students of the college wanted to improve their four English skills (speaking, reading, writing, and listening), with their English sub-skills related to Islamic and daily life topics, and they also wanted to experience various learning strategies in learning English. The next stage of this study was the formulation of goals based on the results of the needs analysis. Then, the final stage was the creation of a proposed English syllabus, the bases of which were the results of the needs analysis. Based on this study, it is advisable for the study program and the English lecturers to apply and evaluate the proposed English syllabus.
Key words: ESP, needs analysis, language course design, ESP-based syllabu
Exploring Students-Teacher Interaction in Dialogic Reading of Descriptive Texts
Full text linkThe interaction between students and teachers in the classroom is an important part of language learning. Dialogic reading is one of the learning strategies that can be appropriate to facilitate EFL students’ and teacher’s interaction in the classroom. The dialogic reading emphasizes the interaction between adults and children in this case students and teacher, the teacher used a variety of question techniques such as ‘PEER’ and ‘CROWD’ strategy of dialogic reading. Therefore, this research aims to explore the students and teacher interaction on dialogic reading in learning reading English text. The researcher chooses micro-ethnography method to get a clear description of the interaction between the teacher and students in an EFL setting. It applied in Junior High School in Purwakarta, with three students as a participants. The result of this research showed that the teacher interacted with students’ by kind of interaction, and the students interacted with the teacher by kind of interaction too, and also the students a quiet active when they were asked by the teacher. In the classroom between teacher and students should have the willingness to participate in the interaction
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
EFL Students' Attitudes Toward Facebook-Assisted Peer Assessment Of Writing Tasks
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<p><em><span>The purpose of this study was to examine students' attitudes toward Facebook-assisted peer assessment of writing tasks. This research involves sixteen participants who voluntarily participated in this study. Based on action research with interviews and observational data, the qualitative results are unfavorable. These are: 1) students do not have good ability to do peer assessment. 2) Students do not have good sensitivity to errors in their friends' writing in terms of punctuation and grammar. 3) The problems faced by students in conducting peer assessments can be seen from their lack of ability to conduct peer assessments and lack of sensitivity toward grammatical and punctuation error itself, more over they are not authentical user of Facebook so they seem unenthusiastic to this activity. Furthermore, this current study demonstrates the students’ respond of Facebook peer assessment as an assessment method for improving learners' mastery of English writing</span></em></p>
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Digital Storytelling and EFL Students’ Engagement in Developing Speaking Skills
No full textThis study aimed to explore the students’ behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement in English speaking learning through the digital storytelling (DST) project. This case study research was conducted at a private senior high school in Karawang, West Java. The participants in this study were 14 eleventh-grade students. The data were collected by observation, interview, and students’ reflective journals. Six of the fourteen students voluntarily participated in the interview to obtain their views on the DST project. The results of the study revealed that students showed positive responses in behavioral engagement because they completed their project and constantly paid full attention in class. Secondly, the DST project also cognitively involved the students, both in speaking skills and in using technology. Finally, the students' emotional engagement was positive during this DST project, as they felt happy sharing their hobbies through a digital platform
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
The Pre-service EFL Teachers’ Voices on Designing and Implementing Lesson Plan for Online Learning
No full textDesigning and implementing a lesson plan is a complex process, so that according to several studies, the pre-service EFL teachers still had difficulties during designing and implementing a lesson plan. As novice designers, pre-service EFL teachers still lack of knowledge and expertise. Therefore, this study aims to find out the voices of the pre-service EFL teachers about their own experiences in designing and implementing their lesson plans. Five pre-service EFL teachers who had experienced to design and implement a lesson plan in the teaching practicum program during the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak at Senior High Schools in Karawang were recruited as the research participants. This study uses a qualitative approach and uses collective case studies research design. Online written interviews and virtual observation were conducted to collect data as information to answer the research question, and the interview data were then analyzed using thematic analysis. This research found out that designing and implementing lesson plans practiced by the pre-service EFL teachers during the teaching programs were perceived as decision-making process, non-negotiable process, and challenging process
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