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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS THE MEDIUM IN TEACHING SCIENCE TO THE EIGHT GRADERS OF “KELAS UNGGULAN” AT MTSN KEDIRI II
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS THE MEDIUM IN TEACHING SCIENCE TO THE EIGHT GRADERS OF “KELAS UNGGULAN” AT MTSN KEDIRI II Ana Khoirun Nikmah English Education Department, Language and Arts Faculty, Surabaya State University. Email: nikmeh08@gmail.com Rahayu Kuswardani, S.Pd, M.Appl English Education Department, Language and Arts Faculty, Surabaya State University. Abstrak Sesuai dengan program kelas unggulan, kelas yang semula hanya menerapkan proses kegiatan belajar mengajar dengan menggunakan Bahasa Indonesia sekarang diharapkan bisa menggunakan Bahasa Inggris dalam kegiatan belajar mereka, baik itu dalam hal mengajar maupun dalam pengajaran sesui materi pelajaran. Ini merupakan tantangan bagi seorang guru dalam menghadapi system pembelajaran seperti itu. Kompetensi dan keahlian guru yang baik sangat dibutuhkan dan juga dalam keseluruhan standar pengurangan Bahasa Inggris. Selain itu, system pembelajarn ini juga tidak semudah yang kita pikir. Mereka diharuskan belajar ilmu pengetahuan menggunakan Bahasa Inggris sebagai media proses belajar mengajar padahal mereka juga masih belajar Bahasa Inggris. Oleh karena itu, dalam penelitian ini, penelti melakukan penelitian yang bertujuan untuk memahami masalah diantara keahlian guru Bahasa Inggris dalam menguasai Bahasa Inggris ketika mengajar ilmu pengetahuan dan masalah siswa dalam memahami ilmu pengetahuan yang menggunakan Bahasa Inggris. Dari latar belakang yang sudah disebutkan tersebut, peneliti tertarik untuk melakukan penelitian berdasarkan situasi yand terjadi dengan judul “The Implementation of English Language as the Medium in Teaching Science to the Eight Graders of “Kelas Unggulan” at MTsN Kediri II”. Obyek penelitian dala penelitian ini adalah kompetensi gur ilmu pengetahuan dalam mengajar ilmu pengetahuan dengan menggunakan media Bahasa Inggris dan penerapannya dalam kegiatan belajar mengajar, masalah yang dihadapi guru ilmu pengetahuan selama kegiatan belajar mengajar di kelas delapan pada kelas unggulan MTsN Kediri II. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian deskripif kualitatif. Sedangkan subjek penelitian ini adalah kelas delapan pada kelas unggulan MTsN Kediri II. Dalam pengumpulan data, peneliti menggunakan dua instrument, yaitu catatan observasi dan wawancara. Catatan observasi dilakukan untuk mengetahui kompetensi guru dalam mengembangkan kemampuan Bahasa Inggrisnya dalam proses belajar mengajar. Sedangkan wawancara dilakukan untuk mengetahui usaha-usaha guru yang telah dilakukan mengembangkan dan mengatasi masalah dalam penggunaan Bahasa Inggris sebagai media pembelajaran. Berdasarkan observasi yang telah dilakukan, peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa kompetensi guru dalam berbahasa inggris harus dikembangkan, terutama kosakata dan strukturnya. Sedangkan dari hasil wawancara, peneliti mengetahui bahwa guru ilmu pengetahuan kelas delapan pada kelas unggulan MTsN Kediri II selalu mengembangkan kompetensinya untuk mengatasi masalah dalam kegiatan belajar mengajar dengan cara mengikuti kursus Bahasa Inggris dan bekerjasama dengan sebuah tempat kursus Bahasa Inggris di Kampung Inggris, Pare. Karena masalah utama di dalam kelas adalah penggunaan Bahasa Inggris pada guru dan pemahaman para murid, maka materi ilmu pengetahuan diberikan dengan tetap menggunakan Bahasa Inggris sebagai medianya. Keyword: kemampuan guru ilmu pengetahuan dalam berbahasa inggris pada “kelas unggulan” Abstract The term of “kelas unggulan”, which has been using teaching and learning in bahasa Indonesia is expected to perform effectively in English, to teach and acquire subject specific knowledge. It is one of challenges of teacher to face this reality. Good teacher’s competency and proficiency are needed and also overall declining standard of English. In the other hand it is not as simple as everyone think. They have to learn science using English as the medium of teaching and learning process whereas they also still learning English. Therefore, to understand the problem between the English teacher’s proficiency in mastery English language to teach science and the problem with the students understanding science in English. From the background above the researcher is interested in conducting research related to the situation, entitled “The Implementation of English Language as the Medium in Teaching Science to the Eight Graders of “Kelas Unggulan” at MTsN Kediri II”.The objective researches of this study are the science teacher competency in explaining science using English as the medium and the implementation of it, the problem faced by science teacher during teaching and learning process at Eight Graders in “kelas unggulan” at MTsN Kediri II. This research use descriptive qualitative research while the subject is Eight Graders in “kelas unggulan” at MTsN Kediri II. In collecting data the researcher use two instruments, they are observation field note and interview. The observation field note is used to know the teacher competency in improving her English while teaching and learning process. And the interview is used to know the effort of the teacher in improving and also facing the problem in using English as the medium of instruction. Based on the observation, the researcher concludes that the teacher’s competency in English needs to be improved, especially in vocabularies and structure. Then, from the interview the researcher knows that the science teacher of Eight Graders in “kelas unggulan” at MTsN Kediri II always improve her competency just to overcome the problem in teaching and learning process by taking English course and doing cooperation with one of big English course in kampong English, Pare. Because the main problems in the class are the English teacher and the students understanding the science material given using English as the medium. Keyword: Science Teacher’s competency in English in “kelas unggulan” INTRODUCTION In the current era of globalization, English language plays an important role in international communication. All of the aspects on live, like technology, economic, politic, art, education etc. use English Language to communicate. For example, in technology, we all know that Yamaha product is made in Japan. But when we read the direction note of Yamaha product, we will find some technical term used is English Language. We also can find this case in economic aspect. In a free market, if there are two seller were not come from English doing transaction, they will decide to use English Language to talk each other. So that is not surprising that English Language is known as the international language. In fact some countries in this world use English language to be their national language, like Singapore. And the other countries use English language as their second language besides their own national language. But in our country, Indonesia is still included in a country that used English as the foreign language. So that way is aware of along with the globalization, the need for an English language skill is increasingly apparent. Therefore, it is not surprising that experts who are involved in education feel the need to provide intensive English lessons and continuing English education to the students in middle school even since the children were still sitting in elementary school. Secondary school level has a lot of junior and senior high school who offer to ​​pioneer international standard school and has a lot of schools that obtain international school status. The schools, which obtain international status, prepare their students for the future so that they can compete globally. Recognizing the importance of quality in education and a desire to catch up education set back with other countries, governments are encouraged to perform a major breakthrough in the field of education by designing international school. The government wants to promote educational programs in the country by turning national schools into international standard schools. Schools must make an effort to improve the quality of teaching and teachers’ so that teachers’ quality will not be left behind. One of the schools that used international standard is MTsN Kediri II. MTsN Kediri II is a junior high school located in Kediri, East Java. It is included one of the favorite school in Kediri because almost of their students are smart enough and often be the winner in Olympiad. Since some years ago besides use national curriculum, this school also use international standard in their education. Because of that, they divided their class into some kinds of class. That is regular and kelas unggulan. Regular class is a class that use national curriculum in their teaching learning process. In other hand, the kelas unggulan is a class based on international standard. In kelas unggulan, some subjects such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Economics should be conducted in English or in a bilingual classroom learning environment. Bilingual education involves teaching academic content in two languages that is, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model. It is an educational approach that not only allows students to master academic content material, but also become proficient in two languages. It is an increasingly valuable skill in the early twenty-first century. It is the program which is intended to help children to keep up with their peers in subject such as math, science and social studies while they study English (Maria. 2001). The purpose of bilingual instruction is to increase academic achievement by using the student’s home language as the main communication medium. Bilingual instruction involves the use of two languages for instructions for part or all of the activities within the classroom. One language is English and the other language is the student’s home language that is the language spoken in the home. English is taught as a second language (James. 1988). Whether teaching a transitional class, a maintenance class, or a two ways bilingual class, the main difference from a monolingual class is the balance in using of the two languages. A second variable which affects the process of classroom organization is who teaches: a team, a teacher and an aide or one teacher alone. The third variable comes from the structure of the program model. There are the three major variations in classroom design which effect use of the two languages in a bilingual classroom. The first is The concurrent approach. In this approach A teacher using concurrent approach may use both languages interchangeable in a teaching content are or two teachers may team teach one lesson, each modeling a different language. The second is Pre-view-pre-view. It involves three steps in a team teaching situation: an introduction to the lesson is first given by one instructor in one language. The lesson is then presented in the other language by the second instructor. Review and reinforcement of the lesson takes place with the whole class using the two languages interchangeably in a concurrent approach, or the class is divided into dominant- language groups, led by each teacher separately. The last approach is Alternate language approach. Clearly structures a separation between the two languages. But for student is so limited proficiency in one of the language instruction, the language chosen for content area instruction can involve complex decision. In early stages, student should receive science lesson in their first language, but as they develop increasing proficiency in a second language, they may introduced to an increasing amount of science instruction in their second language. In the school that uses bilingual classroom system, the teacher must have two levels of language skills sufficient to be able to teach bilingual classes. But here, Sheelagh and Cristine (2007:6) divided two different types of teachers who have very different needs-the expertise of the language may not be shared by the content and vice versa. The first is Teacher of English who now has to teach another subject through English, rather than just teaching the language. And the other is subject teacher who now have to teach their subject through English. In this research, the researcher study about the second type of CLIL, that is subject teacher who now have to teach their subject through English, exactly science teacher. As Henderson and Wellington (2001:23) said that whilst research shows that one of major difficulties in learning science is learning the language of science, to experience the teaching and learning process would suggest that science teachers often consider the use of English in Biology lesson to be of marginal relevance to the learning of science (Henderson & Wellington. 