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TEACHING WRITING TO EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: SOME IMPORTANT ISSUES : (Reducing Writer’s block and Breakthrough to Better Teaching) Hijjatul Qamariah
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016)
Publisher : English Education Department

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (383.059 KB) | DOI: 10.46244/geej.v3i2.706

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This article discussed that the students’ difficulties in writing can be triggered by a lot of factors, but to solve those difficulties is never ending story. While correction of piece of writing is believed can helped students improve their writing, but the fact that the implementation of correction still cannot solve the problem. Moreover, students tend to be apprehensive. Writing apprehensive is dealing with the anxiety about writing. Students feel fear when they are assigned to write a piece of writing. This nevertheless, is a problematical issue that needs to be solved by the writing instructor or teacher. Some experts stated that writing apprehension can be caused by several factors, such as lack of writing strategies, inappropriate teachers’ writing teaching techniques, inappropriate contain of writing textbooks, and the students’ cognitive. Therefore, a better teaching instruction perhaps will minimize students’ apprehension in writing. This article tries to give an insight for a better teaching writing and how to deal with the problem that the students face when writing.
WHAT DO OUR STUDENTS WANT? A CASE STUDY OF EFL SPEAKING STUDENTS’ VIEW OF ACTIVITIES IN SPEAKING CLASSROOM Hijjatul Qamariah
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017)
Publisher : English Education Department

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Students’ beliefs or perspectives have been essential inputs for reflection and improvement of the teaching and learning of English. Knowing their interest and what they want will lead to a better and effective teaching and learning process. Thus, this case study attempted to find out the students’ view of activities in the speaking classroom. Students’ perspective and ideas toward activities, teachers’ role and students’ interest in topic and materials in speaking classroom are identified. To achieve this objective, 12 students were involved. The data were obtained through the interviews with the students who took speaking class. The interview was conducted by using focus group interview. Findings revealed that most of communicative activities such as drama, role play, storytelling, group works, dialogue, etc should be applied in speaking classroom. The involvement of teacher in speaking activities was also crucial, most of the students stated that teacher should make rule and always keep the target of the activities. In addition, teachers should always provide feedback and motivation, and also perform punishment and rewards practice. Results also indicated that in order to be able to speak and think more creative, students suggested authentic materials and familiar but also challenging topics should be provided. Moreover, topic such as current issues, tourism, lifestyle and history were also chosen by them as topics they are interested to learn.
HOW A RESEARCH ARTICLE INTRUDUCTION STRUCTURED? THE ANALYSIS OF SWALES MODEL (CARS) ON ENGLISH RESEARCH ARTICLE INTRODUCTIONS Hijjatul Qamariah; Sri Wahyuni
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017)
Publisher : English Education Department

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Research article has been regarded as the most valuable tool in spreading and disseminating research findings around the globe. Knowledge and new information are easily obtained through research articles. However, writing a research article is not easy. Several requirements need to be fulfilled in order to be accepted by the publisher. The weakness of research articles that make those are rejected by the publisher is believed because the papers lack of establishing a territory of the topic discussed and showing the publisher that the paper proposed is worthy enough to be accepted. The essential part of the article is not announced clearly, the gaps that other articles or pervious researches fail to address are not filled. Thus, the article is merely announcing the description of the research but it is not worth to be published in a good journal. One of ways to solve the problem is by writing a good introduction. The most prominent part of a research article is the introduction where the author shows the core point of his research article deserves publishers’ attention. The well known and accepted model of article introduction structure is Swales model know as CARS (Create a Research Space). This model has been believed as a typical way a research article introduction structured around the globe. Therefore, this study tried to portray the way how a research article introduction written based on the common convention of good article introduction. The procedure of how the article introduction structured based on Swales Model is pictured. And some English research article introductions written is analyzed to show the organization of Swales model research article introduction. It is hoped that this study can provide a solution for writers especially novice writers to write a good research article introduction.
THE USE OF ENGLISH SONGS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY Sri Wahyuni; Hijjatul Qamariah; MulyadiSyahputra
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018)
Publisher : English Education Department

