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Journal of English Language Teaching
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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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An Analysis of the Second Year Students’ Ability in Writing a Procedure Text about a Recipe at SMK N 9 Padang Tari Kurnia Putri; Saunir Saun
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 3 (2019)
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This research was about the students' ability in writing a procedure text, with the topic of how to make a cake. This study aimed to determine the level of students' ability to write procedure texts seen from the generic structure and language feature of the text. The research design was the descriptive research. The population of this study was all students of class XI, majoring in Culinary of SMKN 9 Padang. The population was 122 students from 8 classes, XI K1, XI K2, XI K3, XI K4, XI K5, XI K6, XI K7, and XI K8.  The sample was taken by random sampling technique so that the number of samples obtained was 29 samples. The instrument used was a test of procedure text writing for 90 minutes, with topics determined by the students. The students’ writings were analyzed using procedural text writing rubric related to the generic structure and language feature of the text. Based on this research, students' ability in writing procedure texts was in category 3 (good). Although the ability of students to write procedure texts was in category 3 (good) by looking to the generic structure and language feature of the text, there are several parts of the text that students have not understood how to write them. Students were expected to understand how to write a good procedure text by paying attention to the generic structure and language feature of the text.
An Analysis of English Teachers’ Code Switching and Code Mixing in Classroom Instructions at SMA Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP Winda Elva Yuanita; Ratmanida Ratmanida; An Fauzia Rozani Syafei
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 3 (2019)
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An article entitled “An Analysis of English Teachers’ Code Switching and Code Mixing in Classroom Instructions at SMA Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP” aims at determining codes mostly used by the English teachers and the functions of classroom code-switching and code-mixing. To meet the need of this research, the subject of this research was 3 English teachers at SMA Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP. The data of this research was the English teachers’ utterances which contain code-switching (CS) and/or code-mixing (CM). The instrument used was an audio-video recorder which recorded the classroom conversation. To know the codes mostly used by the English teachers, the data were analyzed to see the what codes occur in teachers’ utterances. Moreover, the data were analyzed using 3 categories of functions of classroom CS and CM proposed by Ferguson (2003) to determine the functions of classroom CS and CM. The results showed that the code mostly used by the English teachers in delivering lesson was Bahasa Indonesia. Then, the other dominant codes were English, switching and/or mixing English – Bahasa Indonesia, and switching and/or mixing Bahasa Indonesia – English. In addition, the functions of classroom CS and CM were for curriculum access, classroom management, and interpersonal relation, in which classroom CS and CM for curriculum access was dominantly found in the teachers’s CS and CM. The finding of this research was the English teachers did more code-switching and code-mixing than target language in delivering the lessons, since the classroom activities’ purpose was to transmit subject content not to develop linguistic skills.
The Use of Writeabout.Com as a Platform to Teach Writing in Senior High School Dina Ulfa Desta Safda; Refnaldi Refnaldi
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 3 (2019)
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The teacher can use writeabout.com to teach writing to engage students to write more since good writing has long process and needs a lot of practice. By applying this method, the teacher can use Writeabout.com, a website that can help students to improve their writing skill. The use of Writeabout.com can help students have a more interesting way to write and to solve students’ problems.Most problems students have is getting idea, so this website can help by providing thousands ideas for writing starter. It can be applied for senior high school students because most of them have android to access this website. The objective of this paper is to help the teacher find new technique in order to increase students’ interest to write.Throughwriteabout.com, the students can upload their writing and get responses from some people and even native, and they can get new friends in website. In sum, there are many advantages that can students find by learning through writeabout.com.
UNP Chemistry Students’ Perception of Using References Written in English Diah Fauzanah; Sitti Fatimah
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 3 (2019)
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Chemical Department has used references including some textbooks written in English as the medium of instruction in teaching and learning process. Some students find difficulties to understand textbooks written in English because of some reasons which brings out different perceptions about the use of references in English to the student. This research aims to find out Chemistry students’ perception of using refernces written in English. This research is a quantitative research which used descriptive method. There were 56 Chemistry students as the sample of this research which choosen by using cluster sampling technique. The istrument used in this research is the questionnaire about students’ perception which based on three perception indicator; absorption, understanding and evaluation. The findings shows that the students have positive perception toward the use of refernces written in English viewed from absorption and evaluation indicator, and negative perception viewed from understanding indicator.
