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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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The Relationship between Shyness and Motivation to Speak English of the First Year Students of English Study Program of FKIP UIR Pekanbaru Marhamah Marhamah
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

The objectives of this research are (1) to find out if there is a relationship between shyness and motivation to speak English of the first year students of English study program of FKIP UIR Pekanbaru, (2) to know their shyness and their motivation to speak in speaking English of the first year students of English Study Program of FKIP UIR Pekanbaru, and (3) to know how the relationship between shyness and motivation to speak in speaking English of the first year students of English Study Program of FKIP UIR Pekanbaru. Shyness means a feeling about oneself in a presence of other. Motivation is process of stimulating peple to action t accomplish desired goals. In this research, motivation to speak means to stimulate students to speak English. There are two variables in this research. Shyness is taken as an independent variable and motivation to speak is taken as a dependent variable. The total population of the first year students is about 154. So, the sample of this research is 25 students. The instrument of this research is questionnaire. The aspects of students’ shyness are (1)worry about their think of them, (2) become shy to deal with people from a different social class or to work with more skilled people, and (3) avoid social gathering and usually speak in low voice. The aspect of students’ motivation to speak English are integrative and instrumental motivation. Based on the result of the analysis, there are only 40 % of the students that were indeed shy. It can be concluded that there is significant relationship between students’ shyness and their motivation t speak English.

Correlation Inquiry between Structure Knowledge and Paragraphs Writing Performance Samsul Amri
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

This paper aims at investigating the correlative aspect between two variables; structure knowledge and writing performance. It comes up in analyzing the theories and results of some studies that structure knowledge would or would not emphasize in writing performance. It indicates that this phenomenon is being still debated now on. On the sake of this purpose, the research methodology used is correlation design, where it took all the second semester students English Study Program of FKIP- Islamic University of Indragiri as sample. In collecting data, there are two kinds of instrumentation tests; structure knowledge and writing performance tests. While analyzing the data, the researcher used Pearson Product Moment correlation statistical analysis. The finding of the study reveals that there is a positive correlation between the students’ structure knowledge and their writing performance. It is obviously proven that the coefficient correlation is 0.84, which is categorized as high correlation. After testing the hypothesis, the researcher could determine that there is a significant correlation between two variables, since the critical value of rxy is greater than the critical value of rtable in significant level 5%; (rxy = 0.84 > rtable = 0.227). It emphasizes that null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. It infers that who want to have better writing performance should learn structure.

A Study on Listening Skills and Perspectives to First Year Students at English Department of Academic Year 2015/2016 Sitti Hadijah; Shalawati Shalawati
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

Good ability in listening means having competence to comprehend information during listening activities. However, Listening skill is still considered as one of the most difficult skills for English language learners although they have been learning English for few years. Hence, this study was designed to gather information about the students’ challenges in listening activities, their perspectives on listening subject, and positive factors on the students’ success in listening. Then, a set of listening test and questionnaire were distributed. Both quantitative and qualitative data were studied to identify the underlying matters in students’ listening skills, addressing challenges, main listening hindrance factors and learning experiences. The findings of this study revealed that the students faced problems in listening because they still could not complete the basic listening skills in the test. Furthermore, Most of them considered that the listening classes are challenging for them due to some problems and difficulties during the teaching and learning activities. Besides that, there were 5 factors influenced the students’ listening skill; lack of practice, limited vocabulary mastery, native speakers’ accent, pronunciation, and uninteresting learning materials. Moreover, their knowledge about English structure and good facilities in listening classes supported them to be able to figure out some challenges in listening activities. In addition, the students realized the important of the listening activities, but assistances from the teachers and some other students were still needed during the teaching and learning activities. In conclusion, having good listening skill still appeared as a challenge for the first year students at English Department of Academic Year 2015/2016.

