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English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Published by Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta
ISSN : -     EISSN : 26223597     DOI : https://doi.org/10.24853/elif.x.x.xx-xx
Core Subject : Education,
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Journal conceptually concerned on an interdisciplinary field of English Applied Linguistics and Literature, including: Bilingualism Multilingualism Conversation Analysis Contrastive Linguistics Sign Linguistics Language Assessment Literacies Discourse Analysis Language Pedagogy Second Language Acquisition Language Planning and Policy Interlinguistics Stylistics Language Teacher Education Pragmatics Forensic Linguistics Translation Literature
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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Web-Based Music Study in Boosting Active Listening Maharsiwi Diah Chandra Dewi; Muhamad Sofian Hadi
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 2, No 2 (2020): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.2.2.97-102

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The purpose of this research was to prove that using a web-based music study is effective in boosting active listening. This research conducted in Private Elementary School Khalifa IMS Tangerang Selatan. The population of this research is third-grade students, and the sample is P3C consists of 25 students. The method of this research is quantitative method and using pre-experimental design. To collect the data, the writer used a pre-test, and post-test that given to the students. The resulting score of the data indicated that, the total score of students in the pre-test was 1338 with the average were 53.52. The lowest score of the pre-test was 37 and the highest score was 60. The total score of students in the post-test was 2211 with the average were 88.44. The lowest score of the post-test was 80 and the highest score was 97. It is significantly different from the result of pre-test and post-test scores. The results of the pre-test and post-test were calculated by using manual statistically. The calculation indicated that t – observe were 4.79 with t – tables were 1.70 and the significance 0.05. Therefore, the alternative hypothesis (H1) is accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. The writer concluded that using Web-based music studies in teaching English was effective to improve students’ listening skills.
Language Learning Strategies (LLS) Used by Malaysian, Pakistani, and Italian ESL Learners: Comparing to Indonesian EFL Learners Hanan Imtinani Fathiyah; Azira Nafisah Amiruddin; Faizan Khan; Federica Venzano
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 2, No 2 (2020): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.2.2.87-96

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This study deals with a review of the problematic approach in selecting Language Learning Strategies (LLS) due to the misleading the characteristics of English. Along with the purpose, this paper seeks to compare the differences between cultural and linguistic backgrounds of Indonesian EFL with Malaysian, Pakistani, and Italian ESL students’ Language Learning Strategy. In addition, this review also aims to know the Language Learning Strategy used by other ESL countries and to become the main purchase of this study to evaluate Indonesian’ Language Learning Strategy. In Indonesia, English becomes a foreign language where it is not an official language and has limited language input. Whereas, as we already know, English is a common subject learning for most people in Indonesia. This is due to the high interest and need for mastering English in various aspects. In learning English as a target language, people not only need to master their knowledge, but also the need for better and useful communicative competence in use. However, the need to come up with some appropriate teaching strategies becomes an important factor to achieve their goals.
Promoting Reading Comprehension Among English Language Learners: KWLS Technique Surti Milarisa
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 3, No 1 (2020): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.3.1.31-38

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Reading is a complex linguistic process in which students have a deeper knowledge of how to interpret reading texts. Teachers need some informative methods to stimulate student motivation in the learning process to improve students reading capabilities. Based on the research purpose, the researcher decided to implement the KWLS technique at STIE Muhammadiyah Tanjung Redeb East Borneo. This study was Classroom Action Research (CAR) which covered standardized indicators suggested by Kemmis and McTaggart, including planning, observing, implementing, and reflecting. As the results of this research, it indicated that the technique can provide an opportunity for students to develop their reading comprehension and to meet a minimum standard of passing. After conducting the study, the researcher found that the KWLS technique was very successful in increasing students' reading comprehension. The improvements in the student's passing grade have been revealed or no student with a low score in the second cycle.
Online English Education: A Paradigm Shifts in Education System and Its Challenges Imam Mujtaba; Yudha Prapantja; Ayesha Khatuni; Muhamad Sofian Hadi
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 3, No 2 (2021): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.3.2.119-126

