Journal of English Language Teaching
Journal of English Language Teaching is a journal published by English Language Teaching Study Program of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang. This journal is published three times a year (March, June, and September). The main purpose of this journal is to advance and foster English Language Teaching or education, research, and professionalism in Indonesia. The journal provides research and paper to increase awareness, consideration and analysis of issues in Teaching English as Foreign Language, and also promotes the interchange of ideas, and comparative studies in this field.
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USING VOCABULARY DICE GAME IN TEACHING VOCABULARY TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Lukman Nul Hakim;
An Fauzia Rozani Syafei
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101311
This article aimed to describe the use of Vocabulary Dice Game in teaching vocabularyto elementary schoolstudents.Vocabulary Dice Game is versatile game that provides variety of instruction and can be adjusted depend on the needs of the objectives in vocabulary learning.Versatile game means, teacher can adjust what words the students need to learn, and create set of rules or instruction depend on students’ level. The versatility of this game canbenefit the learning process, not only making the students play through learning, but teacher will able to create a strategy in teaching vocabulary that is suitable to students characteristics and development.Vocabulary Dice game as teaching technique in the classroom provides fun and enjoyable learning process. Learning vocabulary is not always about drilling or repeating words but it can be done by act, draw or mime while playing game.By using this game, the learning process is expected to be fun and enjoyable for the students and enhance their memory about the material have been learned as it is obtained through enjoyable way.
Teaching Reading Descriptive Text by Using Tree Mapping for Senior High School Students
Katrina Vabiola;
Fitrawati Fitrawati
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101503
The teacher can use tree mapping in teaching reading descriptive text in the teaching and learning process. By applying this technique, the students can get interest and understand the descriptive text well. The objective of this paper is to help the students to organize their ideas and write the ideas in a good order. Besides that, the teacher also has to give more time for teaching reading especially in teaching text in order to increase the students’ ability in reading descriptive text. Reading descriptive text through tree mapping brings the students to new kind of situation. It would help both the teacher and the students to revise the students’ reading method and made reading more fun than the way it used to be.
Tongue Twister as a Technique to Help Students Solve Their Difficulties in Pronouncing /s/, /∫/ at Junior High School
Nurhasanah Nurhasanah;
Yetty Zainil
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101317
AbstractThis paper is aimed at describing the use of ‘Tongue Twister’ to improve students’ pronunciation of /s/ and /∫/ consonants at junior high school students. This technique is applied to help junior high school to pronounce words that have similar sounds. This technique enables students to solve the problem by using tongue twister sentence given to them. ‘Tongue Twister’ allows students to practice the sentence repeatedly and to determine the appropriate sounds to each word.
WRITING ATTITUDE OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA ADABIAH PADANG
Tesha Fersty Fadhilah;
Yenni Rozimela;
Delvi Wahyuni
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101842
An article under the title “Writing Attitude of the Second Grade Students at SMA Adabiah Padang” is aimed to describe students’ writing attitude. The research was done at SMA Adabiah Padang. There were 48 students that became the sample of this research. They were students of XI IPA 1 and students of XI IPS 4 at SMA Adabiah Padang. They were chosen by using purposive sampling technique. The instrument used was questionnaire that consists of 20 statements. The Questionnaire was adapted from Kear et al. (2000). Students’ writing attitude was analysed using tripartite theory—affective, behaviour, and cognitive. The result shows that the second grade students of SMA Adabiah Padang have positive attitude toward writing.
Using a Gallery Walk Technique in Teaching Writing Announcement Texts to Junior High School Students
Khairunnisak Khairunnisak;
Rusdi Noor Rosa
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101690
The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of gallery walk technique in teaching writing announcement texts to junior high school students. This technique is applied to help the students in organizing their ideas. In addition, it allows the students to share and exchange thoughts in a small group discussion. Besides, the students can also take part actively. The different activity given helps them to reduce the boredom during seating for a long time. It is due to the students go around the class to solve the problem that posted in the chart.In conclusion, gallery walk technique can help the teacher in teaching writing an announcement text to the students.
