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USING TEACHER’S INDIRECT FEEDBACK STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FOR THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 BENGKULU TENGAH IN THE 2016/2017 ACADEMIC YEAR Yudha Septian Kurniawan; BAMBANG SUWARNO; Arono Arono
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 2, No 2: August 2017
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

This research aimed to improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text by using teacher’s indirect feedback strategy for the first grade of SMAN1 Bengkulu Tengah in the 2016/2017 academic year. The subjects consisted of 30 students of Science Program. The research was conducted in two cycles, namely, each cycle consisted of planning, action, observation and reflection. Before the first cycle, the researcher gave pre-assessment. The result showed that the students’ mean score was 44,00 in absolute range, or 60,00 in relative range (poor category). After implementing cycle one, the students’ mean score in writing skill showed a little progress, especially in content’s aspect. On other hand some students were still lacking in vocabulary and language use aspects. In the second cycle, the teacher and the researcher focused to gave the students materials of two aspects above. The result was that improved to the students’ mean score : 60,76 in absolute range or 83,00 in relative range (very good category). The students’ responses were possitive toward this strategy. It was concluded that teacher’s indirect feedback strategy could improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text and it could be developed to other students.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT BY USING PICTURE SERIES FOR THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Tuti Andayani; Arono -
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 1, No 2: August 2016
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

In this collaborative Classroom Action Research (CAR), the researcher tried to overcome the problem of writing narrative text facing by the eighth-grade students in Junior High School, especially in getting and composing the ideas. The question of this research was ‘Can Picture Series improve the students’ ability in writing the narrative text?’ This class action research was divided into two cycles. Every cycle was divided into four stages, including (1) planning, (2) implementing, (3) observing, and (4) reflecting and it was focussed on the students’ ability in writing narrative text by getting idea from a picture and developing the idea with the guidance from a series of pictures. The samples were 20 students of SMP Negeri 03 Sindang Kelingi, Curup, and Rejang Lebong. The data which were got from the students’ achievement in the cycle I and cycle II were analyzed by using quantitative analysis data technique. From the analysis, the writer founded that in the cycle I, students gain the average score 61,35 and in the cycle II the average score was 84,50.It is suggested for the Junior High School English teachers to apply this technique increase their students’ ability in writing the narrative

EVALUATION OF ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIALS USED AT SD IT UMMI IN KOTA BENGKULU BASED ON KTSP (KURIKULUM TINGKAT SATUAN PENDIDIKAN) Meri Lestari; Arono Arono
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 3, No 2: August 2018
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

The objectives of this study were: (1) To find out whether textbook used by second grade students at SD IT UMMI Kota Bengkulu fulfill the criteria of a good textbook. (2) To find out whether the English textbook used by second grade students at SD IT UMMI Kota Bengkulu relevant to KTSP curriculum. This research used descriptive qualitative content analysis as its research method. The data were collected from the English student book “Let’s Make Friends with English” for second grade students. The results showed that English textbook entitled “Let’s make friends with English” used by second grade students at SD IT UMMI Kota Bengkulu have fulfilled the criteria of a good textbook by achieving the Fair fulfillment. The textbook was categorized relevance to the KTSP curriculum, but the activities in the listening can be said irrelevant because they cannot cover the learning objectives in listening. It was then recommended that the teachers need to modify the tasks and activities on the textbook which did not fulfill the criteria of good textbook, especially in the area of accompanying materials (CD, Cassettes and pictures), language skill, and teach ability aspects.

The Quality of English Coursebook for Nursing Department Student (Based on Students’, Lecturers’, And Experts’ Perspective) Qoriatur Rahma; Safnil Safnil; Arono Arono
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 2, No 2: August 2017
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

This research was aimed to find out the students’, lecturers’, and experts’ perspective toward the quality of the English coursebook for nursing department students. This research was an evaluative study. The participants of this research were 3 experts, 3 lecturers and 80 nursing students. The instrument of this research was an evaluation checklist based on Mc.Donough and Shaw’s criteria. The findings of the research were (1) over eighty percent participants agreed that syllabus fulfills the criteria for quality a nursing coursebook; (2) over eighty percent participants agreed that the content area fulfills the criteria for quality a nursing coursebook; (3) over ninety percent participants agreed that layout and physical appearance fulfills the criteria for quality a nursing coursebook; (4) over eighty percent participants agreed that practicality fulfills the criteria for quality a nursing coursebook; (5) over eighty percent participants agreed that language use fulfills the criteria for quality a nursing coursebook.

