English Language Teaching Educational Journal
English Language Teaching Educational Journal (ELTEJ) is an english educational journal published quarterly in April, August, and December. The ELTEJ aims to provide an international forum for researchers and professionals to share their ideas on all topics related to English language teaching and learning, English literature, and linguistics. It publishes its issues in an online (e-ISSN 2621-6485) version.
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<![CDATA[The Benefits of Integrating Video Making in a Speaking Class ]]>
<![CDATA[Edi Dwi Riyanto]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i1.1850
<![CDATA[Integrated teaching has been advocated and implemented for decades. Lately it has been accelerated by the development of video making. This study aims to investigate the benefits of integrating video making in a speaking class of the 29 first semester students of a public university in Surabaya, East Java Province, Indonesia. It employed action research which was done to improve the quality of the teaching and learning process of the class. The data were collected through direct observation in the classroom, video reviews, and survey. The findings showed that the integration of video making in a speaking class gave benefits to students in the form of four components i.e. social, language and literary, psychological, and technical. The class has been successful in integrating the video making in a speaking class which means that the integration may be applied again in the same class in the future or for a wider scope with similar conditions or settings.]]>
<![CDATA[English Scholarly Publishing Activities in the Industrial Revolution 4.0: What, Why, and How? ]]>
<![CDATA[Dedi Turmudi]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i1.1890
<![CDATA[Â The presence of the Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0 has inevitably affected the way how scholars proceed to write. Thus, activities intended to yield a piece of scientific writing facilitated by the obtainability and accessibility of internet browsing is called scholarly publishing. Since English has indisputably become the language of international scholarship and research, it is urgent to have the skill in writing scientific articles benefitting the support from IR 4.0 principles. What is going on with academics and what should they do dealing with the IR 4.0 pertinent to their scholarly writing activities, benefits, and drawbacks. This paper discusses what scholarly publishing in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and how it supports the process of writing articles for publishing. The purposes of this paper are to explain (1). What are scholarly publishing and industrial revolution? (2). Why is it essential for academics? (3) How does writing scholarly publication in Industrial Revolution 4.0 work? Writing the scholarly publication in English has become obligatory for Teacher-Educator Authors (TEAs) and undergraduate students to doctoral students in Indonesia. The study was a descriptive qualitative library to build a conceptual paper for the purpose of a further study. The method was by reviewing any related kinds of literature to provide sufficient arguments for the three research questions. The outcome is several claims, arguments, and evidence gambits for any author to consider. Theoretically, the IR 4.0 principles have significantly eased the flexibility of the process, the quality, and the credibility of research outputs.]]>
<![CDATA[Exploring How Silence Communicates ]]>
<![CDATA[Dat Bao]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i1.1939
<![CDATA[This article argues that silence as communication can be academically practised in the classroom as much as talk, simply because talk and silence are both essential components of everyday interaction (Nakane, 2012). These two constructs are interdependent in the sense that one would not exist without the other. Silence can be practised in two different ways: one is to employ it as a mental processing process in learning; two is to observe and discuss how silence is used in communication. The article begins by sharing the literature review on how silence works in education, how it deserves a place in SLS theorisation, and how it constitutes communication competence. Secondly, it highlights classroom tasks that trigger silent processing and explain why this is the case. Thirdly, the discussion recommends an activity which addresses the value of silence, which was developed by the author through research and experience. Finally, there are recommendations for task design in which similar activity types are introduced to assist the learning of reflective students.]]>
<![CDATA[A corpus study of verbs in opinion articles of The Jakarta Post and the relation with text characteristics ]]>
<![CDATA[Ikmi Nur Oktavianti]]>;
<![CDATA[Asmad Adnan]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i2.2158
