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JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy)
Published by Universitas Galuh
ISSN : -     EISSN : 25988530     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) is an academic biannual journal, published in February and September. The journal contents are managed by the English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Educational Science, Galuh University. The objective of the journal is to provide a forum for lecturers, teachers, researchers, academicians, and students to present their ideas, concepts, and new theories in English applied linguistics and literacy, and to disseminate theory, research, and teaching reviews to the academic community of English language and literacy studies in Indonesia and abroad.
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AN ANALYSIS OF IDEATIONAL MEANING REALIZED ON RECOUNT TEXTS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADE X Eros Cahyati
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 3, No 1 (2019)
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This research is aimed at analyzing the ideational meaning realized on recount texts in English textbook for Senior High School Grade X.  The objectives of this study are to describe the dominant processes and circumstances realized on recount texts in English textbook. The researcher employed qualitative descriptive as the research design.  The data were taken and collected through a documents collection.  The documents were collected from English textbook for Senior High School Students Year X (revised 2017). This book was published by Pusat Kurikulum and Perbukuan, Balitbang, Kemendikbud (2017). There were 4 recount texts that analyzed and identified. The researcher used transitivity analysis as tool to analyzes recount texts. The results of data analysis showed that the dominant processes found on recount texts is material processes. It   occurred 90 times (51.8%) in the textbook and it refers to process of construing material of action and doing. Meanwhile, the dominant circumstances found on recount texts is circumstances of time. It is occurred 40 times (44.4%) and it refers to answer question such as “when?” and also to give information about times. Finally, this research is recommended for the students of English education program who want to improve their understanding about SFL especially in ideational meaning. Keywords: Ideational meaning, recount texts, textbook
THE SOPHOMORES’ PERSPECTIVE ON ENGAGING TED-Ed WEBSITE IN ENHANCING SOPHOMORES’ VOCABULARY MASTERY Sri Asti Ramdhani; Asiyah Mumtahanah Khoiruzzahra
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 2, No 1 (2018)
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TED-Ed (Technology,  Entertainment, Design,-Education) is an educational and initiative website for youth that can be used by teachers or lecturers to spark and celebrate the ideas to teach the sophomores around the world. The study is aimed at investigating the sophomores’ perspective toward vocabulary learning activities through TED-Ed website. In this study, the writers addressed to two research questions: 1. What benefits do the sophomores gain from the use of TED-Ed website? 2. What obstacles do the sophomores gain from the use of TED- Ed website? To obtain the data, the writers employed a qualitative metodology under a cross- sectional survey technique. Under this technique, the writers administered the questionnaire to 20 sophomores. The results of the first research question showed that 40% of the respondents answered that TED-Ed Website can improve vocabulary mastery, 40% of the respondents asserted that TED-Ed Website helps the sophomores to understand the material. Meanwhile, 20% of the respondents stated that TED-Ed Website can make the lesson fun. The results of the second research question asserted that 60% of the respondents claimed that they found the obstacle because of the unsupported facilities, whereas 20% of the respondents answered  that  there is  no  abstacle on  engaging to  TED-Ed  Website to  have the video. Furthermore, 15% of the respondents claimed that the video sometimes do not suit for the materials, and 5% of the respondent purposed that they could not understand each word from the videos. To sum up, the most of respondents perceived that TED-Ed website is very useful for them. Besides, the most of the respondents perceived that they have obstacles in learning vocabulary through the videos fromTED-Ed website. Keywords: The Sophomores’ Perspective, Vocabulary Learning, TED-Ed website
MOVES ANALYSIS OF APPLICATION LETTERS WRITTEN BY AGRIBUSINESS STUDENTS (A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY AT ESP CLASS) Dedeh Rohayati
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 2, No 1 (2018)
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This study aimed at 1) analyzing moves of Application Letter written by Agribusiness students; and 2) language used in Application Letter. The study adopted the descriptive research involving   the third semester students at Agribusiness Department of Agriculture Faculty in a Private University in East Priangan, West Java. The selected participants were 18 students who were asked to write Application Letter (solicited letter); and those document texts were analyzed, particularly, in term of the move structure referring to previous study conducted by Bhatia (1993), Henry and Roseberry (2001), Khan & Tin (2012), and Wijayanti (2017), by using quantitative and qualitative descriptive method. Therefore, the present study provided evidence for description of moves in Application Letter written by Agribusiness students. It consisted of fourteen moves: opening salutation, referring to source  information,  stating  reason,  offering candidature,  introducing  candidature,  promoting candidature, offering candidature, glorifying institution, enclosing document, willingness to action, stressing the fact, offering to provide information, thanking, and closing salutation. However, the move structure was weakened by their inability in producing effective and impressive language used in Application Letter; they still need improving in language aspect such as expression, cohesive, coherence, and spelling. This resulted in necessity of an explicit teaching in writing professional   genre   of   Application   Letter   for   Agribusiness   students.   