Fitrotul Mufaridah
Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember

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Practice Model of Read-Examine-Decide-Write Strategy In Strengthening Students’ Reading Comprehension Mufaridah, Fitrotul
ELLITE Vol 1, No 1 (2016): ELLITE
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (74.419 KB) | DOI: 10.32528/ellite.v1i1.165

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Teaching reading in ESP Class is a challenging work not only for the English teacher but also for the students of Islamic Education Program or PAI of University of Muhammadiyah Jember. Teacher should be selective and creative in implementing teaching strategy in order to encourage students to comprehend reading text and communicate their understanding in the target language. The implementation of Read-Examine-Decide-Write (REDW) Strategy was done in ESP class of PAI. Read-Examine-Decide-Write Strategy was found as a good solution to teach them reading comprehension. By grouping the students in pair, they did their learning effectively through the steps of REDW. 75.8% or 22 of 29 students got score ≥ 75. They were active in comprehending the text through steps of REDW. The research result showed that Read-Examine-Decide-Write Strategy was able to improve PAI students’ reading comprehension in the first semester of 2015-2016 Academic Year.Keywords: reading comprehension, read-examine-decide-write strategy
Students’ Activity Involvement for Speaking Ability Improvement Mufaridah, Fitrotul
ELLITE Vol 2, No 1 (2017): ELLITE
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To make students’ ideas become real, it needs act that can make them bring themselves to explore what is in their mind. The action done by students in the classroom would encourage them to be able to be creative in speaking class. The creativity should be facilitated by the teacher by providing more rooms for the students to involve much in the classroom activities. It is more meaningful for the teacher to design the classroom activities by involving students’ participation. The design should facilitate both teacher and students to practice the teaching and learning activities creatively, so the class would be more interesting and more authentic. The students’ involvement can also empower the student-teacher relationship and bridge them to minimize gap. In the process of having speaking classroom activities, the teacher can learn more on how to listen to students’ ideas and how to appreciate them respectfully to their creativity. The teachers can build the students’ creativity and guide them how to implement it well for students’ learning experience. In another side, the students are invited to explore their smart ideas in developing learning experience which is leading them to do creative and meaningful learning activities. They come to class not only as the passive participants of the learning activities but also as the active participants in proposing and acting their ideas in speaking class. It is really challenging involvement for the students. It brings them to have bigger responsibility in doing learning process. So, the students’ activity involvement are experienced them to enrich their creativity and to enhance their speaking ability.   Keywords: classroom activity design, learning experience, meaningful learning, challenging involvement, creativity enrichment.
Students’ Perceptions on the Implementation of Online Learning in Pandemic Era Homsatul Istiqomah; Mochammad Hatip; Henri Fatkurochman; Fitrotul Mufaridah
ELLITE Vol 6, No 2 (2021): ELLITE: November
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32528/ellite.v6i2.6163

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The implementation of online learning in Indonesia today becomes an alternative to the conventional learning because of the pandemic situation. However, it triggers some problems during the learning process. The problems exist because of various aspects. One of them is the way how the teachers implement the learning process. This research is aimed to investigate how students perceive the online learning implementation in higher education based on four categories (Planning Promotion, Education, Support Training, and Encouragement). It is descriptive-survey research using a questionnaire as the instrument to collect the data. The result shows various perceptions of students. The average students perceive: 1) implementation of online learning is well planned, 2) the lecturers are competent enough in implementing the online learning, 3) they got sufficient support during the online learning, and 4) the online learning situation encourages them in the learning process. This research result can be used as an evaluation for the stakeholders (lecturers and decision-makers) for the online learning implementation.
READING INTENSITY ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY Fitrotul Mufaridah; Siti Lutfiyah
ELLITE Vol 5, No 1 (2020): ELLITE: May
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32528/ellite.v5i1.3277

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Speaking as a language skill has been considered the most difficult one to master by the students especially in Songserm Wittaya School Songkla, Thailand. It was found that the majority of the students found it difficult to speak English fluently. As a productive skill, speaking is complex because learners need to acquire the accuracy and fluency in speaking. However, one EFL class showed a bit difference in the ability of speaking English because of their reading intensity. The design of the research was descriptive qualitative. The data were collected by a questionnaire for intensive reading and an interview on speaking to 30 students at 4/3 grade. The results of this research in general revealed that most of the students at grade 4/3 Thailand are good in speaking English due to their intensive reading that reached 50%. It was clearly seen from the analysis of some aspects of speaking (pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension) in the interview section and questionnaire of reading intensity that 50% of the participants can speak English better through reading activity intensively. This finding implies that intensive reading has become a meaningful input for students’ speech production.
Fun Speaking with Cue Card Ahmad Mursyid; Fitrotul Mufaridah
ELLITE Vol 4, No 1 (2019): ELLITE: May
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32528/ellite.v4i1.2313

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English has become crucial to be acquired by the second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) learners  to assist them with their academic life. In addition, it is essential for one to be able to speak in English. However, it is not easy for second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) learners to acquire good speaking skills. EFL learners in Asia; not to mention in Thailand are also facing similar problem.  This study is aimed to how the use of cue cards as media to teach English can improve the EFL learners in Thailand.  The study was conducted in one of junior high schools in Thailand.  Classroom Action Research (CAR) was employed in this study. Observation and test were applied to collect the data. The result of the study revealed that this media is able to improve the speaking ability of the learners.