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IMPROVING XI-GRADE STUDENTSâ€™ WRITING ESSAY SKILL USING COMPUTER EDUTAINMENT Yulandari, Evi Safitri; Rahman, Arif
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 7, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : UNDIKMA Mataram (Eks. IKIP Mataram)

As viewed by many linguists, writing skill is the most difficult one in English to be tough or learned. For many years, writing has not been a favorable interest like the other skills. This paper is intended to discuss the role and the effectiveness of using computer edutainment or called Education and Entertainment in improving students? writing. The subjects of this research were the students? class XI A. Meanwhile, the objects of this research are students? skill in writing through Computer Edutainment. In this research the researcher used CAR (Classroom Action Research) as the research method, there is 2 technique of collecting the data in this research those are qualitative data and quantitative data. The quantitative data are in the form of numerical data. The data are from students' score of pre-test and post-test while the qualitative used in collecting the data were taken from the result of observation and interview. This study used several data instrument in gathering the data dealing with the question of the study, i.e: writing test in the form of writing essay, observation field note, and interview. The data were then analyzed whether their writing results were reaching the minimum standard or not, and having improvement or not. From the comparisons, the researcher makes a conclusion in the form of descriptions whether the students' ability of XI of SMAN 1 PAJO in writing has improved by the use of computer edutainment or not.

GENDER DIFFERENCES OF STUDENTSâ€™ WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Wiyanto, Muhammad Saibani; Asmorobangun, Panji Wisnu
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 8, No 2 (2020): IN PRESS
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33394/jollt.v8i2.2314

Language has an important role to a group of people. The connection between language and society is called sociolinguistic. Nowadays, sociolinguistic has involved many significant research topics. One of them is gender and language. Studies about gender differences have been done for many years in EFL context. The current article analyze gender differences in senior high school students writing ability. The purpose of this article is to find the linguistics features that male and female students tend to use and to find out the gender differences reflected on the students writing ability. The article used qualitative design and document analysis article as the approach based on Ary et al. (2010). The subject of this article was one class of X MIPA 2 at MAN 6 Jombang. The source of the data is students writing assignments, while the data is the word that were wrote by all of the students in class X MIPA 2 which is contain the types linguistics features based on Mulac theory. The article found 4 linguistics features use by students. The finding was most used linguistics features in their descriptive text is locative and reference to quantity. That the purpose was to show the location of the object and to show the amount of something.

STUDENTSâ€™ STRATEGIES IN LEARNING SPEAKING SKILLS AT SMP NASRANI 3 MEDAN Lingga, Laura Maloni; Simanjuntak, Reka Monika; Sembiring, Yenita
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 8, No 1 (2020)
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Speaking is one of the speaking skills possessed by students. Speaking skills have been trained from an early age, but the results of speaking learning are still far applied. Many students still experience difficulties in learning to speak. such as shame, fear and anxiety and lack of confidence inhibiting learning factors in speaking to students lacking motivation, poor student learning habits, mastery of students' vocabulary is still low, as for student learning strategies are one aspect that determines the success of students in speaking, students can have student learning strategies by memorizing vocabulary, believing themselves and improving vocabulary pronunciation. This research was conducted to identify the difficulty of speaking in English faced by students and find out the strategies they used to overcome these difficulties. This researcher used a qualitative descriptive method involving as many as 17 students in grade 9 at 3 Medan Christian Middle School, research results this shows that students have difficulty speaking in English namely lack of grammatical understanding, lack of vocabulary, incorrect pronunciation of words fearing the response of others feeling nervous in making mistakes, lack of self-confidence and shame in the strategy that students do is asking help to others trying to compose sentences in different ways by using gestures, taking the rules in positive thinking, can be concluded that students have a sense of difficulty in speaking English.