<![CDATA[As one of the text categories, opinion texts have distinctive characteristics compared to any other texts in newspapers, including the choice of verb usage. This study then aims at preliminarily examining the verbs used in opinion articles in The Jakarta Post to find out the relation between frequency and text characteristics. This study collected the opinion articles of The Jakarta Post comprising 47.143 words. This study was assisted by Lancsbox to store the corpus of opinion section texts, to identify the verb lemmas, and to count the frequency of verbs. The verbs found in this study were then classified based on Scheibman’s main verb classification (which is based on Halliday’s and Dixon’s verb types). The results of the study show that there are three most frequent verb types used in opinion texts in The Jakarta Post; they are material, verbal, and feeling verb types. Meanwhile, the lesser frequent ones are perception, possessive/relational, relational, and cognition verbs types. Meanwhile, the least frequent verb types are existential, corporeal and perception/relational verbs types. As opinion text conveys the argument of the writer, it is plausible to find feeling verb type belongs to the third most frequent types, along with material type to show concrete actions and verbal type to report the information. These frequencies exhibit that there is a firm relationship between text characteristics and the tendency of verb choice.]]>
<![CDATA[Written corrective feedback in English compositions: Teachers’ practices and students’ expectations ]]>
<![CDATA[Wan Noor Miza Wan Mohd Yunus]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i2.2255
<![CDATA[Written corrective feedback (WCF) has been the subject of many studies in the field of second language (L2) writing. This study sought to investigate: (1) teacher’s practices in marking students’ English language compositions, (2) students’ expectations of teacher’s WCF, and (3) compare whether students’ expectations correspond to teachers’ practices of WCF. Sixty-four students and three teachers of an upper secondary school in Malacca, Malaysia participated in this study. Teachers’ WCF practices and students’ preferences were elicited from two different sets of questionnaires. Findings revealed that both students and teachers generally believe that WCF is beneficial in improving students’ writing skills. It was also discovered that students prefer direct, specific, and comprehensive feedback over indirect feedback. However, the study showed some discrepancies between students’ preferences and teachers’ practices in composition classrooms in terms of the amount, type, and necessity of the feedback where most students were found to require more WCF than the amount their teacher was capable of giving. This misalignment calls for teachers’ and students’ adjustments to ensure the effectiveness of WCF strategies employed by teachers. Findings from this research also imply that the study of contextual factors and beliefs influencing preferences with regard to WCF may also be necessary.]]>
<![CDATA[Utilizing learner language to craft well–targeted endorsements in English language teaching practices ]]>
<![CDATA[Nasrullah Nasrullah]]>;
<![CDATA[Elsa Rosalina]]>;
<![CDATA[Eka Puteri Elyani]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 3 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i3.2277
<![CDATA[Learning a foreign language for those who have their first and second language often puts learners in imperfection mastery such as irrelevant lexical choice, and source cultural bounds language utterances. Knowing the concepts merely cannot guarantee the process of avoiding mistakes or errors that learners have. There has been an amount of research on learner language which focuses on language corpus but little on highlighting the research specific language components grammatically contributing to language learners’ competence. Therefore, to fill the void, this study aimed at scrutinizing and yielding information on the practical way of phenomena in Indonesians’ interference by knowing the students’ feature descriptions of language competence. In this research, a guided interview was used to sub-ethnic of Banjarese which covered several Banjar Kuala and Banjar Hulu pre-service English teachers in getting the data of this study. The findings reveal language problems in lexical aspect, semantic confusion, incorrect use of word-formation pattern, prepositional misuse, and problems in language syntax and discourse. The implication of this study calls for recommendations to adopt techniques in mitigating suggested learner language in the area of subject-verb concord, tenses, and lexical problems in a process of language development]]>
<![CDATA[The quality of an English summative test of a public junior high school, Kupang-NTT ]]>
<![CDATA[Thresia Trivict Semiun]]>;
<![CDATA[Fransiska Densiana Luruk]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i2.2311
