Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET)
Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET) with online ISSN 2622-5867 is a journal which is published four times a year in December, March, June, and September. We accept mainly research-based articles related to English Education and Teaching. The articles must be in English.
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English Capacity Building in Preparing Competent Logistics Sector’s Staff in Indonesia
Yusi Rahmawati;
Suprapto Suwaji
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.171-187
Logistic sectors are moving forward day by day, year by year. Their evolution brings big changes in the economic growth of countries. It drives the significant improvement in human life includes human life style, human’s needs, and human capacity. Their services has to be in agile and effective ways to reach the customer’s satisfaction. This research observes the capacity building of human resource in logistic sector in supporting the performance development of logistic companies in Indonesia especially about English capacity. The researchers use qualitative research in logistics sectors by observing, interviewing, and disseminating questionnaire to the owner, director, manager, supervisor of logistic company. Based on the research’s result, English capacity had by operational and administration staffs of a logistic company influence the business because a staff that has good English skills will run the communication as well to the customers directly and indirectly. It is because the customers of a logistic company are international customer and foreign company which have representative office in Indonesia. Explicitly, the results show that a maritime academy should prepare the human resource or in this context is a logistic sectors’ staff candidate must understand about the use of English before working in logistic sectors to support the moving forward of the company.
English Students’ Difficulties in Understanding Listening Section of the TOEFL Test
Dandika Aprino;
Elfrida Elfrida;
Azhar Aziz Lubis
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.250-270
The objective of this reseach is to find out the difficulties and the dominant factor that faced by the English students in understanding the listening section of the toefl test. This research used descriptive quantitative method. 18 students as the total population and 18 students become a sample of this research. The instrument of the reasearch was questionnaire adopted from Hamouda in Raini (2019). The questionnaire consist of 27 statements and devided into 7 tables. The result of this research shown that the highest percentage by using mean is in physical setting (50%) and the dominant factor is in physical setting (50%) where the problem that were the difficulty to concentrate with noises around and unclear sounds from poor quality-CD player are the biggest difficulties to the English students UNIB. It could be concluded that the content of listening test and physical setting become the highest difficulties and the dominant factor that faced by English Students UNIB. It was recommended for the English lecturer should pay more intention towards to listening material and find more suitable method or technique in teaching listening course and students should find another option to cover the listening skill.
A Syntactical Analysis on Sentence Structures Spoken by Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the Election Night Speeches
Aries Rahmat Anggoro;
Mukhrizal Mukhrizal;
Sufiyandi Sufiyandi
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.%p
This study attempted to investigate the types of sentence structures spoken by Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the election night speech in the year of 2020. The design of this research was qualitative and quantitative research. The total of 101 sentences of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump were analyzed by using syntactical structure analysis. The instruments of this research were documentation and checklist tables. The data were analyzed by using Miles, Huberman, and Saldana’s theory, and Carnie’s theory was used for the rules in portraying the tree diagram. The results of the study showed that all types of sentence structures appeared in both speeches. In Joe Biden’s speech, there were 40% simple sentence structures, 26.7% complex sentence structures, 16.7% compound sentence structures, and 16.7% compound complex sentence structures. In Donald Trump’s speech, there were 59,2% simple sentence structures, 19.7% complex sentence structures, 15.4% compound sentence structures, and 5.6% compound complex sentence structures. In other words, the simple sentence structures appeared the most dominant in both Donald Trump and Joe Biden speeches. It is recommended that other researchers should study the sentence structures of other American presidents (e.g. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barrack Obama) in order to expand the descriptions of sentence structures of the US presidents in general.
