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JOURNAL OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC

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Published by Universitas Islam Riau

ISSN : 23562404 EISSN : 24511446 DOI : -

Core Subject : Education,

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Journal of English for Academic (J-SHMIC) is English Study Program Journal of Teacher Training and Education Faculty at Islamic University of Riau. It publishes manuscripts in printed and online versions within the fields of English Language Teaching and learning, Applied Linguistics, and Literature. The journal is issued twice a year in February and August.

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An Analysis of Chinese Universities Students’ Attitudes towards Native and Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers (NESTs/NNESTs) Salam Mairi; Sri Febriani; Carbiriena Solusia
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

This study aims to do further investigation on Chinese universities students’ attitudes towards native and non-native English speaking-teachers. It mainly studies two major researches on the topic with at least 368 participants from China (mainly) and Hungary. The study critically reviews the two studies and finds out that the fact about NESTs is unsatisfactory. It requires much improvement because of inexperienced NESTs, lack of responsibility, cultural unfamiliarity, and inability to provide opportunity for students to practice. However, it is inevitable that NESTs are considered better at English proficiency and that they are student-friendly teachers. In another study, students changed their preference over NESTs vs NNESTs because they believe that NESTs help maintaining their motivation to communicate in English. However, they might prefer NNESTs for cultural and linguistic (e.g. grammar explanation) competences. Thus, this study offers recommendations for improvement in the context. The recommendations include course on English proficiency, cultural competence, teaching skill, certification, and communication-focused concept of English materials.

Reading Comprehension Difficulties Encountered by English Students of Islamic University of Riau Estika Satriani
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

The aim of this research is to find out the difficulties of reading comprehension faced by the first semester of students in FKIP UIR Pekanbaru. Kualitative research design in case study used in this research by using the instruments were questionnaire and interview guide. Based on the results of analyzing data from the questionnaire and interview, the reseacher found most of students’ difficulties in reading comprehension because they have no motivation in reading habit, they read a little or nothing. It is considered to be a problem for the students to comprehend a reading text. Another students’ difficulties in reading comprehension was the low reading skill. The students complained about the fact that they found, they need to study hard to remember the information they just read. They also need much time to read the text to overcome their problem. Too difficult reading material is also one of students problem in understanding the reading text. The material of reading is unfamiliar for them and grammatical complexity is also a reason why the students failed to comprehend the text correctly. The sentences in reading text too long or having complicated sentences. Related with these problem, new words and long texts are seen by the students as a major obstacle to comprehend a reading text.

Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes: A Morphological Analisis Rugaiyah Rugaiyah
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

This study was intended to describe the category of inflectional and derivational morphemes found in Reading Texts of 2013 Curriculum English Textbook for the X Grade of Senior High Schools Published by Ministry of Education and Culture. Morpheme is used to refer to the smallest unit that has meaning or serves a grammatical function in a language. The morphemes which can meaningfully stand alone are called free morphemes while the morphemes such as –er and –s, which cannot meaningfully stand alone are called bound morphemes. The design of this study was descriptive qualitative. The results of this study show that Derivational prefixes consist of inter-, eco-, un-, ar-, pre-, re-, pro-, be-, de-, in-, dis-, a-, ex-, auto-, mis-, agri-, em-, ap-, im- and al-. While, Derivational suffixes consist of four categories. Thus are nominal, verbal, adjectival, and adverbial suffixes. First, nominal suffixes, namely –ism, -ation, -al, -ing, -ist, -or, -ity, -er, -ance, -ment, -ion, -ess, -ium, -ature, -ry, -ant, -ce, -ive, -cy, -y, -r, -ge, and -ness. Second, Verbal suffixes, namely –n and –ize. Third, Adjectival suffixes, namely –al, -ly, -ous, -ing, -able, -ic, -ish, -ive, -ian, -ny, -less, -ed, -ary, -nese, -y, and –ful and the last is adverbial suffix –ly. Otherwise, the categories of inflectional morphemes that found in texts consist of Noun suffixes (plural) such as; –s, -ies, and –es, Noun suffixes (possessive) e.g; –s’ and -’s, Verb suffixes (3rd person singular) are –s and –es, Verb suffixes (past tense) are –ed and –d, Verb suffixes (past participle) such as; –n, -d, and -ed, Adjective suffixes (comparative) are –er, - r, and –ier and Adjective suffixes (superlative) are –st and –est. Therefore, based on the result of finding verb suffixes are not found.

