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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ MASTERY IN TOEFL STRUCTURE-WRITTEN EXPRESSION (A Case Study at IAIN Antasari, UNLAM, UNISKA and STKIP PGRI in South Kalimantan)
Nida Mufidah
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 2, No 2 (2012)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v2i2.1378
This research is conducted to find out the mastery of English students department in TOEFL in Structure and written Expression in South Kalimantan of IAIN Antasari Banjarmasin, UNLAM, STKIP PGRI, and UNISKA and to know types of questions in TOEFL which are very difficult and difficult for students to answer. The researcher tested 80 fifth semester students of English Department at IAIN ANTASARI, UNLAM, STKIP PGRI and UNISKA in South Kalimantan on the academic year 2011/2012 , used test distributed to 80 students in the fifth semester The TOEFL prediction test was used to gather the data. The result showed the mean score of TOEFL of academic year 2011/2012 classified in beginner category with the mean score 418. The results of TOEFL prediction shows that the mean score of UNLAM’s students is 469, folllowed by IAIN’s which is 454, UNISKA’s is 384, while STKIP PGRI’s is 367. Structure and Writen Expression is the most difficult type of questions are relative pronoun, possessive pronoun, personal pronoun and passive voice.
A NARRATIVE INQUIRY ON HOW TEACHER PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY INFLUENCES TEACHER’S SCHOOL TYPE PREFERENCE
Maria Dewi Rosari
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 9, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v9i2.3272
Some Indonesian English teachers prefer teaching in formal schools while some others favor non-formal schools more. This preference can be analyzed from the lense of teacher professional identity. In this study, the researcher tried to find out how teacher professional identity influences the school type teachers favor more. By conducting in-depth interviews to two non-formal school teachers from different regions in Indonesia, the researchers found out that job satisfaction, self-efficacy, occupational commitment, and occupational motivation are the factors influencing the participants’ professional identity the most. Job satisfaction could be seen, for example, in witnessing students’ progress more thoroughly; self-efficacy in being able to monitor their teaching performance; occupational commitment in teacher trainings provided by non-formal schools to build their career up; and occupational motivation in receiving manageable challenges from non-formal schools that trigger eagerness from the participants to work. Those findings could function as a reference for both formal and non-formal school stake holders in making sure that their schools could accommodate their teachers’ need in constructing their professional identity as it could influence teachers’ performance a lot.
INCREASING STUDENTS’ LEARNING ACTIVITY IN MEDIA AND LEARNING RESOURCES CLASS BY USING NUMBER HEADS TOGETHER (NHT) ( A CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH)
Hidya Maulida;
Norliani Norliani
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2016)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v6i2.1458
This research aims to increase students’ learning activity in Media and Learning Resources class. The kind of research is classroom action research conducted two cycles with the subject is the fifth semester students of English departement. Technique of collecting data is observation and analyzing quantitatively and qualitatively. From cycle I and cycle II, students’ learning activity is increasing . Research hypothes stated that the use of Number Heads Together technique can increase the students’ learning activity can be proven. It is concluded that the use of Number Heads Together (NHT) can increase students’ learning activity in Media and Learning Resources class. The students’ learning activity increases 37,5% , from 25% to 62,5%. Number Heads Together should be developed and applied in every education level because this technique makes students are more aware that they are observed so it stimulates them to be active.
ENGLISH WITH INDONESIA TASTE DOMINANT CULTURE SHIFT TO LOCAL CULTURE
Moh. Yamin
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 4, No 1 (2014)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v4i1.1397
English is not only the language that should be learned and mastered as the tool of communication, but it also should be understood as the language that has its own world. Although English is not the mother tongue of Indonesia, but it has been the cultural part of Indonesia when the Indonesian people use it as the medium of interaction. That is why, English as the life part of Indonesia should have the spirit of Indonesia. The cultural values that come from England, America or other countries using English as the mother tongue should be deleted. Making English for Indonesian people is a must. It means that what the people learn from English is not the culture, but the language itself. Separating the English from its own culture and bring it into Indonesian culture is a new way without forgetting the knowledge of English culture for enriching the language culture knowledge. Many Indonesian people use English as the medium of communication as if they are English people, such as their performance, gesture, behavior, and so forth. This case creates the stigma that English has destructed the local culture, whereas learning and using English is not for that, but for medium of interaction
THE STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Noor Maulidiyah
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 5, No 1 (2015)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v5i1.1419
The research aims to investigate the students’ problems in listening comprehension. The research has two statements of problems: (1) How do the fifth semester students perceive the importance of studying listening comprehension at the English Department of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty at Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin in the academic year of 2013/2014? And (2) What problems do the fifth semester students encounter the most in listening comprehension at the English Department of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty at Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin in the academic year of 2013/2014?
