English Focus: Journal of English Language Education
English Focus was launched with the intention to make quality research output available for scholars in the field of language education. Although the focus is primarily on research on language education, we will also consider papers in other areas of applied linguistics such as language testing as far as they have clear implications for language teaching/learning. Reviews of the literature are not acceptable for this Journal; however, status papers by experts in the field are called for as long as explicit implications are drawn in favor of language teaching and learning. English Focus (p-ISSN: 2614-638X and e-ISSN: 2614-6355) is an open access academic, scholarly peer-reviewed journal and follows a double-blind review policy. The Journal is scheduled for publication semiannually, in July and December, with the first issue to appear in December 2017.
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<![CDATA[DESIGNING ENGLISH MATRICULATION PROGRAM AS COMPETENCY MAPPING DEVICE FOR SHARIA BANKING STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS ]]>
<![CDATA[Fabianto, Eko]]>
<![CDATA[ Jurnal Bahasa Inggris Vol 2 No 1 (2018) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24905/efj.v2i1.44
<![CDATA[This research is a research and development (R & D) study. The procedures in conducting this research were held in some activities involving the lecturer and the students of Sharia Banking study program. Some activities will also involve some experts in certain fields, i.e. English materials expert and Sharia Banking expert. The objectives of this research study are: (1) to identify the needs in conducting a matriculation program for Sharia Banking study program which are developed; (2) to design the materials for Sharia Banking study program in accordance to the implementation of a matriculation program. Based on the findings on the needs, the matriculation program covers materials such as grammar review, and the four macro skills review. The materials provide relevant reviews which enable to show the competency of each students. In terms of the goal, it helps the students to accelerate their level to the required level to start the new semester. From research result, the average normalized gain shows up 0, 47 meaning that the design for matriculation program has an average effectiveness and can describe the competence level of Sharia Banking study program students. At last, this reference will be able to help in designing a matriculation program for Sharia Banking study program.]]>
<![CDATA[STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT FOURTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM PERADABAN UNIVERSITY ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurdiawati, Dede]]>
<![CDATA[ Jurnal Bahasa Inggris Vol 2 No 1 (2018) ]]>
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<![CDATA[The purpose of this study is to obtain descriptive information about the problems and problem solving in learning listening comprehension. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative research and investigates the students? problems in listening comprehension at the fourth semester and the steps to overcome their problems. There are 23 students at the fourth semester of English Education Study Program Peradaban University in the academic year 2018/2019 as the sample. In collecting the data, the researcher uses questionnaire and interview as the instruments.The researcher finds the most problems faced by the fourth studentsare lack of concentration, native speaker speaking speed, unfamiliar words, and lack of effort to understand each word.The solution offeredto solve those problems are focus and concentrate while listening class, concentrate on what is heard, and write things that are important when listening to material spoken by native speaker; find the meanings of unfamiliar words, look at the dictionary to find out difficult words, check words that are not clearly heard in dictionary, memorize vocabulary, and read English text and listen to English audio; and familiarize the students with the rulers of pronunciation in order to help them hear the different forms of rapid natural speech and ask them to imitate native speakers? pronunciation. It concludes that learning information about the problems and problem solving at the fourth semester are because of the fact that their learning outcomes are still far from being standard. Therefore, problem solving in listening comprehension learning is expected to minimize the problems faced by students of the fourth semester of English Education Study Program Peradaban University in learning process so that they get satisfying learning outcomes. ]]>
<![CDATA[AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT (A CASE STUDY AT A SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN INDRAMAYU) ]]>
<![CDATA[Ida Yulianawati]]>
<![CDATA[ Jurnal Bahasa Inggris Vol 2 No 1 (2018) ]]>