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This study is to implement English songs in teaching speaking for English Department students at STKIP Bina BangsaGetsempena Banda Aceh. This research was quasi-experimental study. The aim of the study was to find out students' improvement in speaking ability by using English songs. The population of this study was the whole students of English Department of STKIP Bina BangsaGetsempena Banda Aceh in academic year 2015/2016. The sample is the second-semester students of English Department that consisted of 35 students. The data needed are recorded by testing students speaking test. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The result of the study is shown that the t-score was 7,25 the critical value of the t-score for the degree of freedom is 34 at the level of significance 0,05. The result showed that the calculation of the score is 7,25, it is higher than t-table 2,14, thus the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted which means that the use of English songs can improve students’ speaking ability.
THE OBSTACLE IN TEACHING SPEAKING BY USING DEBATE TECHNIQUE Sri Wahyuni; Hijjatul Qamariah; Sofyan Abdul Gani; Yunisrina Qismullah
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018)
Publisher : English Education Department

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The study highlighted the obstacles of teaching Speaking using debate technique at higher education students atAbulyatama University under the course named Critical Speaking. The aim of this study was to identify the obstacles found in teaching speaking by using debate techniques in higher education. the study was designed using the descriptive qualitative method where the data was collected through interviewing the designated lecturer who taught the course and then analyzed through three basic steps, they are data condensation, data display,and data conclusion. The lecturer described her difficulties in teaching speaking using debate technique that related to the limitation of time, participation, critical thinking ability,and the speaking ability. Hence, the lecturer applied some solution to the challenges, such as obligating the case-building process even to the audiences, assigning the students to enhance their knowledge on the current issues and starting the debate by the very basic motion.
ENGLISH TEACHING VIDEOS EMPLOYED IN EFL STUDENTS TEACHER CLASSROOM: A CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON UTILIZING ENGLISH TEACHING VIDEO IN DEVELOPING TEACHING SKILLS Hijjatul Qamariah
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019)
Publisher : English Education Department

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This study tries to investigate the use of English teaching video in EFL student teacher classroom. It was initiated by the importance of providing authentic classroom teaching activities to the students. Employing English teaching videos to improve students teaching skills is alternatively important to do in order to gain a good insight of how native English teachers teach in the classroom. Therefore, some English teaching videos accessed from CELTA link, which is a platform of teaching practice for TESOL teachers were showed in the classroom. The implementation of the video was conducted for one semester, during teaching and learning process in the course of TEFL. The data are gained from the interview conducted with the students asking their opinion about English teaching videos whether they can affect students teaching ability. The result therefore reveals that the students agreed that English teaching videos help them learn more about teaching skills, classroom managements, student-teacher interaction and teaching methodology. However, they also stated that there was a weakness of the video that it is sometimes hard to understand. They stated that native speaker teachers’ talks could be difficult to understand sometimes.
COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION TECHNIQUE: (A Mean Of Improving Students’ability In Writing Explanation Text) Hijjatul Qamariah; Rosdina; Nostaria Fitri
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)
Publisher : English Education Department

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The objective of this study was to find out Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition technique to improve the students’ writing ability in explanation text and to find out the students’ perceptions about using CIRC technique in writing explanation text at second graded of SMAN 5 Banda Aceh. In this research, there was one class taken which consist of 30 students that deveded in 6 groups. The data was obtained from the students’ test sheet. The data are collected by using quantitative design through pre test and post test. The mean score of post-test was 77,16 and the mean score of pre-test was 63,33. It means that the mean score of post-test is higher than mean score of pre-test. Afterward, those scores were used to determine t-score, which the result of t-score is 11, 15. In addition, t-table at the significance level of 0,05 is 2,01505. The result showed that t-score is higher than t-table. Ho Rejected and Ha Accepted if t-score more than t-.Table Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that there was improvement of students’ writing ability in explanation text after using CIRC technique.
AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITING ENGLISH TEXT IN THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK-SMTI BANDA ACEH Hijjatul Qamariah; Sri Wahyuni; Meliana
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020)
Publisher : English Education Department

