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LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal
ISSN : 20869606     EISSN : 25492454     DOI : -
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LET Journal is published twice a year in the month of June and December. It presents articles on linguistics, literature and English teaching.
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MAXIMIZING THE USE OF WHATSAPP IN ENGLISH REMOTE LEARNING TO PROMOTE STUDENTS’ ENGAGEMENT AT MADURA Eva Nikmatul Rabbianty; abd Ghofur; Abdul Wafi
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 11, No 1 (2021)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v11i1.4402

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There are ample remote learning platforms to be used and obviously each of them has strengths and weaknesses. However, based on a survey, WhatsApp becomes the top choice to be used by students in Madura for some reasons; this is a case study on maximizing the use of Whatsapp to promote students’ engagement in English remote learning. The data are collected through Google form questionnaire and in-depth interview via WhatsApp voice notes. The subjects are English lecturers and higher education students of English department from several Universities in Madura whom are volunteers to be taken as sample. The result showed that exploring the various features of WhatsApp, blending various learning platforms to WhatsApp and lecturer’s creativity in maximising the use of WhatsApp enable to promote the students’ engagement toward the English remote learning. Thus, it is suggested to maximize the use of WhatsApp as to promote the students’ engagement towards the English Remote Learning.
CHILDREN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PROCESS Loli Safitri
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 10, No 2 (2020)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v10i2.4042

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This research discusses a case study of children in acquiring their first language at age 18 months old in Bukittinggi. The process deals with some stages namely cooing, babbling, holophrastic, the two-word stage, telegraphic stage, and multiword stage. The purpose of this study is focused on how the children learn the language in the real life. To find out the answer of the problem in this research, the researcher uses the related theories, they are Lyons (1981), Varshney (2003), Chomsky (2009), Bolinger (2002), Gleason (1998), Steinberg (2003), Fromkin (1983), Bolinger (2002) and Steinberg (2003). This research is conducted with descriptive qualitative research where the subject and object is taken from the children at age 18 months old in Bukittinggi. The researcher takes the observed baby named Azka as the subject and gets the data by observation and video recording. After the data had been collected, the researcher finds out that Azka was 18 months old baby who was in holophrastic functions: the one-word utterances stage of language development. Finally, parents’ role is important to develop the children language. The parents should build interaction with their child to know their child’s language development. Besides that, the researcher suggests the parents to say the right pronunciation to the children.
EFL-Writing Activities Using WhatsApp Group: Students’ Perceptions during Study from Home Nur Muthmainnah; Badi'atul Azmina
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 10, No 2 (2020)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v10i2.4122

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This research aims to investigate writing activities using the WhatsApp group during the study from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic and students’ perceptions about it. It is a qualitative research, in which the data were analyzed descriptively. This research was carried out at the Sentence-Based Writing class at IAIN Salatiga, Indonesia, in April - June 2020. This research participant involved 30 students. The researchers utilized a questionnaire and documentation for data collection. After conducting the research, the results revealed various students’ perceptions. 63% of the total students possessed a positive perception toward the writing activities using the WhatsApp group, and the rest 37% of students’ preferred face-to-face meetings and perceived writing using WhatsApp group as boring, confusing, and distracting. After analyzing the WhatsApp group activities, at least five writing activities were conducted: sharing and explaining materials, discussing materials, composing sentences, editing sentences, and posting writing products. Thus, this research can definitely provide teachers with knowledge regarding students' perceptions and writing activities carried out in the WhatsApp group.
FOOD, MODERNITY AND IDENTITY: ROOTED COSMOPOLITANISM IN ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH Syarif Hidayat
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 11, No 1 (2021)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v11i1.4508

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In globalization era, there are many producers of global foods that have localized their products in order to get more costumers. Indeed, there are some people who cannot be separated with their locality, although they are part of global citizen. This paper discusses the tug-of-war between cosmopolitanism and localism within the persona of Ifemelu, the main character in Americanah, specifically in what food she eats and how the food is eaten and its influence on her identity. Americanah is a novel that tells the story of a Nigerian immigrant living in the United States who decided to return to Nigeria. The study focuses on the characters and characterization of the figures in the novel and it aims to show how a rooted cosmopolitan identity was formed in Ifemelu. The study is a qualitative research using the rooted cosmopolitanism theory proposed by Kwame Anthony Appiah. The research shows that Ifemelu's rooted cosmopolitan identity was seen through the negotiation between her cosmopolitan identity and her local (Nigerian) identity. The discourse on rooted cosmopolitanism built by the text reveals its partiality toward Nigerian local culture, specifically the Nigerian foods.
EXPLORING TEACHERS' RESILIENCE IN INDONESIAN EFL LEARNING CONTEXTS Kristian Florensio Wijaya
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 11, No 1 (2021)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v11i1.4539