Further   research   is recommended to investigate the related topic in terms of language aspect.Key words: Agribusiness Students, Application Letter, ESP, Moves Analysis
STUDENTS’ RESPONSES TOWARD TEACHERS’ QUESTIONS IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 8 BENGKULU Evis Sumilia; Hilda Puspita; Elfrida Elfrida
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 3, No 2 (2019)
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Abstract: The aims of this research were to find out kinds of student response and the most dominant response used by the second grade students in Senior High School. The researcher was designed as a descriptive quantitative research. The population of the research was second grade student in Senior High School 8 Bengkulu. The samples were 60 students. The data were collected by using a set of questionnaire. There were 25 statements of students’ responses which consisted of five aspects by Moskowitzs in Brown (2001). They were student response (specific), student response (open-ended or student initiated), confusion, silence and nonverbal. The result of this study showed the students of Senior High School 8 Bengkulu preferred to use five aspects of the student response i.e., student response (specific), student response (open-ended or student initiated), confusion, silence and nonverbal. In addition, the most dominant response used by the student is student response (specific). The student more interested in using response specific in answering the teacher question. Keywords:  Students’ Responses, Teachers’ Questions, Classroom Interaction
THE USE OF PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT OF WRITING SKILL IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Iman Abdul Halim; Agustin Hartati; Zubaedah Wiji Lestari
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 3, No 2 (2019)
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The objectives of the research are to find out the use of portfolio assessment of writing skill in descriptive text and the challenges faced by the teacher in the use of portfolio assessment of writing skill in descriptive text in SMP Negeri 1 Pagelaran Cianjur. The type of the research is qualitative research with case study method. In collecting the data, the researcher uses field notes, observation checklist, open-ended questionnaire, and documentation. The data were analyzed by reducing the non useful data, displaying the data, and drawing conclusion. The researcher uses data triangulation to get the validity of the data. Based on the research finding, the teacher implemented almost all the procedures of portfolio assessment proposed by Brown & Abeywickrama, the teacher designed the purpose of portfolio, the teacher designed the material of portfolio, the teacher designed the time of portfolio, the teacher designed the time for reviewing, the teacher designed the place for portfolio. The challenges faced by the teacher in the use of portfolio assessment of writing skill in descriptive text that the teacher has difficulties in giving feedback in a large class, less in controlling and guiding the students, and the teacher did not use the rubric for assessing the writing skill of the student’s task.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PADLET IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Ilham Sukma Taufikurohman
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 2, No 2 (2018)
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This study was investigated the effects of Padlet on students’ descriptive text writing of Senior High School students as well as to find out their perceptions of using Padlet for learning descriptive text writing. In doing so, the subjects consisted of 54 students who were in tenth grade. Then they were divided into two equal experimental and control groups (N=27). Their age ranged between 16 and 17 years old. Gender of participants was not considered as a variable in the study. This study used convergent parallel mixed-method whereas pre-test and post-test were administrated to collect quantitative data and questionnaire was given to collect qualitative data. The experimental group was taught descriptive text writing via Padlet application, whereas the control group was taught by conventional media. Analyzing the data through the independent sample t-test revealed that with the help of Padlet application, the experimental group outperformed the control group in terms of writing descriptive text. Furthermore, the students had a positive attitude toward utilization of Padlet application.Keywords: Padlet, students, descriptive text writing
DEVELOPING A LESSON PLAN FOR TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES TO ADULT LEARNERS AT A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY Ratnawati Ratnawati
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 1, No 2 (2017)
