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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Reading Questions Analysis: English Textbook for SMAN Kota Padang
Elsy Fitri Yana;
Yetti Zainil
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Padang
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.106679
This research was a descriptive research that aimed to analyze the reading comprehension questions in English textbook by using Higher Order Thinking Skill. The data used in this research is reading comprehension questions of English textbook grade X, XI, and XII which is used in SMAN Kota Padang. There are four schools to be inspected and the writer found 10 English textbooks. This study used instrument in the form of indicators from HOTS criteria and Bloom’s Taxonomy Revision criteria. From the result of the reading comprehension question in English textbook by using Higher Order Thinking Skill at SMAN Kota padang, it showed that the reading comprehension questions had used the HOTS criteria. As a result of the analysis in reading comprehension questions, 425 questions (23,09%) Higher Order Thinking Skill questions were found in the reading comprehension questions in 10 English textbooks. The result of this research also found that mostly-used HOTS criteria in the reading comprehension questions is evaluating category.
An Analysis of Students’ Grammatical Errors on Speaking at SEA Debate at English Department of Faculty of Languages and Arts of Universitas Negeri Padang
Stephanie Chania;
Zul Amri
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.106239
The purpose of this study was to analyze students’ grammatical errors on speaking at SEA Debate at English Department of Faculty of Languages and Arts of Universitas Negeri Padang. It employed qualitative research method with the Debate class of 2017 students as the research population. There were six students taken as the research sample selected through purposive sampling technique. The data were collected through smart-phone video recorder and interview guideline. The video recording was transcribed and analyzed from the first speaker until the last speaker. After analyzing the data, the students were interviewed to support the data in order to answer the research question of the study. The collected data were mainly in the form of transcription texts mined from the recordings of the debate as well as the interview of each student. The results of the study showed the most type of errors made by the SEA Debate students was omission error which consisted of 77 errors or 50.66% of errors. The causes of errors were affected by the students were inadequate learning, overgeneralization, and simplification. Key words: Speaking, Grammatical Error, Debate
An Analysis of Culinary Art Vocational Students' Needs in Learning English at the Public Vocational High School Number 9 Padang
Rukmala Dewi;
Zul Amri
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.106438
The purpose of this study is to analyze English needs of culinary art students of Vocational High School Number 9 Padang in learning procedure text/recipe. It employed qualitative research method. The subjects of this study were second grade culinary art students of Vocational High School Number 9 Padang. One out of seven classes was chosen to be the sample of this study which consist of 32 students. The data were collected through questionnaires and interview guide. A questionnaire administered to each of the students and an interview was done to an English teacher who teach them. The questionnaire covers three things as the benchmark of students’ needs in learning procedure text/recipe in English class. It was analyzed by looking at the mean value of the students’ answers. The interview recording was also analyzed to get deeper answer from the teacher. The result of the study showed that the most important activity that should be done in learning procedure text/recipe is reading activity. Meanwhile, the skill that must be mastered by the students in order to perform well in their future carrier was speaking skill.
An Analysis of Teachers’ Competence in Constructing Reading Comprehension’s Questions
Yola Afriliamanda;
Yetti Zainil
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.106686
Questioning is one of the thinking processing skills which is structurally embedded in thinking operation of critical thinking, creative thinking, and problem-solving. Therefore, teacher’s questions may encourage students to have high level of thinking process. The purpose of this study is to analyze teacher competence in constructing reading comprehension questions as well as looking at the possible problems faced by teachers when creating high level of questions. This study employed a descriptive research method. The subjects of this research were 12 teachers from 4 senior high schools in Padang selected by using a random sampling technique. The data were collected through tests and stimulated recall interviews (SRI). The findings of this research were that most teachers created understanding (C2) category questions which include in lower level of thinking in cognitive domain.
The Correlation Between Context Clues Strategy and Reading Comprehension Ability at the Second Semester English Separtment Stusents of Universitas Negeri Padang
Melia Putri;
Fitrawati Fitrawati
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.106505
This research amied to find out the correlation between context clues strategy and reading comprehension ability at the secon semester english department students of Universitas Negeri Padang. This research is descriptive quantitative research. The sample of this research is 39 students selected by simple random sampling. The instrument used in this research were context clues and reading comprehension test. The test consisted of 25 items multiple choice. The research data were in the form of interpretations of students’ context clues and reading comprehension test results. Based on data analysis, it was found that there is significant correlation between students’ context clues strategy and reading comprehension ability. It was proved by the students’ ability in context clues in general is average by the mean 63,17. The students had difficulties in synonym context clues with percentage 53,84%. The students reading comprehension ability in general is good . It was proved by the mean 66,66. The students had difficulties in finding the fact of the passage and understanding vocabulary with percentage 62,39%. Furthermore, based on the result of analysis, it was found that there is significance correlation in strong category between context clues strategy and reading comprehension ability with rxy is 0,82.