Investigating Learners’ Understanding on Politeness and Gender of Advertisements in Teaching Sociolinguistics Vina Fathira; Silvia Utami
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

This research was based on the researchers’ curiosity to investigate learners’ understanding politeness and gender concept of advertisements. The advertisements were watched frequently by the learners of this digital era, nowadays. Then, the politeness and gender concept sometimes can be seen in the advertisement. Politeness and gender is part of sociolinguistics subject for English literature. The aim of the research was to investigate learners’ understanding in identifying politeness and gender concept existed in advertisement. The method used in this research was quantitative followed by qualitative as additional information. The population and sample of this research was the sixth semester learners of STIBA Persada Bunda. There were 10 learners as population as well as sample of this research. The data collection technique was gained by asking the learners to choose the multiple choices of politeness and gender questions by watching the video of advertisement. Then, after collecting the data, the researchers evaluated and analyzed the test of each learner. The result of this research showed that the learners’ understanding in identifying politeness and gender existed in advertisements is in low level with score 51,5 “poor” category. The factors that affected the learners’ understanding were the lack of learners’ understanding of theoretical concept of politeness and gender, and hard for learners to differentiate gender concept of sex concept.

The Influence of CLL on EFL Learners’ Speaking Skill Muhammad Ilyas
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

Some students in the university got some difficulties to express their ideas, especially expressing in foreign language such as English. How to start comunication and interaction sometime need someone to stimulate. The phenomenon often encountered in various levels of education even to the students college. The students tended to be very subjective towards topics, their peer or even partner. In the teaching and learning process, the teacher not only transfer the information to the students but also facilitate the students, stimulate to learn English and provide the technique suitable with the students’ need. Teaching English language might be carried out through several techniques, one of them was CLL (Community Language Learning). In this technique, students were treated as clients who could express their problems to the counselor as well as in the community. In addition, the teacher played the role of translator to help students express themselves using English. This means that learners had enough opportunities to speak without worrying about their limitations in using English. The results showed that CLL helped students to express ideas systematically. The ideas were organized well, understandable, and standardized. In addition, CLL improved the result of students’ score in speaking skill. The mean score increased from 54.74 in pre-test to 72.86 in post-test. It means that CLL gave good influence on students’ speaking skill.

Investigating EFL Learners’ Ability in Generating, Organizing, and Elaborating Ideas in an Argumentative Essay M.Fadhly Farhy Abbas; Herdi Herdi
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

This study aims at investigating EFL learners’ ability in generating, organizing, and elaborating ideas of argumentative essay. Quantitative method with descriptive quantitative design was employed in this study. To collect the data, the writing test and unstructured interview were used in this research. This research was conducted on April 2018 at Universitas Lancang Kuning, Pekanbaru. There were 46 learners selected as participants in this research. The result of the writing test showed that the learners’ mean score was 64.6 and it was categorized into low level of ability. Moreover, based on the interview the learners said that they felt difficult in elaborating ideas as well as organize the ideas in a good order. It was beacuse the learners had low alertness and carefulness in writing, low motivation to write an essay, low confidence when writing, and seldom to practice writing at leisure time. Therefore, appropriate writing strategy supported by suitable learning media is needed to facilitate and improve the learners’ ability in writing the essay. In conclusion, the learners’ ability in generating, organizing, and elaborating ideas is in low level of ability.