An Investigation of Thai Students’ English Language Problems and Their Learning Strategies at English Study Program of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Riau Islamic University Sri Wahyuni; Muhammad Ilyas
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

The purpose of this study was to investigate the English language problems and learning strategies. The study employed a survey design which involved administering questionnaires of rating scales, using Rubin, J., & Thompson, I. (1994) and Rebecca Oxford (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL), to measure English language problems and language learning strategies from 10 Thai students of English Study Program of Teacher Training and Education Faculty at Riau Islamic University. The result of this study revealed that the most serious problem of Thai students in English Language Learning is listening and writing skills while reading skill is the least problem. Another big problem involved being unable to write an essay within limited time and always have a listening problem. Beside, the problem least mentioned is unable to understand classroom lectures in English. All Participant reported a high frequency use of strategy on the SILL. The participants reported using social strategies most frequently and metacognitive strategies least frequently but in medium range. The most frequently used strategies involved asking lecture or classmate for helping. Not trying guess if they do not fully understand what is being said was the least frequently used.

The Implementation of 2013 Curriculum at SMA Negeri 12 Pekanbaru Sri Yuliani
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

The aim of the research was to find out teaching and learning activities at SMA Negeri 12 in implementing 2013 curriculum. This research was based on the preliminary studies in some Junior and Senior High Schools around Pekanbaru by observing and interviewing the English teacher in excuting 2013 curriculum. The design of this Research was qualitative.The researcher used observation sheet and interview to find out the activities in SMA Negeri 12. Based on the research findings, first, the stage of teaching and learning process in the classroom, the teacher could not implement the step ideally, second, the professional curriculum from the government did not provide the available training to support teaching and learning in the classroom and the last the availability of resources and media were not supported yet. By conducting this research, the researcher hoped that the government conducting the appropriate training to all English teachers in implementing 2013 curriculum.

Assessment and Evaluation for Learners in Multilingual Societies at Technical Civil Engineering Ekasakti University Ungsi A.O. Marmai; Elda Martha Suri
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

This analysis examines some of the problems that are faced by teachers and students in the teaching and learning of English for special purposes (ESP) in multilingual nations. A survey recently found that although 98 percent knew that English was the sole language of instruction at the institution, only 49 percent expected to study English as a subject in any form as part of their curriculum. Many students looked upon English as a subject of study necessary only to gain entrance into the university, and had little motivation to study it past the secondary level. Other problems faced by teachers and students include the multilingual background of the learners, lack of cooperation from teachers of other subjects, the need to import language materials, poor levels of language teacher training, and large class sizes. An alternative approach to ESP is suggested, one in which the learner's native language and other languages in the learner's environment play a major role in tertiary education. The importation of culturally and educationally irrelevant materials is noted along with the urgent need for teacher training reform.

Developing Cooperative Learning Based E-Module to Teach Basic English Grammar of the First Semester of English Study Program Students at FKIP – UIR Arimuliani Ahmad
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

Achieving learning outcome requires a set of the material that can be understood easily by the students. The material should be appropriate in the learning process. It should give the opportunity for the students to learn both in the classroom and out of the classroom. The students can learn independently by using the appropriate material. However, the material of Basic English Grammar is still quite enough to give a chance for the students to practice and learn cooperatively. This research is aimed obtain e-module of Basic English Grammar, so that it can be used as a source of learning for first semester students of English Study Program of FKIP-UIR. The research method used in this study is R & D (Research and development) of Borg and Gall. The participant of this research is 30 students from first semester who learn Basic English Grammar. In this research, the researcher tried to find out students’ need because it is the first step to do in this research design. So, the data was obtained by writing test.The findings suggest that the participants made 386 errors in writing their paragraph. There are 45 errors (11.66%) of the agreement of singular and plural, 106 errors (27.46%) of the using of verb tense, 51 errors (13.21%) of the finite verb, 25 errors (2.48%) of the non-finite verb, 28 errors (7.25%) of the pronoun, 20 errors (5.18%) in using the preposition, 9 errors (2.33%) of the context of usage, 55 errors (14.25%) of the context of meaning, 22 errors (5.70%) of the word choice and 25 errors (6.48%) of word order. To sum up, the most frequent grammatical errors made by the students are errors in writing verb tense. Based on this finding, the researcher will design e-module of Basic English Grammar.

