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Indonesian EFL Journal
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THE EFFECT OF MS PHOTO STORY 3 ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT Dila Charisma; Khomarudin Khomarudin
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 5, No 1 (2019)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v5i1.1613

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Technology information and communication now takes the best attention from educators. It plays to be good or even better media in teaching and leraning process. Therefore, prospective English teachers should have good skill in creating new class atmosphere toward technology. They need to use technology to be the suitable media in learning English, especially speaking, since speaking is considered to be one of difficult skill. Ms Photo Story 3 is one of many computer applications that can be used as a media in teaching speaking. This present study focuses on the effect of Ms Photo Story 3 in improving prospective English teachers’ speaking and the response of using Ms Photo Story 3 in learning English, especially speaking. Experiment with one group, pre-test, treatment and post-test were employed in this study. The results showed that there are increasing prospective English teachers’ scores. It can be seen from the comparison score of pretest and posttest. Furthemore, the result from the questionaire revealed that the participants’ response after using Ms Photo Story 3 in speaking class is categorized good. Thus, it can be concluded that Ms Photo Story 3 is effective in giving prospective English teachers experiences to create digital speaking.Keywords: Ms Photo Story 3; prospective English teachers; speaking; teaching media; technology.
INDONESIAN 2013 CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION: TEACHERS’ TECHNIQUES, CHALLENGES, AND VOICES TOWARDS STUDENTS’ AFFECTIVE COMPETENCE Hanif Nurcholish Adiantika; Dila Charisma; Fitri Aprianti; Eline Rozaliya Winarto
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 7, No 1 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v7i1.3988

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One of the prominent alterations in 2013 Curriculum is that this curriculum does not only put an emphasis on cognitive competence but also affective competence. Consequently, the evaluation must be carried out to assess students’ affective assessment. Nevertheless, the issue concerning the complexity of affective assessment has been circulating for years. Therefore, the present study aims to scrutinize teachers’ techniques, challenges, and their voices with regard to development and the implementation of 2013 Curriculum. This study utilizes a qualitative research by using descriptive qualitative design. One teacher, who has implemented 2013 Curriculum, in a senior high school was selected as the respondent in this study. Interviews and document analysis were conducted to obtain the data. This study reveals that there are two evaluation techniques carried out by the teacher specifically observations and peer-assessment. Furthermore, two challenges are identified as teachers’ shortcomings for instance inadequate acquaintance of 2013 Curriculum and time availability in assessment process. Thus, this study recommends teachers to raise their awareness regarding the challenges as well as select an effective technique to assess students’ affective competence. Keywords: Affective assessment; 2013 curriculum; teacher; voice; techniques; challenges
USING GIBBS’ REFLECTIVE CYCLE IN MAKING REFLECTIONS OF LITERARY ANALYSIS Ikin Syamsudin Adeani; R. Bunga Febriani; Syafryadin Syafryadin
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v6i2.3382

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In English as Foreign Language (EFL) classroom context, it is compulsory for the students to make reflections of literary works. The current study is aimed at examining how the students implement Gibbs’ reflective cycle in making reflections of literary analysis. The qualitative study employed a document analysis upon the students’ reflection artefacts. The students’ reflections are their responses to a short story written by Amy Tan. The findings of the study revealed that Gibbs’ reflective cycle is a good framework to be used by the students in writing reflections upon literary works they are working on. The well-structured framework of writing reflection helped the students explore the literary work deeply, since the reflective cycle accommodates important aspects that can be explored from the literary work by the students. It can be concluded from this study that among the models of reflective writing developed by Kolb, Johnson, and Gibbs, the latest model is considered the most suitable to be used in literary classroom since its well-structured model enables the students to write better reflections of literary works.Keywords: reflective writing; Gibbs’ reflective cycle framework; literary works; literary analysis.
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ LIVED EXPERIENCES OF LEARNING ENGLISH USING BUSUU Vinindita Citrayasa
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v5i2.1900

