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Speech Acts Proficiency of Junior High School English Teachers Kamarudin Kamarudin; Lume Lume
EDULANGUE Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018): Edulangue: Journal of English Language Education
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Mataram

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Junior High School English teachers involved in this study taught English‘ speech acts at a Junior High School, where the materials taught include high level of spoken English. Thus, the English teachers need to be proficient in this particular skill. As professional educators, the teachers must have professionalcompetencies, particularly a good comprehension of the materials. Speech act constitutes spoken English, which is generally taught in Junior High School. Developing communication competence in English is the main purpose of English teaching in Junior High School. This descriptive qualitative research aims to describe a phenomenon: the ability of speech acts of Junior High School teachers. This knowledge comprises of several categories, namely the ability to define of speech acts, to identify speech acts conversations and to figure out speech act utterances. Drawing on the data garnered through the interviews, it was unveiled that most of the Junior High School English teachers could respond the given questions pertinent to speech acts. They could define the meaning of speech acts, identify the speech act conversations and figure out the speech act utterances. This study demonstrates that the proficiency level of the Junior High School English teachers is very good as they comprehend teaching materials and have good pedagogical skills.
The Use of Course Review Horray (CRH) Strategy to Promote Students' Self-Confidence in Learning Vocabulary Kamarudin Kamarudin; Tawali Tawali; Muhammad Muhlisin
EDULANGUE Vol. 1 No. 2 (2018): Edulangue: Journal of English Language Education
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Mataram

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This research aims at finding out whether Course Review Horray strategy has effect to promote students’ self-confidence in learning vocabulary at the seventh grade students of MA NW Senyiur Keruak Lotim or not. This research rises since the use of English vocabulary plays crucial roles of mastering English language. Students will gain a huge number of benefits in which they can cope with various vocabulary items. For instance; students will automatically convince their self to speak up fluently where they know much of variety of vocabulary. This phenomenon comes up along with students of MA NW Senyiur Keruak Lotim. This research was a quasi-experimental with two group pre-test and post-test design. The population was all the students of the seventh grade at MA NW Senyiur Keruak Lotim consisted of 74 students from 3 classes. The samples of this research were 2 classes consisted of 25 students each group. The experimental group was treated by using Course Review Horray strategy and control group was using Engage Study and Activate Strategy. The instruments of collecting the data were vocabulary test and questionnaire. After the data analysis completed, it was found that the questionnaire of students’ percentage was 56% the students got qualification A as criteria Student master 90%-100% of all indicators, 24% students get qualification as B master 80%-89% of all indicators, 16% students get qualification as C master 65%-79% of all indicators, 4% students get qualification as D master 55%-64% and 0% students got qualification as E master 0%-54% of all indicators. The number of T-test score was (2.865) > T-table (2.011). So, Course Review Horray (CRH) has effect towards students’ self-condident in learning English vocabulary