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Getsempena English Education Journal
ISSN : 2355004X     EISSN : 25026801     DOI : https://doi.org/10.46244/geej.v7i1
Core Subject : Education,
Getsempena English Education Journal (e-ISSN: 2502-6801 and p-ISSN 2355-004X) is a periodical scientific publication dedicated to lecturers, students and educational observers to disseminate relevant research, thought and research results in the field of English. Any visitor to this site can browse abstracts, read journal contents and download PDF files. Getsempena English Education Journal (GEEJ) is published twice a year, May and November.
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ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ PROFICIENCY ON ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION USING YOUTUBE-BASED VIDEO MEDIA Mulyani; Dewi Sartika
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)
Publisher : English Education Department

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (437.829 KB) | DOI: 10.46244/geej.v6i2.881

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Pronunciation is a fundamental element in English required by students in order to succeed in speaking and writing. From preliminary studies, preliminary information wasobtained that the ability of students’pronunciation in English is still low and that they often have difficulty in pronouncing vocabulary is another problem faced in schools both by students and teachers. If students cannot pronounce vocabulary clearly and precisely, it might cause misunderstandings so that it is possibly bother both written and oral communication with other speakers. Other problems are the selection of media and learning methods that are not appropriate. Based on the results of current research, English pronunciation learning through an effective media and up-to-date approach can improve students' abilities so that these problems need to be addressed. Therefore, the use of YouTube-based video media is strongly believed to improve students' pronunciation skills. Learning English with appropriate methods in order to improve students 'pronunciation skills is highly needed so that teachers are expected to be able to provide enjoyable learning experiences through YouTube-based media with appropriate methods so that students' pronunciation skills improve. This study aims at providing an alternative teaching of English pronunciation skills for students in junior high school through the use of YouTube-based video media with relevant activities. This research was conducted using a mixed method approach; quantitative in the form of quasi-experimental and qualitative. Quantitative data sources from the pre-test and post-test conducted to find out whether the use of YouTube-based video media can improve the pronunciation of the eighth year students of SMP 2Mesjid Raya or not. In addition, qualitative data is also needed as a clarification of test results derived from field notesand interview. The results of the study indicate that there is a significant improvement from pre-test to post-test on students' ability in English pronunciation through the use of YouTube-based video media where the Sig or P Value is 0,000 <0.05.
STUDENTS AWARENESS OF PLAGIARISM IN PARAPHRASING ENGLISH TEXT Sarair; Inas Astila; Yuniarti
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)
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This study was conducted to find out the students awareness of plagiarism while they’re paraphrasing the English text. Researchers took 30 samples from private universities namely Universitas Muhammadiyah Aceh and the state university UIN Ar-Raniri Banda Aceh. This study uses questionnaire to investigate this research which contain 13 questions. The result of this study shows that more than seventy percent of the samples taken by researchers understand what paraphrase and what plagiarism are. However they still faced some problems how to avoid plagiarism in their writing. 10 percent of the students said in order to avoid plagiarism is by providing references even in their personal notes, 16,7 percent said that when using the ideas of others, it must clear who the original author was, then 33,3 percent said that to avoid plagiarism is only by writing notes in their own words and the last 40 percent of the students choose all the answers to answer all the way to avoid plagiarism.
THE LOCAL WISDOM VALUE OF SHORT STORIES IN LITERARY STUDY AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS AT BANDA ACEH Hendra Kasmi; Millata Zamana
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)
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Entitled with the local wisdom value in the short story of literature study in Senior High Schools' in Banda Aceh, this study was designed to investigate the local wisdom's value in the short story of literature study in Senior High Schools Banda Aceh. The study aims to know the value of local wisdom in the short story of Senior High Schools in Banda Aceh. The method deployed in this research is a descriptive analysis through a structural approach. The source of the study are the short stories in the literary study in Senior High School in Banda Aceh. The result of the study shows that the local wisdom being portrayed through the short stories in the literary study at senior high schools in Banda Aceh is rich with social, art, etiquette, and religious value. All the content in the short stories is a reflective entity of Acehnese people from time to time. The short stories in the literary study can improve students' understanding of the value in Acehnese local wisdom.
INCREASING STUDENTS’ HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILL (HOTS) BY USING AUTHENTIC MATERIALS IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR EFL CLASS Siti Fachraini; Dewi Sartika
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)
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Teaching English in educational system nowadays is more focused to increase students’ language skills through transferring knowledge and giving test activities only but less focused on increasing learners’ thinking ability. Higher order thinking skills (HOTS) are one of thinking skills that must be increased in teaching English besides language skills. Furthermore, authentic materials is a good media that can be used in teaching English since they offers the real language and genunine materials to increase learner’s motivation. By using authentic mterials, students can feel the real exposure of the target language they learnt. So that, English learning are more meaningful. This research is experimental study in form of pre-test post-test control group design aimed to investigate the influences of video authentic materials to increase learner’s higher order thinking skills. The participants of this study were English students of STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena Banda Aceh. To collect the data, instrument used are tests and questionnaires. Based on data analysis, the result of the study indicated that the scores of students learnt by using video authentic materials increased significantly. It is based on the result of t-test showed that the t- score was 2.641 and the significance score was 0.011. This significance value is smaller than 0.05, so it can be stated that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected, which means that there is a significant difference in the results of the experimental group post-test and the control group posttest. It can be concluded that teaching Englsih by using authentic video as media can improve English language skills and critical thinking skills of students of STKIP BinaBangsaGetsempena Banda Aceh.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING HIKAYAT PRANG SABI IN PjBL APPROACH TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING Rizki Dhian Nushur; Diyana Dewie Astutie
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)
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Various types of methods, strategies, and learning approaches are developed because the development of the era occurs very quickly and rapidly. At this time, education provided to students must train them to be able to deal with various problems in real life.To support and assist students in this case, project based learning or PjBL is formed to be applied as a learning approach. This study aims to know the effectiveness of using Hikayat Prang Sabi in PjBL approach to improve students’ critical thinking. The study was conducted in STKIP BumiPersadaLhokseumawe with several students who randomly selected as the objects of this research. Through this approach, the learning process will be carried out in a team where the students are required to be able to take steps that consist of Determination of basic questions (essential), Designing project planning, compile a schedule, monitor project progress, testing learning processes and results, evaluating the experience of making a project or experience of learning activities.This research is a kind of qualitative research which is in collected the data used interview, FGD, and document review. In analyzing the data, it uses the style of Miles &Hubermen method.
