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“Watching English Movie Helps Me!”: Language Exposure and Metacognitive Awareness on TOEFL Fata, Ika Apriani; Mutia, Nyak
Lingua Cultura Vol 11, No 1 (2017): Lingua Cultura Vol. 11 No. 1
Publisher : Bina Nusantara University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21512/lc.v11i1.1624

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This research was conducted to investigate the correlation between metacognitive and language exposure to TOEFL of reading section. The framework of metacognitive was promoted by Veenman et al. and the model of language exposure was promoted by Magno et al. (2009). This research implemented a descriptive qualitative study. The questionnaire and rubricof metacognitive were applied as research instruments respectively. Furthermore, ten freshmen at Syiah Kuala University from various majors considered as strategic readers whose TOEFL score ranges of 400 above. It is prominently revealed that language exposures have a contribution for strategic readers in answering TOEFL in the reading section, in particular,media exposure. The respondents have a tendency to seek out the media availability as the major side on mastering reading TOEFL meanwhile language exposure at home is the lowest impact on students. In addition, metacognitive awareness has an impact on students’ performance in answering reading test of TOEFL the metacognition implementation, the students are eventually categorized on knowledge regulation in which the students relate the knowledge of TOEFL into planning, implementing strategies or information management, monitoring, correcting/debugging, and evaluating comprehension. It is assumed that this study has weakness on informants taken therefore as further studies, the researcher trigger to probe students of 500 TOEFL score above to investigate their learning strategy and language exposures accordingly.
TEACHERS’ BEHALF ON LANGUAGE TEST CONSTRUCTION Ismail, Nyak Mutia; Yoestara, Marisa
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 20, No 2 (2017)
Publisher : English Education Study Programme of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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There are four steps necessarily to be conducted when designing multiple-choice test items, namely setting the objective, building both concise stems and options, determining one correct answer, employing item indices to accept or discarding items (Brown, 2004). As a matter of fact, most teachers in Aceh are not very well-informed about the fourth step and they accept all items as they are. This study focuses on high school teachers who undergo all of the steps offered in the framework when constructing multiple-choice items for English summative test(s). The qualitative method using framework analysis was used in obtaining the data. A questionnaire was distributed to 15 teachers. The analysis process was carried out through three-step analysis (Miles, Huberman, & Saldana, 2013). The results depict that the teachers hardly conduct the index determining step or try-outs when constructing a test. This implies that there is no empirical warrant that all items are worth tested and can be the fundamentals for decision-making when assessing and evaluating students’ test results. DOI: doi.org/10.24071/llt.2017.200201
COGNITIVE INQUIRY: IS ENGLISH REALLY DIFFICULT FOR SCIENCE STUDENTS? Rosdiana, Rosdiana; Mutia Ismail, Nyak
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol 4, No 1 (2017)
Publisher : STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena Banda Aceh

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Science students are known miserable in coping very well with language, especially English. This study searched for the truth of this proposition by evaluating the formative test items for senior high-school level used in a science-based school in Aceh, Indonesia. The sources of this study were 150 questions and 35 students’ answers on the pertaining tests for three different grades. The objective of this study was to find out the item facility and distractors’ efficiency of each test item used for science students in their formative test. Methodology deployed was qualitative approach using content analysis in the scope of finding the item facility and distractors’ efficiency for the test items. The result depicted that 84% of the items are in the ‘easy’ index, and 11% in ‘moderate’ index, and 4% ‘difficult’ index. Then, the data show that only 17% of the distractors’ are efficient. The conclusion is that the formative test items are, indeed, easy for science students but with one condition: most of the distractors do not work properly for their cognitive level. Keywords: Cognitive domain, science students, language tests, language assessments, item analysis.
“AT LEAST, I HAVE TO REPEAT FIVE TIMES” FREQUENT READING DIFFICULTIES Mutia Ismail, Nyak
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol 4, No 2 (2017)
Publisher : STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena Banda Aceh