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Writing has been a challenging skill for EFL or ESL Students to cope with. It needs not only the ability to compose a good piece of writing but also goes on a deep layer called grammatical aspect. Understanding grammar is vital to construct a good sentence. Therefore, this study aims at finding out the types of grammatical errors produced by students while composing the English text. Ten students (10) in the second grade of SMK-SMTI Banda Aceh were selected as participants in this study. They were given a task to compose English texts. Then those 10 students writing sheets were analyzed to find out the grammatical errors made. The results revealed that there were 11 categories of grammatical error types; error in using verb, tense, singular/plural noun, adjectives, preposition, to be, articles, modal/auxiliary, noun, objective pronoun, and phrasal verb with the total of grammatical made are 48 total numbers of errors that students produced in their writing sheet. It can be concluded that these 10 students still cannot compose a good sentence because they still made errors in using the grammatical rule.
SOME FACTORS TO BE BLAMED OR WHAT? EFL LEARNERS DIFFICULTIES IN CONSTRUCTING ENGLISH SENTENCE Hijjatul Qamariah; Rizka Marlisa Aini
Jurnal Inovasi Penelitian Vol 1 No 10: Maret 2021
Publisher : Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47492/jip.v1i10.380

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This is a qualitative study investigating EFL learners’ difficulties in constructing English sentence patterns. EFL learners have difficulties in constructing English sentences because of some reasons. To know what difficulties that EFL learners experienced, 30 secondary school students of X MIPA (Natural Science Program) and X IPS (Social Science Program) were selected as the participant of the research. The age ranges of the students are 15-16 years olds. The interview was used as the main data collection instrument. The result showed that there were five themes elicited from the interview data. Those are, vocabulary is the main problem, Word order is important to learn, Interlanguage is another important issue, Example-based teaching is preferred, and integrated grammar with other skills. Freon the research findings it is also indicated that there are many factors that caused learners’ grammar mastery levels. None of those factors can be judged to affect deeply than others. On the teaching side, teachers’ understanding of the needs of the learners is important. Providing better and appropriate input while teaching should not also be taken for granted by the English language teacher, assigning proper activities and feedback probably can add comprehensible input for the learner in learning grammar. On the learning side, however, learners should know their needs and better learning strategies. Some strategies are working very well for some learners, but not for others because inappropriate learning strategies can lead to an ineffective learning process. Keywords: EFL learner, learners’ difficulties, English sentence pattern
Critical Thinking Skills: British Parliamentary Debate System to Improve English as Foreign Language (EFL) Students’ Critical Speaking Sri Wahyuni; Hijjatul Qamariah; Sofyan A. Gani; Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf; Mulyadi Syahputra
Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences Vol 2, No 3 (2019): Budapest International Research and Critics Institute August
Publisher : Budapest International Research and Critics University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33258/birci.v2i3.444

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Debate as one of techniques in teaching speaking has been believed can accommodate and facilitate teachers in improving students speaking skill. It is also believed that students’ critical thinking can be ignited though debate technique. This research, therefore would like to employ the debate technique of British parliamentary system in teaching speaking in order to initiate students critical thinking. This is a quantitative research by applying experimental method. The population of this study was English speaking class in private Higher Education (PTS) in Aceh and the sample were two English speaking classes in Private Higher Education in Aceh. The sample, however, were two English speaking classes in Private Higher Education in Aceh. The data of this study were gained from pre test and post test, thus the results of the test were then analyzed though statistic formula. From the analyzed data, it was showed that in sample 1, the t table was 2.145 and t-test was 6.006, in sample 2 the t table was 2.228 and t-test was 2.936. The research finding revealed that, the t-test found was higher than t-table. It can be concluded that Ho in the study was rejected that there was an improvement on students’ critical thinking skill after applying the British Parliamentary debate system.