An Analysis of Argument Structure of Research Article of English Postgraduate Program of Bengkulu University Published In Journal Resakti Alamsyah Bermani; Safnil Safnil; Arono Arono
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 2, No 2: August 2017
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

This study investigates the argument pattern in research articles by postgraduate students of English and Education University Bengkulu, based on Toulmin’s Theory (1958). This study analyzed the argument pattern, and reveal the type of data used by the student to support the claim in their argument contains in introduction section and discussion section of Journal Applied Lingusitic and Literature (JOALL) 2016. The data analysis result show that (a) the common argument pattern employed for arguments in introduction section of Research Article published in JOALL is Semi-complete pattern; (b) in discussion section the authors also commonly employ Semi-complete pattern. In addition (c) there are five types of data used by the authors to ground their arguments they are, Facts, Statistics, Example, Expert Opinion, and A Note on Visual. It can be conclude that the Research Article author published in JOALL have a good argumentative text based on Toulmin’s theory.

STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXT Arono Arono; Nadrah Nadrah
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 4, No 1: February 2019
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

Nowdays, there are many translation problems although software application to assist translation are available. The objectives of this research were to identify types of error in translation, students’ difficulties in translating text, and factors which influence students’ error in translating in English department of State Institute for Islamic Studies Bengkulu. This research used descriptive quantitative method. The results of this research showed that students’ difficulties in translating English text, were elliptical errors (67.29%), idioms (87.5%), and textual meaning (73.54). The difficulties of students in translating were lack of vocabulary (87,50%), difficult translating Islamic texts (75,00%), literary works (66,66%), and grammatical issues (62,50%). Then, the factors affected students’ error in translation were ignorance of ellipsis; unable to identify ellipsis, idiom, and lexical meaning; lack of strategy in translating ellipsis, idiom, and lexical meaning; translating words per word; most students lack a strong background on the content of the text. It was concluded that the students got three types of error in transalation, four points difficulties in translation, and six factors which influence the students’ error in translation.Keywords: Translation, difficulties, and English text

THE EFFECT OF GENRE-BASED MENTORING ON LINGUISTIC FEATURE QUALITY OF RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSRACTS BY INDONESIAN LECTURERS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES Dedi Jasrial; Safnil Arsyad; Arono Arono
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 4, No 2: August 2019
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

Meta-discourse is one of the linguistic features that have gotten considerable attention in writing a research article abstract recently. It is because the meta-discourse serves as a textual and interpersonal marker that can help readers to organize, classify, interpret, evaluate, and react to the contents of a propositions or meanings of sentences in the research article abstracts. However, Indonesian authors still have a problem in the use of meta-discourse based on its function in writing a research article abstract that meets to reputable international journals. The purpose of this study is to help improve the linguistic feature quality of research article abstracts written by Indonesian lecturers in social sciences and humanities in terms of the appropriate use of meta-discourse devices. This study used three stages of genre-based method following Hyland (2003): modeling, joint construction, and independent construction to mentor 20 lecturers in improving their research article abstract quality in terms of the appropriate use of meta-discourse devices in the sentences. The meta-discourse devices in the lecturers’ research article abstracts was evaluated following the frameworks of meta-discourse based on its function as suggested by Hyland (2005). The result revealed that there is an important improvement on the linguistic feature quality of Indonesian lecturers’ research article abstracts in terms of the appropriate use of meta-discourse devices. It implies that genre-based mentoring method has been quite effective in helping Indonesian lecturers in social sciences and humanities in writing their RA abstracts in using meta-discourse devices for a reputable international journal.