INVESTIGATING STUDENTS ERRORS IN DESCRIPTIVE WRITING AT SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS AT STIKES YARSI MATARAM Aristiawan, Danul
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 7, No 2 (2019)
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Analyzing the errors is one of the appropriate ways to use to show the true proficiency level of the target language that students learn at a particular time. By conducting analysis on grammatical errors, the teacher can conclude the most frequent of errors which are often made by students then, teachers can arrange the more effective and interesting strategies in teaching grammatical rules. This research was aimed to elaborate on kinds of students errors and possible causes of in writing a descriptive text. The instruments used for this research are writing tasks and questioner. This research was a descriptive qualitative method because the data of this research is in the form of sentences and paragraphs. The data gotten were then analyzed by using surface taxonomy strategy. The result of this research, It was found four types of errors in the students writing. Those are omission error, addition error, misformation error, and misordering error. Omission and misformation error is the most frequent of errors found in the text. Whereas, the sources of error found in this research are interlingual transfer, intralingual transfer, the context of learning and communication strategies. Based on the analysis researcher found that interlingual and context learning is the dominant cause of the error. The researcher can deliver suggestion especially to the teacher, they should give the clear explanation about the different rules both Indonesian and English, the teacher should emphasize the concepts of the verb tenses because the most frequent of errors relate to use subject-verb agreement.

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY HIGHER EDUCATIONAL STUDENTS IN ORAL PRESENTATION OF DAYAK NGAJU LANGUAGE Nurliana, Nurliana
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 8, No 2 (2020): IN PRESS
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In an oral presentation of a second language, higher education students commonly face some problems in communication. To overcome these problems, communication strategies are necessary to be employed. In the speaking class of the Dayak Ngaju language course, especially in oral presentation in History of Islamic Civilization Study Program at IAIN Palangka Raya, the students employed communication strategies to overcome the problems in communication. However, most of the students tended to employ certain types of communication strategies in the oral presentation of the Dayak Ngaju language. Furthermore, there were no research reports which had been published regarding the types of communication strategies employed by the students of Dayak Ngaju language as a second language. Thus this study was intended to describe the types of communication strategies employed by the fifth-semester students of History of Islamic Civilization Study Program at IAIN Palangka Raya in oral presentation of Dayak Ngaju language. A descriptive qualitative design was employed in this study. Observation sheets, video recordings, field-notes, and interview guides are the instruments employed in this study. The results of this study showed that the students employed four of five types of communication strategies based on Celce-Murcia?s taxonomy, namely achievement or compensatory strategies, stalling or time-gaining strategies, self-monitoring strategies, and interactional strategies. The most frequent type employed was an achievement or compensatory strategies. Moreover, the most frequent subtype was code-switching.

THE EFFECT OF TEAM PRODUCT TO IMPROVE STUDENTSâ€™ CREATIVITY IN WRITING AT SMPN 1 JONGGAT Prayati, Zukhairatunniswah
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 8, No 1 (2020)
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This study investigated the effect of team product to improve students? creativity in writing at the 8th-grade students of SMPN 1 Jonggat, Central Lombok in the academic year 2018/2019. The research was designed as quasi experiment research. The students were divided into the experimental group and control group. The experimental group was treated using the team product method while the control group was subjected to a conventional method. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential analysis. The data in this research was taken from the mean scores of students? achievement and the score percentages. The subject of this research was the 8th-grade students of SMPN 1 Jonggat, which consisted of 54 students. The instruments of this research were tests and questionnaires. The mean score of students? creativity in the experimental group was 75 and the writing skill was 76. It was higher than the students in the control group. It can be concluded that the team product had a positive effect on students? writing skills in relation to creativity at SMPN 1 Jonggat.