2001:23) . They further add that in general, teachers who teach content do not recognize languages learning opportunities. If there is any effort at all in incorporating language development, they just concentrate on vocabulary development. John (1997:17) also said that some science teachers hope that the vocabulary of science will be recognized by the students as a key to its comprehension and appreciation. The teacher also must make avert efforts to interpret the nature of Biology lesson and the habits of learning Biology through its language or vocabulary. So we can conclude that science teacher must be competence in the both od the biology subject and English Language. The problem that we find in the reality is one cannot confirm that the subject teachers are able to become a bilingual who is ready to teach in two languages, Indonesian and English. How long does it take for a teacher to be ready to teach bilingual? In addition, the level of bilingual skills to a certain level is needed or that must be achieved by a teacher to be able to teach bilingual classes. Those subject teachers mostly of are not graduates of English Education, so maybe they will find difficulty in explaining their material in English. Therefore, the researcher wanted to conduct a research which intends to describe this phenomenon, the implementation of English language as the medium in teaching scdience at eight grade in “kelas Unggulan” at MTsN Kediri II. By conducting this study, the researcher has purpose to find out the implementation of English language in teaching science for eight graders and the teacher’s problems faced during classroom teaching and learning. By knowing the fact or the result of the study, the researcher hoped it will give meaningful contribution for The teacher who uses English, especially science teacher in “kelas unggulan” at MTsN Kediri II, can improve their ability in English and the quality of teaching and learning process, and also the result is expected to contribute development of teaching science by using English in “kelas unggulan” at MTsN Kediri. It is also expected to give meaningful contribution for Indonesian government. It is hoped that the government can consider about the programs to make Indonesia to become international level in education by using English in the process of teaching and learning process. According to the government it can make the education in Indonesia becomes better than before to the international level, people argue that it does not make better education in Indonesia, but it can make the education. Worse, since the students face more problems in their study due to their English ability is still poor. This phenomenon makes the researcher puts her interest to conduct research about it. The researcher questions: (1) how is the implementation of English language in teaching science for eight grader? (2) What problems do the teachers face during classroom teaching and learning? METHOD Based on the research question and the objective of the study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative. Gay (1992) explained that Descriptive research involves collecting data in order to answer questions concerning the current statues of the subject of the study). In this study, the researcher described the implementation of English language as the medium in teaching scdience at eight grade in “kelas Unggulan” at MTsN Kediri II. She concentrated on the biology class activity and the biology teacher herself. In this research, the researcher chose descriptive qualitative as the research design based on two reasons, which are the objective of this study is to describe the implementation of English language as the medium in teaching scdience at eight grade in “kelas Unggulan” at MTsN Kediri II and there is no treatment in this study. The subject of this study was the biology teacher of “kelas unggulan” in the 8th at MTsN Kediri II. The researcher chose the biology teacher because three reason. For the first, there are many students who favor Biology lesson. They like biology subject because biology is the easiest among Physic, Chemistry and Biology. The second reason is Biology lesson has a few things to be discussed about numerical, but it has many explanations. To give explanation a material in the Biology, teachers have to explain more. It means the teacher should make long sentences and more languages especially English. And the las reason is there is another language that is in Biology discussion, that is Latin language. Every plant or animals has Latin name, so students have to understand which Latin language is and which is English. This study is taken place in the 8th “kelas unggulan” and the teacher’s office. For the first day, the researcher observes the condition of the school and the Biology teacher’s when she was teaching in the classroom. The researcher recorded the teaching and learning process using vidio camera and tape recorder. And on the next day, the researcher came to the teacher office, actually on the biology teacher’s room to interview her. The interview was used to find the data form the Biology teacher. The purpose of this interview was also to find out the information about teacher’s efforts in developing the English language competency and to find out what the problems she usually faced during teaching and learning Biology by using English language. After knowing the problem, researcher could infer reasonable solution to solve the problems that were faced by the teacher. The data of this study is the condition of the biology class on 8th “kelas unggulan” in MTsN Kediri II. It included the teacher’s competence in giving oral instruction by using English language in her Biology science class, for example asking question in English, giving opinion, giving explanation in English and the students’ expression and utterance during teaching leraning activity. The other data is teachers’ answer in the form of utterances and expressions given by the teachers during interview sessions which are transcribed into written form. Besides the result of the researcher’s observation, the source of the data is the biology teacher herself. In this research, all of the data were collected by using observation field note and interview, were analyzed inductively in order to answer research questions stated in chapter one. The first step was accumulating the data recorded from the result of class observation and the answer of biology teachers through interview given. After all of data accumulated, the researcher studied the data well, she described them by classifying into the finding based on the research question. In addition, all the data were collected thoroughly as happened in the reality. RESULT AND DISCUSSION This chapter presents the result and discussion of the study as the answers for the research questions: (1) how is the implementation of English language in teaching science for eight grades? (2) What problems do the teachers face during classroom teaching and learning? Result Here, the researcher explained about the first and second day observation done by the researcher. On the first day observation, the researcher observed the condition on 8th kelas unggulan of MTsN Kediri II. In the first observation, the researcher noticed some facts happened in their teaching learning activities. Those are: (a) when the teacher explains the material by using English, her explanation is difficult to be understood by her students. (b) The science teacher of “kelas unggulan” in MTsN Kediri II does not always use English in explaining science material. (c) When the teacher wanted to explain about the material, she was consuming too much time to find the proper words makes the students waiting for long time, and also makes them getting bored. (d) the teacher often feels nervous and automatically, she cannot control her speaking, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary. In term of pronunciations, the researcher finds some words mispronounced words form, it was pronounced this word as like forem. In the word size, it is pronounced with sez. (e) The teacher thinks that the use of translation method make the students understands the material well. So that, in the most of the time she explains the material by using mother tongue then translate in to the English. (f) Because the teacher is fully aware that she is not teaching language at all but teaching science. So, she thinks that it’s not to importance to make her English perfect. It is better to teach real science rather than just focusing on the students’ English skills. (g) There are three languages used in the class there are (Indonesia, Javanese and English). But the biggest portion, about eighty percent used Indonesian. On the second day of this research, the researcher done interview the biology teacher of 8th “kelas unggulan” in MTsN Kediri II. From the interview which was done on May 23th 2013, the researcher tried to analyzes the teacher efforts in improving her skills in English language. There was one teacher who was interviewed by the researcher. Mrs Zahra’, she is science teacher in the eighth graders of MTsN Kediri II. Science Teacher stated that, actually, she has already tried her best effort in improving English skills. It was done by practicing the speaking skill with her daughter and son at home. Her children convinced their mother that if she always does not speak English continuously and regularly as her daily habit, it will really improve her English. Besides the effort or practice she does at home, she also joins the English course which is hosted by the school in cooperation with one of good English course in Pare. These are proves that both school wants to improve the English ability so that she teaches science by using English confidently. Besides that, the school also held TOEFL and TOEIC test to know whether the competency of the teacher has improved or not. The Teacher’s Competency in using English as the Medium of Teaching Science Teacher ability plays important role in delivering new knowledge and skills to students. If the teacher wants to be regarded as excellent and competent teachers by parents based of the excellent academic achievement of the student the teacher have to works hard to get it. In the implementation of the teaching Science in English in kelas unggulan, teacher’s competency in teaching the subject is really needed, it include in the way the teacher teaching, teaching strategy, etc. This is so because many of our teachers today have had very little exposure to the subjects in English. In this research, the researcher explained about science teachers’ competency which contains the ability to ask question in English, the ability to use oral instruction in English and the ability to give opinion in English. The Teacher’s Ability in Questioning Student In the teaching and learning process in teaching science by using English as the language medium, the science teacher of Kelas unggulan at MTsN Kediri II is expected to be able to ask question to their students about the material that she had explained by using English. If it runs well, of course, it will make the students motivated during question and answer session. However, the teacher which is expected to be a model that has perfect examples how to ask thing in English did not do so. So that way, their students