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ETERNAL(english, teaching, learning, and Research Journal)
ISSN : 24774766     EISSN : 25805347     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning & Research Journal) is journal published by English Education Department of Educatioan and Teacher Training Faculty of Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar. It focus on english teaching, english learning, and english research.
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VOCABULARY ENHANCEMENT USING CROSSWORD PUZZLE (WORD LINK) & GTM Caroline Victorine Katemba
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24252/Eternal.V82.2022.A13

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The English language is distinguished by its vocabulary. To master the four language-learning abilities of hearing, speaking, reading, and writing, vocabulary is essential. Many of the instructional strategies used to teach the English language are incorporated into vocabulary instruction, which achieves the same goals as earlier strategies. This study seeks to examine whether Word Link and Grammar Translation Method (GTM) will increase students' vocabularies. This research employs the Pre-experimental designs methodology. The pre-experimental group consisted of 25 fifth-graders from an Elementary School in West Bandung. A pre-test was administered at the beginning of the program, and a post-test was administered at the conclusion of the 32-hour meeting. The adoption of GTM utilizing the Word Link application (crossword puzzle) has a good and statistically significant impact on the vocabulary development of students, according to the findings of this study. The crossword puzzleword Link apps appear to aid youngsters in expanding their vocabularies, and it is recommended that teachers employ this strategy while teaching and studying English, particularly in the early grades.in elementary school.
THE VIRTUAL LEARNING DURING COVID 19 PANDEMIC: WHAT ARE STUDENTS BELIEF ON IT? Dodi Erwin Prasetyo
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24252/Eternal.V82.2022.A12

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There were exceedingly rare researches in analysing students’ gender differences of internet beliefs for Indonesia context. Therefore, this study was aimed at describing students’ beliefs of the internet usage, and at gauging male and female students’ differences on the internet beliefs. This study employed 27 students in East Java (6 male and 21 female). The study data was via questionnaire and gauged in MS Excel and SPSS 25. Hence, this study used quantitative descriptive to explain students beliefs on the internet usage in learning. While measuring differences based on the gender, the researcher used Mann Whitney analysis. Results diagnosed that most of students gained positive beliefs for the internet usage in their learning. However, there were no significant differences because of significance two tailed value upper than .05. It could be assumed both gender students have in similar line beliefs on the internet usage for their learning. Fruitful suggestions are recommended, due to the pedagogic and future research aspect. For pedagogical aspect, the internet should be elaborated and integrated extensively in the learning instruments as well as learning materials to develop better process and outputs. For future research, those findings can be used to explore more for other study fields.
AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS COMMUNICATION APPREHENSION IN SPEAKING CLASS Asep Hardiyanto
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24252/Eternal.V82.2022.A3

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Speaking is one of the ways people communicate verbally. Important speaking skills, students must be able to speak English well. However, in reality students' communication in speaking class often faces problems. One of them is communication apprehension, communication apprehension is people who feel bad feelings in communicative situations. Therefore, it is important to do further research through research to find out whether actually facing communication fears can help to succeed in learning to speak. Based on these problems, researchers are interested in examining the types and factors that cause student communication in the speaking class. This study aims to describe the types and factors that cause communication anxiety experienced by students. This study uses a descriptive approach. This research involved 7 participants from speaking class at Muhammadiyah University of Kotabumi. Data collection was done through a questionnaire with a google form. The results showed that students experienced network communication in types of traits such as, situational and general context. In this case, the person-group is the missing type in this study. Then for the anxiety factor, students experience novelty, formality, subordinate status, ignorance, inequality, attention, heredity and environment. The missing factors of Communication Aprehension are strengthening and defeating.