<![CDATA[This study aimed at examining the quality of an English summative test of grade VII in a public school located in Kupang. Particularly, this study examined content validity, reliability, and conducted item analysis including item validity, item difficulty, item discrimination, and distracter effectiveness. This study was descriptive evaluative research with documentation to collect data. The data was analyzed quantitatively except for content validity, which was done qualitatively. Content validity was analyzed by matching the test items with materials stated in the curriculum. The findings revealed that the English summative test had a high content validity. The reliability was estimated by applying the Kuder-Richardson’s formula (K-R20). The result showed that the test was reliable and very good for a classroom test. The item analysis was conducted by using ITEMAN 3.0. and it revealed that the the test was mostly constructed by easy items, most of the items could discriminate the students, most distracters were able to perform well, and the most of items were valid.]]>
<![CDATA[Exploring EFL Students’ Perception of Online Learning via Microsoft Teams: University Level in Indonesia ]]>
<![CDATA[Ahmad Ridho Rojabi]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i2.2349
<![CDATA[An internet connection has been crucial in the era of globalization to enhance human activities in various activities of economic, culture, defense, and many others, especially in the EFL classroom setting. Microsoft Teams as an innovative online learning platform provides unique features to enhance its potential to help EFL teachers to conduct better interaction as well learning environment in online learning. This research aimed at exploring students’ perceptions of online learning via Microsoft Teams. The study was conducted with twenty-eight sixth-semester students at Open University (Universitas Terbuka-UPBJJ Jember). Data were collected by using questionnaires to gain information about the EFL students’ perception of online learning via Microsoft Teams. The questionnaire was distributed to the students through Google forms after all materials in online learning had been conducted. The questionnaires data obtained were analyzed descriptively. The finding of the research revealed that online learning via Microsoft Teams is categorized as something new for the students but this interaction and learning environment motivated students in participating online learning, as a result, they can easier to comprehend the learning materials.]]>
<![CDATA[EFL students’ attitudes towards learner autonomy in English vocabulary learning ]]>
<![CDATA[Thao Quoc Tran]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i2.2361
<![CDATA[Whether EFL learners can use English well or not depends much on vocabulary they possess. Learner autonomy (LA), however, plays a pivotal role in amassing EFL learners’ vocabulary. This study endeavored to explore students’ attitudes towards LA in English vocabulary learning. Two hundred English majors from a Ho Chi Minh City based higher institution, Vietnam got involved in answering the closed-ended questionnaire, and ten students took part in semi-structured interviews. The findings indicated that participants were cognitively aware of the importance of LA in English vocabulary learning, but affectively and behaviorally they showed low interest in LA in English vocabulary learning. Such findings may shed light on how to improve the teaching and learning of the English language in general and English vocabulary in particular at the research context and other similar EFL contexts.]]>
<![CDATA[Intentional vocabulary learning via WhatsApp: Does the type of input matter? ]]>
<![CDATA[Mojgan Rashtchi]]>;
<![CDATA[Parisa Yazdani]]>
<![CDATA[ English Language Teaching Educational Journal Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.12928/eltej.v3i2.2370
<![CDATA[Nowadays, vocabulary as an influential domain in mastering second/foreign languages has encouraged researchers to put forth conceptualizations that can substantiate the successful learning of words. This study used WhatsApp to investigate the different impacts of two input modalities (voice messages vs. written texts) on EFL learners' intentional learning and retention of words. To this end, 50 female EFL learners in two intact classes (n1=n2=25) were selected from a language institute in Khorramabad, Iran. The groups were randomly assigned to two treatment conditions. The results of a general English proficiency test verified their homogeneity at the outset. A standardized teacher-made vocabulary test assured the researchers that the words were unfamiliar to the learners. After the twelve-session treatment, which was integrated with conventional English teaching classes, another standardized vocabulary test was administered once immediately after the intervention and the second time after a two-week interval. The Friedman repeated measures analysis showed a significant difference between the pretest and posttests. However, the results of the statistical analyses showed no statistically significant differences between the participants' performances on the immediate and delayed posttests. Thus, the researchers concluded that the participants had not forgotten the words from the first to the second posttest indicating the efficacy of intentional vocabulary learning. Additionally, no significant differences were found between the two groups showing the similar impacts of the input modality. The study has implications for EFL teachers and educators whose focus is on TEFL.]]>
