ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education
Accentia is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal that concerns the issues in the field of English language and education. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, and book reviews that are of interest to English teachers, educators, researchers, and also practitioners. The journal intends to provide an open access medium for articles with originality and novelty to further the knowledge in this field.
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<![CDATA[EFL Teacher’s View on Virtual Based Storytelling in Teaching Vocabulary for Elementary Students ]]>
<![CDATA[Dila Jessica Neolaka]]>;
<![CDATA[Risa Fitria]]>;
<![CDATA[Ika Kana Trisnawati]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 2 (2021): DECEMBER 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i2.1137
<![CDATA[Teaching English to young learners (TEYL) is different from teaching adults. Children need constant attention and assistance as well as motivating methods to keep them engaged particularly during online learning in the pandemic era these days. This study aims to investigate English teacher’s perception on teaching English vocabulary to elementary students’ by using storytelling method in a virtual environment. The study asked the following question: What is the English teacher’s perspective on teaching English using storytelling virtually during the pandemic? The study interviewed an English teacher of a private school in Bekasi, Indonesia using a semi-structured interview guide. The study found that the English teacher agreed that storytelling is beneficial to use in teaching English for young learners. In addition, the teacher mentioned that there were several issues during the online learning such as unenthusiastic students, students’ limited access to the gadgets, and students’ passive involvement during the learning. Further, in terms of teaching with storytelling, the teacher would request the students to make a video and retell stories in the textbook. This study concludes that it is paramount for English teachers to continuously provide varied teaching methods in order to solve problems faced by Indonesian elementary students during online learning.]]>
<![CDATA[Types of Plots in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner ]]>
<![CDATA[Uswatul Chaira]]>;
<![CDATA[Yuniarti Yuniarti]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 1 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i1.787
<![CDATA[This study discusses the types of plot used by Khaled Hosseini in his novel “The Kite Runner”. Plot is an element in a novel which is necessary in order to understand the storyline of the novel. The study was a descriptive study. The results showed that the plots found in The Kite Runner included maturation, escape, rescue, love, revenge, the riddle, quest, underdog, sacrifice, ascension and rivalry.]]>
<![CDATA[Cognitive Load Theory and the English Language Instruction ]]>
<![CDATA[Priscilla Maria Assis Hornay]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 1 (2021): JUNE 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i1.1015
<![CDATA[Working memory is used to process information of our mental representations and new knowledge. In learning English language, students are faced with various kinds of material and instruction that relate to the development of their knowledge and skills. However, extraneous information may overload their cognitive load and inhibit their knowledge and performances. Therefore, the theory of cognitive load effects provides a solution towards the overloading of cognitive capacity by introducing cognitive load effects. Cognitive load theory itself deals with the instructional design methods that use the limited cognitive capacity of learners. There are three sources or types of cognitive load: the intrinsic load, extraneous load, and germane load. By analyzing an English textbook for class VIII secondary level in Indonesia designed by the Ministry of Education and Culture for distance learning in the Covid-19 pandemic era, this paper points out several cognitive load principles that create a better schema construction and automation that contribute to the decreased cognitive load.]]>
<![CDATA[Language skills needed by nurses aiming to work abroad: A need analysis of English for Nursing ]]>
<![CDATA[Muntasir Muntasir]]>;
<![CDATA[Rahima Nurviani]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 2 (2020): December 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i2.849
<![CDATA[This qualitative study explored the essential English language skills that should be prepared by nurses to be eligible to work and adapt in English native speaking countries. The study also provided the information on what kind of topics or materials that should be taught to prepare the nurses who might take the English proficiency test as one of the requirement to work aboard. This study used literature review and interview as the techniques to collect the data. The literature review summarized various sources while the interview obtained data from the nurses as the respondents of this study. The results of this study showed that the nurses who wanted to work aboard need to prepare and excel their communication skill in English in order to ease them in activities such as small talk, oral and written reports, etc. Besides, mastering medical terms is also important for the nurses as it relates to their professional work.]]>
<![CDATA[An Article Review on Teaching English in English, ‘in principle’: The National Language Curriculum for Japanese Senior High Schools ]]>
<![CDATA[Yuniarti Yuniarti]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 2 (2021): DECEMBER 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i2.970
<![CDATA[This paper reviews the article written by Gregory Paul Glasgow entitled “Teaching English in English, ‘in principle’: The national language curriculum for Japanese senior high schools” published in 2014. This paper aims to examine the author’ findings on teachers’ perception of new course of study by proposing some theoretical frameworks of communicative language teaching and the planned behavior analysis perspective to support the discussion. The article author raised the issue of Japanese English teachers’ perceptions towards the recently launched national foreign language curriculum for Japanese senior high schools including a provision of English classes to be conducted in English. The author tried to clear the issue by revealing how Japanese teachers of English (JTEs) interpreted the new initiative to conduct ‘English classes in English’ in Japanese senior higher schools and the relationship between official policy expectation and JTEs’ perceived new initiative in policy implementation.]]>