Error Analysis in Writing Discussion Text Made by Students at English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang Puteri Kharmilah; Don Narius
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 3 (2019)
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Grammar error is one of the difficulties experienced by students in the writing process. The main objective in this study was to find the usual grammar mistakes made by English language students in 2017 at Padang State University in writing discussion texts. Theoretically, this research was conducted to identify, classify and show the proportion of each type of error made by students. The type of research used is qualitative research with descriptive methods. The research subjects were students of English language education at Universitas Negeri Padang, specifically students in the K.2-2017 class. The instrument used is documentation of student writing about discussion text. All grammatical errors that appear in student writing are analyzed using the Surface Strategy Taxonomy introduced by Dulay et.al. The findings showed that the total error is 260 errors. Most errors were omission (50 errrors / 50.77%), second place was misformation error (75 errors / 28.85%), third place was addition error (39 errrors / 15%), and the last was misordering error (14 error / 5.38%). Based on these results, it can be concluded that students still experience great difficulties in learning the grammar structure in the writing process.  
Grammatical Cohesion Used in the Narrative Texts Written by Senior High School Students Syifa Fauziah Irsyad; Hermawati Syarif; Refnaldi Refnaldi
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 3 (2019)
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The purpose of this research is to describe the type of grammatical cohesion and the appropriate and inappropriate use of grammatical cohesion in the narrative texts written by the tenth grade students of SMAN 2 Sumatera Barat. This research was a descriptive research with quantitative approach. There were 125 students chosen as the population of this research and the sample were 30 students who selected by using random sampling method. The instrument used in this research was a writing test. To analyze the data the researcher did some steps such tabulating the data, counting the number, interpreting the result, and drawing conclusion. Furthermore, the result of this research shows that the students are able to use four types of grammatical cohesion in their writing. Those four types found are reference, conjunction, ellipsis, and substitution. Reference and conjunction were found most frequent in students’ texts with the percentage of occurring those types were 78% and 20%. In addition, ellipsis and substitution, each of them gives contribution to students’ texts just 1.5 % and 0.6%. Students tend to use the inappropriate personal reference when they try to refer between the subject and object in their sentences. From 1002 times of using grammatical cohesion, the most inappropriate use was located in using reference. The frequency of using the inappropriate reference was 72 times. 
Using Guided Meditation for Lowering Senior High School Students’ Anxiety to Speak English as a Foreign Language Vonia Rahman; An Fauzia Rozani Syafe'i
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 3 (2019)
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The aim of this paper is to discuss the ways of doing guided meditation for lowering Senior High School students’ anxiety to speak English as a foreign language. Regarding to the writer’s observation supported by other studies find that the students experienced the most anxiety when foreign language speaking activities begin. The noisy atmosphere suddenly changed into silence. The students’ negative perception toward their own ability and other negative evaluation are the main factors why they are too quiet as the teacher asked them to speak English in the classroom. This situation may lead the students’ having bad performance in learning foreign language, meanwhile the demand for having good communication skill in speaking foreign language, especially English is highly significant. Therefore, an English teacher has to encourage the student to speak English by using some useful techniques. One of them is using guided meditation that will benecessary for lowering the level of Senior High School students’ anxiety to speak English as their foreign language.
An Analysis of Student's Ability in Using Transition Signals in an Argumentative Essay Written by the Second Semester of English Department Students at Universitas Negeri Padang Nova Lima Banjarnahor; Don Narius
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 3 (2019)
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The purpose of this research is to describe the students’ ability in using transition signals in argumentative essay. This research used descriptive qualitative. The population of this research was the second semester of English Department students at Universitas Negeri Padang, Faculty of languages and arts, who registered on 2018 that education program. This research sample is 22 students. Sample were taken using random sampling which students that choose argumentative essay when last term examination. Data were collected by taking from some lectures who teach paragraph writing. Based on the data obtained,the students’ ability in using transition signals in argumentative essay is average (60%) 

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