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Washback on national examination: English language teacher and student’s perception Minkhatunnakhriyah; Rohayati, Tati
TRANS-KATA: Journal of Language, Literature, Culture and Education Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): TRANS-KATA: Journal of Language, Literature, Culture, and Education
Publisher : TRANSBAHASA

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.54923/jllce.v1i1.13

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Washback refers to influences of testing on teaching and learning for example from National Examination which is a test to evaluate and measure the student's competence nationally by the government after through process of teaching learning. This study attempts to investigate the perception EL teachers and students on washback of National Examination (NE). The participants of this study were ninth grade of junior high school in Jakarta, it will be taken four students from each class and English teachers. This study uses questionnaires and interviews to collect the data and the research method of this study used was a descriptive qualitative method. The result from this study show that the students’ and teacher perception on ENE provide them negative and positive washback. Furthermore, the positive washback from ENE provide several aspects such as the teacher teach English subject more specific in certain skill and its effective to the students. However, the negative washback shown in several side likes the national Examination especially English subject just give the students feel anxiety because they need extra time to do the questions of national examination exercise and feel unfair for passed the standard test of school determine by national examination which conducted only three days.
The communicativeness of English tests at vocational high school Albiansyah; Prasetyo, Agam; Minkhatunnakhriyah
TRANS-KATA: Journal of Language, Literature, Culture and Education Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): TRANS-KATA: Journal of Language, Literature, Culture, and Education
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.54923/jllce.v1i1.14

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Language testing and assessment play a crucial role in evaluating the school quality system and in regarding the progress of student’s achievement. Since most classrooms in Indonesia consist of more than 30 to 40 students in a classroom, it is not an easy task to handle and to assess the educational success of students. It is very important to assess the achievement of the students. Further, teachers without standardized assessments will not understand the experience, skills, and abilities of the students in their classroom. The aim of this article is to examine the content of mid-term exams that were given to class 10 in the second semester of the 2019 – 2020 academic year. The objective of the article is to find out the content of the English test measured the communicative competence of students. There were five tests collected from five schools in different clusters of South Tangerang, Indonesia. The results of analysis showed that the tests were failed in measuring the student’s  communicative competence while language focus could be tested by them.