Translation Acceptability and Readability of Food Label Made by English Department Students of UNP from English into Bahasa Indonesia
Rani Franscisca;
Havid Ardi
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.107114
Acceptability and readability are the aspects of translation quality. The objective of this research is to know the translation acceptability and readability made by the students’ of English Department of UNP in translating food label from English into Bahasa Indonesia. This study used descriptive method. The data of this research is the translation product of food label made by English Department Students who take English-Indonesian Translation subject. The instruments of this study is translations test. To gain the trustworthiness of the instrument of the research was validated and the acceptability and readability were scored by involving raters. The finding of this study reveal that the score of translation acceptability and readability of food label made by the students is less acceptable but readable. The average score for the acceptability, students’ translation acquired the average score of 2.26 which means less acceptable. Meanwhile, for the aspect of readability, the average score of translation made by the students is 2.62 means readable. It can be concluded that the English Department students still need to improve their translation competence.
Theme Shifts Found in English-Indonesian Translation of Newspaper Article by the Translation Students of English Department UNP
Titis Grahita;
Don Narius
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.106493
This study analyzed type of themes in source text (ST) and target text (TT), also theme shifts in students’ translation product which are under Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004). The participants of this research were translation students of English education program of UNP that registered in academic year 2015. They were asked to translate newspaper article which published by The Jakarta Post from English into Bahasa Indonesia. Furthermore, descriptive qualitative research is applied. Based on the research findings, the researcher found that: (i) simple un-marked theme (SUT) was the theme most frequently used in both the ST and the TT; (ii) Students mostly did the theme shifts in the same-level of clause.
Enhanching Students’ Reading Comprehension of Scientific Text by Using KWL Charts for Senior High School
Muhammad Satria;
An Fauzia Rozani Syafei
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.106470
This paper deals with the use of KWL charts as Know, Want, and Learned (what is known, what is known, and what has been learned) in enhancing students’ comprehension of reading scientific texts in Senior High School students. KWL charts can be used by teachers to make learning English more enjoyable. The use of this KWL chart is used as a solution for teachers to solve students' problems in reading texts, especially scientific forsenior high school students.KWL charts helps the teachers in teaching reading scientific text more interesting, so that it will motivate students to comprehend the text.Giving a table consisting of 3 columns, K, W, and L, which column K is for background knowledge, column W for something unknown or form of a question for the child, and column L for conclusion about what the student has learned or questioned earlier in column W of the scientific text given. These methods or KWL charts are suitable for application in high school to all classes.
The Use of Reap Technique in Teaching Reading at Junior High School
Annida Nur Dewi Arifah;
Jufri Jufri
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.106606
This paper aims to explain how to teach reading at junior high school by implementing REAP technique. REAP technique is the appropriate technique to teach reading. Reading is an activity to get information from printed or written text. In reading, the students not only read a text but also they need to grasp the meaning of the text. However, many students still find difficulties in understanding the text. It becomes the reason why this paper is conducted. REAP technique can help students to overcome the problem. It is because every step in REAP technique helps the students to understand a text. REAP Technique is conducted by providing the students to read a text that is selected by a teacher. Then, the students try to encode by putting the gist of what they read. After that, the students annotate the text by writing down the ideas. Last, the students ponder what they read by thinking and talking to connect their reading with others. This technique also can improve their critical thinking, attention, and motivation during the reading process.
An Analysis of Students’ Speaking Anxiety Faced by the EFL Freshman Students at English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang
Nur Maulina Putri;
Leni Marlina
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v8i4.106565
This research was conducted to find out the type and the level of speaking anxietyfaced by the EFL freshmen students in English Language Educational Program of English Department at Universitas Negeri Padang. This descriptive research used a quantitative descriptive method. The research instruments are questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire used in this research is adapted from the Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) designed by Horwitz. It consists of 33 statements which have three categories as well as communication apprehension, fear of speaking test, and fear of feedback by peers and lecturer. Based on the research analysis, it was found that the level of students’ speaking anxiety is in the middle level with the percentage was 82%. It was significantly different with other levels which had 9% for low level and also 9% for high level. The types faced by the respondents were in the fear of speaking test (44%), communication apprehension (34%), and feedback by peers and lecturer (22%). The dominant type of speaking anxiety was fear of speaking test. However, after having the depth interview about their speaking anxiety, the research showed that all types ofspeaking anxiety were in the relationship.