Journal of English Language and Education
Journal of English Language and Education (pISSN: 2597-6850 and eISSN: 2502-4132) is a journal that focuses on researching or documenting issues in education, language education, applied linguistics, English education, English language teaching, English Literature, language assessment and evaluation. It is published by Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Universitas Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai is indexed in Google Scholar and Supported by Relawan Jurnal Indonesia (RJI).
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<![CDATA[An Exploration of Foreign Language Anxiety and Its Effect to Reading Comprehension ]]>
<![CDATA[Indrayani Winingsih]]>;
<![CDATA[Fauzul Etfita]]>;
<![CDATA[Sri Wahyuni]]>;
<![CDATA[Arimuliani Ahmad]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 6, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v6i2.174
<![CDATA[Foreign language anxiety commonly appears in reading, it causes the brain to engaged with unpleasant feelings that it become difficult to seize new information. Thus, this research aimed to classify the levels of students’ reading anxiety and to find the significant difference in reading comprehension between students with higher level of reading anxiety and lower level of reading anxiety. A descriptive design was employed to conduct this research. The data were collected from the first-year students of English Language Education at a Private University in Riau using adapted Questionnaires from Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Inventory (EFLRAI). The result of this research revealed that 8 or 14% of the students are categorize as low anxious level, then 39 or 66% of the students are categorize as medium anxious level and 12 or 20% of them are classified as high anxious level. Furthermore, according to the results of the Mann-Whitney U Test analysis, it figured out that students with lower levels of anxiety outperform the students with higher levels of anxiety in terms of reading comprehension, with a p value of 0.011.]]>
<![CDATA[PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ READINESS ON THE USE OF MOBILE-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING DURING ONLINE CLASSES ]]>
<![CDATA[Benita Rachmawati]]>;
<![CDATA[Fauzi Miftakh]]>;
<![CDATA[Wahyudin Fitriyana]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 6, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v6i2.133
<![CDATA[This study discussed how the readiness of pre-service EFL teachers to use MALL in their teaching practice activities. In investigating pre-service teachers' readiness, there are two research questions related to the attitudes shown by pre-service teachers towards MALL and their experiences with MALL during their teaching practice. In this study, two types of data collection were used: interviews as the primary data collection and supported by questionnaire. There were four participants involved in this study using the phenomenological study method. This study found that pre-service EFL teachers showed a positive attitude towards the use of MALL. The participants felt that using MALL in their teaching practicum, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, was very useful. In addition, they also had quite a good experience during their teaching practice using MALL. They can choose the media or platform used according to their learning needs and their respective classroom situations. With the findings obtained, this can be a hope for their future class. The participants are aware of the benefits of MALL and are willing to use it during their teaching practice.]]>
<![CDATA[The Teachers’ Perception on the Use of Cooperative Learning Model for Improving Learners’ Reading Fluency ]]>
<![CDATA[Asih Sari Ningrum]]>;
<![CDATA[irwandi irwandi]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 6, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v6i2.159
<![CDATA[The learners’ reading fluency becomes one of the crucial problems in teaching reading. The preliminary research indicates that the students find the obstacles in understanding the structure of the sentence in reading text quickly. It is also difficult for them to understand the meaning of word in the text. To overcome these problems, the teachers have applied the use of cooperative learning model. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative. The questionnaire is used to collect the data. In addition, for the technique of data collection, the researcher used questionnaire which the researcher gave that questionnaire to the English teachers. The researcher analyzed the answers of the English teachers by using steps of qualitative data analysis. The results show that the teachers agree with the application of the cooperative learning model. The form of the teachers’ view is marked by their agreeing on the cooperative learning model.]]>
<![CDATA[The Effect Of Discrete-Point Task Towards Student Writing Ability ]]>
<![CDATA[Akmal Rais]]>;
<![CDATA[Widya Syafitri]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 6, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v6i2.172
<![CDATA[This research was discover the effect of using Discrete-point task towards students’ writing ability. Most of student got difficulties to organize the generic structure of text. This research used experimental research. The researcher used a quasi- experimental design by using the pre-test pos-test control group deisgn. The population of this research was tenth grade of in SMK Cendana Padang Panjang. The sample was X TKJ.1 which was treated as experimental class and taught by using Discrete-point task and X TKJ.2. The researcher used total sampling technique because the population less than a hundred. From the result of the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental class, it was found that the t-obtained (8.25) was higher than the t-table (1.960). Then, the calculation of post-test both classes: experimental and control classes was obtained the (3.557) was bigger than t table (1.67). For the third hypothsis, mean score of the experimental class is bigger than control class (77.44 68.5).]]>
<![CDATA[The Effect of Project-Based Learning on Students’ Achievement in Writing Narrative Text ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurmahyuni Asrul]]>;
<![CDATA[Sintia Friskila Rajagukguk]]>;
<![CDATA[Veny Octaviana Sitepu]]>;
<![CDATA[Pebi Maria Siregar]]>;
<![CDATA[Abdurrahman Novri]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 6, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v6i2.170
<![CDATA[The purpose of this research is to proof the effect of project-based learning model on students’ achievement in writing Narrative Text at grade X IPS SMA Pangeran Antasari Medan School students in 2021/2022. This research was quasi-experimental with cause and effect relationship by involving the control-class and the experimental-class. The two classes were given pretest and post-test. The result showed mean of the experimental class was from 56.05 to 80.2 and the controlled class was from 62.1 to 74.0. From hypothetical tests, the significance T-test Sig (p)0.035(a)0.05 and that means Ha 0,05.The controlled class score increased from 62.1 to 74.05 and the critical contrast between the mean scores in controlled class (M 74.055, SD 9.8688), while the experimental class (M 80.159, Sd 8.7281), t(42) 2.173 , p 0.035 d 0.655 ) and tcount 2.137 t????????????le 2.019. By using a project-based-learning model in writing narrative text, the students can investigate and hone their capacity and creativity in writing It demonstrated that the Project-based learning models has given a solid impact on students’ achievement in writing narrative text. The Project-based-learning (PJBL) model effected the students’ achievement in writing.]]>
