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Research in English and Education Journal
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READ (Research in English and Education) Journal (e-ISSN 2528-746X) is a peer-reviewed and open access academic journal published by the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It highlights and publishes works in the parameters of English education disciplines with notable attention to English language teaching and learning, linguistics, and literature. This journal accommodates students, lecturers and academicians in these fields as a compass to maneuver their work with broader audiences both within and outside academia. Its end is to offer a plausible and accessible venue for the distribution of their scholarly work into the public, professional, and academic discussion.
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An Analysis of Language Dominance in Students’ English Arabic Conversation at an Islamic Boarding School Ulvia Zuhra; Masrizal Mahmud
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 5, No 3 (2020): August 2020
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The objectives of this study are to figure out what language is dominantly used by the bilingual students and what factors affect the use of one language over the other. Employing qualitative method, the study was conducted at Dayah Modern Arun Islamic Boarding School Lhokseumawe. The researcher selected the first, second and third grade of senior high school students as the respondents, with only five students selected from each grade, resulting in a total of 15 female students to be observed and interviewed. The data were collected by means of recording the students’ conversation during the lunch time and interviewing them to investigate factors that affect the use of a particular language. Using Bedore’s et al. (2012) benchmark of language dominance, students were considered bilingual dominant if their use of a language is between 80% and 60% in their dominant language and between 20% and 40% in their other language. The results indicated that the five students of the first grade were all Arabic dominant, while the five students of the second grade and the four majorities of students of the third grade were English dominant and Arabic dominant, respectedly. The results from the interview revealed that four factors influenced the dominant use of a specific language, namely preference, knowledge background, environmental factor and grammatical background.
The Analysis of Negotiation of Meaning Strategy Used by English Teacher in Classroom Interaction Lidya Rahmah; Endang Komariah; Iskandar Abdul Samad
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This paper reports on analysis the negotiation of meaning strategy employed by English teacher in classroom interaction. This qualitative research conducted at SMAN 3 Banda Aceh. The result of the research showed that the second-grade English teacher used negotiation of meaning strategy in which appeared in different amount and frequency. Trigger appeared as the most frequent component of negotiation of meaning strategy produced by the teacher during the interaction, meanwhile, self-modification of response (SMR) is the most significance way the teacher response the students’ signal in negotiating the conversation. In the wake of conducting this research, bringing negotiation of meaning strategy in dealing with communication impasses in the classroom in exceptionally proposed for both teacher and EFL students.
An Analysis of Code Mixing Used by Students in Learning English Eka Maulidar; Bukhari Daud; Nurul Inayah
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This research focused on analyzing the use code mixing in the terms of types and most dominant type used by students at SMA N 1 Bandar Baru. The objective of this study is to measure the frequency of code mixing occurrences and the most dominant type that students used. The research methodology used in this research was descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this research were the students at SMA N 1 Bandar Baru. The subject are selected by using random sampling which the researcher randomly chooses the students from eleven grade. This research used observation in collecting the data. The researcher observed, recorded the data and take notes from the beginning until the end of the class. The data collection was done in three meetings a week and was take 90 minutes in one meeting. The result form observation shows that there were three types of code mixing used by students in in learning process, namely intra sentential code mixing , intra lexical code mixing and involving change of pronunciation. Intra sentential code mixing was the dominant type used by students in learning process, with total 72 utterances which is 61 utterances (85%) included intra sentential code mixing, 7 utterances (10%) included intra lexical and 4 utterances (5%) included Involving change of pronunciation.
An analysis of Illocutionary acts in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Movie Fitriani Fitriani; Masrizal Mahmud; Chairina Nasir
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An illocutionary act is an act that happens when the speaker utters something to the hearer. The purpose of the current research is to find out the types of illocutionary acts dominantly used in the Fantastic Beast:  The Crime of Grindelwald movie spoken by the main character “Newt”. The source of the data was Fantastic Beast: The Crime of Grindelwald movie and the movie script. The research design used in this study was a descriptive qualitative research with documentation analysis as the technique of data collection. In analyzing the data, the researcher used content analysis proposed by Miles Huberman (1994). The research shows that there were 131 illocutionary acts found in the movie. The findings show representative type is the most dominant used by the main character in this movie with 78 data.  The second place is the directive type with 26 data. And then expressive type with 18 data. Commissive type with 8 data and the last type is declarative with only 1 data. Those 131 illocutionary acts are then categorized as types of illocutionary acts proposed by Searle (1969). The results of these Illocutionary acts enhanced the deep meaning in the utterances of the movie mentioned above and made it understandable.
The Effect of the Use of Picture/Image as a Supporting Tool of Instructional Management of Scientific Approach on the Writing Skill Improvement Desi Wulansari
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One of the efforts to solve the students’ problems in writing is to use picture media, combined with scientific approach. This research aims at finding aspects of writing that can be improved through the combination of such media and approach. In addition, the research also intends to see which aspects of writing can be the most significantly improved by means of such a combination approach. Other objective is to find if students’ response toward the use of picture of scientific approach is positive. This is a quantitative approach with experimental study of randomized pretest-posttest group design. The samples are selected by using random sampling technique. The instruments are tests and questionnaires. The data is analyzed by using t-test for test and percentage for questionnaire. The result showed that picture media combined with scientific approach can improve students’ writing skill in those five areas of writing skill (content, vocabulary, organization, language use and mechanic). Out the five areas, the   ‘language use’ is the most significantly improved. Other finding showed that most students’ responses toward the use of picture media and scientific approach are positive.  Thus, it can be recommended that teachers may use such a combination instructional approach in teaching writing. In conclusion, the use of picture media combined with scientific approach may be an appropriate choice for the teachers in their efforts to improve their students’ writing skill.

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