also answer the question in mixed language. Based on the observation done by the researcher, the researcher conclude that the science teachers in Kelas unggulan of eight graders of MTsN Kediri II still use translation method, that she use both English and Indonesia in asking question. This condition happened because both of the teacher and student do not master English well. To her observation, both the kelas unggulan students and the teacher are have not ready to use English one hundred percent yet in the class. Even though the researcher had to agreed that the use of English one hundred percent is too difficult for students, simply because the science language is different from the English that the students are studying during English class, the teacher as the important point should push herself to use English as close as possible at least they have to reach 75% during the teaching and learning process especially in asking question. Of course, the English foreign learners or English second learners will get some difficulties to express science term in English, but they have to work hard if they really want to make the bilingual runs well. The Teacher’s Ability in Giving Oral Instruction by Using English In the process of teaching and learning science using English as the language medium, the science teachers of MTsN Kediri II always tried to give oral instruction to her students beside the written instruction. These two important are things which cannot be separated one by one. It is important to oral instruction during the teaching learning process, because without oral instruction the communication in the class between teacher and students cannot runs well. In this case, as a science teacher does oral instruction to help her students to understand the task easily. However, the simple interaction only done in Indonesian language, not in English because, the teacher still has difficulty to make simple interaction by using English. Based on the result of observation, the researcher concluded that the science teacher of MTsN Kediri II tried to maximize her ability in using oral instruction in English even though it is not grammatically correct. She tried and sometimes she mixed it with Indonesian. The problem is of mixing the language because, she still uses Indonesian quite a lot when giving her oral instruction. Based on the researcher observation, the science teacher of Kelas unggulan should master the art of giving oral instruction in English to communicate with their students if she wants to make the class become the real bilingual or international standard class. The Teacher’s Ability in Giving Opinion to the Students Teaching through another language for some subjects may have cause a language problem. It happens in this class also when the teacher expresses her opinion in English; she mixed it with Indonesian language. Seems that she still find difficulties. It can be frustrated for the teacher to teach subject that have different language vocabularies, especially science subject. The language for science is different from the English language which students use in English class activities. Vocabulary in Science class has special syntactic structures. Making inferences in science subject meaning give all contribute to the difficulties of many other subject subjects which use English so. The selected teacher who teaches science by using English as the language medium of interaction for Eight graders in MTsN Kediri 2 has tried to maximize her ability in using English. During classroom activities the science teacher sometimes mixed the language when she was giving her opinion to the students. The Teacher’s Efforts in Improving her English Teaching Skills From the observation and the interview that has been conducted, the researcher finds some mistakes of the science teacher in expressing sentences and words in spite of her mistakes. The mistakes include the teacher still tries her best effort to use English in explaining all the science materials. In the contrary to the teacher’s effort, most of the mispronouncing the words and mixing the languages between English and Indonesian, students are still difficult to handle the maximum usage of English. They have to understand the science material in English is a big challenge to them. Therefore, to maximize her students’ difficulty and to overcome the challenge, teacher uses Indonesian in some of explanations. Based on the result of observation, it can be concluded that sometimes the science teacher mixed the language or does not use English at all when she was not sure with the English Especially, if the teacher who does not have a good competency with her English language. The requirements to use English can be serious problem. From the interview that has been done the researcher find some facts that: First, the science teacher doesn’t have good ability in speaking English or explain the science term correctly in English. Based on that, she gets difficulties in delivering the content to the students. Second, seems that science teacher is not too familiar with the terminologies and science terms in the English language due to her minimal exposure for learning and teaching science in the English language. Since the school supports the Implementation English in science class. The teachers’ competency in teaching subject needs to be improved immediately. It is so because many of science teachers in that school have had very little experience in exposure English as the language medium in the classroom especially for the class that is chosen as kelas unggulan. The Problems Faced by the Teacher During Teaching and Learning Process There were some problems faced by science teacher of Kelas unggulan in MTsN Kediri II during teaching and learning Science by using English. The main problem of successful in using English in kelas unggulan is from the students’ ability to understand the material which is presented in English. This fact is also confirmed by the science teacher, Mrs. Zahra’ who is the teacher of science in “kelas unggulan” of MTsN Kediri II for class said that her problem during classroom explanation when she was teaching science refer to the language competency of their students in order to understand the science language in English. She stated if the students did not understand the language, it shows that they also would not be able to do the science task correctly. The solution of this problem according to her is giving some vocabularies continuously to the students who have the difficulties in understanding the science language. One more thing that in MTsN Kediri II there are some teams which is have quite good members who has cooperation with an English course in Pare. It was had been for about 3 months. So, it means the groups still in the process of improvement. The science teacher who has a team teaching in the process of teaching science for the class of Kelas unggulan have the different problem. She said that the problem which is occurred in the process of teaching science not only the language problem but also less motivation and participation of the students to follow the class activities. The solution according to her is using different kind of teaching strategies and giving motivation to their students in every meeting. From the statement above, it can be known that every science teachers who teach using English have their own problems, and they also have their own solution to improve the skill of their students in science, besides the using various kind of learning strategies which will make the teaching learning process enjoy full. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION Conclusion Based on the finding of data analysis and discussion in previous chapter, the researcher drew a conclusion: First, from the result of the research analysis, it is proved that the students’ understanding of science’s class taught by using English as the medium of teaching and learning science process still have no improvements, and based on the result of research question by using interview, shows that using of English as medium of teaching and learning process is not quite effective for of MTsN Kediri II. It’s not because of just the teacher’s ability, but also the students’ English especially in understanding the words or vocabulary influence the result of learning, and in this school there are still some reasons that make the school has not been ready in applying English in teaching science, seen from the teacher’s English ability and also the lack of the students’ vocabulary on the lesson. Second, the use of English as the medium of teaching and learning science process in the science class makes the students are unable to enjoy their learning activities as well as the technique of the teacher use is not quite attracting them, and they can not understand the English teacher’s explaination well. It seems that the teacher’s technique cannot help them reduce the students’ anxiety of learning. In addition, it cannot make them feel comfortable in learning to lead them to be better in learning. Meanwhile the goal of applying English in teaching science is that the students have to be brave to say or to express their idea in English, and the teacher’s motivation is to make them confident to share the ideas. Third, the use of English as the medium of teaching and learning science process to the eight graders of MTsN Kediri II cannot seem to change the atmosphere of the classroom and is also unable to broaden their knowledges. Actually, it offers much wider range of language opportunities but what has happened there, the students have more difficulties in expressing the ideas, the correct vocabulary and sentences. Fourth, the use of English as the medium of teaching and learning science has made the class less active. The students do not have great willingness to participate without being forced by the teacher and they are still afraid of making mistakes in expressing the ideas. Fifth, the use of English as the medium of teaching and learning science makes the students less motivated in learning and are easier to grasp the lesson. Based on the observation has been done by the researcher there are just few students who have a bravery to express their ideas. Sixth, the other problems the students face are mostly in expressing ideas in English and lack of confidence and vocabulary. Suggestions The success in teaching not only depends on the lesson program, but also what is more important is how the teacher presents the lesson and uses various techniques to manage the class more lively and enjoyable. Regarding to the teaching science by using English as the medium of teaching and learning process, the writer gives some suggestion for the teacher. The science teacher should choose the materials that are appropriate and not too difficult for the students, the teacher should make sure that the students have fully understanding and enough information they need before assigning English as the medium of teaching science to the students, the teacher should keep controlling the student activities, the teacher should present the language in an enjoyable, relaxed and understandable way in order to make the students are attracted and enjoyed the science materials in English. Besides, the researcher suggests to the students. 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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DICTOGLOSS TO TEACH WRITING RECOUNT TEXT TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 4 JOMBANG
