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The Possibility of Developing English Magic Tricks Problem-Based Activities to Enhance Senior High School Students’ Engagement Ikhsanudin Ikhsanudin
ICoTE Proceedings ICoTE Proceedings 1
Publisher : Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Tanjungpura

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One of the critical factors of successful teaching is the students’ engagement. This research is aimed at producing a set of classroom activities that were designed based on magic tricks problems to engage Indonesian senior high school students in English classes. Such a set of classroom activities wereexpected to be to significantly help teachers implement English language 2013 curriculum in various school situations. As required by the curriculum, Indonesian teachers should promote higher order thinking as an integral part of preparing Indonesian younger generation to be able to compete and to collaborate with human resources across the globe. Through opportunity analysis, design, and development steps, this research has revealed the followings. First, it was necessary to develop English magic trick problem-based activities (EMPA) to enhance senior high school students’ engagement. Second, the architecture of the activities was easy to understand. Last, the problem and language contents were found inline with the curriculum that was being used by all senior high school nationwide. Before publishing them widely, a least one research is necessary to try-out EMPA in “real classrooms.” It is also important to note that the teacher that would use EMPA should understand the concept of problem-based learning and should learn the tricks beforehand.
Comparing the Tasks of Two English Textbooks Endah Woro Hapsari; Dwi Riyanti; Ikhsanudin Ikhsanudin
ICoTE Proceedings Vol 2, No 2 (2019): ICoTE Proceedings 2
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The purpose of this article is to compare two English textbooks on the tenth-grade level. They were official books published by Goverment of Indonesia (GOI) published in 2014 and 2017. Littlejohn’S framework was applied to analyzing the process. The evaluation covers objective description, subjective analysis and subjective inference. Yet, this article focused on objective description and subjective analysis. The result found that there was significant revision in those books. It could be seen on the analysis result. This research analyzed elevent points- place of the learner’s material in any wider set of materials, published form of the learner’s materials, subdivision of the learner’s materials into sections, subdivision of sections into sub-sections, continuity, route, access, aims, principle of selection, pronciple of sequencing and subject matter and focus on subject matter. Based on elevent analyzing point, five of them was revised by the book author. The revision lied on subdivision on learners' materials, a subdivision of section into subsections, and access-publication section. Furthermore, on the design part, the revision lied on the aims and the objectives of books. In addition, the later book has better design than the previous one. The learning objectives are clearly stated on the preface part and it designed through the understandable task instructions.
LETTERING BOOK FOR SPECIAL-NEEDS AND LOW-LEVEL PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS Zulfian Rahman; Ikhsanudin Ikhsanudin; Sudarsono Sudarsono
ICoTE Proceedings Vol 2, No 2 (2019): ICoTE Proceedings 2
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This article initiates the discussion about alternative idea that might break the deadlock in supporting materials for students with writing difficulty in inclusive school and children with special needs in general. This article discuss the importance of lettering book and alternatives in order to help children to overcome their weaknesses in learning basic skills such as writing. In this article, the writer includes introduction, types of special needs and low-level primary school students, the definition of lettering, parenting for helping the special needs children, and conclusion. Furthermore, the book can be used by teacher and parents outside the classroom to direct children’s activity and to control their progress in the remedy of their learning disabilities. In the last part, the writer urges publishers and teachers to develop lettering book for children with special needs to overcome the children’s difficulty in acquiring writing skills.
AN INVESTIGATION OF STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD LISTENING COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTIES AND TOP-DOWN LISTENING STRATEGY Rika Lestari; Ikhsanudin Ikhsanudin; Yohannes Gatot Sutapa Yuliana
ICoTE Proceedings Vol 2, No 2 (2019): ICoTE Proceedings 2
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The main purpose of conducting this research is to investigate students’ perception toward listening comprehension difficulties and the use of Top-down listening strategy in listening class of the ninth grade students of SMPN 13 Pontianak in the year 2018-2019. It also investigated the correlation between students’ listening difficulties and strategy usage. The method of this research is a cross-sectional survey. The data were collected by using a questionnaire, continuous Likert-scale. Then, the data collected from the questionnaire was analyzed by using descriptive statistical analysis to present the items frequency, mean, and standard deviation. The population of this research is all of the ninth grade students at SMPN 13 Pontianak. The total population is 333 students from 9 classes. While the participants are 168 selected through representative stratified random. The findings showed that accent, pronunciation, the speed of speech, lack of vocabulary, the complex grammatical structure, basic background knowledge,  lack of concentration, bad quality of recording were the major difficulties encountered by the ninth grade students in SMPN 13 Pontianak. The development of listening skill to the learners must be intensified in language learning because listening is critical and important not only as a receptive skill but also as a tool needed for the development of spoken language ability.
Cover and Title Pages Ikhsanudin Ikhsanudin
Proceedings International Conference on Teaching and Education (ICoTE) Vol 3, No 1 (2022): 1st International Conference on English Language Teaching Research and Practices
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