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Lesson plan is the written procedures of activities in the teachingand learning process. Some components which create lesson plan at leaststandard competence, basic competence, objective, and learning activities,also assessment. An observation found that lesson plan mismatched toteaching and learning process. Consequently, students did not meet goodcompetences in their learning. Considering this condition, the developedlesson plan is highly needed to overcome above problems. This article dealswith R n D research design proposed by Borg and Gall (1983). The steps ofresearch-based design focused on preliminary and information collecting,planning, and develop preliminary product of form. The instrument wasused is interview. The result of this study shown that developed lesson planis more attractive, applicable, and informative than previous one. In linewith result, development is very important in education. Educationaldevelopment is way to build creative and innovative thinking. Also,developing lesson plan is needed to determine the success of teaching andlearning process.Key words: lesson plan, competence, and development
STUDENTS’ BACKGROUND TOWARDS LEARNING ENGLISH OUT OF CLASSROOM SETTING Luthfiyatun Thoyyibah
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 3, No 1 (2019)
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There have been many facts showed that senior high school students in Indonesia faced some problems in learning English at school. Because of that, students try to seek a solution which offered outside the class, commonly known as independent language learning. Because there are limited studies elaborated activity of learning English out of school context, thus this paper aims to explore what kind of activity that the senior high school students choose for learning English out of the school context. This study employed qualitative descriptive study. Data were drawn from questionnaires that were disseminated to 40 students of state and private senior high schools, in order to respond with their own views. Based on the findings of this study, activity of learning English that mostly conducted by students from state school is attending extra course while most of students from private school prefer individual learning. According to the findings, this study recommends the further study of the similar field involving a bigger number of respondents and enrichment of the theory. Keywords: state school, private school, independent learning, extra course
A TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS’ FINAL DRAFT OF CRITICAL RESPONSES PARAGRAPH TO LITERATURE Nia Siti Hadiyati; Iskhak Said; Bambang Ruby Sugiarto
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 2, No 2 (2018)
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This study aims at investigating the realization of transitivity particularly process, participant and circumstance types realized in male and female students’ final draft of critical response paragraph to literature. A descriptive qualitative method was employed in analyzing and interpreting the whole data. Furthermore, eight students’ final draft of critical response paragraph to literature which were categorized into male and female students’ critical response paragraph. The findings showed that (1) most of the male and female students were able to realize the transitivity in which the transitivity was realized through the clauses that construct meaning of every single text. (2) Most dominant process realized in eight texts were material process, while actor and goal became the most dominant participants realized and circumstance of location became the most dominant circumstance realized in every single text. However, male students were tend to use the material process in their texts. This study concludes that even though the text were categorized into male and female students’ text, most of the text had realized correctly transitivity while both male and female students’ final draft of critical response paragraph to literature, material process dominantly emerged in the text. Finally, this study suggests English teachers and lecturers to refer the transitivity as a method which can be applied to check whether the students had correctly written critical response or not. Keywords: transitivity, critical response, literature
IMPROVING ENGLISH LISTENING SKILL THROUGH LANGUAGE LABORATORY MEDIA Feby Akhdiyati
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) Vol 2, No 1 (2018)
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The objective of research is to improve English listening ability through the use of the language laboratory at SMA Sandikta. This study used action research methods which involved two cycles. This study was conducted at Sandikta Senior High School XI IPA. School year 2014/2015.The research carried out at the beginning of January to May 2015. Based on the data from the pre test, it shows that the students’ competencies in listening English is still low. After given treatment throughout the cycles (planning, acting, observing, and reflecting)and the result of post tests, the students’ ability in listening English had been improved. Qualitative data analysis shows that the students are interested and enjoyed during the process. The students listen better after the treatment. The results of the analysis is strengthen by quantitative data analysis  which shows an increase in listening skills (listening) English. It can be seen from the data of the students,  in cycle 1, average value of 60.375 students while in the cycle 2 of the average value of 81.25 students. Therefore, there is improvement in English listening through language laboratory. Keywords: ability, listening, language laboratory

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