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LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
Published by Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri Majene
ISSN : 27154408     EISSN : 27154416     DOI : https://jurnal.stainmajene.ac.id/index.php/lets/ar
Core Subject : Education,
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies (p-ISSN: 2715-4408, e-ISSN: 2715-4416) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal published biannually by English Program of Education and Teaching Training Department of State Islamic College of Majene, West Sulawesi. LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies publishes research papers which focus on the following issues: (a) language learning, teaching, and assessment, (b) second language acquisition, (c) language curriculum and material development, (d) linguistics and applied linguistics, (e) cultural issues in language studies, and English literature and cultural studies.
Arjuna Subject : Umum - Umum
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The Students' Perception towards Blended Learning in EFL Classroom during Pandemic Haenur, Harclinda; Syamsinar, Syamsinar; Marliana, Rina
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.493

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This research aims to determine the students’ perception of Blended Learning in the EFL Classroom during COVID-19 pandemic. The researcher used a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) as a research design. The researcher was collected the data from two schools in Majene regency. The result of this study shows that the students’ perceptions in Majene Regency were categorized as “undecided” toward Blended Learning from the questionnaire and interview results. The questionnaire result proved it reached a percentage 68.68%, and it was categorized as undecided based on the score category of the questionnaire in the Likert Scale. Then in the interview result, most students had a tendency to give a positive perception toward offline learning, otherwise, they preferred to give a negative perception toward online learning.
Effective Professional Development on Teaching at Islamic Boarding School: English Teachers’ Perspective Humaeroah
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.494

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The objectives of the research are to find out (1) English teachers’ perspective towards the criteria of effective teacher’s professional development activities, (2) professional development needs on teaching in Islamic Boarding School, and (3) English teachers’ barriers to participate teacher professional development activities. This study was designed as descriptive qualitative research. The subject of data in this research was English teacher in Islamic Boarding School. This research took ten English teachers as the participants of the research which is collected through purposive sampling. Data collection techniques used were interview and observation checklist. The results of the study indicated that (1) there were five criteria of effective professional development activity mentioned by the teachers in Islamic Boarding School. Those were a match to existing teacher needs, teacher involvement in the design/planning of professional development activity, active participation oppurtunities, long-term engagement, and high quality instructor. (2) It was also found six features the teacher perceived as professional development needs by the teachers. Those were content and performance standards, clasroom management, Intructional practice, ICT teaching skills, and student discipline and behaviour problem. (3) There were three barriers which fit the existing features, those were no suitable development, conflict with work schedule, family responsibilities, negative attitudes towards courses, and health problem. Besides that, the researcher also found three kinds of barrier that was not fit with the existing barriers, those are transportation problem, unavoidable condition, and unreachable information. Then, two participants expressed that they did not have any barrier to participate in professional development activities
EFL Students’ Problems and Strategies in TOEFL Test Ali, Sri Widyarti
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.510

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This study aims to investigate the students’ problems and strategies in TOEFL test. The research participants are English Department students who have finished taking the TOEFL test. This research was conducted using qualitative methods, by collecting the data through interviews. The results of this study revealed that in the listening section, participants had difficulty comprehending the words spoken orally by the speakers due to a lack of vocabulary mastery and their inability to comprehend the speakers' pronunciation. They applied several strategies to deal with this listening test, such as attempting to remain focused on listening and capturing as much detailed information as possible during the conversations. The participants also encountered difficulties in the structure and written expression section due to a lack of English grammar mastery, which caused them to answer questions incorrectly, particularly on questions about tenses, parallelism, sentence structure, and word classes. Their general strategy was to practice answering questions on the structure and written expression before taking the actual test. Recognizing the forms and characteristics of TOEFL questions was essential to minimize errors and save time. Meanwhile, in the reading test section, the participants' biggest issue was a lack of vocabulary mastery, which caused them to struggle to comprehend the passages. Thus, their strategy involved employing skimming and scanning techniques while attempting to grasp the text's main idea in order to comprehend the text's content as a whole.
The Use of Project Based Learning (PBL) with Canva to Increase Students’ Activity Niladatika, Niladatika; Nur, Rafiah; Ammade, Salasiah
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.511

