Widi Syahtia Pane
University of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda

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Teacher’s Strategy in Solving EFL Students’ Problems in Learning English Ariyanti Ariyanti; Widi Syahtia Pane; Umar Fauzan
ASIAN TEFL Journal of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics ASIAN TEFL: Journal of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, VOL 4(2), 2019
Publisher : Lecturer Association of Linguistics, Language Teaching, and Literature Studies in Indonesi

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Learning new language is never been so easy to master where there must be challenges that teachers face in classroom. The aim of this research is to investigate an English teacher in teaching English as a foreign language to junior high school students at Ma’had Tahfidzul Qur’an, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The matters to be investigated include barriers the teacher faced as well as her strategies to solve the problems. The result of semi-structured interview showed that the biggest challenge faced by the English teacher is the condition where the students are less-motivated in learning English. Several strategies are used by the teacher such as encourage the students through verbal motivation as well as provide joyful activities such as conducted different kind of games to build positive mood and interest of students in leaning a new language. The use of proper teaching strategies is demanded in order to have English learning become students’ habit. Therefore, implication of language teaching methodologies is also discussed in this research.
Self-Regulated Learning in Writing of EFL Learners Ariyanti Ariyanti; Rinda Fitriana; Widi Syahtia Pane
IJELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics) Vol 3, No 1 (2018): Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda

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This research was aimed to investigate EFL students’ Self-Regulated Learning in writing. Self-Regulated Learning itself means the method that students take control in understanding of knowledge from the lecturer by conducting their own way in learning. The design of this study was quantitative with survey design to measure students’ academic self-regulation and self-regulation in writing class context. The population of this study were third semester students of English Department of University of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda, Indonesia, which consist of two classes with totally 37 students, who have studied English writing. Questionnaire were applied to measured two aspects; students’ academic self-regulation (77 items) and self-regulation concerning English writing subject (14 items), using Likert Scales. The result showed that 70% of students were able to motivate themselves to learn writing, do some efforts to engage the class, willingly to rehearse, elaborate and organize the lesson material by themselves, meanwhile  19% students have better self-regulation that make them conducted better effort to learn writing and accomplished better as well and 11% of them still struggle to survive in writing class. It proved by the mean of three indicator; Learning Activeness (3.18), Willingness to respond lecturer's suggestion (3.12), and  Willingness to broaden writing skill (3.27). To sum up, it can be considered that students had good enough self-regulation in writing.