Scrabble Game: Boosting Vocabulary Mastery of English Foreign Language (EFL) Students
Tuti Tuti;
Ilinawati Ilinawati
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.271-282
The background of this research is the lack of student participation and involvement in learning English in the classroom especially for vocabulary learning. This is caused by the lack of students’ motivation, laziness and less understanding of students in mastering vocabulary. The purpose of this research is to describe the students’ participation and the students’ improvement in vocabulary after applying scrabble games. The method used in this research was Classroom Action Research (CAR). The data collection technique of this research are observation, interview, and measurement. The tools of data collection technique are observation sheet, interview guideline, and test. The researchers applied Classroom Action Research (CAR) where the data divided into two kinds of descriptions; they were Qualitative and quantitative. The researchers obtained the data from cycle one and cycle two and then described it into qualitative and quantitative description. From data the analysis, it showed that there was a significant improvement in the students' participation and students vocabulary mastery. It can be seen from qualitative and quantitative data. From qualitative data, the students’ participations were increased from the first cycle into two cycle. Meanwhile, from quantitative data, the result of the test improved significantly from both cycles. It could be concluded that the scrabble game technique improved students’ vocabulary mastery.
Incorporating Local Culture in English Language Teaching for Papuan Junior High School Students
Abel Yohanis Romrome;
Ouda Teda Ena
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.207-221
Local culture is a crucial aspect in human life. Local culture relates to the way of human life such as thinking, feeling, and acting. It is undeniable that local culture could be used in the academic context as the medium in learning English. By using local culture, students will be able to empower their ability in thinking, speaking, and writing. Therefore, the teachers are required to design the learning process by providing local culture contents or materials that the students are familiar with. This research aimed to analyse whether Junior High School's teachers have implemented three ways in a local culture based on teaching English which was proposed by Goldberg and to find out whether the students feel more enthusiastic in learning by using local culture content. Besides that, this study was to investigate and measure the influence of local culture on students’ skills before and after using local culture contents in learning English. The data of research were collected from two Junior High Schools in Timika-Papua, Indonesia. They were SMP N 2 and SMP N 8. The method of this research was both quantitative and qualitative. In gaining the data, the researcher distributed the questionnaire to 107 students and interviewed two teachers and two students. After that, the researcher collected the data, identified, and analysed it by using SPSS 26.0. The findings revealed that Papuan English teacher have used local culture contents in providing the English materials for the students. On the other hand, students’ skills can be improved to be better by using local culture contents in learning English.
An Analysis of Language Styles Used on Aaron Beverly Speech “An Unbelievable Story” in Toastmaster Public Speaking World Champion 2019
Anggi Satmaya Dhila;
Syafrizal Sabarudin;
Arasuli Arasuli
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.283-294
This research aims to find out types of using language style on speech by Aaron Beverly, titled “Unbelievable Story and the possible reason why the style use dominantly. The method used in this research was descriptive quantitative research. The data were analyzed with using Martin Joos Theory (1976) to find the types of the style. The data were 70 utterances from 1 speech script. The findings showed that there were 4 styles used in the speech, namely frozen style, formal style, casual style and intimate style. The language style of the speech tended to have casual style as the most dominant style. It was possible to the speaker making an interesting light speech with the dominant casual style. The speech might be presented in fun topic and chronology where it became informal situation which was more relaxed in using language. Finally, the researcher suggests to the student to be able implement the style in presentation class or in learning public speaking. Also, the next researcher who interest to conduct research in the same study to connecting research to the next new literary ideas such as in public speaking skills in business.
Types of Lexical Cohesion in Song Lyrics of The Greatest Showman Movie Soundtrack Album
Sebrina Wijayanti;
Zahrida Zahrida;
Mulyadi Mulyadi
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.222-234
This research aim to finds out types and the most dominant of lexical cohesion used in the song lyrics The Greatest Showman movie soundtrack album. The methodology of this research is descriptive quantitative method. The objects of this research are 5 song lyrics in The Greatest Showman movie soundtrack album namely “A Million Dreams, Never Enough, This Is Me, The Other Side and Rewrite The Stars. The data were collected by using observation sheet and table checklist. The collected data were analyzed by using statistical formula. The result of this research showed that:1. All types of lexical cohesion namely repetition, synonym, superordinate, general words and collocation were found in the song lyrics The Greatest Showman movie soundtrack album. 2. The most dominant type of lexical cohesion is Repetition. It was concluded that repetition occurred dominantly because the composer or writer want to tell the reader and listener that the focus of discourse is in the words which have been repeated to emphasize certain meanings in order to attract attention listeners and to enhance beauty in songs.
