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RETAIN (RESEARCH ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN INDONESIA)
ISSN : 23562617     EISSN : -     DOI : -
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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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Reasoning Socratic Questioning Method to Enhance University Students' Critical Reading in Critical Reading Course Ummi Abidah, Unsia Fika
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022)
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In this super busy era, students have to know how to ‘digest’ bunch of knowledge or information around them. Every place, even every hour they will have a big chance to find it. In order to build student’s perspective broader, first thing to know is about the tools that can help them to survive. This study was aimed to explore ‘what and how’ to learn reading skill in a proper way. In short, people who want to establish their learning skill of reading through it, they could take the advantage of the method for them selves not only in academic purposes but also in daily life too. This method is well-known as socratic questioning method. For the participants, the researcher has taken 5 university students from English department to filled 10 questions in the questionnaire and also to be interviewed. This study used descriptive qualitative as a research design. The researcher gave an example from a pattern of socratic method and 4 out of 5 agree that the method has asked university students to think critically, and further than that, its method also help them to read critically when they thought it is essential to read with the critical analysis. The way how they to process critical reading are quite similar but different, understanding the main ideas, finding literature review, then, breaking it down. To reach the socratic method, the students have to pass these 5 stages; wonder, hypothesis, elenchus, acceptance/rejection, action. Socratic method did not only answer their question, but also help them to analyze as further information as they keep looking for it. It is also showed that university students have to read more about some methods that can help them to read critically because there are still lots of students who do not know what socratic questioning method is.
Improving Students' Speaking Ability using Podcast Bella, Clara Claudea Oxza
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022)
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This study aims to see improvements in students' speaking ability after using podcasts as a learning media. Moreover, it tends to know the implementation of podcast for teaching speaking and students’ responses toward the implementation. The study used quantitative method to identify the students’ speaking improvement with a pre-experimental design of one group pre-test and post-test and qualitative method to examine the implementation and students’ responses. The subjects were 11th-grade students of senior high school in Indonesia. In addition, the data collection was using tests, observation, questionnaire and an interview with two students who achieved the highest and lowest post-test scores. Based on a statistical analysis of pre-test and post-test scores and the questionnaire results, it showed an increase in students' speaking ability after the use of podcasts. In fact, nine students (36%) felt that their speaking ability improved highly after using podcasts, and most of the students (64%) felt their speaking' ability improved at the intermediate level. The interview results showed that students felt that the use of podcasts was more fun than the conventional method use in the class. It was also helpful in improving the students’ pronunciation of words, adding new vocabulary, and improving students' English grammar. The advantage of using podcasts was time flexibility, while the disadvantage relates to the complexity of creating and uploading podcasts.
Students' Perceptions in Using Google Classroom as Online English Learning Platform Pratika, Nine Dera; Kuswardani, Rahayu
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Nowadays, distance learning has become an effective strategy in education to reduce the spread of Corona Virus. Google Classroom, a learning platform has become a preferable educational platform. This research investigates the students’ perceptions in using Google Classroom as an online English learning platform. It is limited towards the accessibility of using Google Classroom. The study uses a quantitative method and the questionnaires as the instrument using Likert scale given to 100 eleventh grade senior high school students in Gedangan, East Java who implement Google Classroom to learn English. The data analysis uses descriptive statistics by explaining the frequency, median and mode of the data. The result shows many students agree that Google Classroom is accessible and available on mobile phones. It has understandable features that makes students get clear learning instruction and know their learning progress and history. It helps them in submitting their assignments and it does not drain a lot of internet quota. However, they disagree about having good interaction, finding out which assignments have not been completed and saving their learning time. Meanwhile, they choose neutral for understandable learning material and non-paper usage, but a similar number choose neutral, agree and strongly agree for cheating possibility
Using Cognitive Behavioral Strategy to Overcome Affective Factors of Students' Speaking in Senior High School Rizqy, Elmira
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The aim of this study is to investigate the student speaking problemand the effect of student speaking factor trough behavioral strategy. This research used quantitative research design. This research used questionnaires and observation as instruments to gain the data. The subjects of this study are 21 students in senior high school. The data would be analyzed in quantitative-descriptive. It was found that by using cognitive behavioral strategy, students could make improvement only on affective factors while for listening ability, topical knowledge and performance condition, there is no impact at all.
Teachers' Roles in Applying Problem Solving Activity to Teach Speaking Branigan, Laura Adhi Pramadhika
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The goal of this research is to find out the teacher’s roles in applying problem solving activity to teach speaking. This research was carried out on 1 English teacher and 1 group of 36 students. The participants were the tenth graders of SMKN 1 Jombang. Observation was done to find out the teacher’s knowledge about her roles in applying problem solving activity to teach speaking. Interview also was done to the teacher to know the roles in applying problem solving activity to teach speaking. The participants also demonstrated from the questionnaire to elicit their opinion about the effectiveness of applying problem solving activity to teach speaking. The result showed the tenth graders have a positive response towards the applying problem solving activity to teach speaking.