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To promote more holistic, pleasurable, and meaningful ELT enterprises requires specific durable psychological characteristics from EFL teachers in terms of positive emotions, well-being, robust motivation, and resilience. The ultimate psychological stream is noted as one of the paramount factors embodying brighter future educational outlooks since the majority of prior studies revealed that a higher degree of resilience would enable EFL teachers to cultivate stronger dedication, tenacity, and commitment in leading their pupils to reach the targeted learning outcomes fully. In consonance with this theoretical underpinning, the major focus of this present study is to unearth particular independent strategies employed by two invited EFL teachers in maintaining their resilience, particularly while being exposed to adverse working conditions and unpredictable stress events. Thus, the results obtained from these two invited participants will shed a new light regarding a set of rewarding independent strategies incorporated by EFL teachers in preserving their resilience amid taxing working conditions. In light of this matter, the sharing emanated from these research participants will work as a propelling force for global EFL teachers working under arduous teaching dynamics owing to the full activation of their resilience enabling them to stay on the right educational tracks; educating young generations for better future lives.
THE ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT Septha Muliani; Maida Norahmi; Natalina Asi
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 9, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v9i2.3312

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The objective of this research was to analyze the difficulties in writing narrative text faced by the ninth grade students of SMP Negeri 11 Palangka Raya in the academic year 2018/2019 in using the generic structure and language features of the text. The research involved 20 students as the research participants. The method used in this research was descriptive research in which the research described and explained the actual data by conducting a writing test and analyzing the results. The results showed that 40% of the participants faced some difficulties in constructing the generic structure of the texts i.e. they failed in completing the generic structures of the texts and, mostly, missed one of the parts. Furthermore, there were 50% of the participants faced some difficulties in using the language features of narrative text, such as using past tenses, nouns, pronouns, verbal processes, and direct speech.
TEACHING LISTENING FROM A DISCOURSE PERSPECTIVE (METACOGNITIVE STRATEGY) Hidayah Nor
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 2, No 2 (2012)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v2i2.1380

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Listening is a process of activities hearing speech symbols by full attention, understanding, appreciation, and interpretation to acquire communication meaning that is delivered by the speaker through speech. Listening constitutes quite important activities in learning language. It is the basis of the learning process as a child learns language from his mother. By using metacognitive strategy, it can help students to compensate their bottom up listening processing and give students an overview of the listening process. This strategy also builds the character of the students to become competence, independent, self-confidence, creative, and responsibility that is related to character building in education in Indonesia. The strategy include extract an important detail from ongoing speech, identify the gist of a segment and then predict what will come next in a segment.
HOW CHARACTER BUILDING CAN BE INTEGRATED IN THE TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE (TPR) ON THE SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE BLIND THIRD GRADERS Cindy Irawati
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2016)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v6i2.1460

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It was realized that everyone has the right to get the learning especially language. It has no exception for children with special needed, more over for the blind children. On their learning process, it can be sure that the process will be different to the other common children because they must be given special behavior. Although inclusive learning is developed, recently, it still has some lacks on its application. Indonesian rules (UUD’45) guarantee its people to get their right on education and no discrimination for every single human, but there is a special behavior that given to the some cases. On its application, the teachers have to have the ability to reach the goal which is stated on the curriculum, so they must have a skill to develop the content of that curriculum. Basically, the learning of every languages, especially English, has the purpose to make someone has ability to communicate with that language fluently and correctly. For the blind children case, the English learning cannot be taught with common model but it must be given with suitable model in order to make learning process effectively. This is a descriptive bibliography method. The writer tries to differentiate between references in some books and articles which are written by the experts and also add some ideas here. The purpose of this research is to find some sub topics which have connection to children with special need, the learning model of TPR and also the application of TPR model on speaking learning for blind children in order to get application of character building on self confidence and learning successfully.
INCREASING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS BY UTILIZING BLOGS Akhmad Fauzan
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 4, No 1 (2014)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v4i1.1399

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There were four major problems related to writing instruction at English Education Study Program of Palangka Raya University, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The problems were related to limited sources of printed materials, mostly teacher-centered activities, readers of students’ writings, and feedbacks for students’ writings. The utilization of blogs was performed to solve the problems. Blog was used as media in this research because it is a potential source for language learning, student fit, authentic for learning, and practical to apply. The research design was Classroom Action Research (CAR). There were 2 cycles implemented during this research. In the first cycle, the students’ writing improvement did not show significant progress and the criterion of success was not achieved. After the plan was revised on the basis of the findings during the implementation of first cycle, 80% students showed great improvements. Therefore, the criterion of success was achieved.
DIGITAL STORYTELLING AS A POST–LISTENING ACTIVITY IN TEACHING NARRATIVE TEXT TO THE 5 GRADE STUDENTS: THE IMPLEMENTATION AND STUDENTS’ RESPONSES Rizky Sulvika Puspa Rinda; Dyah Palupi Saraswati
LET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal Vol 11, No 2 (2021)
Publisher : English Department of Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18592/let.v11i2.5810

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Digital Storytelling is a modern form of the storytelling art. The implementation of digital storytelling is expected to provide an alternative classroom activity in teaching listening and help the students in understanding a text as well as learning the value, particularly in narrative text. This study presented the description of the implementation of digital storytelling as a post–listening activity to teach narrative text to the fifth grade students. The data of the study gathered from the result of observation that was obtained through observation sheet and field notes, and interview in order to find out the students’ responses toward the activity. The data were collected by observing the teacher’s and students’ activities during the teaching and learning processes in the classroom, and interviewing the students’ opinions and teacher’s perception after implementing digital storytelling. The result of the observation showed that the fifth grade students were able to create their digital storytelling, even though one step was omitted and the other two steps were conducted at the same time. Meanwhile, from the result of interview, it was found that the students enjoyed in joining the lesson. Thus, the implementation of digital storytelling had improved the students’ mastery in understanding narrative text.