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RETAIN (RESEARCH ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN INDONESIA)
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ISSN : 23562617     EISSN : -     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
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.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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The Use of Authentic Materials to Enhance Students’ Speaking Ability in Secondary EFL Classroom Inezfarrah, Adinda Chika
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The purpose of this research is to determine whether the use of authentic material has an impact on enhancing EFL students' speaking ability. Conducted in MTs Unggulan in Surabaya, this research uses two classes of 8th grade, divided into two groups, experimental class and control class. This research uses authentic materials taken from YouTube, BBC official website, and several internet materials as a media to learn daily conversation. A quantitative method with a quasi-experimental design is used in this research. The data were collected by spoken tests, which are pre-test and post-test. The results presented a difference between the learning using authentic material and ones without authentic material. The asymptotic significance post-test value from Mann-Whitney is .00 < .05, with the median control group is 67.00, and the median from the experimental class is 75.00. This value shows authentic material is more effective to use as a medium to learn speaking for EFL students. Also, it is recommended to use as an appropriate alternative to enhance student’s speaking competence.
Reading Self-Efficacy in EFL Students' Critical Reading Strategies Kusuma, Ivan Ilham
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Critical reading has become the key to students’ academic success. Many factors play an important role in the students’ critical reading, such as their reading self-efficacy. Considerable amount of research has found the contribution of reading self-efficacy towards students' reading strategy use. Reading self-efficacy can help students to determine the use of their knowledge and skill they have learned (Pajares, 2002), and explain why the same learner performs differently at different times. The present study thus attempted to find out the correlation between self-efficacy and EFL students' reading strategy use in Critical Reading. This study used quantitative method as the research design. Two questionnaires were distributed to 30 English Department students of a university in Indonesia. Positive moderate correlation was found between reading self-efficacy and reading strategy (r = 0.548, sig. at 0.01 level) so that this study supported that self-efficacy was correlated with the students’ reading strategy use.
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND CHALLENGES ON PEER FEEDBACK OF EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ WRITING Kurniawati, Heny Nursela
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Peer feedback is an excellent tool to improve the students’ writing performance. Also, peer feedback often considered as an important learning strategy. In this view, the aims of the study are to identify two things related to the EFL university students’ perceived and challenges in the implementation of peer feedback in their learning process as an evaluation to the development of peer feedback learning strategy that is used for the future, especially in the field of improving the implementation of the learning process. This research design was a basic qualitative study that explores the students’ experiences in a particular phenomenon. In addition, the researcher used an open-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interview instruments to obtained the data. The subject of the study involved 15 EFL university students of English Department in Surabaya, East Java. The technique that is used to conducted this research was purposive sampling. The result of the study revealed that (1) The EFL university students gave positive perceptions toward peer feedback implementation. The EFL university perceived that peer feedback give various benefits, views, also suggestions to the EFL university students’ writing performance. Then, involving the EFL university students in peer feedback implementation could raise awareness of their writing performance, monitoring, evaluating, and developing their own goal and plan of learning. (2) The challenges faced by the EFL university students becomes a shared experience by the EFL university students’ who involving in peer feedback as the learning process. These proved that peer feedback implementation is the truly valuable tool for improving writing performance. The conclusion and suggestion for teacher, educator, or teaching staff and future research are discussed.
The Undergraduates’ Perceptions About Learning Public Speaking Online by Using Zoom Kinasih, Tita
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Speaking is one of the English language skills that must be taught to students. However, due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the government ordered schools including universities to conduct online learning. One of the platforms used by universities to support their online learning was using Zoom. The aims of this research were to describe the student’s perception about the implementation of online learning by using Zoom in Public Speaking class and about the use of Zoom as a learning tool to learn speaking. This research used survey research and involved 56 students from 2rd semester as respondents. The results of this research indicated that for students' perceptions of the application of online learning using Zoom in public speaking classes, students agreed with some statements that online learning via Zoom was suitable for the current situation because it could smooth the learning process, thus students enjoyed the learning process and felt involved in the class. Meanwhile, related to students' perceptions of the use of Zoom as a learning tool for public speaking classes, students responded with positive results or agreed to all of the components given, more clearly explained in the results and discussion.
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF EXTENSIVE READING PROGRAM IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UNESA Poetra, Arnanto Anggara
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These days, Extensive reading (henceforth ER) has become an alternative technique for teaching reading. ER requires learners to always read anywhere anytime since the purpose of ER is to enhance students’ reading skill. This case study, intended to look into students’ perception of the ER approach, used qualitative research design with four respondents from two different classes at English Language Education Study in State University of Surabaya. The data were gathered from the interview as the main source, observational notes and documents analysis as the confirmatory data to support the triangulation. Here, it is shown that ER increased students’ interests in reading, and built their awareness in reading either in or beyond class so that it became habitual for them to read more and upgrade their reading level, and as such, their perception of ER fits the characteristics of ER. In addition, it is recommended that the efficiency of ER should be bettered, and further studies are necessitated to analyze how lecturers can modify the class to make an output product from ER that can be used throughout generations, such as storybooks, dialog books etc.