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PISA’s result in 2016 shows that Indonesian country score in reading, 397, is still below PISA average score, 493. Although the rank increased, the below-average score denotes that the students are still less literate while reading is vital to all scholars. Most higher education students still encounter difficulties when reading, per se reading is profoundly essential in academes. This study is devoted to shed light on intrapersonal difficulties that higher students face in reading. Qualitative research method was employed involving 83 Economics students at Syiah Kuala University. The data collection process was carried out through questionnaire and interview procedures after which the data were analyzed using three-steps analysis. The result suggests that 91.5% of the students has difficulties in retention—where they tend to fail retrieving just-obtained information, discharge information found in passage(s) with prior knowledge, and cannot relate the information with real life experiences. Then 87% has comprehension difficulty where they are not optimally engaged while reading, confused with contextual meanings, main ideas and supporting details, and about what to expect from passage(s). Finally, 12% faces problems in decoding (regardless of Dyslexic symptoms) for which they still read word-by-word and occasionally despise punctuations. Generally, it leads to a discussion that problems in concentrating promote problems in memory-processing. The authors would gently suggest students to be trained to monitor and regulate their metacognitive ability during reading.Keywords: Reading Difficulties, Retention, Comprehension, Decoding, Memory-Processing.
AS YOU WRITE, IT HELPS YOU LISTEN: AN EXPERIMENT IN TOEFL PREPARATION CLASS Ismail, Nyak Mutia; Zalha, Fera Busfina
AT-TA'LIM Vol 25, No 3 (2018)
Publisher : Institut Agama Islam Negeri Imam Bonjol Padang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15548/jt.v25i3.483

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This study was conducted as an aim to test whether using the technique named keeping-journals during the TOEFL preparation class is beneficial for the listening section part A of the test. As proposed by Hiemstra (2001) that in  keeping journals technique, learners deliberately record their progress of learning, focusing on both their strengths and weaknesses. From this step, they can rigorously employ the metacognitive awareness and strategy awareness they have owned; or,  they cantry to build ones (Oxford, et.al, 2004; Palfreyman, 2005). The result is considered essential since, practically, TOEFL tutors need to bring TOEFL learners to keep track on their learning rate on their own; hopefully, the result canbestsuitthe theoretical gap since there have been only few experimental studies conducted on Listening Section of TOEFL through journal-keeping. The quantitative pretest-posttest method used in this study involves single-group design consisting of 36 fifth semester college students at Syiah Kuala University, Aceh, Indonesia. The findings approved that the Ha is accepted for the tvalue is 1.90 (df 34, α=0.05, -2.02 ≤ t ≥ 2.02 ). It is also sigificant for the sigvalue is 0.7 (sigvalue ≥ α=0.05). In conclusion, the technique does help the learners in tackling problems they face in Listening section on TOEFL part A as it enhances their listening performance, attitude, and motivation.
DIVERGENT THINKING IN A STANDARDIZED TEST Ismail, Nyak Mutia; Moriyanti, Moriyanti; Yusnida, Dara
Indonesian Journal of Learning and Instruction Vol 2, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ijli.v2i2.1979

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In dealing with standardized tests, including TOEFL test, there is a common propensity for test-takers to adopt convergent thinking which is a cognitive process in retrieving a pre-existing answers using concepts, knowledge, and understandings. On the contrary, the use of divergent thinking in standardized tests is scarce because the test-takers do not create new knowledge or ideas during the test. This study sought whether higher divergent thinking ability could affect TOEFL score. A case study was employed to gather the data from 143 respondents (divided into two groups: each 73 and 70 students) whom of which were 3rd year Economics students at Syiah Kuala University. Guilford’s Alternative Uses Test was used as the instrument where the students should name the functions of a stone in 5 minutes. The total of 538 responses from group A and 366 from group B were obtained from this test. The data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics in terms of its originality. The results showed that the group whose ability in divergent thinking is higher could achieve average score reaching 523, while those with less ability in employing divergent thinking could only attained 477 in average. The findings imply that in teaching TOEFL preparation or other standardized tests, divergent teaching technique needs to be employed as the instructors should expands students’ thinking by not only limiting it to Question-Answer technique.
Identifying Deduction Abuse(s): A Shed of Light on Logic Ismail, Nyak Mutia; Yoestara, Marisa; Putri, Zaiyana; Mohamed, Noorul Azra
International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Vol 3, No 1 (2020): ICMR
Publisher : Universitas Serambi Mekkah

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (176.202 KB) | DOI: 10.32672/pic-mr.v3i1.2630