THE USE OF ELICITATION TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING SPEAKING TO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Rahmatul Husna;
Zul Amri
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101312
Many students have difficulties in speaking, especially junior high school students. Some of the problems faced by junior high school students are the students do not want to talk or say anything. They feel shy to speak in front of their friends and afraid of making mistakes. Also, Ur (2012:118) states that the students are often frustrated to speak in a foreign language in the classroom because they scared of criticism or losing face, or shy of the attention. Furthermore, they keep using their own language (mother tongue). These difficulties show the necessary activities or technique must be designed by the teacher in the classroom in order to enable the students to produce a meaningful English oral performance as well as to overcome their problems and weakness. One of the techniques that the teacher can apply is elicitation technique. Elicitation describes procedures that allow the teacher to get the students to provide information rather than give it to them. One way to elicit is by asking questions. Asking questions is the main technique for getting ideas and responses from the students.
Using Anime Noises Game in Teaching Animal's Name to Kindergarten Students
Manissha Juliati Jhoni;
An Fauziah Rozani Syafei
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101737
This paper’s aim is to explain how to use Anime Noises Game in teaching Animal’s name for kindergarten students (young learner). Teaching vocabulary to young learner is different from high school students, because young students have different characteristics and learning style. Anime Noises Game is one of the way of teaching that can be used by the teacher to overcome the problems. Anime Noises Game helps students to learn Animal’s name comprehension that have been learned before. The steps in using Anime Noises Game are brainstorming, discussing about the material, and playing the Anime Noises Game. In brainstorming, teacher shows several pictures related to the material along with general questions about the pictures after that. The next step is discussing about the material, teacher teach students name of animal and sound of animal. The next step Anime Noises Game, teacher will guide the students in playing this game that will help them in learning Animal’s Name that has been taught. And the last steps is concluding. In this step, the teacher make the conclusion about the material.
USING ONE MINUTE LIFE STORY FOR TEACHING SPEAKING TO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Mela Ismi;
An Fauzia Rozani Syafei
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101328
This article discusses about the use of One Minute Life Story in teaching speaking to senior high school students. Speaking is one of the four main skills in language that should be mastered by the students especially in English. To support and increase students’ speaking ability, teacher can use One Minute Life Story as an activity in the classroom. One minute life story is a part storytelling activity but it has the difference which is limited by the time. In this paper, the way of using it may be different because English is a foreign language in Indonesia. So that, one minute time is extended and become five minutes, by using One Minute Life Story it is expected that students can practice and increase their speaking ability with a different way.
THE USE OF ENGLISH IN EFL CLASSROOM AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN PADANG
Tiffany Tiffany;
Yetty Zainil
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101762
This research was a descriptive quantitative research which aimed to describe the amount of teacher’s language input in the junior high school EFL classrooms in Padang. The research was undertaken at four junior high schools in Padang. Five English teachers who taught grade 7th were participants of this research. The data were collected through classroom video recordings and stimulated recall interview with teachers. Video recording of classroom interaction were conducted to look at the amount of teachers language input. Researcher, then, analyzed the transcripts by using conversational analysis to look at the amount of the teacher’s language. Simple counting of the target language used by the teachers revealed that on average five teachers during interaction with the students used English as target language for 41,10 %. In addition, teachers used Bahasa Indonesia for 56,24 % and Bahasa Minang for 2,71 %. The results revealed that teachers used less English than Bahasa Indonesia and Minang, which means that teachers did not yet, provide their students with sufficient language input
Using Aesop's Fable to Teach Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text at Junior High School
Della Puspita Sari;
Jufri Jufri
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101695
This paper discusses using Aesop’s fable to teach reading comprehension of narrative text at junior high school. Based on the writers’ experience the students get difficulties in reading, especially reading narrative text. The teacher can use Aesop’s Fable to teach reading comprehension in teaching and learning process. Fable is the short stories that happen in the past which is the characteristic by animal. Fable is created by Aesop’s, that it is why called Aesop’s fable. By applying in media, the students can interest and comprehending reading narrative text. The aim of this paper is to help the students to more understanding narrative text well. Moreover, the teacher also gets effective to teach reading comprehension of narrative text in order to increase the students’ ability in reading narrative text. Reading narrative text through Aesop’s fable gets the students to new kind of media in teaching reading process. It would help both the teacher and students to improve the students’ reading comprehension and made teaching and learning process more fun than the way it used it.