PRACTICING DISCUSSION IN THE FORM OF PYRAMID TO IMPROVE STUDENTSâ€™ SPEAKING PERFORMANCE AND CLASSROOM INTERACTION Buhari, Buhari
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 7, No 2 (2019)
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Speaking is an ability to use the language in oral form to express what is on language learners? thinking. Learners have speaking skills if they have skills to practice grammar, comprehension, vocabulary, pronunciation, and fluency in the oral form. To attain the speaking skills, English teachers are encouraged to meet an appropriate learning strategy to be applied in the speaking classes. This study is a collaborative classroom action research. It is aimed at describing how the use of pyramid discussion to enhance students? speaking performance and classroom interaction. Its steps consisted of Planning, Acting, Observing, and Reflecting. This research was conducted at the 8th-grade students of SMPN 1 Praya Timur, Central Lombok. There were three instruments employed to obtain the data namely test, observation sheet, and questionnaire. After having the cycle 1, the findings showed that there were 16 students who got score more than 70. The calculation of the mean score was 77.30. Meanwhile, the tabulation of the percentage was 88.90. The data of the observation sheet indicated that the students were enthusiastic in classroom interaction and they feel interested in learning English. The research findings showed that the mean score was 83.22. It could be concluded that the use of pyramid discussion was able to improve students? speaking performance and classroom interaction at the 8th-grade students of SMPN 1 Praya Timur, Central Lombok.

CONTENT OF TEXTBOOK ENTITLED â€œPATHWAY TO ENGLISHâ€ FOR THE TWELFTH GRADE OF HIGH SCHOOL Sianipar, David Ricardo; Ginting, Rahel Lolita; Elisabeth S, Kristina; Saragih, Erikson
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 8, No 1 (2020)
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A Textbook has a big role to make the process of learning and teaching running well. The good textbook will influence on the students? ability toward the lesson in the classroom. Before getting an explanation from the teachers, the students will learn the material first in their homes. It will let them comprehend the material before being explained by their teachers. It will make the learners easily understanding the lesson which is explained by the teachers in the classroom. By doing so, it will not be complicated for the students in mastering each lesson. The purpose of this research is to know whether the textbook integrates all learning skills and to find out whether the textbook gives assessment or self-reflection to the students about each chapter. In order to do this research, the checklist and documentation method is used to investigate the content of the textbook. The result will be shown by using the table and explained clearly to avoid misunderstanding against the readers. Briefly, a good textbook used by teachers and students in the classroom plays a crucial role in the process of learning and teaching.

AN ANALYSIS ON TEACHERâ€™S COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING AT MTS NW BONJERUK Muhlisin, Muhammad; Widyanto, Anugrah
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 7, No 2 (2019)
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The objectives of this study are to reveal what communication strategies used by an English teacher in communication with first-grade students of MTs NW Bonjeruk. The research used a qualitative approach, more specifically classroom discourse analysis in analyzing this study since the source of the data was communication strategies which are used by an English teacher in communicating with students during an English teaching-learning activity. The result of the study showed that there were four of five communication strategies proposed that appeared in the teaching-learning process. They were achievement or compensatory strategies, stalling or time gaining strategies, self-monitoring strategies, and interactional strategies. The strategy which was not found in the transcription is avoidance or reduction strategy. Based on the results of the study, the teacher often uses code-switching more than other strategies.

AN ANALYSIS OF RECOUNT TEXT IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS USED BY TENTH GRADE STUDENTS Sianipar, Riana br.; Sianturi, Dewi Sartika; Situmorang, Sintia Anastasia; Gulo, Perius; Saragih, Erikson
JOLLT Journal of Languages and Language Teaching Vol 8, No 2 (2020): IN PRESS
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33394/jollt.v8i2.2280

This study was aimed at investigating the extent to which recount texts in two selected English textbooks meet the recount text criteria and to find out the similarities and differences of the recount texts between the two selected English textbooks. This study employed a descriptive qualitative method. The data in this study were four forms of recount texts taken from the two selected textbooks. Data analysis was done through analyzing, displaying, reducing, and drawing a conclusion. The data of this study include the generic structure, social objectives, and linguistic elements. The results of the analysis showed findings as follows: (1) four forms of the recount texts in the English textbooks have met the generic structure criteria, namely orientation, event, and reorientation; (2) one of the four recount texts fulfilled social goals; and (3) the four recount texts fulfilled the linguistic element. In short, the recount texts in English textbooks were similar to in terms of linguistic elements and type of process, while differences were found in terms of social goals and generic structure.

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