Using Video To Teach Listening at English Department in Fkip Unilak Pekanbaru Destina Kasriyati
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019): J-SHMIC (Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

This study aims to provide a more interesting video-shaped learning media to teach listening courses at FKIP University of Lancang Kuning to improve students' ability in understanding the information. This research was conducted in FKIP Unilak in the odd semester of the 2016/2017 academic year. The research method used classroom action research to find out how far the learning media can improve students’ ability and the factors that influence student listening ability. Then, technique of collecting data used interview, observation, and test. Based on the result of test instrument that there was improvement in students’ listening skill after applying video as learning media. It showed from the test result that first stage was obtained the lowest score, that was 58, the highest 76, the average 76. While students’ score in the second stage is the lowest 76 and the highest 80, while the average value of 86. This indicated that the student listening ability increases after applying video as learning media. Furthermore, the interview and observation result deal with the second research question that factors affecting listening ability are influenced by the media. The second factor is the strategy and learning materials used by the lecturers in delivering teaching materials in listening learning also greatly affected the students’ ability.

Students’ Perspective on the Use of Edmodo as an Assessment Tool Fauzul Etfita
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019): J-SHMIC (Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

The lecturers are in search of exploring innovative assessment techniques in order to promote students skill. For assessing students’ language skills, the study introduces Edmodo. Being a web-based online technology, beside can provide all subject, Edmodo also allows students and teacher to post materials, share videos and links, grades, notices, and assignment. It enables teachers to work with their learners in real time, and can be used either in the class or at home. The special code assigned for a particular group which makes it secure and safe in use. The study focuses on how the use of edmodo as an assessment tool. 68 students from two classes that attending News and Report Writing Course in English Language Education Islamic University of Riau in Pekanbaru participated in various assessment activities through Edmodo during 2016/2017 academic year. Reflection of the students regarding the use of Edmodo as an assessment tool were obtained by semi-structured interviews. There were four questions which posed to the students conducted by the researcher. The result indicated that most of the students motivated and Edmodo also reduced their test anxiety to a great extent and they would prefer to be assessed through Edmodo rather than traditional asessment techniques like pen-and-paper test.

Online Reading Resources Among EFL Students: Do They Promote Reading Habit? DO THEY PROMOTE READING HABIT? Estika Satriani
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019): J-SHMIC (Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

The aim of this study are to describe the EFL learners’ reading habit, the factors influence of reading habit, and the impact of the use Online Reading Resources on promoting students’ reading habit. 156 EFL learners FKIP- Islamic University of Riau involved as participants who read by using online reading resources. The study employed questionnaire, reading log, and interview intensively to collect the data. The results of analysis data from instruments were used in this study reflected that the use of online reading resources as a source of reading material has changed the reading habits of the learners, from conventional reading cultures into integrated the new technologies in reading process. There were 75% students already have got reading habit. It was significant increase than before. Besides that, online reading resources also provided positive changes for students who have low motivation in reading to be a fun reading activity. Supporting of teacher, parents, and environment help the learners establish their reading habit. The significant reason of learners get the reading habit was to complete the task. The result implies that the learners expected to read more and intensively to get the greatly reading habit. In conclusion, online reading resources are helpful to work the task, to get much information, and to improve learners’ knowledge in reading.

Language Ability of Mild Intellectually Disabled (MID) Children: Case Study of Dina MaraMida in SLB Negeri 1 Padang Yasirly Amrina; Armita Sari
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019): J-SHMIC (Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

This study is a case study of mild intellectually disabled children. The purpose of this study is to describe the language skills of Dina Maradina as children with mild intellectual disability (MID). This research is expected to contribute educatively to actions that can be given to intellectually disabled children, especially mild intellectual disability to encourage increased language skills. At the stage of providing data, used the refer and proficient method. The basic technique used in this method is Teknik Sadap, followed by Teknik Simak Libat Cakap (SLC), Teknik Simak Bebas Libat Cakap (SBLC), Teknik Catat and Teknik Rekam as advanced techniques. Data analysis was carried out qualitatively in the form of a description of aspects of language disorders experienced by the subject of the research by describing various symptoms and language skills owned by the subject. The results showed that subjects with mild intellectual disability has good language skills. It has several disadvantages, such as the ability of subject in emotional control, the ability in focus and concentration control and the ability in language production in terms of writing production. The results showed the subject did not have a significant language disorder. The subject is able to communicate smoothly with the other person. This can be seen from the subject's ability to issue sentences that fit the context of the conversation. The subject is also able to show gestures, facial expressions, and usual expressions in accordance with the communication she does. Keywords: Language ability, intellectual disability, neurolinguistics

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