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RETAIN (RESEARCH ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN INDONESIA)
ISSN : 23562617     EISSN : -     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.
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EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ SUMMARIES: THE PRODUCT AND THE RESPONSE
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Students can do some ways to help them in the learning process in English class. One of them is summarizing from both lectures or books. This research focuses on the book summarization written by EFL students. Summarizing may help the students to comprehend the materials from the sourcebook.  Therefore, this research aimed to identify the type of summaries used by EFL undergraduate students and to describe their responses toward summary writing. This study was conducted in a university in Surabaya. The researcher used two instruments to collect the needed data which were the Type of Summaries rubric proposed by Horney (2009), and the second is focus group discussion. After getting the data, the results were analyzed qualitatively by occupying the three stages; familiarizing & organizing, coding & reducing, and interpreting & representing. The results showed that type of summaries used by the students were copy one sentence, copy multiple sentences, own words, and combination type. Moreover, it is also found that the students had difficulties in the process of summarizing. In conclusion, it is proven that students still plagiarized when summarizing from the source book and, they did not know how to summarize effectively. The implications of these findings are considered for academic individual to explore their students with summarizing and paraphrasing strategies.
Teacher's Decision-Making in Implementing Feedback in Senior High School
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In teaching-learning process, the teacher is required mastering not merely the subject knowledge but also the pedagogical knowledge. In dealing with feedback, the issue is the teacher deal with the effective and efficient action in fulfilling their roles as a teacher. To accomplish effective and efficient feedback, the teacher needs to create a right decision with a time restriction. Griffith, et al. (2013) proposed that the basic teaching skill is decision-making and every teaching act in class is the result of decisions. However, the teacher faces the time restriction in deciding the right feedback for their students. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to seek and describe the teacher's decision-making in implementing feedback. This research was designed as a qualitative research. The subjects of this research were four English teachers in senior high school. The semi structured interview was applied to get the data. Then, the results were analyzed and interpreted in the form of narrative and descriptive form. The findings have shown that the teacher's consideration in applying feedback is student's need, student's condition and teacher's belief. The teacher applied the decision-making rational and intuition. Keywords: teacher, decision-making, feedback.  
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN READING STRATEGIES AMONG VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
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Second language learners use different reading strategies so they can comprehend a text. Nevertheless, generally recognizing the value of reading strategies is that some work on whether or not ESL male and female have similar or different strategic reading habits has different results. This research was conducted to determine what reading strategies are reported to be used by male and female students when they are taught using three-phase approach and whether the use of such reading strategies varies between male and female or not. Researcher performed this study in quantitative approach in survey design. The system is questionnaire. The researcher was conducted as the subject in SMKN 1 JOMBANG, with 10th grade students. The result of the study showed that both male and female student actively applied some reading strategies in their reading process. Male and female have similarity in their preferences in using reading strategy, they also have differences in using some reading strategy.
English Learning Materials for Grade XI Students of Multimedia Study Program
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English is one of the subjects that must be taught in school or university. In high school, the syllabus for senior high school and vocational school is the same based on the 2013 curriculum. This is not in line with the theory of English for Specific Purposes where vocational high school has different majors and requires specific English material that is appropriate for each majors. Therefore, designing English material is needed to fulfill the needs, interests and demands of students, especially for multimedia students. This study was conducted to find out what material should be included for Multimedia major and to describe how English material for multimedia majors was developed. This research was used the Research and Development method adapting the procedure suggested by Gall and Borg (2003). The results of this study showed that the materials that must be included for multimedia major are materials related to technology and multimedia. Then, activities that must be provided are reading and speaking in English; audio/video related to multimedia; and discussion for teaching technique. Based on the teacher's opinions on the developed material, several components such as language, content, and graphics as well as the material categorized as appropriate materials since it based on the multimedia students' needs.
Lecture’s Oral Feedback toward Sophomore College Students’ Speech Errors
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Lecturers or teachers can find students who made speech errors easily on the students’speaking performance. One of the way to help the students reduced their speech errors is through oral feedback. This study was conducted to find out how does the lecture provided oral feedback to each type of speech errors that the students made. The subject of this study was the lecture which gave oral feedback to the sophomore college students in academic speaking class. The researcher used observation as the data collection technique. The result from this study showed that The lecture used descriptive feedback, evaluative feedback and corrective feedback as the main feedback for the seven types of speech errors. Each type of speech errors that the students made gets their specific oral feedback from the lecture. Each type of feedbacks that the lecture did have their own purpose of helping the students to reduce their speech errors.
Oral Corrective Feedback on Student's Writing in Secondary EFL Classroom
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Corrective feedback which purposes to assist teacher and student towards the error both in English language learning as second and foreign language is widely gave in language teaching and learning. The current study focused on describing corrective feedback on spoken form on student’s writing in secondary EFL classroom. The researcher also described the kinds of oral corrective feedback that given by the teacher and student’s responses towards corrective feedback orally. Basic interpretative study research design is used and the subject of the study were 36 EFL student in one of secondary Indonesian classroom. The researcher used two instruments which were field notes and video recording as the supplementary instrument to answer the first two research questions followed by two other instruments to answer the last research question, they were questionnaire and interview. The result showed that the teacher gave oral corrective feedback to correct student’s error on writing using two kinds, namely clarification request and metalinguistic feedback. In addition, the students were also interested in receiving feedback orally to assist them in improving the errors. Keywords: oral corrective feedback, student’s writing, secondary EFL classroom.
Using Storytelling Technique To Teach Speaking For Tenth Graders Of Senior High School
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English has a significant part to play in our lives. It is one of the essential means which people from different countries can communicate and express ideas. English is being given and taught to students today, from elementary to university. Essentially, individuals need correspondence with others. To do this, they need language to communicate their inclination, thoughts, and wants to other people. Learning English means learning four major skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Besides four language skills, it also learns three important components such as pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. This research aimed to describe (1) how the implementation of storytelling technique in students speaking skills and (2) how student’s response toward the implementation of storytelling technique. The research take place in SMAN 1 Bangsal. The observation was done in the classroom. The data was taken from both verbal and non-verbal activities and then it was in the form of fieldnotes. The result of this research can be concluded that using storytelling technique is effective than memorization since it provides learning vocabulary and grammatical in context rather than memorizing words in isolation. Keywords: storytelling, speaking

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