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EFL learners’ perspective on English Honorifics (EHs) in Indonesia Rina Herlina; Wawan Tarwana
Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research Vol 1, No 1 (2020): July 2020
Publisher : Universitas Islam Sultan Agung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (135.777 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/jamr.1.1.32-45

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Indonesian EFL learners (IELs) have been familiar with the practice of English Honorifics/EHs (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Sir and Ma’am) for decades. Mr, Mrs, Miss are followed by family name as the clan identity and Sir and Ma’am are for respectful address for adult man and woman. However, in Indonesia, it’s been the phenomenon because there seem to be a collision between how EFL learners practice EHs with what EHs are supposed to be used in English culture. The purpose of this study is to clarify and verify how Indonesian EFL learners perceive on EHs that have been interpreted and practiced for decades in Indonesia. This study applies double approaches. First, cross cultural study which employs content analysis by means of analyzing how EHs are interpreted and practiced under the setting of Indonesian culture. The sources to be analyzed are obtained from English handouts, chats and texts in social media among EFL students, as well as script deriving from teacher-EFL students’ classroom interaction. Second, case study which employs triangulation technique to examine some aforementioned sources. The result reveals that Indonesian EFL learners perceive that the practice of EHs (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Sir, Ma’am) have no difference with the ones applied in Indonesian culture. It means that there is no more difference in function between Mrs and Miss, Ma’am, Mr and Sir. Those have been considered the same in practice with Indonesian Honorifics (IHs) like ibu (Ma’am), bapak (Mr), nyonya (Mrs), dan nona (Miss) even though they have different function.  These have been conducted beyond EFL learners’ culture awareness of how native speaker of English uses EHs because there is an assumption that learning English doesn’t include learning its culture. For most Indonesian EFL learners, learning English as a foreign language is a matter of learning basic skills and linguistic features. So, if there are any further cultural encounters during learning English, they will be switched automatically to Indonesian culture. This study recommends English teachers to keep teaching English culture during teaching English in order to avoid learners’ misunderstanding in communication with English speaking people.
Online Teaching in Writing by Means of Slack Application Yusep Heryandi; Ishak Said; Rina Herlina
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 4, No 1 (2020)
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33369/jeet.4.1.49-68

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This study deals with online teaching by using ICT in teaching writing skill. This study aimed in investigating the activity of the teacher, the teacher’s perception, and students’ perception to the process of teaching online by means of slack application in students writing skill. A qualitative design with a case study approach was employed in this study by conducting classroom observations and interviews to collect the data regarding the use and the impact of slack application in teaching writing by the teachers in EFL classrooms. The participant of this study were the students at one of senior high school in Tasikmalaya. In analyzing the data, multiple sources of data collection commonly known as triangulation as purposed was employed. The findings showed that the teacher used four steps in optimizing slack application in an online teaching writing. Introducing, memorizing and giving feedback were the strategy in teaching online by using slack application in classroom. This study suggested that English teacher need to apply Online Application as a system and tools to support the teacher in how they give a task, planning, and empowering in their teaching practices.
Tutorial You tube: English Learning Media Under the Frame Work of Students’ Need Analysis in EFL class rina herlina
Academic Journal PERSPECTIVE: Education, Language, and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2019)
Publisher : Lembaga Penelitian (The Institute of Research) Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (761.658 KB) | DOI: 10.33603/perspective.v7i1.1811

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This study reports how Tutorial YouTube (TYT) is used to teach English to support learning activity in EFL class in Galuh university considering that the students still require English knowledge to complete and polish what they learn in the classroom. The language media in TYT is presented in Indonesian language because it is only for Indonesian students. In the making of TYT, students' need analysis (SNA) is required to find out students' weakness in learning English. It's usually all about what language features they need and what constructed videos need to be uploaded. The purpose of the study is to find out the process of how non-native English teacher (NNET) proceeds SNA underpinning the construction of TYT for the sake of enhancing students' English performance.This case study took place in one of private universities in West Java. One English teacher, in particular English lecturer, participated for the interview and class observation. The interview result was crosschecked with the classroom observation under the Triangulation process. The goal of Triangulation is to get deep result and finding of the research. Thus, the result shows that NNET uses SNA-based TYT. She observes what the students need by scanning them all the way through during the learning session. If she thinks that her students need enrichment in one of language features, she will construct a TYT and upload it. This kind of classroom observation might scaffold the teacher in teaching English to EFL students since the time allotment in teaching English in the class can not cope with many aspects of language features. The conclusion is TYT, as the learning media, is developed based on SNA and it is fruitfull to be implemented to fulfill what the students need in learning English.
Bottom-Up Approach of Teacher's Best Practice to Avoid Student's Perplexity in Listening Rina Herlina
TLEMC (Teaching and Learning English in Multicultural Contexts) Vol 7, No 1 (2023): TLEMC (Teaching and Learning English in Multicultural Contexts)
Publisher : Siliwangi University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37058/tlemc.v7i1.3609

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This best practice aims to find out teachers’ practice on the bottom-up approach in teaching listening to EFL students at the higher education level, to find out students’ perplexity on listening, and to find out students’ responses on the bottom-up approach in teaching listening. The bottom-up approach has been practiced due to students’ perplexity in figuring out some linguistic features such as short and long vowels, word linking, diverse English accents, diction, and many others which are not available in EFL students’ native language. Thus, the students frequently have perplexity in those aspects. This perplexity occurs due to linguistic features in English are being far different from the ones in the Indonesian language. This qualitative research employed one English teacher who is particularly in charge of teaching listening and ten freshman students. The finding revealed that a bottom-up approach to the freshman classes is given until they get used to it so that they can get well-prepared to have a top-down approach to listening and students’ responses indicate that they no longer have perplexity about listening to English native speakers. The conclusion showed that before teaching listening with a top-down approach, a bottom-up approach would be initially practiced. The Bottom-Up approach has been applied to prevent EFL students from perplexity in listening and they will be ready to face other techniques such as listening for gist, specific information, and detail. Keywords: bottom-up approach, teaching listening, EFL students’ perplexity