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The pandemic Covid-19 has made the world face one of the greatest challenges we have ever experienced over a century. Every sector (health industry, education, aviation, navigation, agriculture, media) is confronting such potential catastrophe that all are struggling to survive in this new normal. Due to these unavoidable trying times, there is a paradigm shift, a transition in every sphere. The education fraternity is considered the platform to build up the future generation is suffering the most because of the campus closure where other sectors are allowed to continue their activities so far. It has gone through several transformations from (traditional way of online teaching) to cope up with the situation and still struggling to reach up its goal. There was a chance for loss of the academic year if there was no online education, no transition from the traditional way of the teaching-learning process. This paper is an attempt to focus on the transition of the English teaching-learning process for the continuation of academic performances, the features of online English education, the types of online English education, the role of English teachers in this regard, strategies to make an effective online English class, challenges that we are encountering and some recommendations that are needed for the continuation of English teaching-learning performance during future trying times like epidemic, pandemic, war and so on.
Textual Study of How Eun Hwan Portrays Introverted Character in “Introverted Boss” Movie Garda Arif Wicaksono
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 3, No 1 (2020): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.3.1.11-22

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The aim of this study is (1) to describe the signs of an introverted character, (2) to understand the main actor's introverted character in Introverted Boss, (3) to see why "Eun Hwan Gi" became an introvert, and (4) to identify Eun Gi's efforts to get rid of his introverted character. The research highlights the Introvert personality of the main character in the Introvert Boss film. This type of research is qualitative and focuses on descriptive-analytical methods. This research is qualitative and focuses on methods that are descriptive and analytical. The researcher himself was the instrument used in this study and encouraged in the data inventory format. Eun Hwan Gi had six introverted traits, including social weaknesses, shyness, fear, too much perception, fear, and closeness. The main reasons the main actor has become an introvert are family pressure factors and verbal abuse. In addition to the signs, training, playing games, and developing relationships are the foremost efforts of the actor to minimize such personality. Based on the findings of the research, the film Introverted Boss can be used to identify signs of an introverted character as a reference analysis material. In addition to the sign, the analysis focuses on the reasons for an introvert and Eun Hwan Gi's efforts to reduce his introverted character.
Reading Comprehension Improvement through Question and Answer Relationship (QAR) Method Rizal Arisman; Baharudin Adu; Nur Adha Fitriyani Ambotang
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 3, No 2 (2021): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.3.2.109-118

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The objective of this research was to find out the significant difference in reading comprehension between students who were taught using the Question and Answer Relationship (QAR) method and those who were taught using the conventional method.  This research used a quantitative approach with the experimental design of the quasi-experimental method. The instrument of this research was a test, dividing into pretest and posttest. In this research, it was found that the experimental group's mean pretest score was in a low category and the posttest score was in a good category. While the control group's mean pretest score was in a low category, but the posttest score was in the moderate category. The result of the Independent Sample T-Test indicated that the tcount was 4.549 which was higher than ttable (2.021) and the score of sig. (2-tailed) was 0.000 which was less than 0.05. This research thus concluded that there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between students who were taught using the Question and Answer Relationship (QAR) method and those who were taught using the conventional method.
Improving Students Listening Comprehension with Mobile App “English Listening Test” Alit Eka Handayani; Lidiyatul Izzah
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 3, No 1 (2020): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.3.1.69-78

