International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics (IJRETAL) provides a forum for disseminating information and views which enables practitioners of and researchers in EAP to keep current with developments in their field and to contribute to its continued updating. IJRETAL publishes articles, book reviews, conference reports, and academic exchanges concerning the linguistic, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic description of English as it is used for the purposes of academic study and scholarly exchange. A wide range of linguistic, applied linguistic, and educational topics may be treated from the perspective of English for academic purposes; these include: -classroom language, -teaching methodology, -teacher education, -assessment of language, -needs analysis; -materials development and evaluation, -discourse analysis, -acquisition studies in EAP contexts, -research writing and speaking at all academic levels, -the socio-politics of English in academic uses and language planning.
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INDONESIAN EFL STUDENTS’ WRITING ANXIETY IN POST-PANDEMIC ONLINE CLASSROOM CONTEXT: A SURVEY
Fina Sulfiana;
Nia Kurniawati;
Dahlya Indra Nurwanti
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 2, No 2 (2021)
Publisher : Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Bone
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v2i2.2452
ESL and EFL students consider writing as challenging in both cognitive and affective aspects. In ideal circumstances, they may suffer from difficulties during the writing process, including anxiety or even tension. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic condition has made the teaching and learning writing more complicated due to limited time and space to meet, to discuss, to collaborate, and to give as well as take feedbacks for their writing. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the types of writing anxiety experienced by EFL students in online Creative Writing class during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia context. The research utilizes a quantitative method, specifically a survey technique. The online survey is administered to 124 participants of English Education Department at the fourth semester. To assess the levels and types of writing anxiety, the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) established by Cheng (2004) was utilized in this study. The SLWAI was the first reliable instrument for assessing writing anxiety, particularly in a second or foreign language context. The results of this study show that the most common type of participants' writing anxiety is Avoidance Behavior (66.13%) then followed by Cognitive Anxiety (20,97%), and Somatic Anxiety (12.90%) as the minor type. The Avoidance Behavior type includes behavioral components of anxiety, such as the avoidance of writing. In conclusion, students of Avoidance Behavior type with have a normal level of nervousness since they seek to avoid writing situations. This study suggests that school teachers be more prepared to create online writing classroom atmosphere.
STUDENTS DIFFICULTIES IN PRONOUNCING VOWELS AT GRADE VIII MTs.S NU BATAHAN
Resdila Pratiwi
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 2, No 1 (2021)
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v2i1.2444
This research was to find out students’ difficulties in pronouncing vowels, particularly, in singing Maher Zain song entitled “I believe”. In order to achieve the objectives, this research was conducted through qualitative study with case study design. The subject of this research was the eight-grade students of MTs.S NU Batahan in academic year 2021/2022 that consists of 90 students. The subjects were obtained through purposive sampling. The data of students’ difficulties in pronouncing vowels as well as the reason were attained through pronunciation test, interview and observation. Based on the result of observation, interview, and test, it was found that: 1) the difficulties that faced by students in pronouncing vowel are lack of ability in pronouncing diphthongs [iə] [eə][uə][ei][ᴅi][oi] [əu] [ᴅu]. the students often pronounce consonant “r” clearly instead of long vowels [ə:],[ᴅ:] [ɔ:]. They found it difficult to pronoun the word that consist of double consonant.
The students’ speaking anxiety: Psycho-social approach
Syahriana Pratiwi;
Muhammad Zuhri Dj.;
Hasriati Nur
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 1, No 1 (2020)
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v1i1.1195
This thesis presents research about “Analyzing the Students Speaking Anxiety by Using Psycho-social Approach” The sample consists of 10 students of Al-hasib class at the second grade SMA Islam Athirah Bone. The objective of this research are (1) to analyze the reduction of the students’ speaking anxiety by using psycho-social approach. (2) to know the factors that cause students of SMA Islam Athirah Bone to get anxiety in Speaking. This research uses qualitative method by analyzing data using test, observation and interview.The result of the research shows that the students of the eleventh grade of Al-hasib class of SMA Islam Athirah Bone reduces anxiety in speaking by using psycho-social approach. It supported by the existence of social interaction that are often carried out able to make students more confident and no longer anxious, Controlling the students’ emotional in studying situation, Relaxation and motivation. They get more guidance from their English teachers such as being relax, preparing the preparation before studying or perform and positive thinking. The most dominant points are relaxation and motivation.The students have some factors in anxiety, they are lack of preparation, learners’ belief about language learning, fear of making mistakes and personal and interpersonal factors. The most dominant factors are lack of preparation and fear of making mistake.