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DICTOGLOSS TO TEACH WRITING RECOUNT TEXT TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 4 JOMBANG Lilis Purwaningsih English Education Department, Faculty of Language and Art, State University of Surabaya. purwaningsihlilis@gmail.com Esti Kurniasih, S.Pd., M.Pd. English Education Department, Faculty of Language and Art, State University of Surabaya. estikurniasih87@yahoo.com Abstrak Menulis adalah salah satu keterampilan penting yang harus dikuasai oleh siswa dalam mempelajari bahasa. Keterampilan ini digunakan untuk menyampaikan idea tau gagasan dalam bentuk tertulis. Lebih jauh lagi, menulis dianggap sebagai keterampilan yang paling sulit diantari keterampilan lain dalam Bahasa Inggris. Proses menulis sering membuat siswa mudah bosan. Dalam hal ini guru diharapkan mampu meningkatkan motivasi siswa agar tetap tertarik untuk menulis. Dictogloss adalah teknik mendikte yang dapat digunakan untuk mengajar menulis secara berkelompok. Teknik ini memiliki empat tahapan, yaitu persiapan, mendikte, membuat, dan analisis dan koreksi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan implementasi dari Dictogloss dalam menulis recount oleh kelas delapan, respon siswa, dan hasil menulis siswa. Penelitian ini merupakan jenis penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dan menggunakan observasi, kuesioner, dan tugas menulis siswa untuk mendapatkan data. Data penelitian merupakan hasil deskripsi yang dijelaskan berdasarkan tujuan penelitian. Setelah melakukan observasi, peneliti mendeskripsikan tiga hasil penelitian. Hasil pnelitian pertama menunjukkan bahwa implementasi Dictogloss yang diaplikasikan guru di dalam kelas berjalan sesuai teori Dictogloss. Hasil kedua menunjukkan bahwa siswa memberikan respon positif terhadap tenik Dictogloss, dan hasil ketiga adalah tentang hasil tulisan siswa. Tulisan siswa dianalisis dalam hal apakah isinya sesuai dengan judul, baik tidaknya penyusunan tulisan, penggunaan bahasa yang sesuai dengan recount, kosa kata sesuai, dan cara menyajikan tulisan oleh penulis. Kesimpulannya, Dictogloss dapat digunakan untuk teknik mengajar menulis recount, khususnya bagi kelas delapan yang disebut sebagai pemula Kata Kunci: Dictogloss, menulis, recount, respon siswa. Abstract Writing is one of the important language skills that should be mastered by the students to convey their ideas or their opinion in written form. Moreover, writing is known as the most difficult skill in English. Writing process often makes students easily get bored. Here, the teacher is needed to maintain students’ motivation in order to keep students’ interest in writing. Dictogloss is a technique of dictation method that can be used for teaching writing cooperatively. It has four steps; those are preparation, dictation, reconstruction, and analysis and correction. This research is aimed to describe the implementation of Dictogloss in teaching writing recount text to the eighth grade students, the students’ responses towards Dictogloss, and the students’ writing task results. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. It used observation checklist, field note, questionnaire, and also student’s task result as research instruments to gain data. The researcher endeavored to record the implementation of Dictogloss and describe it. The description is explained based on three objectives of the study; those are the implementation of dictogloss to teach writing recount text , the students’ responses towards Dictogloss, and also the students’ writing task results. After observing, the researcher described three results. The first result was regarding the implementation of dictogloss the teacher applied. The steps how the teacher applied were as appropriate as how it is in the theory and it was done well. The second result was the students’ responses toward dictogloss and it resulted positive responses. And the third finding was the students’ writing task result that was analyzed by using ESL composition profile. It has five criteria; content which is appropriate with the topic, organization which is arranged well based on the generic structure, language use which is related to the language features, vocabulary which is appropriate to what have been listed by the teacher, and mechanics related to how well the writers write their writing. In conclusion, dictogloss could be used to teach writing recount text, particularly for eight graders as beginner English learner. It could be even used to keep students’ willingness in writing because of its steps. Keywords: Dictogloss, writing, recount text, students’ response. INTRODUCTION Writing is one of the important language skills that should be mastered by the students to convey their ideas or their opinion in written form. However, writing is not a simple matter to learn since students need to have capability to convey their opinion in written form which is considered to be more difficult than spoken form. It is because there are some processes that have to be passed. As it is known that writing is very important skill, writing is needed to be taught. In writing, a teacher should encourage students to produce a text as a medium to communicate their ideas or opinions to others through written form. However, there are some problems that are found by the teacher. The first problem is the students try to avoid writing because it needs a long process to create a good writing and it is too complicated. It is supported by Pirangelo and Giuliani (2006:245) who state that students in educational system feel that writing process takes a long time, sothey are common to dislike or avoid writing activity. Moreover, writing process will make students easily get bored. Here, the teacher is needed to maintain students’ motivation in order to keep students’ interest in writing. The teacher’s role in writing class is to motivate the students, to create the right condition for generating ideas, and to encourage them to practice more to get the benefit (Harmer, 2004). The other problem is students get difficulties in organizing their ideas. In this case the teacher is needed to teach students how to manage their ideas and write them in order, so the students will produce a good writing. According to Knapp and Watkins (2005), it is important for the teacher and the students to have basic understanding of how English operates and functions as writing and the ways in which writing is different from speech. Besides two problems above, lack of vocabularies is also a problem for students to write, particularly for beginner writer. It is often that students cannot create a good writing because they do not know appropriate vocabulary for their writing. Since vocabularies make the students frustrated, the teacher should help the students by giving vocabulary preparation as their guided writing. Guided writing is an instructional writing context that mainly guides students in writing process through modeling, support, and practice (Tyner, 2004). Guided writing can be applied through a technique, such as dictogloss. Dictogloss is a technique of dictation method that can be used for teaching writing cooperatively. Dictogloss is a classroom dictation activity where learners listen to a passage, note down key words and then work (Vasiljevic, 2010). This technique is more than just dictation since students focus on meaning rather than words and it also includes interaction among students. Dictogloss can be useful for integrated skills; those are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Dictogloss is initially designed to teach grammar and it has four stages, those are preparation, dictation, reconstruction, and analysis and correction (Wajnryb, 1990). However, there are only few teachers who implement dictogloss in classroom activity, particularly in teaching writing; one of them is an English teacher of Junior High School in Jombang. The teacher uses dictogloss in teaching writing recount text for eighth grade students. Thus, dictogloss is found useful to help teacher to teach writing recount text. From the explanation above, the researcher therefore wants to conduct a research related to the implementation of dictogloss in teaching writing recount text. The researcher formulates the research question as follows: (1) How does the teacher implement dictogloss in teaching writing recount text to the eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Jombang? (2) How are the students’ responses towards the implementation of dictogloss in teaching writing recount text? (3) How are the students’ writing tasks resultsduring the implementation of dictogloss in teaching writing recount text? Writing Writing is an activity that creates ideas or opinions in a composition by using writing convention, such as its ideas or thought that are produced in written form (Petty and Jensen, 1980). Moreover, writing nowadays becomes an important skill to face the global era. It conveys that writing is used widely in every aspect of life, particularly for interacting and communicating with people, whether formal or informal writing. It is also supported by Brown (2004) who states that writing skill is an important skill for achieving employment in this global era. Thus, learning how to write for students is crucial as input for them to face the future. According to Meyers (2005), writing is an action-a process of discovering and organizing ideas, putting them on a paper, reshaping and revising them. In other words, writing has to be coherent and cohesive where the ideas in the writing should make sense and be connected logically. That statement interprets that learning writing needs more steps. The Steps of Writing There are some statements related to writing process. First, Boas (2011) says that writing is one of the English skills whose activities are planning, drafting, and revising texts. Second, Hedge (1993) argues that the processes of writing are pre-writing, while writing, and post-writing. In line with Hedge, O’Malley & Pierce (1996:254) say that there are three stages in writing process; they are pre-writing, drafting, and post-writing. Meanwhile, there are four common stages in writing process; those are planning, drafting, editing, and producing final version (Harmer, 2012:128-129). Dictogloss According to Jacobs (2003:1), dictogloss is an activity in which short pieces of language are read out at normal speed to students. In line with that, Wajnryb (1990) also states that dictogloss is a technique in which short pieces of language are read out at normal speed to students. Dictogloss is a technique which has steps in the process. There are four steps to conduct dictogloss technique; they are preparation, dictation, reconstruction, and analysis and correction (Wajnryb, 1990). 1.Preparation At this stage, teacher prepares the material which is going to be taught. The teacher introduces the topic and lists some vocabulary for the students. Moreover, the students are divided into pairs or small groups and given brainstorming before coming to the next step. 2.Dictation At this stage, the teacher reads the text twice in normal speed and asked the students to listen. On the first dictation, the teacher reminds the students to listen only and not to write anything. While on the second dictation, the teacher asks the students to prepare notebook and write down some words which will be keywords for the next step; that is reconstruction. 3.Reconstruction At this stage, the teacher asks the students to reconstruct the text based on their keywords in pairs or groups. Those keywords are used as their guided writing to produce a text which has the same idea as the original text. Holdich and Chung (2003) indicate that guided writing offers greater opportunities for young writers to make valuable connections between text, sentence and word level decisions and help students shape and redraft texts with particular criteria in mind. In conclusion, the principle of guided writing strategy is to provide instructional materials or relevant media to help students write. 