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THE PROFILES OF METACOGNITIVE READING STRATEGIES OF SUCCESSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL EFL LEARNERS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Muhammad Reffyal; Abidin Pammu; Sukmawaty Sukmawaty
JURNAL ILMU BUDAYA Vol. 6 No. 1 (2018)
Publisher : Universitas Hasanuddin

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The ability to read in English as a foreign language is very important for senior high school because it will affect their productive skills such as writing and speaking. The objective of this research was to present the profiles of metacognitive reading strategies of successful and unsuccessful EFL learners of high school at SMA Negeri 1 Pamboang. The address of reading strategies is expected to provide useful information both for students and teachers secondary school. At least, the information about strategies can improve the quality of education especially in teaching reading as a core subject. The current study reports an investigation of EFL learners profiles of metacognitive reading strategies in Indonesian context. This exploratory paradigm was an attempt to reveal what level of metacognitive awareness of both successful and unsuccessful learners at the senior high school level. The study was carried out at SMA Negeri 1 Pamboang, Majene Regency and employed quantitative and qualitative methods. Using purposive sampling method, seventy-two (72) EFL learners filled in the MARSI questionnaire (Metacognitive Awareness Reading Strategy Inventory) by Mokhtari & Reichard (2002) to deal with the metacognitive part. 20 samples from seventy-two participants were selected to participate in interview session. The former employed statistical tool (SPSS 22) to reveal the level of learners’ metacognitive awareness. The statistical analysis indicated high level of metacognitive of awareness in all sub-scales (Global Strategy, M=3.59, SD=0.56, Support Strategy, M=3.51, SD=0.77, Problem Solving Strategy, M=3.77, SD=0.65) for the successful group. The unsuccessful group, on the other hand, indicated medium level on both Global and Support Strategy (M=3.16, SD=0.60, M=3.06, SD=0.49) with the exception of Problem Solving Strategy with a high level of awareness (M=3.58, SD=0.55). Interviews showed that many students, especially unsuccessful learners, have a clear purpose when reading but when they did not understand they choose to discuss with friends. This finding warranted the need for the design of strategy training with the focus on strategy consolidation to make these learners employ these existing strategies in more productive and efficient manner. 
An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in Writing Made by English Education Students at IAIN Palopo Faisal Amir; Abidin Pammu; Nasmilah Nasmilah
IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature Vol 11, No 1 (2023): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Liter
Publisher : Institut Agama Islam Negeri Palopo

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Considering the importance of grammatical knowledge in the writing process, this research aims at describing the grammatical errors that are committed by the fifth semester students of English Department at IAIN Palopo. The research study is classified into a descriptive-qualitative study. The data were collected from twenty two English texts written by the English Department students which were done as tasks and contained six familiar topics. Students were supposed to write an essay/paragraph about the given topics. In addition, the researcher had permission from the lecturer to take and analyse the students’ written works.  The researcher and students’ written works are the main sources of data collection in this research. To identify the common errors, students’ writings were analysed with the help of checklists in order to classify different types of errors made by the respondents. The results of the study revealed that the most common and frequent errors made by the students are 387 (58.37%) places of omission errors, 213 (32.12%) places of mis formation errors, 131 (19.75%) places of addition errors, 8 (1.20%) places of mis ordering errors. Besides that, the causes of these errors were developmental found in 323 (36.17%) places, 306 (34.26%) of ambiguous, 205 (22.95%) of interlingual, and 59 (6.60%) unique errors. Based on these findings, teachers are suggested to raise students’ awareness on these errors and provide sufficient remedies to prevent students from internalizing such errors.
Worldwide research productivity and tendency of online English learning a bibliometric analysis (2011-2021) Sri Hardiyanti; Abidin Pammu; Nasmilah Nasmilah
AMCA Journal of Community Development Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022): AMCA Journal of Community Development
Publisher : AMCA

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This study was aimed to illustrate the global research productivity and the tendency of online English learning in recent years (2011-2021). Researchers investigated 922 articles in Google Scholar, which was retrieved via Publish or Perish. A bibliometric methodology was adopted in this study. The data was analyzed to reveal prominent articles distribution from 2011 to 2021, most productive journals, popular keywords and most-cited articles. This study revealed that from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic (2020-2021), the research productivity in online English learning topics showed a significant increase. IEEexplore was the most productive publisher, followed by CNKI and Springer. The top 10 most-cited articles mainly were written by authors from a developed country. Furthermore, the analysis of the keyword was assisted by VOSviewer software. The result presented the most frequent keyword, including "covid" with (155) occurrences, "online learning" (191) occurrences, "pandemic" (124) occurrences, "technology" (89) occurrences, keyword "platform" with (67) occurrences. The most tendency topics in different years were students' perception, students’ motivation, teachnology and the online learning environment. Further areas of inquiry to advance research in online English Learning were suggested, including teaching strategies on online English learning, online English vocabularies, and reflection of online English teaching.