HOW TO BE A GOOD LANGUAGE TEACHER
Saadillah Saadillah
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 2, No 1 (2012)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v2i1.1366
AbstractThere are two crucial questions about the study of language teacher. The first question is “How is a good teacher?” The second question is “How is a good language teacher? To answer those questions, it should be understood that teacher is a usual creation of God. Like an English proverb says”there is no one perfect so, the teacher maybe will do the mistakes. The teacher maybe has some weakness . This writing tries describing some facts about teachers as general, and introducing the reader about how is going to be a good language teacher.
AN ANALYSIS OF WRITTEN ERRORS; A CASE OF SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH
Wardah Hayati
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 9, No 1 (2019)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v9i1.3078
Errors are envitable happen during the process of learning a language. Students of English majoring in UIN A Antasari also frequently make errors in their witten respon during reading comprehension class. By analying written paper of these 28 students the researcher aims to know the areas as well as the types ot their errors. The analysis on 114 student written errors shows that the students made errors in the areas of to be/auxiliary, subject-verb agreement, lexical, preposition, noun clause, possessive, verb, noun phrase construction, pluralization, and article. The most errors was in the area of tobe/ auxiliary with 34 errors while the least one is in article. Types of errors found in this study are misformation, omission, addition and misordering. The anlysis indicates that the errors are resulted from interlingual errors indicating interference from Bahasa.
ENHANCING EFL INDONESIAN STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AND MOTIVATION THROUGH FACEBOOK-INKSHEDDING
Nur Alfa Rahmah
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 5, No 2 (2015)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v5i2.1450
This paper is attempted to propose a breakthrough alternative in the EFL teaching to enhance students’ ability and motivation in writing through facebook-inkshedding. The current development of technology and teenager’s close relationship with online social networking demands English instructor to be more creative in choosing the medium that suit the students’ interest and teenage trend. Facebook nowadays possess a prominent position among other social network media that makes it a very potential learning media. Inkshedding, on the other side, is a very effective strategy to boast students’ creative ideas and confidence in writing. It brings an active discussion into written form and trigger students to express their mind in the target language and make them get used of it gradually. Not only that facebook-inkshedding exists beyond time and physical boundary, it can also grow students’ sense of community and motivate them to develop independently.
THE STUDY OF NATURALISM ON A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUN NOVEL
Nida Mufidah
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 3, No 2 (2013)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v3i2.1390
Language teaching of literature is the way to encourage the students ability to give responses to what they read. This way can in one hand promote literacy and critical thinking of the students and facilitate students to build a learner center environment in learning. In this article the writer tries to raise and discuss a literature stream of a novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini,it is still taking background of war going on in Afganistan. This novel has discussed the naturalism of literature which draws people's lives that portrayed in the very low life, tragic, and pathetic. It tells the story of two women who are suffering due to war and forced marriage. It also deals with an infinite love, incredible affection, sacrifice and struggle of different ages of two women, but became one family because of a polygamous marriage. This novel not only tells the life-wrenching character with family conflict, but readers are also invited to imagine and to feel pain as a result of an endless war in Afghanistan. Literature may also have a wider educational function in the classroom in that, it can help to stimulate the imagination of students to develop their critical abilities and to increase their emotional awareness
UTILIZING MEMES TO PROMOTE STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
Agnes Dian Purnama;
Elsa Marina Desiarti;
Noor Aida Aflahah;
Vindy Cahya Ekaningrum
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 7, No 2 (2017)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training
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DOI: 10.18592/let.v7i2.1946
Keeping students’ motivation to learn L2 is a challenging activity in teaching and learning process. Teachers are expected to perform their job dutifully by engaging students into attractive learning activities. At the same time, they are also contested with students’ characteristics diversity. The utilization of memes is a proposed teaching strategy to minimize the gap between students’ traits, technology rapid development, and the constant need of renewing effort to enhance students’ performance. Seeking an opportunity of integrating between various mobile application, gadgets as well as internet access, memes creation may be considered as a breakthrough in educational field. The result of this study shows students’ positive responses in creating memes activity. Most of the EFL students’ responses stated that the activity is interesting therefore it is able to boost their motivation. The activity covers up three essential motivation values for learning an L2; intrinsic value, integrative value, and instrumental value.