ENGLISH DEBATING AT AN ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL: BEYOND SPEAKING SKILL AND CRITICAL THINKING Atin Kurniawati
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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Plenty of studies have investigated English debating as a method to improve students’ speaking skill and critical thinking, whereas debating itself requires combination of several skills altogether from preparation to evaluation stage. Each stage in debating requires different skills. This study aims to shed some light on the influence of English debating activities on the progress of English skills and non-English skills of its members. Three students who joined the English debating club at an Islamic boarding school were involved in this study and they represented different length of membership. The data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire and followed by semi-structured interviews. The entire data collection stage was conducted online due to pandemic condition. The data were then coded and analysed using constant comparative method. This study revealed that English debating brought a good progress on both English skills and non-English skills of its members. Not only it improved the students’ speaking skill, but it also improved reading, listening, and writing skills. Along with the skills progress, they also confirmed much better vocabulary and grammar mastery. Non-English skills were also well-developed through English debating activities namely critical thinking, confidence, teamwork, and persistence. Team members interactions and coaching from the debating coach contributed a lot toward their progress. This study implies that English debating is suitable to develop all English skills as well as the students’ ability of critical thinking, teamwork, confidence, and persistence.
STUDENTS' PERCEPTION OF IMITATION TECHNIQUE IN LEARNING PRONUNCIATION: A SURVEY STUDY OF ISLAMIC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Muhammad Syahruddin Nawir
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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The students’ mastery in pronouncing English words depends not only on students themselves but also on the teacher as a facilitator. Therefore, it is very important for the students to practice their pronunciation using their ability to imitate their teachers’ pronunciation. Yet, it cannot be dismembered that students’ imitating ability is the only matter that can drag the students’ feet in learning pronunciation. As reaction for the issues, the researcher considered a technique that allowed the students to enjoy studying pronunciation and increase their ability in pronouncing English words immediately. In this case, the researcher desired to know the students’ perception in teaching pronunciation by using Imitation Technique. By knowing students' perceptions, it allowed the researcher and teachers to know more about the students and how their opinion is in terms of learning pronunciation. The objective of this research was to find out the students’ perception toward the use of Imitation Technique in learning pronunciation at the second grade of SMAIT Al-Ishlah Maros. This study used descriptive quantitative research design in analyzing data. The total number of populations was 68 students that consist of three classes. Therefore, the sample was 21 students that chosen by random sampling technique. The result of this study was found that the students’ showed positive perception on Imitation Technique in learning pronunciation according to the data analysis. It shows that the mean score of the students’ perception on the use of Imitation Technique in their English learning was 80.81 which classified as Positive.
PHYSICS EDUCATION STUDENTS’ NEED ANALYSIS TOWARD ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIAL Indah Fadhilah Rahman; Alia Putri Rukmana
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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English Specific Purpose (ESP) is a subject on teaching English to Physics Education students. The goal of this study is to determine what the target needs and English learning needs are for students in the Physics Education Department at UIN Alauddin Makassar. The survey method applied in this study as the research design. The researcher used questionnaires and interviews to gather information for this study. This study included 56 participants, including 50 third-semester students from the 2019 intake year, one lecturer, and five graduates from the Physics Education Department at UIN Alauddin Makassar. Microsoft Excel was used to examine the data. The findings of this study revealed that students need to learn speaking, reading, and writing skills, because those are important to support them to succed in stujdy. It imply that the material should covers those skills to fullfill the students’ needs.
THE USE OF FTA’S STRATEGIES BY LECTURERS IN LISTENING SUBJECT Masykur Rauf
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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This article aimed at finding out the kinds of FTA strategies (positive and negative politeness) used by lecturers in lecturing listening comprehension and the effects of polite expressions used by lecturers on students. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research and applied a purposive sampling technique in collecting valid data. The subject of this research was one lecturer in the English and Literature Department of the Adab and Humanities Faculty. The researcher applied classroom observation by recording the lecturer’s activities and analyzed them through Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness strategies (FTA). The researcher found some polite expressions of strategies that the lecturer used which are divided into two types. First, Positive Politeness (PP) such as noticing and attend the hearer, greetings, exaggerating, intensifying the interest of the hearer, using in-group identity makers, seeking agreement, presupposing/raising/asserting common ground, including both speaker and hearer in the activity, giving or asking reasons, assume or assert reciprocity and giving gifts to the hearer (goods, sympathy); and Negative Politeness (NP) such as Being conventionally indirect, Questions, Minimize the imposition, Giving deference, Nominalize. The effects on students are: being motivated in their study, student attitude (affective), respect for the lecturer, self-confidence, being active and attending the learning process, and honesty.