USING WHATSAPP AS A LEARNING MEDIA IN TEACHING WRITING
Hasliani Wibowo;
Andi Muhammad Yauri;
Uswatun Hasanah
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 2, No 1 (2021)
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v2i1.2448
This paper discusses about the use of WhatsApp application as a learning media in teaching writing at the eleventh grade students of SMAN 2 Bone academic year 2020/2021. The study aimed to find out the teacher implementation of using the WhatsApp application in teaching writing at the eleventh grade of SMAN 2 Bone. In addition, also to find students' perceptions in using the WhatsApp application in teaching writing at the eleventh grade of SMAN 2 Bone. This research includes qualitative research with descriptive qualitative. Sampling in this research using purposive sampling technique, where the sampling technique was to took one teacher and ten students. The data was collecting by observation and interview. This research researcher analyzed data by reduction, display and drawing conclusions/verification. The result of the research that the teacher implementation used of WhatsApp application in teaching writing was carried out by utilizing the features of the application, however the use of the WhatsApp application was not optimal because it was recommended for teacher to make learning variations to attract students’ interest in learning. According to students the used of this application can help in collecting assignments easily.
Semiotic analysis to the cultural content in the EFL textbook
Nuriah Fadliah Husain;
Muhammad Zuhri Dj.;
Musfirah Musfirah
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 1, No 2 (2020)
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v1i2.1230
This research studied an EFL textbook entitled “Be smart in English for grade X of Senior High School Linguistics and Cultural Studies” to find out two things within it. Those are the types of culture and cultural meaning represented through its texts and images within the EFL textbook. To determine the types of culture, the researcher uses categorization proposed by Cortazzi and Jin while to reveal the cultural meaning, the researcher uses Pierce’s semiotic principal. The researcher conducts a descriptive qualitative research specifically library research because the researcher got the main data from the document review. In addition, semiotic analysis is used in this research to have a complexity analyzing of the cultural sign. The result of this study shows an imbalance portion of cultural content appearance. The percentage shows in four types of cultures that there are 25 of source culture appearance (21%), 15 times of target culture appearance (13%), 10 times of International culture appearance (8%), and neutral culture appeared as much 69 times (58%). Then, cultural content that has been analyzed using semiotic analysis presented the cultural content appeared majority from image as much 73 times (61%) and texts as much 46 times (39%).
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PARTS OF SPEECH MASTERY AND WRITING ACHIEVEMENT
Cici Wahyuni;
Loli Safitri
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 2, No 2 (2021)
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v2i2.2453
This research was done because there were some problems in students’ writing, especially in parts of speech mastery. The parts of speech as a basic of grammar seem to be necessary in the process of language learning. If the students understand this, the students may construct sentence easily and the students may understand the differences between the words. Relate to this condition, the researchers wanted to investigate the correlation between parts of speech mastery and writing achievement at 11th students of MAN 4 AGAM in Academic Years 2020/2021. The design of this research was correlation research. The population of this research was all students at XI Grade of MAN 4 AGAM in academic years 2020/2021 which consist of 4 classes. The sample was 39 students taken by purposive sampling technique. The instruments of this research were test and documentation for collecting writing score of the students. To analyze the data, the researchers used the SPSS version 20 for windows. In analyzing the data, the researchers used Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient to search and to find the correlation between two variables. The researchers found that the coefficient of correlation between students’ mastery in parts of speech and writing achievement at the 11th students of MAN 4 AGAM was 0,376. The correlation was positive and significant. It means that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. Thus, there was positive correlation between students’ parts of speech mastery and writing achievement at the 11th grade students of MAN 4 AGAM.