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<![CDATA[This study investigates students? causes of students? difficulties, kinds of students? difficulties, and the most dominant problem in writing recount text written by ten students at a Senior High School in Indramayu, West Java. This study employed a qualitative research design, embracing characteristics of a case study. The data were obtained from collection of samples of students? recount texts. The findings revealed that most students have been able to implement the schematic structures and linguistic features of argumen texts, which indicates the ability of students to write the texts and to achieve its purpose. However, some students found difficulties in terms of the use of tenses, the use of vocabulary, and the use of specific participants. Based on the analysis of students? writing, it was found some causes that made students did some mistakes in writing recount texts. Based on these findings, it is recommended that explicit teaching be needed to develop students? writing skills.]]>
<![CDATA[COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT) APPROACH TOWARDS SPEAKING ABILITY ]]>
<![CDATA[Molla, Nur Laila]]>
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<![CDATA[Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a way to deal with the educating of second and unknown dialects that emphasis on cooperation as both the methods and the last objective of learning a language. Targets are (1) to discover Effectiveness of CLT Approach in Improving Speaking Ability. (2) huge contrasts between students who are instructed by CLT and not. Quantitative research is a true design experiment. Design used was a pretest-posttest control group design. Population is eighth grader students in Junior High School 1 Tegal. Research uses cluster random sampling with two group design (experiment group and control group). Data was broke down utilizing a t-test, score of the t-test is 2.744. Score of t-table is at 5% level importance and on level of 62 is 1.670, t-test result is higher than t-table (2.744>1.670). t-test hypothesis is rejected, and t-table hypothesis is accepted. CLT improve speaking capability.]]>
<![CDATA[STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF GENERIC STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT AND THE QUALITY OF WRITING: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY ]]>
<![CDATA[Wati, Atikah]]>
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DOI: 10.24905/efj.v1i2.51
<![CDATA[Indriyani et al, (2013) stated that many students had dificulty in understanding the generic structure of analytical exposition text. Therefore, the present study tried to investigate the correlation between students understanding in writing generic structure of analytical exposition and the quality of students? writing in second grade of senior hight school. Grounded in explanatory correlational research design by Creswell (2011), this study conducted over two weeks in one of senior high school in Indramayu. Close-ended questionnaire and writing test were instruments to collect the data and it was analyzed by using SPSS 22. The statistical calculation from students understanding in writing generic stucture of the text and writing test indicated that the value of tcount was 3.23 and the value of ttable was 0.361. It can be concluded that the hypothesis was accepted because tcount 3.23 > ttable 0.361. The finding reveal that there was middle correlation or middle prediction in students understanding of generic structure of analytical exposition and students writing quality with the score 0,52.]]>
<![CDATA[THE USE OF YOUTUBE VIDEOS TO DEVELOP STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL IN NARRATIVE TEXT ]]>
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<![CDATA[Sani, Naras]]>
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<![CDATA[The objective of this research is to find out whether there is positive effect of applying Youtube videos on the Grade XI students? writing skill of Senior High School. The instrument used in this research was writing test about narrative text based on Youtube videos. The test was conducted after the two groups got treatment for 6 meetings. The test is carried out to find out whether students who were taught by using Youtube videos get better writing skill than students who are not taught by using Youtube videos. Data analysis of this research was tested by using t-test in order to find out whether the research hypothesis was accepted or not. Based on the calculation, the t-ratio is 2,998. It was consulted with t-table on the significant level (?) of 5% and the degree of freedom (df) was 38. The t-table obtained was 1,686. It proves that t-ratio is higher than t-table (2,998>1,686), so the hypothesis of the research is accepted. Furthermore, the conclusion of this research is that Youtube videos give positive effect on the writing skill to teach writing to the students who are taught by using Youtube videos. It is suggested for the teacher to apply Youtube videos in the teaching writing. It can be used to solve the students? difficulties in writing narrative text. Therefore, they can improve students? writing skill.]]>
<![CDATA[Designing English Matriculation Program as Competency Mapping Device for Sharia Banking Study Program Students ]]>
<![CDATA[Fabianto, Eko]]>