<![CDATA[Implementation of Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) technique: Impact on undergraduate students' English speaking skill ]]>
<![CDATA[Fitriyasni Fitriyasni]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 2 (2020): December 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i2.853
<![CDATA[The aim of this study was to investigate whether there was any significant difference in speaking improvement between using Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) and non STAD. The study used the experimental research method and was conducted to the second year students at STAI Tapaktuan of 2017/2018 academic year with an experimental group of 19 students and a control group 20 students, selected through random sampling. Data came from pre-test and post-test which were analyzed by using t-test. The results showed that there was a significance difference in speaking improvement between the students who were taught by using STAD and those who were not. The result of t-test of the post-test was 0.00, (p-value0.05), indicating that H0 was rejected and Hₐ was accepted.]]>
<![CDATA[Teachers' Emotional Intelligence and Its Impact on Students' Motivation in Teaching and Learning ]]>
<![CDATA[Rizki Dhian Nushur]]>;
<![CDATA[Syahrul Yusuf]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 1 (2021): JUNE 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i1.1009
<![CDATA[The values of emotional intelligence possessed by teachers are one of the factors which may influence teacher performance in education. Good performance of teachers will also have an impact on students, including on students’ motivation. Students’ motivation in the learning process is one of the most important factors that must be fostered and developed because in the end it will affect the achievement of learning outcomes. This study aims to investigate the use of teachers’ emotional intelligence at an Islamic private school in North Aceh, Aceh Province and also how it impacts students’ motivation in the teaching and learning process. The study used qualitative research methods. Data were collected by observation, documentation study, and interview. The population of this study were the teachers and students at an Islamic private school in North Aceh. The results showed that the teachers have tried to understand the situation of students, carry out evaluations, and guide students to be better. The teachers also have more prominent social competences and work together with fellow teachers, administrative staff, and the surrounding community.]]>
<![CDATA[University student perceptions of English skills assessment ]]>
<![CDATA[Leni Amelia Suek]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 1 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i1.770
<![CDATA[Investigating students’ perspectives on assessment has been widely studied, however, relatively little is known about how university students respond to assessment. Assessment is an important part of teaching and learning process because it is used to measure students’ knowledge, skills and also to evaluate the program. Students’ perspectives are particularly important because the power of assessment directly impacts on their motivation and attitudes towards learning. This study focused on finding out the student perceptions of the test, test result, test procedure and feedback of four skill-subjects that they had taken. The study explored the students’ opinions of English language assessment in English Department of Universitas Nusa Cendana, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia through the draw and write technique and interview. The results showed that assessment might cause positive or negative feelings among the students. This paper helps understand how assessment impacts the students’ lives, how teacher can make a well-designed assessment to measure the students’ ability and skills properly without discouraging them from learning, and how the draw and write technique can be used to document the student perceptions.]]>
<![CDATA[Acehnese Language Shift and Its Impact to Young Generation ]]>
<![CDATA[Fitriah Ismail]]>;
<![CDATA[Rahmi Fhonna]]>;
<![CDATA[Khairun Nasir]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 1 (2021): JUNE 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i1.1030
<![CDATA[Language shift means replacing one language to another as a communication tool within a community. This study intends to investigate the factors that cause language shift among Acehnese and its impact to the young generations of Acehnese language users. The study reveals that there are two factors causing a shift in Acehnese language, namely: the external factors (i.e., culture, economy, and inter-generational transfer) and (2) internal factors (i.e, language attitude and language ability). In addition to the impact of language use, the study points out that although most of the Acehnese people are able to speak their own community language, their children are rapidly losing their language.]]>
<![CDATA[Strategies in simultaneous interpreting: A review ]]>
<![CDATA[Ika Kana Trisnawati]]>;
<![CDATA[Ayuna Netta]]>
<![CDATA[ ACCENTIA: Journal of English Language and Education Vol 1, No 2 (2020): December 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.37598/accentia.v1i2.856
<![CDATA[Simultaneous interpreting is an interpreting mode which occurs simultaneously between the interpreter and the speaker. This paper discusses simultaneous interpreting and the strategies used in simultaneous interpreting. Simultaneous interpreting gives more challenges for the interpreter since the interpreter has to translate orally what has been said within the time allowed by the speed of the speaker. Thus, it is more complicated and needs more attention to the output and active language skills.]]>
