Moh. Arif Mahbub
English Education Department, Faculty Of Teacher Training And Education, Universitas Islam Jember, Jawa Timur

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Undergraduate Students’ Difficulties in Writing Descriptive Paragraph Marhatus Sholeha; Imam Ghozali; Moh. Arif Mahbub
Linguapedia Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017)
Publisher : English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Islamic University of Jember

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The aim of this study is to identify the difficulties of linguistic aspects in writing descriptive paragraph experienced by undergraduate students at English Education Program of UIJ. It used descriptive qualitative research method. The subjects were 20 students of English Education Program at second semester. They were instructed to write 100 – 150 words about descriptive paragraph entitled “A Description of My Village”. After investigating students’ writing product, the result of the research revealed that the students faced some difficulties in linguistic aspects. The most common difficulties of linguistic aspects made by the students were vocabulary problems (21,5%). Secondly, a cognitive problem was capitalization (20,5%), then fragments (16%) as a sentence structure problem, punctuation (14%) as a cognitive problem, spelling (6%) as a cognitive problem, preposition (5,5%) as a grammatical problem, word order and SVA (5%) as sentence structure problems. In addition, the follow-up interview supported these findings by indicating that most students was still assisted by looking up the dictionary in determining appropriate vocabularies. It was suggested that provide specific descriptions of linguistic aspects in writing skill be designed by the writing’s lecturers to improve students’ writing.
Analyzing Validity and Reliability Instruments of Teacher Made Test for English Subject Nida Mahdiana Zahiroh; Imam Ghozali; Moh. Arif Mahbub
Linguapedia Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017)
Publisher : English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Islamic University of Jember

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The development of education world not only supported by the factors of teaching such as teaching methods, learning process and others but also influenced by the factors which doesn’t related with the teaching process at the class that is evaluation of learning. The writer conducted observation in Eight grade at MTs Bustanul Ulum Kasiyan Timur. The objectives of this research are to describe the characteristics of the item of teacher made test for English subject for Eight grade in MTs Bustanul Ulum Kasiyan Timur – Puger in the 2014/2015 Academic Year on daily test 1, daily test 2 and daily test 3 which are include validity and reliability. Type of this research is descriptive research with analyzing the item of question, reviewed from its content validity based on the syllabus and reviewed from theirs face and construct validity based on the question made by teacher an reviewed its criterion-related validity based on the answer of the students at MTs Bustanul Ulum. Based on the data analysis which is done, so it can be concluded that on generally the item of the teacher made test on daily test 1, 2 and 3 has not fulfill the criteria of content validity. From face validity on daily tests 1, 2 and 3 the teacher using layout well. On construct validity, the teacher using different skill to make the question between daily test 1, 2 and 3. And from Criterion-related validity on daily tests 1, 2 and 3 has not fulfill standard of KKM. And for reliability has not reliable because on daily test 2 and 3 have low reliability.
An An Investigation of Gender Equality Represented in Indonesian Junior High School EFL Textbook Nurkarimah; Dihliza Basya; Moh. Arif Mahbub
Linguapedia Vol. 9 No. 2 (2025): November
Publisher : English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Islamic University of Jember

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Gender issue has become a topic of numerous studies in educational field. However, the availability of texbooks that representing gender equality are still limited. Thus urges textbook designers become aware in accomodating gender equality in EFL textbook. To fill this gap, the present study aims to investigate gender equality in Indonesian EFL textbook mandated for Junior High School grade IX. Adopting content analysis as research design, the content of textbook including multimodal texts, verbal and visual texts were analyzed by researcher. Gender neutral vocabularies, a balance proposition male and female vocabularies, the frequency of male’s and female’s visibility throughout images in the textbook were found to construct gender equality represented in the textbook. The finding show that the textbook designers are aware to minimize gender inequality represented in EFL textbook. Finally the implication of present study is English teacher and textbook designers should be fully aware and pay attention more about gender equality depicted in EFL textbook.