Improving Public Speaking Skills at University Level through TED Talks Short Sessions Aprilia, Rizma Ajeng
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For English learners, being able to speak English in public circumstances is a crucial thing in the process of delivering and retaining ideas both from speakers and listeners. Nevertheless, this course is often shunned from other language skills like listening, reading, and writing. It also creates feelings of anxiety toward learners. Even scholars argued that students studying English as a second or foreign language are having higher rates of experiencing problems. Thus, the researcher was eager to implement digital short supplementary material to university students to improve their performances in public speaking classes, namely TED Talks short session videos. This research aim was to investigate the effect of TED Talks on college students' public speakingperformances. The study took one month and a half to be finished and involved 40 participants as the sample from English Education freshmen of Universitas Negeri Surabaya. The students were divided into two groups, which were an experimental group and a control group. Under experimental pretest-posttest research design, the students were assessed on their speaking performances based on the components set in a speaking rubric. The data were analyzed using an independent sample t-test using SPSS 26. The results of the study showed that there was a difference in the outcome scores between the control group and experimental group which was significant. This was evidenced in the Independent Sample t-Test with a significance value of 0.00. Then, it was confirmed on the mean data in the experimental group which is 89.10 and the control group which is 83.60. The finding of this research revealed that TED talks short sessions can be constructive and beneficial to improve college students' public speaking performances
The Article of 'High Achievers' Use of Self-Talk as a Strategy in Speaking Clarissa, Angela Nova
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Speaking in public for academic purposes is one of the most fear that undergraduate students suffer from, especially student teachers. For that case, researchers have proposedseveral strategiesfor public speakingincluding self-talk that could help students to bebetter speakers. The purpose of this study isto understand the way high-achiever students do self-talk fortheir speech performances and the frequency of their self-talk. Usingbasic qualitative data analysis, this study investigatedwhich type of self-talkhigh-achiever students’use and their way to do their self-talkduring speech performances.The research gap from existing studies is that this research elaborate focused participants, which only aimed to understand high achievers students. The researcher usedtheself-talk concept from Brinthauptas the primary theory and utilized it to determine the participants’ type of self-talk.The participants for this study were four high achiever undergraduate students. The result of this study wasthat all of the participants used self-management, there was no self-criticism found, and the frequency of the participants’ self-talk affected their communication apprehensive.
Exploring Tiktok App in Learning Speaking Using Role-Play Activities for ESL Learners in Secondary School Herwanto, Wanda Hijriani
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This study discusses the use of the TikTok apps as a form of Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) media in the speaking class of a secondary school in Indonesia. One of the speaking activities that must be mastered by students is role-play. However, learning speaking skills is always difficult for ESL and EFL students because they have less opportunity to practice speaking. From this condition, this study has a research problem: How does the TikTok App affect students' speaking ability? The objective of this study is to reveal how the implementation of TikTok as a learning medium, the benefits and obstacles experienced by students. A qualitative research design was used in this study. The instruments are interviews, observations, and open questionnaires to obtain more in-depth and objective data triangulation. The observation data were analyzed to answer questions regarding the TikTok implementation. The questionnaires and the interview data was then classified, coded, and analyzed. Both were then compared and interpreted to reveal the benefits and obstacles experienced by students. Thus, TikTok was found to be implemented in synchronous and asynchronous class. Students responses to the benefits related to the speaking aspect were also revealed. However, students were experienced obstacles, both technological and non-technical. This study is necessary to gain teacher insight about the TELL, especially the implementation of the TikTok app in secondary school speaking classes, so they can use it properly.
Using Wattpad as a Digital Multimodal Composing of Narrative Text Sari, Juliani Nur Mustika
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Digital multimodal composing has an important role to improve EFL students' writing skills in this current situation because the "digital" media can use every time and everywhere. The goal of this study is to find out what tenth-grade students think about using digital multimodal composing in narrative writing. This study was conducted with 26 students from SMKN 10 Surabaya using a qualitative method. A grading rubric and a semi-structured interview were used as data sources. The research data is gathered through observation and interviews. The collected data from interviews were organized, analyzed, coded, and interpretedto analyzed the data. The data analysis was performed to assess the digital multimodal narrative text composition. Wattpad, as a digital multimodal composing medium, helps students understand the subject, makes the learning process more interesting, increases students' motivation, and improves their writing skills, according to this study. Although many students enjoy reading stories on Wattpad, some prefer to read narrative texts in textbooks, while others claim that Wattpad takes up a lot of storage on the device. It is recommended for EFL teachers to use digital multimodal composing to make the learning process more interesting and gain the students’ motivation learning English writing.
The Use of Digital Mind Mapping to Improve EFL Student's Ability in Writing Descriptive Paragraph Sudibyo, Hari Laksono
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Abstract This study aims to know if there is any improvement in writing descriptive paragraphs taught before and after using digital mind mapping. A quantitative approach was used in this study, with a pre-experimental research design. The subject of this study is VIII-A grades, and the participants are 20 students. Testing is the instrument used in this study; there are two types of tests: pretest and posttest. This study showed that the pretest score was 49.0625, and the posttest score was 79.0625. Using SPSS Statistics 18, the mean score of the posttest was higher than the mean score of the pretest. The significance of the two-tail shown was 0,000, which means that the result of the significant level was the considerable standard level (0, 00 0, 05). According to data analysis, Tcount is bigger than To The alternative hypothesis (Ha) accepted, and the null hypothesis (Ho) rejected. It indicates that the use of digital mind mapping effectively improved students' descriptive paragraph writing. Keywords: Writing, Digital Mind Mapping, Descriptive Paragraph

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