4.Analysis and correction While at this stage, the teacher asks the students to analyze and correct their text result. It is also done with the teacher’s help by comparing their version to the other group or pair result, and the last comparing with the original one to see the differences. According to Jacob (2003), there are many variations of Dictogloss in learning activities. They are explained as follows: a. Dictogloss Negotiation In dictogloss negotiation, the students have chance to discuss with the partner or group about what they have heard for each section of dictation. They will get twice dictation which means that the students have two chances to discuss. b. Student Controlled Dictation In student controlled dictation, the teacher acts as a tape recorder that can be played by the students. In other words, the students can ask the teacher to stop, go back, rewind, and skip ahead. c. Student-Student Dictation In student-student dictation, the students take turns to read the text to each other. Here, the teacher’s job is just monitoring the process. d. Scrambled Sentence Dictogloss In scrambled sentence dictogloss, the teacher jumbles the sentence of the text before, so that the students have to recreate and put it into logical order first. e. Dictogloss Summaries In dictogloss summaries, the students focus only on the key ideas of the original text. Here, as well as in other dictogloss variations, the teacher can provide visual aids (sketch, flow chart, photo, mind map) that represent some elements of the story. f. Elaboration Dictogloss In elaboration dictogloss, the students go beyond what they hear to not only recreate the text, but also improve it. g. Dictogloss Opinion In dictogloss opinion, after the students reconstructed the text, they are allowed to give comment or opinion on the writer’s ideas. Those can be placed at various points in the text or can be written at the end of the text. In this research, the researcher focuses on using Dictogloss summaries to be implemented in the classroom. Recount Text Based on Basic Competence of 2006 Curriculum (BSNP, 2006), recount text is a kind of text dealing with the experiences happened in the past and focuses on a sequence of events related to the occasion which has purpose to inform or entertain the readers. That is in line with Gerot and Wignell (1994) who explain that recount is a kind of text which has function to retell past events for the purpose of informing or entertaining. In addition, recount text is a text that tells the readers about something that happened or retells past events or activities and has purpose to give detail information about what and when of those events (Anderson and Anderson, 2003). Furthermore, According to Depdiknas (2004:33), recount text has function to tell or to retell past events for the purpose of informing or entertaining. From the explanation above, it can be made some points that recount text is about retelling a series of events, written by using past tense, and it aims to inform or entertain the readers. It is essential to know and understand the steps how to construct a recount text. Anderson and Anderson (1998:28) present the generic structure of recount text clearly as below: 1. Orientation Orientation in recount text provides all necessary background information about the event. To ensure that the orientation is detailed and thorough, use the question words (who, what, when, where, and why). 2. Series of events In series of events the writer writes the events chronologically. It begins from the first event, followed by the second event to the last event. The sum of events depends on the creativity of the writer and has to lead the readers or audiences to understand the topic well. 3. Re-orientation The final section concludes the recount by summarizing the outcomes or results, evaluating the results, evaluating the topic’s importance or offering personal comment or opinion. However, not all of recounts are closed by re-orientation. It is optional. Meanwhile, recount text also has specific language features, they are using specific participant, involving some action verbs, using simple past tense, and often using linking words. Using Dictogloss to Teach Writing Recount Text Dictogloss offers a context-rich method of assessing how much students know about writing and the topic of the text (Jacobs, 2003). The text reconstruction task provides learners with opportunities to display both their knowledge of the content of the text as well as of the organizational structure and language features of the text (Derewianka, 1990). This technique provides opportunities for the students to be more confident with their writing as there is vocabulary preparation for students as beginner learners to ease them in writing. The steps of using dictogloss during teaching and learning process are described as follow: • Pre activity: The teacher greets the students and checks the students’ attendance list to know the condition of all the students. Before starting the main activity, the teacher also does brainstorming to motivate students in learning English. • Whilst activity: The teacher introduces the technique to the students. This introduction covers introducing what the technique is, what the steps are, and also what the students should do in every step. Here are the brief explanations of dictogloss: 1. Preparation Here the students are introduced with the text, the title, and also some difficult vocabulary related to the text. 2. Dictation There are two dictations which are done by the teacher. On the first dictation, the teacher asks the students to listen only. While on the second dictation, the students are asked to jot down some keywords for their reconstruction of the text. When the students come to dictation step, the teacher’s roles as reminder and also controller are very important. It is caused by on the first dictation; the students tend to write something that they hear. While on the second dictation, they tend to cheat other students’ keywords. Therefore, the consistency of the rules is really important. 3. Reconstruction The students work in pair or group in reconstructing the same text based on what they have heard and it is helped by their keywords. It has to include generic structure of the text and also the language features. 4. Analysis and Correction The students are asked to analyze their writing by comparing it with the original text and make correction of it. They analyzed in terms of vocabulary, generic structure and language use, particularly the use of tense. • Post activity The teacherreviews all points which have been covered on that day. The teacher reviews the text and also mistakes which are commonly made by the students. Previous Studies In this study, the researcher relates the study with previous studies which are dealing with dictogloss in teaching and learning process, particularly in teaching and learning writing. Rosi (2010) applied dictogloss in teaching writing narrative text to the eleventh graders. She wanted to know whether or not dictogloss could be used to teach that text. She found that students can enjoy the activities and dictogloss could be used as one alternative way to teach writing narrative text. Moreover, Rahayu (2012) conducted a research to know the implementation of dictogloss in teaching writing descriptive text. The result finally showed that dictogloss could also help the students in practice writing descriptive text. Based on the success of those previous studies above about the use of dictogloss in writing activity, the researcher wants to conduct a further research. In this research, the researcher will use the same technique but different kind of text and subject level. In this case the researcher focuses on recount text in eight grade students of SMPN 4 Jombang. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY In doing this study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative research, since it more focuses on the process rather than outcomes of the phenomena. The subjects of the study were the English teacher and the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Jombang the setting of the study was SMP Negeri 4 Jombang which is located on Jln. Mawar No.4 Denanyar, Jombang.. The researcher collected the data through some instruments. The instruments were observation checklist to gaint the data for the first research question, closed-structured questionnaire to gain data for the second research question, and students’ writing task result analyzed with Jacob’s ESL Composition Profile for the third research question. Moreover, the data were analyzed by using three stages, those are familiarizing and organizing, coding and reducing, and interpreting and representing. In the familiarizing and organizing, the data which have been gained were read and reread, checked and rechecked many times to familiarize initially and organize all of the data for easy retrieval. After that, the researcher came to the next stage, coding to categorize. The researcher sorted the data into three categories since there are three research questions in this study. The researcher also reduced some data that have no relation and could not be used to answer those three research questions. Finally, the last stage was interpreting and representing. This means that the researcher described the data and elaborated them referred to related theories and findings and represents them in the form of words, or even diagram, chart or table. RESULT AND DISCUSSION Result 1.The Implementation of Dictogloss in Teaching Writing Recount Text The implementation of dictogloss was done in two meetings; those were on Wednesday November 20th and Thursday November 21st. The time that was allocated for each meeting was 2 x 40 minutes. The First Observation There were 32 students which consist of 16 males and 16 females students. There were 16 tables and 32 chairs. They sat in pairs and in the same gender. Those tables and chairs were arranged in four columns and four lines with little space between one column to the others. The class was covered with white ceramics. On Wednesday, the class was started on the last period, it was around 11 a.m. The teacher started the class by greeting the students, checking the attendance list and asking the students’ condition. Later, the teacher continued opening session by giving the students motivation to learn English. It was given when the teacher saw the students who less motivated as it was the last period lesson. After that, the teacher explained the material that was going to learn. The teacher explained that the material was about recount text. However, the teacher also explained that this meeting would use dictogloss. The teacher introduced the main concept of dictogloss. The teacher explained the procedure of dictogloss and the students paid attention to her, but some of the students asked some questions related to her explanation. In that session, the teacher explained the procedure or the steps of dictogloss deliberately. She mentioned four steps in the dictogloss; those are preparation, dictation, reconstruction, and correction and analysis. After explaining each step, the teacher applied the technique by using the learning material entitled ‘My Child’. Preparation First of all, the teacher introduced the topic of the learning material. That was “My Child”. The teacher then asked some questions related to the title with the students’ life as brainstorming for them. Moreover, the teacher also wanted to gain prior knowledge and general information from the students. Dictation On the first time, the teacher started to dictate the text. Here the teacher again and again controlled and reminded the students not to do anything, except listening. However, in the middle of dictation, there was student who tried to write something in his notebook, and then the teacher stopped her dictation and reminded that student. After that, the teacher restarted the text from the beginning. The teacher read loudly on the normal speed. After finishing the first dictation, the teacher reminded again the rule for the second dictation that was going to do. On the second dictation, the students were allowed to write something as keywords individually. Reconstruction After the second dictation, the teacher divided the class into some pairs. Since a table consists of 2 students, the teacher tried to save the time and formed students into some pairs based on their seat. Furthermore, the teacher asked the students in pairs to reconstruct the text they had just heard by using their keywords in their notebook in 15 minutes. After that the teacher monitored the students’ group discussion. She walked around the class and sometimes asked the students to do the task