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF CONTESTANT’S SPEECHES IN SPEECH CONTEST OF "STEC FESTIVAL BAHASA" COMPETITION AT IAIN KUDUS
Alfu Nikmah
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 2, No 1 (2021)
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v2i1.2442
Conducting speech contest in the college belongs to learning process in developing language skill. It is a kind of public speaking as realization of communicative competence in teaching and learning process. It conveys the message delivered to the audience. Message must be prepared in written form before it is performed . then the teacher must guide the students in constructing the text in delivering the message. Speech was performed has to fulfill the structure of organization and supplementary components. One of the strategic in delivering good speech is rethorical language. Rethorical languge consist of suppoting language developed in the speech for example hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, repetition, irony, metonymies and rethorical question. This study conducted the the reseach to determine the importance speech in the teaching and learning proses. This study analysed the structure of the text. Moreover this study also revealed the rethorical language of the winner of speech competition held in IAIN Kudus. It was conducted using descriptive qualitative method in which the data anlysis used content anaysis. Based the analysis ,It was found that there were 9 items of rethorical language from the speech text that consist of 5 metaphors and 4 rethorical questions.
Descriptive analysis of the english teacher’s code switching
Nurul Isma Ishak;
Muhammad Zuhri Dj.;
Hasriati Nur
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 1, No 1 (2020)
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v1i1.1196
This study aims to determine the code-switching used by English teachers in teaching English at SMA Pesantren Putri Al-Manawwarah. There is one problem in this study, namely the types of code-switching used by the research subject in teaching and learning of English at SMA Pesantren Putri Al-Manawwarah. The researchers conduct descriptive-qualitative research. This study uses a qualitative approach because the data are spoken. Therefore, it is interesting to observe this phenomenon to find out the types. The data collection are; observation, recording, and note. The result of this study shows that the details of code-switching used by the teacher. In the English teaching and learning process within 2x45 minutes, there are 114 utterances in English teaching and learning process which are pronounced by the teacher. There are three types of code-switching (inter sentential code-switching, Intra sentential code-switching, and tag switching). According to the type, there are 59 utterances of code-switching. The number of inter sentential code-switching is 31 utterances (53%), Intra sentential code-switching is 14 utterances (24%), and tag switching is 14 utterances (24%).
THE EFFECT OF FLIPPED CLASSROOM STRATEGY IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SELF-REGULATION LEARNING
Feny Martina;
Zelvia Liska Afriani;
Latifatul Jannah
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 2, No 2 (2021)
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v2i2.2449
This study investigates the flipped classroom strategy that will be used by an English teacher to improve students' self-regulation. This study uses a quasi-experimental method. The data were collected using self-regulation measurement questionnaires. The questionnaires distributed to the students were adopted from ADPI of (1989) about self-regulation. The number of questionnaires is 28 statements consist of three aspects, namely, cognition, behavior and motivation. Moreover, the indicators consisting of seven aspects to measure, that is to say: 1) Rehearsal Strategy, 2) elaboration Strategy, 3) Self-Testing, 4) Assignment Prepare Organization, 5) Time Management, 6) Schedule Planning, 7) Learning atmosphere. The research was conducted at SMKIT DARUL FIKRI North Bengkulu. The researcher found that the results of this study showed a statistically significant effect of the Flipped Classroom Model on self-regulation learning. The increase in student self-regulation was seen in the post-test average score of the experimental class of 95.03, higher than the post-test average value of the control class of 75.68. This found proof that the flipped classroom model had a significant effect on students' self-regulation learning.
Identification the students’ pronunciation problems in pronouncing –ed ending at English Study Program of IAIN Bone
Nunu Wahyuni;
Muhammad Zuhri Dj.;
Hasriati Nur
International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics Vol 1, No 2 (2020)
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DOI: 10.30863/ijretal.v1i2.1231
This paper presents research about “Identification the Students’ Pronunciation Problems in Pronouncing –ed ending at English Study Program of IAIN Bone”. The sample consists of 5 students at the third semester in IAIN Bone. This research uses qualitative method by analyzing data using observation and interview. This paper aims to show the problems that students faced in pronouncing the –ed ending words. The result showed that most of the students were difficult to pronounce the –ed ending words correctly. They did not know how to pronounce and differentiate the words with final –ed, -d, or -t. The problems encountered by the students in pronouncing –ed ending caused by their lack of knowledge of the pronunciation of –ed ending. It is also possible that they do not know the theory well, and they are not able to practice it orally. So, the researchers concluded that there are some problems affecting the students’ ability to pronounce the –ed ending words. It because the students could not differentiate which one is final of /d/ id / and t/, the students also have lack of knowledge about –ed ending words.