GALLERY WALK: AN ALTERNATIVE LEARNINGSTRATEGY FOR STUDENTS’WRITING ACHIEVEMENT Rosdiana; Indah Sari
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)
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This study aims to improve students' ability to write complimenting English texts. The subjects of this study were 28 students of class X-IPA1 SMA 5 Banda Aceh. This research is a classroom action research (CAR) consisting of 2 cycles. Each cycle includes planning (planning), implementation (Action), observation (Observation), and reflection (Reflection). The data of this study were collected through performance, student observation sheets and management of learning by the teacher. The results showed that the students' ability to write English complimenting texts in the first cycle reached 60.09% and in the second cycle increased to 83.33% of students who achieved KKM 75. This means that the established indicators have been reached which determined that this study was successful if 85% of students reached KKM 75. By thus it can be concluded that the application of the Gallery Walk method can improve capabilitiesstudents in writing a complimenting texts. In this connection, it is recommended that teachers apply the Gallery Walk method in teaching English, especially forteaching writing skills.
TARGET NEED INTERVIEW IN DEVELOPING TEACHING ENGLISH ESSAY MATERIAL BASED ON BRAINWRITING STRATEGY Dini Fitriani; Yumna Rasyid; Ratna Dewanti
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)
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The study in this research is an interview in needs analysis of students and lecturers or target needs to determine the basis to be used in developing a product in the form of teaching essays in English. Analysis of this need is a step or procedure that must be done in research and development. The procedure in this research is interview. This research was conducted at an English Education Program at STKIP Kusuma Negara Jakarta. One of the motivation of researcher to conduct this research is the existence of information on the ability of most students in writing English essays that are still below the average and one reason is because the English essay writing material used is less interesting and difficult to understand, so students not interested in studying thoroughly. With this, researcher was inspired to develop teaching material models for writing essays in English. One of the procedures carried out in developing the teaching material is needs analysis. Based on the target needs interview , the researcher found the characteristics of teaching materials in writing English essays needed by students and lecturers, these characteristics are almost similar to the characteristics of brainwriting learning strategies. Thus a brainwriting strategy will be integrated into the preparation of English essay writing teaching material.
TWO FACES OF ENGLISH HEGEMONY IN INDONESIA: AN OVERVIEW Andini Linarsih; usawinur Barella
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019)
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Mastering English which is currently an international language is one of the golden tickets to explore the world globally. As an educator, having an accredited research journal is an obligation. Nowadays, most international accredited journals are written in English. Therefore, having the ability of English language will help teachers to publish their articles or their writing internationally. Currently, almost all countries in the world prepare their human resources in English language skills. This paper argues that government policies, society, and English language teaching practices are students' environments which promote the emergence of bilingual euphoria phenomenon. Also, this paper will presents how this phenomenon will marginalize local languages together with some suggestions to overcome the situation.
THE TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN NURSING DEPARTMENT Abdul Halim; Dewi Wardah Mazidatur Rohmah
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020)
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The study was aimed at investigating the students’ and teacher’s perceptions in utilizing technology-based classroom instruction in learning English for specific purpose (ESP) as an effort of enhancing the quality of students’ participation. In education, active participation of all stakeholders such as students, teachers, and policy makers is important so that the education goals can be achieved. The development of industrial revolution 4.0 disrupts every aspect of life including education. Teacher should take advantage of the current technology development for enhancing the quality of teaching process. The study employed survey study research method. One teacher and 72 students from nursing department were involved in the study and an electronic questionnaire with close-ended and open-ended questions was used to collect the data. The data was analyzed with the stages of data collection, data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing. The findings of the study showed that both the teacher and the students have perceived positively towards the project based learning in their ESP class. In addition, this type of learning process enhances students’ active participation
ANALYSIS OF READING COMPREHENSION FINAL TEST AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF MUHAMMADIYAH ACEH UNIVERSITY Rahmatun Nisa; Cut Mawar Helmanda
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020)
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The aim of this study is not only to analyze the model and the items test set by lecturer of Reading Comprehension subject but also the ability of students according to the item questions of each final test. This study analyzes the contents taken from the document test and it used descriptive quantitative approach. The gained data derived from three Reading subjects, they are: Intensive Reading Comprehension, Reading Comprehension III dan Academic Reading. The total number of the items from those three subjects is 60 items. The findings revealed that the kind of questions asked by lecturers varied, namely; Multiple Choice, Open-ended Question, Word Matching, and True and False. Based on the those documents the writer found that 6 questions about Main Idea, 16 questions about Vocabulary, 4 about references, 6 questions about inference and 28 questions about details. Then, the results of students' reading ability in answering the items were; main idea: ​​63.59%, Detail: 76, 92%, Inference: 44,04, Reference ; 86, 89% and Vocabulary : 73,45 %. From the five aspects students were better to answer questions in the Reference item. The implication of this research is to provide input to examiners and lecturers in giving material and in testing students at the end of the semester and to improve the ability to make test items.