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Researches on MALL mostly focus on how learning by using mobile phones gives significant effect on second/ foreign language skills. However, only few which focus on their lived-experiences of learning English using their smart phones anywhere outside their class and anytime outside their school time that can reveal meanings related to their awareness, beliefs, and actions. This research is then aimed at describing and interpreting the students’ lived experience of using a mobile application namely Bussu for learning English. The study is a hermeneutic phenomenology study which focuses on the description and interpretation of the students’ lived experiences of using Busuu to learn English. There were two participants interviewed using in-depth interviews and the data was in the form of texts. The result shows the participants’ lived experiences showed some empirical meanings: ubiquitous learning, fun learning, and useful English learning assistant. This study also reveals the finding of transcendent meaning that Busuu encouraged them to become more autonomous learners.
CONTENT ANALYSIS OF WHEN ENGLISH RINGS A BELL STUDENT’S TEXTBOOK Maria Melati Sitorus; Lauren Hotmauli Silalahi; Hana Rajagukguk; Erikson Saragih
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 7, No 1 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v7i1.3996

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This study's objective was for analyzing materials relevance in psychomotor and cognitive-based on 2013 English curriculum of competence in Textbook of the eighth grade of junior high school "English Rings a Bell". The methodology of this study is qualitative. Based on Anderson and Krathwol (2001) theory, The Textbook analysis consists of Simpson's and cognitive domain of taxonomy (1972) which aim to focus more on material's relevance in the textbook. The instruments for data collection used were the analysis of document and checklist observation. The study found that 23 materials consist 74.19% relevance in the cognitive domain, 7 materials consist 22.58% relevance, and 1 material only consists 3.2% relevance. While the psychomotor domain found that 10 materials consist 32.25% relevance and 11 materials consist 35.48% relevance. Therefore, the researcher concluded that in the cognitive domain, the textbook's materials are relevant to the 2013 curriculum. Although its lack of materials is relevant to the psychomotor domain.Keywords: Textbook analysis; When English Rings a Bell; 2013 curriculum; cognitive domain; psychomotor domain.
EXPLORING LOW AND HIGH STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON ENGAGING E-DICTIONARY IN MASTERING VOCABULARY: CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY Gilang Nugraha; Ratnawati Ratnawati; AM. Surachmat
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 5, No 1 (2019)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v5i1.1609

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This paper is a survey study that aims at investigating low and high achievement students’ perception on engaging electronic dictionary in enhancing their vocabulary mastery. There were 30 students involved in this study consisting of 16 students as the high achievement students and 14 students as the low achievement students. They were considered as high and low students based on the result of their last examination score. Questionnaire and interview were used to collect the data. The results of the study showed that low achievement students have positive perception on the use of electronic dictionary especially Google Translate. Most of them agreed that the use of Google Translate helped them in improving their English vocabulary mastery because Google Translate is easy to use and fast in translating meaning of words. Moreover, most  of the high achievement students also have positive perception on the use of Google Translate because it is easy to use and free, it can be accessed by using their smartphones. Nevertheless, the problems also found in the use of electronic dictionary especially Google Translate, including bad internet connection which affected the performance of Google Translate. It can be conluded that there are almost similar perception between low and high achievement students on the use of electronic dictionary especially Google Translate.Keywords: electronic dictionary; google translate; low and high achievement students; perception; vocabulary mastery.
MORPHOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE ON STUDENT’S WRITING Muziatun Muziatun; Indri Wirahmi Bay; Sitti Maryam
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v6i2.3425

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The aim of this research is to find out the types of morphological interference on students' English writing. Through qualitative research method applying a design of the case study, twenty of university students were chosen. Data were collected from written tests and classified based on the Politzer and Ramires (1973) on theory of Linguistic Category. The results revealed that, whilst it is inevitable that the English morphology features governed by the distinctive rules and systems have been the potential target for interference taking place, Bahasa Indonesia, which stands as the official language, becomes the source of transfer. From six types of morphological interference based on Polizter and Ramirez’ (1973), in this study the writer only found three of them. These types encompass of the morphological properties from the use of article, plural marker and simple past tense. Furthermore, there are 40 morphological mistakes in total, in which four mistakes represent the intralingual transfer and 36 data describe the interference. In terms of the mistakes made as a result mostly from the interference transfer. This study makes a significant contribution to the teaching and learning process of linguistic interference.Keywords: linguistic interference; morphology; students’ writing.
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF E-LEARNING FOR ESL/EFL IN SAUDI UNIVERSITIES AT TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: A LITERATURE REVIEW Khaled Layali; Ahmed Al-Shlowiy
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v6i2.3378