STUDENTS’ LEARNING STYLES IN LEARNING TRANSACTIONAL SPEAKING SKILLS Nur Aliyah Nur; Annisa Shofa Tsuraya; Nurul Parah
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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The diverse backgrounds of students in learning English lead to a great challenge to the teacher to accommodate different types of students’ learning styles. This research aims to identify the students’ learning styles in learning transactional speaking skills in the fourth semester students of English Education Department, UIN Alauddin Makassar. The method used in this research was the descriptive qualitative research method. The instrument used to gather the data were questionnaires and interview guidelines. The results showed that the students like to learn transactional speaking skills by watching videos or films, pictures or posters, talking to their friends, practicing their English outside, and making conversations with their friends. Besides, some students like studying alone, reading books in a foreign language, working problems set by the teacher, memorizing conversations or dialogue, and writing in a notebook. Based on the categorization of the learning styles as concrete, analytical, communicative, and authority-oriented learners, the researchers found that the dominant learning styles were concrete learners. Based on the findings, the researchers recommend that it is essential for the lecturers to implement learning and teaching methods that are appropriate to students’ learning styles when teaching transactional speaking skills in the classroom. In addition, the students are expected to be able to develop their transactional speaking skills by understanding their individual learning styles for better learning and teaching process.
ANALYZING COMMUNICATIVE GESTURE OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT STUDENTS IN PRESENTING RESEARCH PROPOSAL AT UIN ALAUDDIN MAKASSAR Indah Miftah Awaliah; Arsita Andini Arfan; Sitti Nurpahmi
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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This study discusses the problem of signs, commonly known as eye contact, adapting to head-grabbing and head-rubbing movements, and affecting the expression of a person's facial expressions. Which action is more commonly used during a presentation workshop proposal, and what other factors besides nervousness can affect concentration during a presentation workshop? This study aimed to determine the types of movements students use during seminar presentations and to identify other factors that may affect students' concentration during seminar presentations. The research design employed in this study was mixed methods and the study involved 15 respondents who gave a seminar examination to the proposal. Field notes, videos, questionnaires and interviews were used as data collection tools. Data collection was done by recording respondents as they took seminar exams and then recording the most important parts in field notes, after which researchers distributed questionnaires to the respondents to be studied and interviewed them to find more data. The researchers carried out four activities: observing the research process until data presentation, filling out questionnaires, analyzing and describing the obtained data. Findings from this study suggest that the gestures that students use more frequently when making seminar presentations are sign gestures, or better known as eye contact gestures. When taking a seminar exam, besides nervousness, there are several factors that can affect a student's concentration, the first being the environment, anxiety, depression, and finally overthinking.
THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF USING JEOPARDY IN TEACHING VOCABULARY Andi Asmawati
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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This study aimed to describe the students’ perception of using Jeopardy strategy in teaching vocabulary. This research used quantitative method. The respondents were 348 students of PIBA Program who were willing to fill out the distributed questionnaire through G-form. The instrument was closed-end and opened-end questionnaires. The data were analyzed quantitatively by interpreting percentages. The results indicated that the students perceive Jeopardy Strategy as an effective way to improve their English vocabulary. Most of the students Strongly Agreed that this strategy was interesting. However, the students sometimes prioritized gaining high scores over understanding the meaning and definition of the new words. Therefore, it is recommended to use Jeopardy strategy in teaching vocabulary by focusing students’ attention on the new words.