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<![CDATA[This research is a research and development (R & D) study. The procedures in conducting this research were held in some activities involving the lecturer and the students of Sharia Banking study program. Some activities will also involve some experts in certain fields, i.e. English materials expert and Sharia Banking expert. The objectives of this research study are: (1) to identify the needs in conducting a matriculation program for Sharia Banking study program which are developed; (2) to design the materials for Sharia Banking study program in accordance to the implementation of a matriculation program. Based on the findings on the needs, the matriculation program covers materials such as grammar review, and the four macro skills review. The materials provide relevant reviews which enable to show the competency of each students. In terms of the goal, it helps the students to accelerate their level to the required level to start the new semester. From research result, the average normalized gain shows up 0, 47 meaning that the design for matriculation program has an average effectiveness and can describe the competence level of Sharia Banking study program students. At last, this reference will be able to help in designing a matriculation program for Sharia Banking study program.]]>
<![CDATA[Students’ Problems in Listening Comprehension at Fourth Semester of English Education Study Program Peradaban University ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurdiawati, Dede]]>
<![CDATA[ Jurnal Bahasa Inggris Vol 2 No 1 (2018) ]]>
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<![CDATA[The purpose of this study is to obtain descriptive information about the problems and problem solving in learning listening comprehension. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative research and investigates the students’ problems in listening comprehension at the fourth semester and the steps to overcome their problems. There are 23 students at the fourth semester of English Education Study Program Peradaban University in the academic year 2018/2019 as the sample. In collecting the data, the researcher uses questionnaire and interview as the instruments.The researcher finds the most problems faced by the fourth studentsare lack of concentration, native speaker speaking speed, unfamiliar words, and lack of effort to understand each word.The solution offeredto solve those problems are focus and concentrate while listening class, concentrate on what is heard, and write things that are important when listening to material spoken by native speaker; find the meanings of unfamiliar words, look at the dictionary to find out difficult words, check words that are not clearly heard in dictionary, memorize vocabulary, and read English text and listen to English audio; and familiarize the students with the rulers of pronunciation in order to help them hear the different forms of rapid natural speech and ask them to imitate native speakers’ pronunciation. It concludes that learning information about the problems and problem solving at the fourth semester are because of the fact that their learning outcomes are still far from being standard. Therefore, problem solving in listening comprehension learning is expected to minimize the problems faced by students of the fourth semester of English Education Study Program Peradaban University in learning process so that they get satisfying learning outcomes.]]>
<![CDATA[An Analysis of Students' Difficulties in Writing Recount Text (A Case Study at a Senior High School in Indramayu) ]]>
<![CDATA[Ida Yulianawati]]>
<![CDATA[ Jurnal Bahasa Inggris Vol 2 No 1 (2018) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24905/efj.v2i1.48
<![CDATA[This study investigates students’ causes of students’ difficulties, kinds of students’ difficulties, and the most dominant problem in writing recount text written by ten students at a Senior High School in Indramayu, West Java. This study employed a qualitative research design, embracing characteristics of a case study. The data were obtained from collection of samples of students’ recount texts. The findings revealed that most students have been able to implement the schematic structures and linguistic features of argumen texts, which indicates the ability of students to write the texts and to achieve its purpose. However, some students found difficulties in terms of the use of tenses, the use of vocabulary, and the use of specific participants. Based on the analysis of students’ writing, it was found some causes that made students did some mistakes in writing recount texts. Based on these findings, it is recommended that explicit teaching be needed to develop students’ writing skills.]]>
<![CDATA[Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach Towards Speaking Ability ]]>
<![CDATA[Molla, Nur Laila]]>
<![CDATA[ Jurnal Bahasa Inggris Vol 2 No 1 (2018) ]]>
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<![CDATA[Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is a way to deal with the educating of second and unknown dialects that emphasis on cooperation as both the methods and the last objective of learning a language. Targets are (1) to discover Effectiveness of CLT Approach in Improving Speaking Ability. (2) huge contrasts between students who are instructed by CLT and not. Quantitative research is a true design experiment. Design used was a pretest-posttest control group design. Population is eighth grader students in Junior High School 1 Tegal. Research uses cluster random sampling with two group design (experiment group and control group). Data was broke down utilizing a t-test, score of the t-test is 2.744. Score of t-table is at 5% level importance and on level of 62 is 1.670, t-test result is higher than t-table (2.744>1.670). t-test hypothesis is rejected, and t-table hypothesis is accepted. CLT improve speaking capability.]]>