together and use their keywords as reference to create the construction. The time was up and the teacher asked the students to submit it on a piece of paper. Analysis and Correction The teacher switched the students’ task result, so they did not get their own task result. Then the teacher asked them to analyze the task result which had been gotten in terms of generic structure and language features. The teacher invited at least two pairs to analyze their friends’ writing. The students in the classroom became active to defend their opinions. At the last, the teacher gave feedback and correction to the students work by showing the original text which can be used by the students to compare with their task result. Finally, the students rewrote their writing by using the correction and they submitted it again. The Second Observation The second meeting was held on 21st November 2013 in the first period. The teacher greeted the students and asked about the students’ condition. Then she checked the attendance list and called the students one by one. At that time, there was one student who was absent, so the class began with 31 students. After opening section, the teacher tried to review and remind the students about the material that had been learned the day before. After reviewing, the teacher started the lesson on that day. She said that she would apply dictogloss again, but with different text. She did not need to explain again what dictogloss is in detail. She just recalled it in general. Preparation The teacher began to introduce a new material entitled “Camping”. The teacher tried to relate the title with the students’ activity in a real life. After that, the teacher introduced some vocabulary existed in the text by writing them on the whiteboard. The teacher asked the students to guess the meaning of the words by giving them an exposure of the context. Dictation Before coming to dictation step, the teacher reminded the students about the applied rules by asking them to make sure that they still remembered and understood the rules. The teacher then read the text loudly and briefly on normal speed again. The students seemed more understand about the text. On the second dictation, the teacher reminded the students not to forget to write keywords individually during the second dictation. Most students did listing keywords individually, while some students still cheated their pair. Reconstruction After dictation, the teacher discussed the story of the text with the students. After that, the teacher asked the students to work in pair and reconstruct the text. The teacher gave the students a piece of paper and asked them to write keywords and also the task result on that piece of paper. The teacher walked around the class to monitor the students’ activity during reconstruction step. Analysis and Correction The teacher asked the students to stick the task result on the white board. Then she invited every pair to analyze one task. Every task has a space as a place for comment. The class became so noisy. After that, the teacher gave feedback and correction for the students in general. And then, the teacher showed the original text and asked the students to compare it with their writing. 2. Students’ Responses after the Implementation of Dictogloss in Teaching Writing Recount Text Students’ responses are students’ opinions or feelings after the implementation of dictogloss in learning writing recount text. In order to know their responses, questionnaire was spread out to the students to gain the data. Students’ Opinion towards Writing Writing is one of the English skills that must be learned by the eighth grade students. However, this skill is considered to be difficult for the students. It is proved by the questionnaire result that 26 of 32 students agree with that statement and 1 student strongly agree with that. While only 5 students admit that writing is not difficult. The Most Difficult Aspect Faced in Writing In addition to the result above, here are some students’ reasons why writing is considered to be difficult. There are 14 students admit that vocabulary is the most difficult aspect to be mastered in writing, as difficult as ways of arranging sentences. Moreover, there are 3 students respond that long and boring processes become the first reason of feeling difficult to write. While only one student states that it is difficult to get idea when doing writing activity. Students’ Opinion towards Vocabulary Preparation as Pre Activity In line with the previous responses which show that vocabulary is one of the most difficult problems in writing, the questionnaire result shows that giving vocabulary before starting writing is so helpful. When there is a question about whether it is needed to get vocabulary first before writing, 31 students agree with that. However, only one student who states that vocabulary is not needed to give before writing. Students’ Opinion toward Group Work Since eighth grade students are considered to be beginner learners, they often feeling hard to write when writing is done by individual. They consider collaborating with others because they could cooperate. When they were asked to work in pair, all of students agree with that. Students’ Responses towards Teacher’s Explanation of Dictogloss Dictogloss is a technique that is used in this writing activity. Before starting the activity, the teacher should introduce the technique briefly and clearly. There are 28 students comprehend the teacher’s explanation about dictoglossand its steps. While only 4 students admit that the explanation is not clear enough, so they do not completely understand of what Dictogloss is. Students’ Satisfaction When the students are asked whether or not they are satisfied with their writing result after the implementation of dictogloss, 20 students are satisfied with their writing. Meanwhile, 12 students state that they are not satisfied with their writing task result after the implementation of dictogloss. Students’ Response toward the Ease of Dictogloss In line with the previous question, whether the technique is helpful for the students in terms of vocabulary as guided writing,there are 18 students state that dictogloss is helpful for them in writing.While among 32 students, 16 students disagree and consider that the technique is just technique and cannot more help them in writing, even though it provided vocabulary preparation. Moreover, there is 1 student who states that dictogloss cannot help him in writing. Students’ Opinion toward Dictogloss Helps Students in Understanding the Material After the implementation of Dictogloss, the students were asked about the material. There are 19 students state that the technique is useful for them in understanding the material well. While 13 students have different opinion who state that dictogloss cannot help them in understanding the material. Dictogloss Motivates Students in Writing Dictogloss could be a motivational technique used for motivating students in writing recount text. Almost all students agree with that statement; there are 25 students who are motivated to finish their writing recount task after the implementation of Dictogloss. Furthermore, only 7 students disagree with that statement. Dictogloss Makes Students Confident in Writing Dictogloss helps students in writing. There are 24 students are satisfied that Dictogloss can increase their confidence in writing. Among those 24 students, 7 students strongly feel that their confidences are increasing. On the other way around, 7 of 32 students disagree with that because dictogloss does not influence their confidence. Dictogloss is a Enjoyable Technique During the implementation of dictogloss, the students enjoy to follow all technique steps and instructions. There are 21 students admit that this technique is an enjoyable technique. While 11 students state that dictogloss is just common technique. The Students’ Opinion Towards the Ease of Dictogloss Steps Dictogloss is a technique which has some steps to follow in conducting teaching and learning process. It has four steps; preparation, dictation, reconstruction, and correction and analysis. Based on the students’ point of views, 22 students could follow the steps easily; while 10 of 32 students could not. They thought that the dictogloss’ steps are difficult to follow. The Learning Materials are Appropriate for the Students In order to succeed the implementation of the technique, it is also important to get appropriate materials which are about recount text. Appropriate means the learning materials fulfilled their level as the eighth graders who learned about recount text. According to 18 students, the learning materials which they got are appropriate with their capability. While 12 students state that the learning materials are not appropriate for them. The Text is Understandable In dictation step, the teacher read a recount text twice. That was time for the students to listen and jot down some keywords. There are 15 students who respond that the recount text is understandable, while there are also 15 students who are difficult to understand the text. The Topics Lead Students’ Motivation The topic of the text should be interactive and it should attract the students. When the students listened to the dictated text, 14 students admit that the topic could lead their motivation; even there are 8 students who have high motivation. Meanwhile, 8 of 32 students are not motivated by the topic of the text. 3. Students’ Writing Task Result In order to answer the research question number three that is about students’ task result during the implementation of Dictogloss, the researcher shows the task result in this part based on some criteria. The Content of Students’ Writing Task Result Content is one of the important components in writing. Since the text is one for all, the content is related with topic, logical development of ideas, and content of each paragraph for a text. Since there are two task results, the researcher will describe both task results for each criterion. The Organization of Students Writing Task Result The second component in writing is organization. This component deals with how the writer arranges the writing based on the given title, conveys the idea clearly, and organizes the idea in each paragraph based on the generic structure of recount text. The Language Use of Students Writing Task Result The third component in writing is language use. In the description below, the researcher will describe language use used by the students, such as the use of tense, pronouns, article, modals, and also the verb. The Vocabulary of Students Writing Task Result Vocabulary is the fourth important component in writing. It deals with whether or not the writers chose good vocabulary for their writing. In this case, vocabularies which are related to the text have been listed by the teacher in the preparation step of dictogloss. Therefore, the more those vocabulary used, the better writing task result in terms of vocabulary component. The Mechanics of Students Writing Task Result The last component in writing proposed by Jacob et.al (1981)is mechanics. In this study, mechanics are dealing with spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and paragraphing. Discussion There are three results to be discussed in this part. Firstly, related to the observation checklist result as the first result regarding the overview of the implementation of dictogloss, whether it is applicable to be applied to teach writing or not. Secondly, related to the second result of the close-structured questionnaire which could give brief explanation about the students’ responses towards dictogloss, whether positive or negative. Thirdly, the students’ writing task result as the result used to know whether or not dictogloss is workable to help the students in writing recount text. Dictogloss was applied in two meetings. It was done in four steps; those are preparation, dictation, reconstruction, and analysis and correction. Those steps were appropriate to dictogloss as proposed by Wajnryb (1990). The implementation of dictogloss had gained the