MORAL VALUES OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN MALAY FOLKLORE "THE HISTORY OF BATU BARA" Mafazah, Lailatul
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As a form of expression or stories lived and developed by traditional people, folklore has an important role in the education field. The moral values of the main character obtained in folklore can be a good lesson and good model character for the reader. This study aimed to identify and describe the moral values of the main character delivered in the Malay folklore entitled "The History of Batu Bara". This method of research is the descriptive qualitative method. The source of data used of the research is a story taken from book entitled “Antologi Cerita Rakyat Batu Bara” written by Yolveri et al., and published by Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sumatera Utara Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. The findings of this research found that the twelve moral values of the main character can be used as a good moral lesson. These moral values ​​namely: (1) respect for humans, (2) Respect for women, (3) dedicated, (4) fair, (5) loyal, (6) friendly, (7) polite, (8) trustworthy, (9) democratic, (10) respect for sexuality and family life, (11) nationalist, (12) respect for culture and tradition.
Using YouTube for Speaking in Online Learning: EFL Students’ Perception and Difficulties khoiroh, shoburotin Annur
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Abstract This study aims to investigate student’s perception toward the use of YouTube in EFL speaking skill during online learning and to know student’s difficulties and how they solve them. This study involved 32 participants from non-English department students consisting 4 males and 28 females. To collect the data, the researcher uses open-ended questionnaire. To analyze the data, researcher used three steps, there are familiarizing and organizing, coding and reducing, and interpreting and representing the data. The result of the study shows that most of the participants have positive perception about the use of YouTube for speaking; as YouTube is helpful, affordable, and interesting platform to help them in some aspects of speaking. Some difficulties that students face while using YouTube are that they have internal and external difficulties. To solve the problem they use internet to browse, use YouTube features, and have discussion with friends and lecturer. Keywords: perception, YouTube, speaking skill, difficulties
The Development of Content-Based English Material for Office Administration Program in Vocational High School Rizal, Muhammad Sulton
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The teaching of English in Vocational High School is supposed to use English for Specific Purposes. It used specific materials in the process of teaching. However, not all English teachers of Vocational High School in Sidoarjo are responsive in using specific materials during the teaching and learning process. This study aims to identify the contents that should be included in the English materials for the Office Administration Program based on the result of need analysis, to develop appropriate English material for the Office Administration Program and to find out the teacher’s responses toward the English materials. This study used Educational Research and Development method in which the participants were 36 students of the Eleventh Grade and the English teacher of Office Administration Program. The data were collected through questionnaire, interview, and material adaptation instrument. The data were analyzed qualitatively by following stages, (a) organizing and familiarizing; (b) coding and reducing; and (c) interpreting and representing. The results of this study showed that the students of the office administration program need materials that contain specific contents related to their expertise such as secretary, public relation, customer service, and more like that. They agreed that the developed materials should include specific contents such as speaking skill, conversations related to the jobs in office administration, and office administration terms. In the process of developing material, the researcher applied the result of material adaptation and the syllabus designed by the researcher. Finally, the teacher stated that the material developed by the researcher is appropriately used in the teaching and learning process since the developed material can fulfil the students’ learning needs. She stated that the use of media such as illustration, audio listening, and video can help students achieve their goals in learning English. Keywords: Material development, English for Specific Purposes, Office Administration Program
The Implementation of English Podcast in Enhancing Students' Speaking Skills For Eleventh Grade Students Islami, Fernandita
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This study aimed to find out whether the implementation of English podcast in teaching and learning can enhance students’ speaking skill especially in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. There were 36 eleventh grade students from SMAN 3 Surabaya in the academic year 2020/2021 as the sample. The group was given pre-test and post-test. To collect the data, speaking tests were administered to students. The obtained data were analyzed by using paired sample t-tests. The result showed that the implementation of English podcast could enhance students’ speaking skills in eleventh grade students. SPSS Statistics was used to analyze the data, specifically by using paired sample test. The mean score of post-test was (86.33), which was higher than the mean score of pre-test (64.44). The t-test score was -24.478 and the degree of freedom (df) was 35. Accordingly, podcast was an effective and innovative technology-based learning tool in English classroom, especially in integrating speaking. Keywords: podcast, speaking skills, technology.

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