FEATURES OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR THE FIRST-YEAR OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IMPLEMENTING THE 2013-CURRICULUM Emelda Syafrina; Arono Arono
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 2, No 2: August 2017
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

This research aimed to investigate the quality of English for the First Year of Senior High School Implementing the 2013 Curriculum the academic years 2016/2017. The method applied in this research was descriptive method. Data collection techniques used observation check list. There were three textbooks observed. The aspects that were observed consisted of content, presentation, language, and graphic. The result indicated as follows. For the appropriateness the content of view; there were only two textbooks which belong to ‘good’ category books, namely Pathway to English for Senior High School Grade X, published by Erlangga and Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X, published by Kemdikbud. An others textbook had ‘fair’ category namely Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA-MA/SMK kelas X, published by Yrama Widya. There was one textbook which was categorized into ‘very good’ presentation, namely Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X, published by kemdikbud. while two other textbooks, namely Pathway to English for Senior High School Grade X and Bahasa inggris untuk SMA-MA/SMK kelas X had ‘good’ category. Concerning the language aspect, there was one textbook, nemely Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X had ‘very good’ category. Two other textbooks, namely Pathway to English for Senior High School Grade X and Bahasa inggris untuk SMA-MA/SMK kelas X had ‘good’ category. Concerning the graphic aspect, there were two textbooks which belonged to ‘very good’ category, namely Pathway for Senior High School Grade X and Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X. An others textbook namely, Bahasa Inggris SMA- MA/ SMK kelas X had ‘good’ category. Thus, three textbooks had good category and be worthy to use because they fulfilled the quality of good textbook.

EVALUATION OF ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIALS USED AT SD IT UMMI IN KOTA BENGKULU BASED ON KTSP (KURIKULUM TINGKAT SATUAN PENDIDIKAN) Meri Lestari; Syahrial Syahrial; Arono Arono
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 3, No 1: February 2018
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

The objectives of this study were: (1) To find out whether textbook used by second grade students at SD IT UMMI Kota Bengkulu fulfill the criteria of a good textbook. (2) To find out whether the English textbook used by second grade students at SD IT UMMI Kota Bengkulu relevant to KTSP curriculum. This research used descriptive qualitative content analysis as its research method. The data were collected from the English student book “Let’s Make Friends with English” for second grade students. The results showed that English textbook entitled “Let’s make friends with English” used by second grade students at SD IT UMMI Kota Bengkulu have fulfilled the criteria of a good textbook by achieving the Fair fulfillment. The textbook was categorized relevance to the KTSP curriculum, but the activities in the listening can be said irrelevant because they cannot cover the learning objectives in listening. It was then recommended that the teachers need to modify the tasks and activities on the textbook which did not fulfill the criteria of good textbook, especially in the area of accompanying materials (CD, Cassettes and pictures), language skill, and teach ability aspects.

Translation Analysis of Student’s Work (Study of Poetry Translation) Syukril Khair; Bambang Suwarno; Arono Arono
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) Vol 3, No 2: August 2018
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

The literary translation still becomes such of debating among several experts and researchers, especially at translation studies. The aim of this study was to find out what kinds of techniques of translation were applied in translating the poems of Maya Angelou, and how the appropriateness of techniques were applied by the students. Mollina & Albir’s classification of translation techniqueswas used as the primary theory in the analysis of the translation texts.This study was descriptive qualitaive and content analysis. The data were taken from text translations of two poems which consist of 550 data from 10 students as translators. The research findings revealed that14 techniques were used by students. The result showed that there were 14 translation techniques which were used, compensation, literal translation, modulation, linguistic amplification, discursive creation, linguistic compression, reduction, amplification, adaptation, transposition, borrowing, established equivalent, particularization, and description. The next finding showed that the appropriate techniques wereapplied at 69.3%. Meanwhile, inappropriate techniques were at 30.7%. The conclusion of this study was that students used the most at compensation and the lowest was description. The students mostly successful in applying appropriate technique at delivering messages, but were flub in recreating thepoetical aspect in Target Language. In some cases, this indicated deficiency in determining the equivalent expression in the target text. The suggestion for further researchers is to explore a similar study by investigating on figurative speech and poetical aspect at poetry translation.

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