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The use of Android smartphones will improve the skills of English Language Learners to the segments of the level they want to achieve. Language students are able to select the various android apps as necessary, such as speaking, listening, reading, writing, components of languages, vocabulary mastery, and even sentence structure in English. This can be used as an English aid by all levels of learning or can be used as a media resource. The purpose of the study was to find out the use of the Mobile-based English Listening Test App enhances students' listening comprehension. The methodology towards this research was quantitative. This research used a pre-experimental sampling frame using pre-test and post-test. In collecting the data, the researchers used the listening test as an instrument. The subjects of the research were SMK Gelora Bekasi's 10th grade students. The result reveals that the total student post-test score in the experimental class was higher (15,871) than in the control class (2,028). Based on the t-test, above 15,871 average result was obtained at the level of freedom (df) of 36 (36-1 = 35), while 2,028 of of average result was obtained at the level of significance of 5 percent. Since t0 is higher than the tt score obtained from the results of the calculation, a positive hypothesis (H1) can be acknowledged. The hypothesis finding implies that the use of the Mobile English Listening Test App enhances students' comprehensive listening skills.
Google Classroom-Assisted Mobile in Language Learning for Students of Primary School Teacher Education Muhamad Sofian Hadi; Lidiyatul Izzah; Aliya Nafisa Karyadi
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 3, No 2 (2021): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.3.2.135-142

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Language learning activities are required for all students of the Faculty of Education at Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta. So far, the learning process in the classroom has been carried out conventionally. Lecturers come to class, deliver lessons, and assign homework to students. Teaching and learning activities are routine activities that frequently bore students and make them uninterested in taking the class. Students' boredom requires an alternative learning process that does not adhere to conventional concepts but has adopted novelty by using free applications that can be downloaded on each student's smartphone. Google Classroom, an online learning system that allows lecturers and students to carry out the learning process wherever and whenever they want, is one solution that can be provided. It is expected that students' English learning will improve as a result of their use of Google Classroom. As a result, it offers a variety of new learning opportunities and can accommodate students' preferences. The use of Google Classrooms is also consistent with the rapid development of technology, which is supported by the slogan of the Industrial Revolution era 4.0. It has also touched the 5.0 era, which leads to the use of technology products that can be used in the classroom learning process and supports the new minister of education's policies regarding freedom of learning.
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction with English Language Learners: a Charade Game Mala Khayati; Muhamad Sofian Hadi
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 3, No 1 (2020): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.3.1.39-48

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The present study aimed to determine the efficacy of students' vocabulary mastery by Charade Game. This research has used 8th students of SMPN 18 KOTA TANGERANG SELATAN as a sample population. There had been 30 students throughout this group. The researchers used a simple cluster sampling technique to select the sample. The method of this study was quantitative and a quasi-experimental design of the pre-test and post-test. The data used for this study were gathered through pre-test and post-test vocabulary. Pre-test and post-test data then were analyzed numerically via SPSS19. The findings of this research clarified that the student pre-test score was 57 but then after treatment, the student post-test score was 81.83. The findings also indicate that the tobtained value was 15.79 and the tcritical value was 0.05. These findings mean that Charade Game was likely to succeed in mastering vocabulary.
A Need Analysis on the Instructional Material Development of Speaking Skills for Secretarial Students Didik Hariyadi Raharjo; Anis setiyanti; Fenti Sofiani
English Language in Focus (ELIF) Vol 3, No 2 (2021): English Language in Focus (ELIF)
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24853/elif.3.2.127-134

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A professional secretary should be proficient in English communication, particularly in productive skills such as speaking and writing, to complete all of his duties. The research was aimed to determine the needs of the secretarial students in terms of speaking skills to meet the need for professional secretaries in today's business and industrial field. From March to August 2020, 30 secretarial students and 5 professional secretaries from Jakarta participated in this qualitative study. The research’s data was the students' needs that could be divided into target needs (necessities, lacks, wants) and learning needs based on Hutchinson and Waters's theory. The data was collected through observation, interviews, and questionnaires. The findings of the study indicated that the students should master the speaking skill needed to complete the secretarial tasks such a handling phone calls, facing a job interview, describing a product, making an appointment, making a hotel reservation, making a press release, running a business meeting, giving a presentation, winning a negotiation and many more. However, the students encountered a variety of speaking obstacles, including limited vocabulary and incorrect grammar. Furthermore, the students wanted to get a lot of interesting interactive materials that were wrapped in dialogues or monologues activities when learning to speak.

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