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) was declared a world pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30, 2020. As a safety measure to protect people, most governments in the world, including Saudi Arabia, decided to close universities and workplaces. Prompted by this shut down, the researchers aimed to review the students’ perceptions of e-learning for ESL/EFL in Saudi universities at this Coronavirus time. As such, this review reported on four primary studies that were found relevant to its focus during the period from January 2020 till April 2020 (Abu-Ayfah, 2020; Ahmad, 2020; Alshehri Cumming, 2020; Hakami, 2020). As a historical perspective of the review’s focus, it also reported on other four primary studies dating back to 2018 and 2019 (Alshehri, Rutter Smith, 2019; Mutambik, 2018; Oyaid Alshaya, 2019; Sharma, 2019). The review’s objectives were to report: 1) students’ perceptions of e-learning for ESL/EFL, 2) benefits of e-learning for ESL/EFL, and 3) drawbacks of e-learning for ESL/EFL in Saudi universities. Moreover, this review was compared to a conference paper from China (He, 2020) as it presented a strategy to continue college English learning and teaching at Coronavirus time. Results showed students’ positive views, many benefits and limited drawbacks of e-learning for ESL/EFL in Saudi universities.Keywords: e-learning; ESL/EFL; students’ perceptions; benefits and drawbacks; Saudi education.
THE USE OF PRAAT IN LEARNING ENGLISH DEBATE IN INDONESIAN EFL CLASSROOM Rahmatunisa, Wulan; Syarifudin, Syahrul
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 7, No 1 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v7i1.3989

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This study aims to analyze the elements of suprasegmental sound in English debates consisting of stress and intonation by using the PRAAT computer program and students' perceptions toward the use of PRAAT in learning English debate. The data of this study were taken from the practice of debate in the General English class which is a compulsory course in Universitas Kuningan. A total of 30 students from one class of General English were involved in this study. The method used is a mixed method. Several instruments were used to collect data including observation and documentation for qualitative data, and questionnaires for quantitative data. PRAAT program version 6.0.33 was used to analyze the stress and intonation patterns, while questionnaire was used to determine students’ perceptions toward the use of PRAAT in mastering English debate. The results showed that the use of intonation and stress can affect the meaning of speech, especially in debate. Furthermore, students gave a positive response to the use of the PRAAT application in understanding the correct intonation patterns and pressure in speaking English.Keywords: PRAAT; debate; EFL classroom
PADLET FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING ACTIVITY: A CASE STUDY OF PROS AND CONS ON ICT Trisnendri Syahrizal; Silpia Rahayu
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v6i2.3383

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As Millennial generation, students nowadays have limitless concept of time and space, they broke logical and physical barriers during the process of communication including in the process of learning. Blanded learning and hybrid learning are one of the latest phenomenon in Education. In shortest perception students will encoder positive effect toward the uses of technology in school but in fact some of them also encounter obstacle and problems. This research aims to project the students’ pros and cons on the use of one of ICT called PADLET during the process of speaking activity. This research uses 35 students of one private university in Cimahi, Indonesia. Qualitative method used to provide detail finding associate with supportive theories.  Observation that was taken from both online processes during submitting and commenting the speaking video and offline situation were used and then strengthen by the use of open questions interview. From the data, it showed that students pros on the idea of; (1) collaboration, (2) Flexibility. (3) Autonomous Learning.  While on cons students mark on; (1) technicality issue, (2) Psychological elements.      Keywords: ICT; PADLET; Pro; Cons; Speaking.

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