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This study aimed to increase students’ activities in face-to-face learning through project-based learning with Canva. This research was one pre-experimental. The research subjects were students of SMAN 11 Pinrang class X MIPA 3, totaling 32 students. The data were collected using observation checklist tests with 5 indicators they are visual activities, oral activities, listening activities, writing activities and mental activities. The researcher was helped by four observers in observing students’ activities in three meetings. The data was then analyzed descriptively. The result of this study indicates that the first meeting was 72.49% and experienced a significant increase in the second meeting to 85.08 and the third meeting to 86.11 so that the average percentage of student learning activity observations in implementation project-based learning with Canva obtained a result of 81.22% in the active category. So, it can be concluded that students’ activity in using project-based learning with Canva at SMAN 11 Pinrang was increased.
Discourse Analysis of Language Used in the Advertisiments of VIJU Company in Social Media Handles Ahmad, Yusuf; Aliyu, Muhammad Mukhtar
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.517

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Advertisement plays a vital role in business activities and in recent years, social media has become most popularly platform of advertising product using varieties of styles. Therefore, this study examines the adverts of Viju Company in social media handles using a qualitative approach. Data for the study were collected from four adverts in Viju social media handles from 2017 to 2022.  The data were analyzed based on graphological, phonetic, lexical, grammar and syntactic features. The findings reveal five colors used by Viju Company: Blue used in background to out shadow other features, red was used in the presentation of text to symbolize passion and energy, brown and milk were used in the bottle design of the advert to symbolize the color of the product, and white is used in the presentation of logo to symbolizes purity and wholesomeness. Then yellow is used to show the taste of the product. In addition, the findings reveal graphological features of the adverts: boldness, italics, and capitalization which are used as foregrounding. The study also reveals two phonetic features of the adverts: alliteration to create good emotional sound and assonance to achieve ‘remembrance’ effect. Additionally, the study observed four lexical features employed by Viju; Metonymy giving generality to the product, Euphemism and Hyperbole to target people’s mind, to increase shock, novelty, appearance or illustrative consequences. Metaphor is used to show the quality of the product. Furthermore, grammatical features: noun, verb and adjectives are used to complement the name and function of the product. Finally, for syntactic features, the study observed that only simple sentence was used in the Viju adverts. The paper highlights some implications and makes suggestions for further studies.
The Strategies Used by The English Teachers in Teaching Vocabulary at Darul Huffadh Islamic Boarding School Nur, Serliah; Muthiah, Muthiah; Ridwan, Dian Eldyanti
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.519

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This research was carried out to investigate the strategies used by the English teachers in teaching vocabulary at Darul Huffadh Islamic Boarding School and to figure out the teachers` perception in applying the strategy in teaching vocabulary. This research was conducted using qualitative method to answer the research questions. The instruments of this research are interviews and observational checklist. The subject of this research was teachers who teach in classes 8a, 8b, 8c, and 8d. The result shows that the teachers used different strategies in teaching vocabulary, namely picture, action and movement, contrast, explanation and translation. In addition, based on the teachers` perception, those strategies were relevant to teach vocabulary to the students because the teachers can mix up more than two strategies in one meeting. Therefore, the teachers taught English using various activities and strategies to make students enjoy learning English. This research is expected to provide the teachers and prospective teachers as well as readers about strategies that are suitable to use in teaching vocabulary. The findings of this research provide some options of teaching strategies that can be considered to be used in other educational institutions
Utilizing Duolingo Application as a Learning Media in Teaching English to Enhance the Students’ Vocabulary Mastery of the Second Grade SMPIT Bina Insan Parepare Istiqamah As'ad, Nurul; Latifa, Ammang; Larekeng, Sitti Hajar
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.522

