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RETAIN (RESEARCH ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN INDONESIA)
Published by Universitas Negeri Surabaya
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 Animated Cartoon Video in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text for Junior High School Students KHARIM, NASTA'INUL
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 11 No. 01 (2023)
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Human beings produce languages for interacting with others. Both in learning and teaching, learners sometimes have problems in writing paragraph, especially writing descriptive text.  One of the solutions to improve students’ writing is by giving animated cartoon video. This research employs qualitative method with research 8 grade Junior High School Students in Bojonegoro as the subjects. The purpose of the research is to describe the use of animated cartoon video in teaching descriptive text and to know students’ responses toward the use of animated video in teaching descriptive text. The research instruments used are classroom observation and interview. The researcher carried out the observation in 2 meetings. In every meeting, the teacher gave the homework in different cases, the cases were about Donald Duck, Boboboy and Upin Ipin. The result shows that the use of animated video such as Upin Ipin and Donald Duck effectively improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text. Students are able to describe the characters from the animated video completely. Moreover, students are happy when animated videos are used as a media in teaching descriptive text. The used of animated cartoon that commonly spoken was succeeded. It might be concluded  that the teaching animated cartoon  for descriptive text could support learners’ thought to write descriptive text vividly.
Digital Storytelling in Speaking Class of Vocational High School Muttaqin, Bindu Risyad
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 11 No. 01 (2023)
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The purpose of this study is that researcher want to find out about how the Digital Storytelling technique can be implemented in high school, vocational school and how the technique can help learners to improve their English speaking. Learners can use Digital Storytelling to enhance their speaking in front of the class and overcome their nervousness. In the same vein, research method used as a minor the method used research design to full fill this research and the subject of participants are the learners of vocational high school student at 10th grade. The speaking result which will be in form of speaking rubric will be conducted to collect the data. The Digital Storytelling as bridge for learners to enlarged their capability to in speaking skill. Since Digital Storytelling is used in narrative, learners get improved speaking, new vocabulary and group collaboration. As a result, it can help them to improve their ability to learn English.
Students Response toward the Implementation of Minecraft Education Edition in Writing as the Game Based Learning in Senior High School Salsabila, Devina Dinar
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 11 No. 01 (2023)
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The Covid-19 pandemic that has been felt by the whole world for more than 2 years has an impact on all factors, and one of them is education. Accompanied by technological advances, learning activities can be carried out remotely. But another impact of technological advances in the field of education is the emergence of boredom and students' enthusiasm for learning decreases. This has prompted researchers to conduct this research, by implementing Minecraft Education Edition as a Game-based Learning tool in learning to write, where students learn directly using games. This research was conducted to identify the student responses and student outcomes after the implementation of Game-based Learning using Minecraft Education Edition. The participants used in this study were 35 students  SMAN 16 Surabaya who are in class tenth grade MIPA 8 students as participants. The researcher used a qualitative descriptive design method in collecting data. Data were collected and analyzed by making observations during the teaching and learning process and interviews. Therefore, the researchers used observation sheet instruments, student assignments, and interview guides. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of Minecraft Education Edition as a Game-Based Learned to teach writing especially narrative writing in the classroom was effective. This was evidenced not only from student responses but also from student work which shows good results.
Using Microsoft Teams for Teaching Writing in Junior High School Putri, Eka Syahwalda
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 11 No. 01 (2023)
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COVID-19 pandemic causes all schools in Indonesia have to do online learning. In this case, Microsoft Teams is one of the platforms used by schools to hold online teaching-learning process. This research aimed to describe the implementation and teachers’ obstacles while using Microsoft Teams for teaching writing in junior high school. It focused on the descriptive text material which must be learned by the seventh-grade students. This qualitative research took place in one of the public schools in Surabaya by involving two English teachers who teach seventh-grade students and knows how to operate Microsoft Teams for the teaching-learning process. Based on the observation and interview results, Microsoft Teams provides great features to support the teaching process. It also found that there are some obstacles that should face by the teacher such as cannot reach out to the students who have lost connection with Microsoft Teams because of changing the phone numbers, lack of interaction with the students, and have a bad internet connection.
EFL Students’ English Speaking Motivation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in English Education Major Ibrahim, Mahanani Ilmi; Kuswardani, Rahayu
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 11 No. 01 (2023)
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Students’ motivation is one of the challenge for teacher as it is deemed essential to students’ learning activity and outcome. However, maintaining it has become a big issue for teachers during the pandemic. As the pandemic has turned the education system into taking different methods to avoid face-to-face learning, interaction and conversation to practice English for EFL learners have reduced. This present study is aimed to see the English-speaking motivation of Indonesian EFL students in English Education major. 54 EFL students from the English education program at one state university in Surabaya participated in this study. Quantitative method was used in order to collect and analyze the data An online questionnaire was distribute through Google Form in order to collect the data. The participants filled the data based on the 5-point Likert scale. The data was analyzed using SPSS and Microsoft Excel to get accurate result. The result of this study shows most students of English Education major are motivated by their goal of getting a good job (M = 4.64), to be better educated and more confident (M = 4.37), for their success in their program study (M = 4.48) and for professional growth (M = 4.33). The research also found that the participants do not except rewards when they practice their English speaking, although external factors can distract them. The overall result shows that the students of English Education major are both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated. In addition, more students are found to be exclusively intrinsic motivated than extrinsic motivated. Similar tendencies are also found in male and female students in terms of their speaking motivation.