<![CDATA[The Subject-Verb Agreement Errors on Students’ Writing ]]>
<![CDATA[Vitri Angraini Hardi]]>;
<![CDATA[Lusi Marleni]]>;
<![CDATA[Nurhidayah Sari]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 7, No 1 (2022) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v7i1.183
<![CDATA[Subject-verb agreement is an essential component to be mastered by English Language Learners to produce a good writing. Examining the students’ errors on writing is part of the evaluation in English language learning and teaching. To produce a good writing, the English language learners have to be able to know the rules of the language use. However, the English learners still struggle in mastering the subject-verb agreement in the writing. Due to the reason, it would be significant to diagnose the errors made by the students as well as to explore the factors contribute the errors. To obtain the data, the researcher employed a document analysis and a semi-structure interview. The findings showed most of the errors belonged to misinformation category (33%) and were subsequently followed by omission category (29%) and addition category (29%) and misformation (9%). In addition, from the interview the researcher also found three major factors contribute the students’ errors, namely ignorance the editing process, the unawareness of the grammar rules, and intralingual errors.]]>
<![CDATA[EFL University Students’ Perceptions of Effective Teaching Grammar ]]>
<![CDATA[Johari Afrizal]]>;
<![CDATA[Arimuliani Ahmad]]>;
<![CDATA[Intan Syazwina Salsabila]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 6, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v6i2.177
<![CDATA[This research is taken to identify students’ perceptions of effective teaching grammar with 30 EFL university students as participants. Questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and reflective notes were used to obtain data in this study. Quantitative and qualitative analysis were used to analyse data, while data from interviews and reflective notes were transcribed. The results of this study showed that the students’ perception of effective teaching grammar in EFL indicated that students agree (96%) grammar is important for them. Most of the participants (more than 90%) prefer learning grammar through memorizing the rule of the language then followed by a set of examples. Other techniques have been mentioned namely listening to music, songs and poem. Learning by participating in real-life situations than developing their grammatical knowledge is also another technique that has been chosen.]]>
<![CDATA[Students’ Difficulties in Writing Paragraph at Tenth Grade of SMKS Pembina Bangsa ]]>
<![CDATA[Ratma Deli]]>;
<![CDATA[Arifmiboy Arifmiboy]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 6, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v6i2.135
<![CDATA[This research was aimed to discover students’ difficulties in writing a paragraph in tenth grade. It was done at SMKS Pembina Bangsa Bukittinggi. The researcher found some phenomenon’s that faced students with the difficulty in writing; the students had a lack of vocabulary, some students had difficulty in finding and expressing the ideas, and low motivation in writing. The purpose of the research is to know the level of students’ difficulties in writing the paragraph. The design of this research was a survey. The population and sample of this research were the students at the tenth TKJ class of SMKS Pembina Bangsa Bukittinggi. Technique sampling of this research was the total sampling technique. The number of students was 30 students. The instrument that has been used is a questionnaire. Technique analysis of the data was collected, tabulated, calculated, found the mean, categorizing the data, and making the conclusion. N Based on the finding and analysis of the data of this research, the researcher found some problem that faced by student in writing a paragraph, the level of difficulties was “high” with 83,04%, with the interpretation of the data ≥ 70% - ≤ 90%.]]>
<![CDATA[Transitivity Process on Dendang of Randai in the Art Performance of Minangkabau Culture ]]>
<![CDATA[Muhammad Egi Wirdiansyah]]>;
<![CDATA[Zuindra Zuindra]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 6, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v6i2.161
<![CDATA[This research aimed to explore the dendang of randai to be analyzed in perpective of Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) proposed by Halliday (2014). The researchers wanted the lyrics of dendang to be analized using a theory of Halliday in the text of Randai itself. The researchers used four dendang lyrics namely oepning Dendang, Dendang Simarantang, Gurindam Indang Payakumbuh, Gurindam Bacarai Kasiah. The researchers analyzed dendang using the types of transitivity process as the linguistic approach. The researchers used the Systemic Functional Linguistics developed by M.A.K Halliday. The data collection applied in this research by using books, articles in some jourlnals, e-books and other resources. The results showed that there were 6 types of transitivity process in which 8 sentences of material process, 4 sentences of mental process, 7 sentences of relational process, 15 sentences of verbal process, 2 sentences of behavioral process, and 2 sentences of existential process. The most dominant type of transitivty process found in dendang is verbal process.]]>
<![CDATA[English Language Lecturers’ Perception About Learner Autonomy ]]>
<![CDATA[Tesa Yoshika Puteri]]>;
<![CDATA[Loli Safitri]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of English Language and Education Vol 6, No 2 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.31004/jele.v6i2.163
<![CDATA[The English language lecturers’ perception about learner autonomy is important in order to help their learners develop their learning autonomy in the classroom. The purpose of this research was to know what was the English Language Lecturers’ Perception about Learner Autonomy. The descriptive quantitative research has the English lecturers of IAIN Bukittinggi as subject of the research. There were 11 English lecturers that used as the sample in this research. The instrumentation in this research was questionnaire. In analyzing the data, the researcher used the percentage formula. The research findings showed that most of the English lecturers were “unsure”. Data analysis was proven that there were 69 (34.84%) the total responses from the English lecturers that stated “unsure (U)” in the questionnaires about learner autonomy. In conclusion, most of the English lecturers were “unsure” about the learner autonomy.]]>
