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Implementing Speech-Texter Application to Improve EFL Learners’ Fricative Pronunciation Maspufah Maspufah; Diana Zuriati
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): J-SHMIC: Journal of English for Academic
Publisher : UIR Press

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25299/jshmic.2022.vol9(2).9986

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Most of EFL learners in Indonesia hardly adopt pronunciation due to limited time, problem from the role model, and difficult sound production. To solve the problem, speech texter-application was implemented as learning media. The research aimed to identify whether and to what extent implementation of speech-texter application can improve EFL learners’ fricative pronunciation and explain the factors which influence the changes in pronouncing fricative consonants. The research implemented action research method. The research used purposive sampling technique and 16 learners from the first semester of a private public college in Pekanbaru. There were instruments used to collect the data. The quantitative data were pronunciation oral test, while the qualitative data were observation checklist, field note and interview. The qualitative data were analysed by scoring and comparing to the standard ability and qualitative data were analysed by data , data display and conclusion drawing. After analysing the data, it was revealed that speech-texter application was able to improve learners’ fricative pronunciation. The improvement of learners’ ability was from the level of “fair” into “good” category at the end of cycle 1. The factors which affecting the improvement was the use of speech-texter application which provide opportunity as self-check application. Thus, it can be concluded that the implementation of speech-texter.
UTILIZING YOUTUBE VIDEO AS MEDIA IN TEACHING STUDENTS’ WORD STRESS PRONUNCIATION Maspufah Maspufah
Pendekar: Jurnal Pendidikan Berkarakter Vol 5, No 4 (2022): Desember
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31764/pendekar.v5i4.12287

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Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah pemanfaatan video YouTube  dapat meningkatkan kemampuan pelafazan word stress dan mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi peningkatan tersebut. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian tindakan kelas. Tujuh belas orang mahasiswa dipilih menjadi sample. Data kuantitatif berupa test dan data kualitatif berupa wawancara, observasi, dan catatan lapangan. Data kuantitatif dianalisis dengan menghitung skor tes, sedangkan data kualitatif direduksi, ditampilkan, dan disimpulkan. Hasil analisis menunjukkan pemanfaatan video dari YouTube sebagai media ajar meningkatkan kemampuan mahasiswa dalam melafazkan word stress. Faktor yang mempengaruhi peningkatan tersebut yaitu pemanfaatan video dari YouTube sebagai media ajar. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa pemanfaatan Video YouTube dapat memberikan hasil yang positif bagi mahasiswa dalam melafazkan word stress.Abstract:  The research aimed to identify how good the utilizing of YouTube video as teaching media to improve students’ word stress pronunciation and explain the factors influenced it. The research used action research method. Seventeen students were taken as sample. Quantitative data were from tests, while qualititative data were from interview, observation, and field note. Quantitative data were analysed by scoring test, while qualitative data were reducted, displayed, and concluded. The result showed that the utilizing YouTube Video improved students’ word stress pronunciation. The factors affecting the improvement were the utilizing of YouTube video as teaching media. It can be concluded that the utilizing of YouTube video provided a positive result in students’ word stress pronunciation. 
Lexical Borrowing Used by Food and Beverage Product of One Selected Resto in Pekanbaru Satria Abdurahman; Maspufah Maspufah; Yeni Afriyeni
Enlighted Journal Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): July 2023
Publisher : LPPM STBA Persada Bunda

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Sultan Resto features a particularly Malay character by incorporating architectural embellishments from the Siak Sultanate, which is now popular in Pekanbaru, and serves real Malay home food. The purpose of this research was to find out kind and change of meaning in process of borrowing words that were happened in Food & Beverage Product of Sultan resto. The researcher used some theories about borrowing words to support the research from Baugh, Noam chomsky, and Martin Haspelmath. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method to analyze and describe the data. The researcher used recording for taking the video in Food & Beverage Product of sultan resto as the unit of analysis. To support the analysis, the researcher used cooking dictionary and some english dictionaries. As the result, the researcher found 20 words of borrowing words. The words were divided into three kinds of borrowing words and it was found that there were sixth loan words, ninth loan blend, and fifth loan shift. Then there were two kinds of changes of meaning, it consists of nineth Narrowing of meanings and two Extension of meanings. it could be concluded that the borrowing words from English and France languages especially in Sultan resto’s Food & Beverage Product were quite high.
Code Mixing Used by Kindergarten Students in Dharma Yudha National Plus School Sifra Jenisa Murbi; Karnedi Karnedi; Maspufah Maspufah
Enlighted Journal Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): July 2023
Publisher : LPPM STBA Persada Bunda

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Speaking by mixing two languages currently become a habit in national plus school which used both of English and Bahasa Indonesia in their teching and learning activities. The code mixing in early ages like kindergarten was very unique and interested to be analyzed. The purpose of this research was to identify the type of code mixing used and the factors caused the code mixing of the students’ conversation at the school. The research used descriptive qualitative methods. The data were the transcript of students’s conversation and the parents’ interview. The data were collected by using voice recorder and questionaire through google from. The data were analyzed by using three data analysis theory of data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion. After analyzing the data, the results showed that there were seven uterances of insertion, eleven utterances of alternative, and seven congruent lexicalization of code mixing occured in students’ conversations. Then, the factors caused the code mixing in students’ conversation were situation and prestige factor bilingual factor which most of students speak both of English and bahasa indonesia not only at school but also at home, the speaker and partner speaking factor, the social community factors, the situation factor, vocabulary factor and prestige factors. Thus, situation factor and prestige factor were the dominants factor that mostly motivated students to mix their conversation in the class discussion and in their daily communication.