Students’ Perception on Individual Learning versus Cooperative Learning Using Numbered Heads Together (NHT) Method in English Classroom
Tiara Sonita;
Desty Febria
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.295-309
In this era, teachers need to choose the proper method in teaching and vice versa; students’ participation in the classroom should be one of biggest concern for the teachers. With the right method, learning activities can be more effective to the students and will also improve their participation. This study intends to use Numbered Heads Together (NHT) as one of cooperative learning method to improve students’ participation in classroom. The methodology that being used is Classroom Action Research (CAR) and the research method is quantitative. The researchers will observe and implement the method by making two exercises in group, then give a self-assessment questionnaire to the students about their opinion to individual activities and group work activities. The results showed that NHT method is successfully improved students’ participation and activeness in the classroom with each of the students recorded to have significant improvement in their participation, while there are pros and cons from the self-assessment about the students’ preferences for each individual and group work activities. There are also advantages and disadvantages from NHT method itself. The disadvantage is no doubt making the student uncomfortable and don’t like to work in group. Further research is suggested to take action to the disadvantage of cooperative learning method.
Students’ Responses to Teacher’s Reinforcement: A Discourse Analysis
Pemilda Alphania Meizy;
Bambang Suharjito;
Annur Rofiq
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Bengkulu
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.158-170
Reinforcement is one of the important aspects in increasing students' motivation, to be more serious, and more focused during the teaching-learning process. This research is intended to know the kinds of reinforcement used by the teacher, how students respond to it, and how was their feeling about it. The design of this research is Discourse Analysis that focuses on the semiotic area. This research was conducted at one of the state junior high schools in East Java, Indonesia. The participant was chosen by using purposive sampling method and class 7F students were selected as the research participants. In conducting the research, the researcher did classroom observation, took video recording, and did an interview with the students to know exactly the meaning of students' responses. The finding showed that the teacher used verbal and non-verbal reinforcement. Mostly, the teacher praised the students for what they have done and students mostly showed their response using facial expression and sometimes using body gesture. Regarding their feeling, they said that reinforcement from the teacher makes them feel appreciated, motivated and happy during the teaching-learning process, which means that the role of reinforcement is very important.
General English Online Teaching Within Pandemic Outbreak: Between Need and Satisfaction
Hamzani Wathoni;
Hasan Basri;
Astrid Dwimaulani;
Dukha Yunitasari
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022)
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DOI: 10.33369/jeet.6.2.235-249
Since the COVID-19 pandemic entered Indonesia in 2019, a technological adjustment in learning has been massively implemented. Online teaching is the only logical method for the reason of limiting physical contact. Although the characteristics of Z-Generation learners are digital natives, live learning is still more welcomed. Therefore, this study aims to determine and carefully measure the satisfaction of new colleges students in the general English program at Universitas Hamzanwadi. The measures are three aspects (course content, instructor performance, and media use) and another aspect in teaching mode (online and offline). In addition, this research discusses why the new college students choose to participate in the general English program 2020/2021. This study utilized a quantitative-descriptive approach with the census method. The population was taken from all new students for the 2020/2021 period as many as six faculties totaling 1450, although only 1196 respondents ultimately responded. The primary data collection instruments were questionnaires through google forms, interviews, and documents such as teaching modules and media. The findings show 1196 respondents recorded via a google form telling that the bilingualism reasons were the majority choice (54.93%). The scholarships and student exchanges are the second paramount concern to this program (21.15%). Other positions such as translator or work, reasons are not significantly mentioned. Conclusion tells that new student satisfaction following the General English program (GE) is significantly more than 70 percent in three aspects of the assessment within the program.