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This study aims at finding out and comparing students' ability in identifying abuse(s) in argumentdeductions between science students and social science students. The design of this study is a descriptivequalitative. There were 108 students involved as the respondents (52 science students and 56 socialscience students). The instrument utilized was ten arguments taken from Guth (1969), which is aspecified test to drill argument analysis—aligning content validity for this current study. Therespondents were asked to analyze these arguments and find out the deduction abuses. Their approachin analyzing each argument was further interpreted through data analysis. There were a total of 1080analyses, but 477 analyses of which were discarded due to a biased approach. The data were analyzedusing thematic and interactive analysis. The result shows that, among science students, the mostemployed approach is faulty premise (199 analyses), followed by misleading statistics (53 analyses),hidden premise (37 analyses), equivocation (10), and circular premise (4 analyses). Meanwhile, amongsocial science students, the majority also exploited the faulty premise (137 analyses). Additionally, thehidden premise was also engaged in a great number (130 analyses), equivocation (40), followed bymisleading statistics (9 analyses), and circular premise (2 analyses). These findings circumstantiallyimply that, in learning, students with a science background are better at capturing stated details, whilestudents with a social science background are competent at spotting both stated and unstated details inarguments. It is suggested that teachers should balance the students’ reasoning approaches, regardlessof their academic backgrounds to achieve learning objectives.Keywords: logic, students’ cognition, deduction, reasoning skills, and teaching and learning.
Online Teaching and Teachers’ Mental Burdens during the COVID-19 Pandemic Syahputri, Veni Nella; Idami, Zahratul; Ismail, Nyak Mutia
International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Vol 3, No 1 (2020): ICMR
Publisher : Universitas Serambi Mekkah

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (166.096 KB) | DOI: 10.32672/pic-mr.v3i1.2688

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This study focused on outlining the psychological effects on teachers caused by the implementation of online teaching and learning during the COVID 19 pandemic. A descriptive qualitative approach was employed in conducting this study. There were 34 female teachers aged between 25-38 years old involved as respondents. The instrument used was a questionnaire sent through WhatsApp application. The data were analyzed using interactive analysis (data condensation, data display, and data verification). The results show that 34 respondents (100%) experienced uncertainty to their students; 58.8% (20 respondents) have physical pain and fatigue; 41.2% (14 respondents) experienced demotivation; 38.2% (13 respondents) tend to procrastinate their work; 67.7% (23 respondents) have bad time management; and 94.3% (32 respondents) experienced the feeling of isolation. Hence, it is suggested that educational institutions provide a care unit to handle any potential problems on teachers’ mental health. Keywords: mental burdens, online teaching, psychological health, psychological effects, and COVID-19 pandemic. 
COHESION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE WRITING Nyak Mutia Ismail; Lisma Linda
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 4 No 2 (2018)
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (210.941 KB) | DOI: 10.24252/Eternal.V42.2018.A1

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It is important to keep the cohesion and coherence when writing; this is where the use of cohesive devices starts to be taken into account. This study sought the types of cohesive devices used by undergraduate students in their writing. The qualitative discourse analysis was used as the design of this research. The data were collected from seven undergraduate students as the respondents who were in the 6th semester at a private university in Aceh. These respondents were asked to write a descriptive text approximately 200 words in length and they were given forty-five minutes to finish their writing. The result unveiled that the type of cohesion devices which was majorly used was addition, as there are 94% of the additive device usage. Then, 75% refers to the use of cohesive devices as comparison, 56% as consequential, and 40% as temporal device. In can be concluded that the students use more addition in writing. As a suggestion, it is essential to shed light on their ability to employ cohesive devices more on other types in balance as it is necessary in contrasting, comparing, sequencing, giving exception, and illustrating. 
TEACHERS BEHALF ON LANGUAGE TEST CONSTRUCTION Nyak Mutia Ismail; Marisa Yoestara
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 20, No 2 (2017): October 2017
Publisher : English Education Study Programme of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/llt.v20i2.734

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There are four steps necessarily to be conducted when designing multiple-choice test items, namely setting the objective, building both concise stems and options, determining one correct answer, employing item indices to accept or discarding items (Brown, 2004). As a matter of fact, most teachers in Aceh are not very well-informed about the fourth step and they accept all items as they are. This study focuses on high school teachers who undergo all of the steps offered in the framework when constructing multiple-choice items for English summative test(s). The qualitative method using framework analysis was used in obtaining the data. A questionnaire was distributed to 15 teachers. The analysis process was carried out through three-step analysis (Miles, Huberman, Saldana, 2013). The results depict that the teachers hardly conduct the index determining step or try-outs when constructing a test. This implies that there is no empirical warrant that all items are worth tested and can be the fundamentals for decision-making when assessing and evaluating students test results.DOI: doi.org/10.24071/llt.2017.200201