students’ responses. The students’ responses are various opinions showed in the close-structured questionnaire. The researcher provided 15 questions in the questionnaire based on three main categories; those are writing activity, the implementation of dictogloss, and the learning material. Firstly, the students showed their opinion toward writing activity. Most students said that writing is difficult and it is the most frustrating activity for the students. It is in line with Nunan (1999) who stated that writing is known as the most difficult skill in English. Secondly, the students responded the implementation of dictogloss as the teaching writing technique. The students gave opinion regarding the four steps of dictogloss; those are preparation, dictation, reconstruction, and analysis and correction. Most of the students said that the steps are easy to follow because the teacher gave them clear instruction. Furthermore, the students said that dictogloss gives positive side toward their writing. Thirdly, the students gave opinion regarding the learning material. In terms of the text, most of the students stated that the texts in two meetings contain attractive, motivating, and also understandable topic of the text. Even, based on the result of questionnaire, most of them agreed that the text could make them confident on their writing. In general, the students responded positively toward the use of dictogloss in writing in terms of the writing activity, implementation, and also the learning material. The students were asked to reconstruct a text every meeting. During the research, there were two writing task results and the researcher analyzed them using ESL composition profile proposed by Jacob et al (1981). This writing composition consists of five writing components; those are content, organization, language use, vocabulary, and mechanics. The first component is content, the researcher analyzed the relationship between the topic and the students’ writing task result. Based on the two submitted writing task results, most of the students were able to relate their writing with the topic. The second component is organization, the researcher would analyze whether the students’ writing task results were well organized and appropriate to the generic structure of recount text. The third component is language use, the teacher analyzed whether the use of tense, pronouns, article, modals, and also the verb are correct. The fourth component is vocabulary. Since there is preparation step where related vocabularies are listed, the students were expected to use those vocabularies when they reconstructed their writing. The last component is mechanics. Here, the researcher analyzed how the writers presented their writing; in terms of spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and paragraphing. CONCLUSSION AND SUGGESTIONS Conclussion In conclusion, the implementation of dictogloss to teach writing recount text did run well. In addition, the students’ responses are positive toward dictogloss, which help most of them in reconstructing the text in terms of providing them vocabulary for their writing. Furthermore, dictogloss is also workable to help most of students in writing recount text. Moreover, the result of the students’ writing tasks was satisfying. It means that Dictogloss could help most of the students in writing, particularly in terms of vocabulary as their guidance before writing. Suggestions At the end of this study, the researcher would like to give some suggestions which are hoped to be useful to enhance the quality of teaching and learning process, particularly in writing. The teacher should be more creative in creating attractive and interesting class for teaching writing recount text. Besides, the teacher also has to pay attention to the students’ need. The teacher should have many ideas to be implemented. 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USING TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING TO TEACH TENTH GRADERS OF SMA NEGERI 9 SURABAYA TO ANALYZE SIMPLE PAST AND PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE IN RECOUNT TEXT LUFI WIRMARINI LUKMAN English Education, Language and Art Faculty, State University of Surabaya lovaluffy@yahoo.co.id ESTI KURNIASIH, S.Pd., M.Pd. English Education, Language and Art Faculty, State University of Surabaya estikurniasih87@yahoo.com Abstrak Siswa-siswi kelas X, dalam kurikulum 2013, diharapkan mampu menganalisis unsur kebahasaan dalam teks recount, termasuk struktur bahasanya, atau grammar. Mengajar grammar umumnya terdiri dari menjelaskan formula disertai dengan memberi contoh penggunaannya. Namun, hal ini terkadang belum mencukupi kebutuhan siswa dalam pembelajaran grammar, terutama agar mereka berkompeten dalam menganalisis kalimat dan mampu menerapkan rumusan kalimat tersebut dalam berbagai konteks. Guru hendaknya mampu memastikan bahwa siswa benar-benar telah mencapai kompetensi analisis yang diharapkan. Adapun pendekatan pembelajaran yang dapat menjadi solusi pengajaran yang tepat, yaitu Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT). Pada prinsipnya, TBLT adalah memberi tugas pada siswa hingga mereka mencapai target pembelajaran, dalam hal ini adalah penggunaan grammar yang tepat. Penelitian ini adalah sebuah studi kualitatif, dengan dua objektif, pada kelas X IPA 3 SMA Negeri 9 Surabaya. Objektif penelitian ini adalah untuk menggambarkan penerapan TBLT untuk mengajar siswa untuk menganalisis simple past dan past continuous tense dalam teks recount dan untuk mencatat respon siswa terhadap implementasi pengajaran tersebut. Instrumen penelititan terdiri dari observasi, field note, dan kuesioner. Data mengenai implementasi pengajaran dikumpulkan menggunakan observasi dan field note, sedangkan data respon siswa dikumpulkan dengan kuesioner. Data penelitian yang didapat menggambarkan bahwa guru mengimplementasikan tugas yang sama dengan tiga teks yang berbeda dalam tiga pertemuan. Langkah-langkah pembelajaran terdiri dari mengamati, mempertanyakan, mengeksplorasi, mengasosiasi, dan mengkomunikasikan. Guru tersebut memandu siswa untuk melakukan aktivitas pembelajaran secara berurutan, seperti yang telah dirancang dalam Kurikulum 2013. Pemberian tugas dilakukan dalam tahap mengeksplorasi, dimana siswa diminta untuk menganalisis kalimat simple past dan past continuous dalam teks yang diberikan. Implementasi TBLT ini berjalan dengan baik dan menghasilkan respon yang positif dari siswa. Dari deskripsi data, dapat disimpulkan bahwa pendekatan TBLT dapat memfasilitasi siswa untuk belajar menganalisis kalimat simple past dan past continuous tense dalam teks recount. Implementasi tersebut didasari oleh prinsip mengenai tahap pembelajaran Bloom, dari kemampuan memahami hingga menganalisis, dan tahap pembelajaran yang dirancang dalam Kurikulum 2013, dari kegiatan mengamati hingga mengkomunikasikan. Implementasi ini dapat dijadikan sebagai referensi pengajaran grammar bagi guru-guru lain, peneliti, maupun guru sebagai peneliti. Kata Kunci: Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), pendekatan pembelajaran, analisis, simple past dan past continuous tense, teks recount, respon siswa Abstract Tenth graders in Indonesia are supposed to be able to analyze linguistic components in recount text, including grammar, outlined in the 2013 Curriculum. Teaching grammar usually includes explaining the rules and providing some examples. However, this may be inadequate to enable the students to analyze the examples and therefore to use the grammar rules appropriately in different conditions. Teachers need to assure that the students genuinely learn in order to accomplish that objective. Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach is a preferrable teaching resolution. It provides exercises to the students, aimed to teach the students the accurate use of grammar. This study was a qualitative study, with two objectives, on X IPA 3 of SMA Negeri 9 Surabaya. The objectives are to describe the implementation of TBLT to teach the students to analyze simple past and past continuous tense in recount text and to record the students’ responses toward it. The instruments are observation checklist, field note, and questionnaire. The data of how the teacher implemented the approach were collected using observation checklist and field note, and the students’ responses were recorded using a close-structured questionnaire. The data obtained described that the teacher applied the similar task using three different texts in three meetings. The class was facilitated to have learning in five steps: observing, questioning, exploring, associating, and communicating. The teacher guided the students to do each step chronologically as outlined in the Curriculum of 2013. Tasks were given in exploring activity that the students were asked to analyze simple past and past continuous sentences in the text given. The implementation of TBLT to teach the students to analyze simple past and past continuous tense in recount text was running well and resulted positive responses of the students. In conclusion, TBLT approach is useful to enable the students to analyze simple past and past continuous tense in recount text. The implementation was based on the learning steps of Bloom from understand to analyze and the learning steps of the 2013 Curriculum from observing to communicating. Teachers could, at least, view this as a good choice for teaching grammar. Researchers or teachers as researchers, on the other hand, could make use of this study to develop further investigation on grammar teaching and learning using TBLT approach. Key words: Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), approach, analyze, simple past and past continuous tense, recount text, students’ response INTRODUCTION Tenth graders are supposed to learn some genres of text, including recount. This includes mastery of both the language skills and components. The language skills are listening, speaking, reading and writing while the supporting components are vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Grammar is one of the language components on which some teachers may put more concern. There is a view of students that considers grammar as a means to self-sufficiency (Savage, Bitterlin, & Price, 2010). Long (2000) mentioned that teaching grammar usually includes explaining the rules and providing some examples. Teachers can begin by introducing the grammar topic to the students. It continues with the explanation of when and how to apply the rules. The last step of this basic teaching is to provide examples. However, that way of teaching may be inadequate to activate awareness of students of what are beyond grammatical structure. They are form, meaning and use (Larsen-Freeman, 2001). Savage et al. (2010) explains that students may make mistakes even if they create sentences with correct structure. As an example, it is too formal to use “I must go” while speaking because the use of “must” is much more in writing than speaking. This implicates that teaching grammar is not merely of enabling learners to use the rules for one but some different conditions. Another urgency that raises is that teachers are to guide tenth graders to be competent of grammar in the stage of analyze. Analyze has surely passed three previous cognition stages, that are know, comprehend, and apply (Bloom, 1956). It demands the teacher, teaching to analyze grammar, to plan activities that most probably guide the students to form the grammar rules in their mind. This will probably be solved by providing exercises to the students. Tasks activity is the core of an approach, namely Task-Based Language Teaching (Long, 2000). Long (2000) mentioned Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) as an approach which considers that language learning happens through performing in tasks, for tasks aim to give learners opportunities to reinforce what they have just learnt. This is supported by Ellis (1994), from some studies of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) faculty, that repetitions in grammar teaching result in accurate use of grammar. Further