Students' Ability in Writing Hortatory Exposition of Eleventh Grade Students at SMAN 14 Pekanbaru Sri Wahyuni
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

This research represents the descriptive research to describe students’ ability of eleventh grade students at SMAN 14 Pekanbaru in writing hortatory exposition text. The total number of eleventh grade students at SMAN 14 Pekanbaru in academic year 2015/2016 was 210 students that consisted of 7 classes. In this research, the researcher used ‘cluster random sampling technique” to choose the sample, and the total sample of this research amount to 30 students. The data was collected through writing test, where the students were asked to write a hortatory exposition text based on the topics that were provided by researcher of this research. The test was done around 90 minutes for every time of the test. The students’ entire test was scored by two persons as scorers of this research. Those two scores gave scores to the students’ test based on the criteria in the instrumentation of this research. The result showed that the student’ ability in writing hortatory exposition text was categorized “average to good”. It can be proven by the average of students’ writing test score that was 61.65 that cannot achieve the passing grade yet. Key words: Writing Ability, Hortatory Exposition Text

Applying Mind’s Eye Strategy to Improve Students' Reading Comprehension at the Second Year Students of SMAN Binaan Khusus Dumai Rauf Tetuko Barruansyah
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

Based on the writer’s preliminary study, it was found that the students reading comprehension was not reach the standard score. This problem was caused by some factors, for examples; the way of teaching was not suitable with the material, the level of text difficulty was too “high”. Hence, the writer was interested in carrying out the research. It was administered at SMAN Binaan Khusus Dumai. The subject of the research was the second year students, and the object of this research was the Effect of applying Mind’s Eye strategy. The design of this research was Quasi-experimental design. In collecting the data, writer used test. The population of this research was all of the second year students. The writer used cluster random sampling by taking two classes as sample; XI IPS.1 consisted of 32 students as experimental group, and XI IPS.2 consisted of 32 students as control group. To analyze the data, the writer adopted independent sample t-test formula by using SPSS 20 version. Based on the data analysis, consideration Sig (2 tailed) t0= 0,00 is lower than Sig (2 tailed) Ttable= 0.05 It means Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. So, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference of using mind’s eye strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension at SMAN Binaan Khusus Dumai. Keywords: Minds’ Eye Strategy, Reading Comprehension.

Roles of Integrating Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Teaching Speaking at the First Semester of English Students oF FKIP UIR Andi Idayani; Betty Sailun
J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017): J-SHMIC(Journal of English for Academic)
Publisher : UIR Press

Speaking skill is an important part of the curriculum in language teaching, this makes it an important for students to be able to speak English. However, the goal of teaching speaking should improve students’ communicative skills as a way to help students express themselves and learn how to follow the social and cultural rules appropriate in each communication circumstance.Hence, Information Communication Technology (ICT) can be used by the English teacher to enhance students’ English Proficiency, especially speaking skill. Thus, the present study aims at investigating the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in speaking class at the first semester of English Students of FKIP UIR which consists of 42 students as sample of this research. The researchers used descriptive method and worked by using questionnaires as an instrument for collecting data. The researchers have found that the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) increases students’ motivation and their speaking performances. It also has great impact on students learning’s effectiveness. In general, students prefered group work activities, free discussion, role play, or students’ presentation. A large number of students declared that their lecturer used technology while teaching speaking. They claimed that using ICThas beneficial and helpful to speak the language. Finally, most students affirmed that the use of ICT developed their speaking skill, increased their knowledge, and creativity. Concerning their attitudes towards their preferable kind of technology that can be used in teaching, some prefer to use laptop/notebook and projector while others enjoyed watching videos.

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