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Investigating Students’ Experiences and Preferences on Tools and Activities in Emergency Remote Learning Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic Ratnawati Ratnawati; Indah Nurhasanah
Al-Lisan: Jurnal Bahasa Vol 6 No 1 (2021): Al-Lisan: Jurnal Bahasa (e-Journal)
Publisher : LP2M IAIN Sultan Amai Gorontalo

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The study investigates students’ recognition, students’ preferences, and students’ reasons for learning platforms, tools, and activities in the Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) context. The intrinsic case study is used in the present study, which fully expected the quality of improvement and case evaluation can be carried out. The purposive sampling was used with 25 students of third-year class at a private university in West Java at English language education study program. In collecting the data, mixed questionnaire, participant classroom observation, and online semi-structured interview were distributed and conducted during the meetings, then analysed descriptively and thematically. The research findings point out that students positively responded to utilising Google Classroom for written synchronous and Zoom Cloud Meeting for virtual synchronous. To sum up, both platforms are recommended to be utilized in the online atmosphere for ERT. Further actions call for other researchers and educators to utilize them in classroom activities with similar backgrounds and problems. Besides, it is recommended for other researchers to conduct further studies related to the present field.
Investigating Blended Learning Effects toward Students’ Literacies for Higher Education Setting Ratnawati Ratnawati; Wawan Tarwana
Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018)
Publisher : Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo

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The present study aims at investigating blended learning effects towards students’ accomplishment in terms of participants’ literacies in terms of reading and writing score and their motivation of attending the model of learning. It employed experimental study which concerned on two groups pre-test post- test research design to find out students’ progress before and after blended learning application. Furthermore, two kinds of test; reading and writing test also distributed to the experimental and control groups which are also supported to five Likert scale questionnaires. The data found indicates that the participants had got progress in both writing and reading tests, evenly positive perspectives also expressed toward applying blended learning in classroom practices. The study specially implies recommendation for further pedagogical application in English classroom practices and educational context at general.
Investigating Students’ Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in Writing Skill (A Case Study at the Eleventh Grade of a Senior High School in Banjar) Pian Suci Sopiani; Iskhak Said; Ratnawati .
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 3, No 3 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

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This study deals with the students’ Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in writing skill. This case study was aimed at figuring out the students use HOTS in writing, figuring out the kinds of the students’ HOTS in writing will be evident in writing, and figuring out the students’ responses on using HOTS in writing. The subject of this study was 21 students at the eleventh grade of a Senior High School in Banjar. Two research instruments used were the essay written test and the questionnaire. To assess the research instruments, the writer combined and synchronized the results by using triangulation analysis as adapted from Fraenkel et al. (2012, p. 559). The findings showed that Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) were used by the students in learning writing. The findings also showed that the kinds of the students’ HOTS were evident that they improved their writing without any treatment. The findings also showed that there were some benefits of using HOTS in writing according to the students’ responses. 
Implementing Blended Learning Toward Students’ Self Efficacy in Writing Class: Students and Teachers’ Voice Jamila Hamidah; Ishak Said; Ratnawati .
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 3, No 3 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu

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This article reports on students' and teachers’ perceptions and of their self-efficacy on implementing blended learning in writing class. Self-efficacy has been defined as the belief we have in our own abilities, specifically our ability to meet the challenges and complete a task successfully (Akhtar, 2008).This research employed a survey study by means of questionnaire and interview. Fifty one of the third year students of English Department Galuh University were employed as participants. The result of this research showed that students’ self-efficacy improved after learning in writing classes on implementing blended learning, the students felt confident, enjoy the class, and then the students felt more motivated when learning. Furthermore, most of the students stated that self-efficacy was necessary, because it affected not only on implementing blended learning in writing class but also in the other courses. Each student has different self-efficacy, high and low self-efficacy that is able to influence how their learning achievement. it is recommended to further research that self-efficacy measurements must be far better and more accurate from various aspects. Thus the results would be certainly more relevant and detailed.
AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHER-STUDENTS’ INTERACTION IN CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING ONLINE TEACHING Rika Maelasari; Ratnawati Ratnawati; Wawan Tarwana
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 4, No 1 (2020)
Publisher : Universitas Galuh

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This article reports on teacher-students’ interaction in cross-cultural understanding online teaching. There are several compelling reasons for using the online teaching through the internet-based Project Work in the classroom; a structured way for teacher to begin to incorporate the internet into the language classroom, the use of projects encourage cooperative learning and stimulates interaction, gives the learners a more ‘real-world’ look and feel and provide greater motivation for the learners. This research employed a case study by means of three data collection techniques, they were observation, interview, and questionnaire. The result of this research was that online teaching helped the students in understanding the material in the CCU classroom. Moreover, the interaction between teacher and students were quite positive during the online teaching. It is suggested for further researchers to conduct a similar study with different frameworks such as online teaching strategies to give more significant contributions to the teaching and learning process.Keywords: Cross-Cultural Understanding, Interaction, Online Teaching
Engaging Multimedia into Speaking Class Practices: Toward students’ Achievement and Motivation Ratnawati Ratnawati; Didih Faridah
Script Journal: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017): October
Publisher : Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda University

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The present study reports several impacts of implementing multimedia toward teaching and learning process in speaking class at second grade students of Galuh University, Ciamis. Further, the study came from insights on students’ boredom during speaking class which affected their achievement and motivation.  Mixed method research design (Creswell, 2013) then employed to answer several proposed hypotheses. For proving the result of its application, observation, questionnaire, pre and post-test were administered to collect the data while both quantitative and qualitative approaches were applied to analyze the collected data from classroom practices. The research findings indicates that  multimedia in speaking class got positive responds from students in term of motivation and accomplishment. The great look portrayed from the class that students were enthusiastic, got involved and interested in multimedia provided by teacher during learning process. Moreover, pre and post-tests that are performace-based tests were greatly used to test the effectiveness of multimedia effects during the class. In this side, the researcher employed experiment of two equivalent groups: control and experimental group. It then reported that t-test related is 2.04  out of 1.70 for  t- distribution which points out that there is significant difference between the results of both tests. It means that the result of this research agreed that multimedia has good effects for teaching speaking in the scope of students’ interests, feedback and their cognitive aspects. In line with above statements, the further studies is also necessary  dealing with other multimedia for obtaining more positive effects toward learning process and those result enables to increase quality of education.        
THE ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES ON EFL STUDENTS’ CHATTING GROUP INTERACTIONS Yuli Tri Amanda; Rina Herlina; Ratnawati Ratnawati
Journal of English Education Program (JEEP) Vol 8, No 2 (2021): Journal of English Education Program
Publisher : Universitas Galuh

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This paper reported the analysis of the practice of politeness strategies used in WhatsApp group chatting interactions among EFL students. Intermediate level of English Education Program in one of private universities in West Java was employed because they are assumed to interact in WhatsApp group chatting. Furthermore, two research questions were formulated such as follows: 1) what kinds of politeness strategies do EFL students apply in WhatsApp chatting group interactions? and 2) what is the most dominant politeness strategy realized in EFL students’ chatting group interactions? This study utilized descriptive qualitative study to analyze and interpret the realization of politeness strategy used by the EFL students in WhatsApp chatting group interactions. The results revealed that the students used four politeness strategy types. They were bald on-record, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, and bald off-record. Then, the most dominant type of politeness strategy in WhatsApp chatting group interactions was positive politeness strategy (47.1%). Based on the results, it was concluded that the EFL students used the entire types of the politeness strategy in the interactions of group chatting in which positive politeness strategy were used the most frequently by the students. Keywords: Teaching speaking, Team Game Tourna