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Vocabulary is a list of words in a particular language. The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness Duolingo application for enhancing the students’ vocabulary mastery of the second grade SMPIT Bina INSAN Parepare and its effect on students’ vocabulary achievement. The design of this research was experimental research which belongs to the quantitative method. The population of this research was the entire second-grade SMPIT Bina INSAN Parepare. There were two classes, they were VIIIB consisted of 25 students who got treatment using Duolingo application and VIIIA consisted of 26 students who got treatment using conventional teaching. Then, the data were analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solutions) for Windows version 22.0. The results of this study showed that students had a positive motivation to Duolingo as English learning media in Android. The participants stated that Duolingo is easy to be used. The results of this study also revealed that learning English through Duolingo in Android was attractive to motivated learners who had no interest in learning English. Next, the results of this study showed that both participants from the interview tended to keep using Duolingo as English learning media in Android.
Fostering EFL Students’ Performance in English Syntax through Syntactic Tree Diagram Application Dzakiah, Dzakiah; Asmawati, Nur
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.523

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This research seeks to investigate the effectiveness of using Syntactic Tree Diagram application to improve the students’ performance in English Syntax and the students’ interest in using the tool in English Syntax learning process. All participants were the sixth semester students of English Tadris Program of State Islamic University Datokarama Palu, Indonesia. This research was conducted through quasi experimental study design with two groups consisted of 18 students in the experimental group and 18 students in the control group. The instruments were syntax test to collect the data about the students’ performance in English Syntax and questionnaire to find out the students’ interest. After that, the data collections were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS Program Version 23.0. The result of data analysis showed that (1) using Syntactic Tree Diagram application was more effective than drilling using the written tree diagram task to improve the students’ performance in English Syntax. It is seen from the significance t test result that reveals the significance value is lower than the significance level; 0.000 < 0.05. Furthermore, in relation to the students’ interest in using Syntactic Tree Diagram application to learn English Syntax, (2) it was found that the students’ interest in using the application was categorized as high.
Using ARIAS Model to Improve Students’ Speaking Ability at SMP Negeri 9 Parepare Nanning, Nanning; Putri, Nabilah Lathifah; Kalsum, Kalsum
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.524

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ARIAS learning model consists of assurance, relevance, interest, assessment, satisfaction which is arranged based on learning theories. The five components are one unity that requires learning process to be more effective to improve students’ confidence in speaking. Many students’ still afraid to speak and did not have any self confidence in speaking. The purpose of this research is to know whether or not ARIAS Model can improve students speaking ability at SMP Negeri 9 Parepare. This research used experiment design with pre-experimental design, the total samples were 29 students. To gain the data, this research employed pre-test and post-test as instruments. The data were analyzed by using SPSS. The result of the research showed that there was improvement of students speaking ability at SMP Negeri 9 Parepare after having taught by ARIAS Model. The students speaking skill before learning by using of ARIAS Model was 64,33. After having treatment by using of ARIAS Model, students’ speaking ability increased by 80.52. The improvement obtained t value 2.507 > 2.011, which means that there was a significant improvement students speaking ability using ARIAS Model at SMP Negeri 9 Parepare.
“I Better Not to Speak”: Micro-Culture and Identity Conflict of Female Muslim Students in Language Learning Classroom Sueb, Sueb; Hartanti, Lina Purwaning; Susanti, Arik
LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): LETS: Journal of Linguistics and English Teaching Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.46870/lets.v4i2.611

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This study investigates the identity conflict experiences of four female Muslim students involved in persuasive speech activities of a persuasive speech activity as part of Public Speaking course. The research aims to explore the micro-culture phenomena within the classroom, i.e. identity conflicts faced by the participants, strategies for identity negotiation, and the role of strategic investment in language learning. Case study approach was employed using purposive sampling based on classroom reflections at the end of the academic term to determine the participants. In-depth interviews were conducted with the selected participants in a confidential one-on-one setting. The findings contribute to understanding the relationships of micro-culture, identity conflicts and negotiation, and strategic investment in the context of language learning. The research highlights reflective process in relation to the experiences of female Muslim students and provides implications for creating inclusive and safe space for learning environments.

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