Students and Teachers' Perception of the Use of Explicit Grammar Instruction in Ten Graders' Writing Class in Senior High School in Indonesia Izza, Novrita Nurul; Kuswardani, Rahayu
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Explicit grammar teaching is a popular type of teaching in many countries and is known to show positive results and have a positive effect on students' academic achievement. This is because teaching grammar is important, especially for English teachers, because there is a combination of writing assessment, grammar knowledge, and accuracy to complete the entire assessment score. The purpose of this research is to fill a need by studying the use of explicit grammar instruction in EFL classes in Indonesia. The study used a qualitative research technique and four data collection instruments: interviews, field notes, observation sheets, and questionnaires. The data collection was conducted in the classroom of tenth students at Senior High School. The results showed that the instructor believes that specific grammar instruction is vital. From the results regarding students' perception, it was found that 35 participants showed positive perceptions regarding the application of grammar instructions used in narrative texts. They also claim that using grammar instructions to study narrative texts can help them understand the material more easily. Further, from the teachers' perception, it can be known that the teacher feels that explicit grammar instruction is very important, especially in teaching narrative texts, because there are many uses of grammar that must be considered in such texts. It helps students understand the text and understand the language features in the narrative text.
The Correlation between Secondary Students' Reading Anxiety and Their Reading Comprehension Rohman, Fahim Fatur
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 11 No. 01 (2023)
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This quantitative study has a purpose to find the correlation between secondary students reading anxiety and their reading comprehension. The participants were 49 secondary students from one of the vocational high schools in Sidoarjo. The correlational design was used in this research. In data collecting, the researcher used a questionnaire adapted from FLRAS (Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale) by Saito (1999). To gather reading comprehension scores, researchers use the TOEFL Junior Reading Test from www.ets.org and use the CEFR scoring method as the assessment. This study was conducted in the pandemic situation, so researchers use Google Form as an online platform to gain the data. The result shows that most secondary students experience reading anxiety in the medium level with a total of 70,8% students. The result also revealed that secondary students’ reading anxiety and reading comprehension was negatively correlated. The significance level of correlation was (r = -0,396). Thus, the significance level of correlation is categorized as low correlation.
Improving Students’ Reading Ability through Instagram for Vocational High School Student Ananda, Ahmad Dhea
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This study aims to explain improving reading comprehension skills through Instagram media. The method used is a quasi-experiment method with a non-equivalent control design. The sample in this study were 57 students of class XI vocational high students in the 2021/2022 academic year with an experimental class of Building Drawing Engineering students 1 which has total 29 students and a Building Drawing Engineering 2 control class totaling 28 students. The results of the independent sample T test with a significance level of 0.98 > 0.05, then ha is accepted so that Ho is rejected and Ha can be accepted, so it can be concluded that there is a significant influence in the use of Instagram media on student’s reading comprehension skills. Instagram is media which proper to use in the learning process because it's able to improve student’s reading comprehension skills. Because Instagram as a social media has a lot of content and account to make students attract and there are some items such as pictures, videos, and long video reels.
Senior High School Students’ Experiences in Using Podcast to Learn English Speaking Kusuma Dewi, Aprilia Ayu
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In the fast-developing 21st century, various innovative media have been introduced in learning English speaking; one of the popular products of technology created to support learning English speaking is Podcast. Currently, Podcast has a variety of content that can assist and support secondary-level students in learning English speaking. Some previous studies found that Podcasts can improve students' speaking skills, but they still did not show how students make the most of Podcasts for learning to speak English. Therefore, this study aimed to find out students' experiences using Podcasts and how students make the most of Podcasts for learning English speaking. This study was a survey study. This research was carried out by surveying 15 eleventh graders in the Sidoarjo and Surabaya area, specifically, students who have experience using Podcasts to learn English speaking more than once. To collect the data, the researcher used open-ended questionnaires distributed to participants in Google Forms that spread through the Social Media. The results showed that podcasts can make it easier for students to access authentic material from native speakers since it provides kinds of Podcasts with various popular Podcast theme content. Podcasts can assist students in focusing on their aspects of speaking, such as grammar, fluency, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc. Students used the Podcast in the common ways they did while learning, such as searching the Podcast on an online platform, listening and watching, taking notes, realizing, practicing. It can be concluded that Podcast was a beneficial learning media resource for learn English speaking.
ELE Students’ Perceptions and Experiences on the Role of Intercultural Communication Course for Teaching Practice Dara Suci, Aysah Asmo
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Intercultural communication plays a crucial role in today's diverse educational settings, where teachers are tasked with fostering inclusive and effective learning environments. This study explores the perceptions and experiences of English Language Education (ELE) students regarding the role of an Intercultural Communication Course (ICC) in their teaching practice. A qualitative research approach employing questionnaires was conducted with a sample of 27 ELE students of the 2019 cohort and also conducted semi-structured interviews with a sample of six ELE students of the 2019 cohort of one state university in Surabaya who had completed ICC in their fifth semester and also done their teaching practice of their teacher education program. The findings indicate that the ICC significantly impacted students' perceptions and experiences of their teaching practice. They reported enhanced awareness of their own cultural biases and increased self-reflection, leading to more inclusive instructional practices. Participants expressed improvements in their ability to facilitate communication and resolve conflicts arising from cultural differences. Moreover, the course was seen as instrumental in developing students' confidence, incorporating culturally relevant materials and activities into their lessons. However, some challenges were identified, including limited opportunities for practical application during the course and the need for continued support and training beyond the initial ICC. Participants emphasized the importance of ongoing professional development in intercultural communication skills and suggested integrating more experiential learning opportunities within the teacher education curriculum. Further research is needed to know how the lecturer perceives the Intercultural Communication Course (ICC). The future researcher is also expected to discover how to develop the right material for ICC for ELE students to support their teaching career as EFL pre-service teachers.

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