considerations for the practice including the amount of exercises depend on the students need (Nunan, 1995). The process of teaching students to analyze simple past and past continuous tense in recount text within TBLT is one point that may fill a rift in the interrelated sources gained. The researcher traces for the description in a class of SMA Negeri 9 Surabaya, X-IPA-3. The result, directly after that, will also be discussed to show how the TBLT practice works. Task-Based Languaged Teaching (TBLT) has been practised and studied in either EFL or ESL teaching and learning. A study of the TBLT implementation on an ESP class was one of the sources. It was conducted by Hyde (2013), entitled “Task-Based Language Teaching in the Business English Classroom”, to improve the students’ performance. The students were taught Business English using present-practice-produce (PPP) method. Hyde (2013) found that TBLT is an excellent approach to teach Business English comparing to PPP. Another study on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) was conducted by Choo & Too (2012), entitled “Teachers’ Perceptions in Using Task-Based Instruction (TBI) for the Teaching of Grammar”. Choo & Too (2012), however, mentioned TBLT as Task-Based Instruction (TBI). The study aims to trace for teachers’ opinions towards the implementation of TBI for grammar teaching. The subjects are eight EFL teachers from a Chinese private school. The result of the study is that, although not all teachers expressed TBI as a suitable approach in their grammar classes, they concurred that it is a preferrable alternative approach for grammar teaching. The two studies show that Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) gives positive contribution for English learning, either for specific purposes or for the language mastery. For this reason, the researchers were triggered to conduct a study on TBLT practice in another case. If Choo & Too (2012) recorded the teacher’s opinions toward TBLT, and Hyde (2013) made use of TBLT for improving a Business English class learning, the researchers aimed to describe the implementation of TBLT to teach to analyze recount text, primarily the grammatical forms as the materials. This study outlines two research questions, “How is the implementation of Task-Based Language Teaching to teach tenth graders of SMA analyze simple past and Negeri 9 Surabaya to past continuous tense in recount text?” and “How do the students respond toward the implementation of Task-Based Language Teaching to teach them to analyze simple past and past continuous tense in recount text?” A point to be noted is that this implementation was done with the syllabus of the 2013 Curriculum. It is outlined that the students would be having activities with scientific approach, a set of learning that consists of five major steps, observing, questioning, exploring, associating, and communicating. METHODOLOGY This research is a qualitative study. A type of qualitatative study, known as basic interpretative study, is aimed to describe a phenomenon and to develop plausible explanations in regard to interpret the phenomenon (Ary, Jacobs, Sorensen, & Razavieh, 2010). The subjects of the study are the teacher and the students of X IPA 3 SMA Negeri 9 Surabaya. The data obtained are divided into two parts. The first data are to answer the first research question. It is the implementation of TBLT to teach the students to analyze simple past and past continuous tense in recount text, including the teacher’s actions and the students’ learning activities, collected using observation checklist and fiel note. The second data are the students’ responses toward the implementation, collected using a close-structured questionnaire. The close-structured questionnaire consists of 9 questions, asking opinions toward the learning topic, the learning indicators, and the learning progress of the students. The data were analyzed in descriptive manner. Analyzing qualitative research consists of organizing and familiarizing, coding and reducing, and interpreting and representing (Ary, et al., 2010). The researcher firstly tried to organize the data into two categories, the data that are likely for the first and the other ones for the second research question. Secondly, the researcher sorted the data to code and reduce it. This is to precisely categorize the data based on the research questions. Finally, the researcher did steps of interpreting and representing. Interpretation is bringing out the meaning, telling the story, providing an explanation and developing plausible explanations, while representation is about how the data are presented (Ary, et al., 2010). This leads the researcher to firstly provide the description of the data and at the same time bring some elaboration referred to related theories and findings developed. RESULT AND DISCUSSION Result The three-day-implementation was on 7-8 period of the school time. It began at 11.20 and ended at 12.50 a.m. The teacher implemented TBLT for grammar teaching, simple past and past continuous tense, in recount text, using four texts as the materials. The students actively participated in the class. They passed activities guided by the teacher in five major steps, observing, questioning, exploring, associating, and communicating. Observing includes understanding the gist of the text. Some students read sentences in the text loudly while some other were listening to the spoken text. After that, teacher asked the students to identify simple past and past continuous sentences in the text. It was recorded that the students questioned about recount text, what makes it different from other kinds of text, how events are described in recount, and how recount would appear in Indonesian. The third activity is exploring. The students were analyzing the two forms in groups. They were asked to classify each word or phrase of the sentences in the text given into its function and to transform the sentence pattern, such as from positive into negative and interrogative. The students did the task with the aids of group discussion but were going to submit the work individually. Fourthly, the students did peer correction with another group and for had a whole class discussion guided by the teacher for negotiating the best answer in associating activity. At the last, the students concluded what the text tells them about in detail. It was communicating activity, by which they communicate their understanding about the text after thoroughly analyze each of the sentences. In the step of observing, the teacher found some errors of the students’ in proonunciation when they were reading the sentences aloud. The teacher gave feedback to correct them. The students were also checking dictionary for some less familiar words, thus they could understand what the text tells them about. The questioning step had been passed subconsciously by the students. Some students asked to the teacher about recount text. The teacher invited the whole class to try to answer. It led to a short discussion of the whole class. The students, while trying to get the best answer, were formulating questions in their mind about recount text. the teacher turned down only to justify their ideas. In exploring stage, the students were doing the task of analyzing the sentences in the text. there were about 15 sentences to deal with. The task consists of classifying each word or phrase into its function and to transform the sentence pattern, such as from positive into negative and interrogative. The students did it cooperatively in groups as they had some discussion with their mates. However, each student wrote their own work on a piece of paper. The task is to be submitted individuallly. The students associated their work with others’ and with the teacher’s comments in associating step. The teacher gave them time to do peer correction with another group. After that, he led a whole class discussion to negotiate for the best answers. He gave the students time to correct their work, based on the feedback. The last step is communicating. The teacher invited the students to mention what the text tells them about. the students were supposed to mention any details of the events in the text. This was aimed to review thei understanding about the text after analyzing each of the sentences. The 39 students of X IPA 3 had four recount texts as the learning materials, all of which use simple past and past continuous tense and tell plausible events to the students. The titles of the texts are “Camping”, given in the first meeting, “My Grandpa’s Birthday” and “Holiday in Gunung Penanggungan”, given in the second meeting, and “My Holiday was Fantastic”, for the last meeting. After the implementation ended, the teacher passed the close-structured questionnaire to each student. There were 38 students as the respondents. Most of the students stated that grammar is difficult but important to learn. They also stated that the tasks helped them to pass the learning indicators and to progress learning simple past and past continuous tense from the first to the second meeting, and from the second to the third meeting. Discussion The implementation was done by the teacher in five steps. The teacher led the class to have observing, questioning, exploring, associating, and communicating in the three meetings. The teacher did, as what Vacca (1981) suggests, managing the class to do the task in groups. He also told the class to report their work individually. He conducted some discussions with the whole class about the work to do some correction. The teacher even made use of the three activity kinds offered by Vacca (1981), individual, small-group discussion, and whole class work. The other thing was that the teacher gave additional scores for whoever participating in the class discussion. That was a creative way of conducting a class, which Oller (1983) stated could maintain high student interest. Analyzing stage, according to Bloom (1956), has three previous stages of cognition, those are know, comprehend, and apply. The teacher had conducted activities for the three cognition process before he asked the students to do the analyzing task. The activities were reading the text for knowledge stage, observing the text for understanding the meaning, and observing simple past and past continuous sentences in the text while also questioning how events are described in recount text and how the text used in Indonesian for application process. The class had done the work of analyzing simple past and past continuous sentences in the recount texts given, which inferred that they had also successfully passed the first four stages of cognition process on the topic. More importantly, the teacher had implemented more than one concept of learning for his teaching program. He utilized taxonomy of Bloom (1956) and scientific approach, outlined by the government for the 2013 English teaching Curriculum, which includes steps of observing, questioning, exploring, associating, and communicating, together with Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach. The teaching implementation had gained the students’ responses. Most of them agreed that the tasks given enabled them to progress learning about simple past and past continuous tense in recount text from meeting to meeting. It was likely the transformation drills that enabled the students to analyze simple past and past continuous sentences in the recount texts given well, as what Stevick (1982) noted. The task of classifying words or phrases in the sentences was aimed to help the students more aware of parts of speech used and therefore to transform the sentences from positive into negative and interrogative. The teacher got benefits combining taxonomy of Bloom (1956) with the learning steps outlined in the most recent English teaching curriculum, the Curriculum of 2013 in the implementation. On the other hand, the students did respond positively toward the approach of TBLT, that they were helped to achieve the learning goal through doing the tasks. Gratitudes The researchers is in much debt for this study accomplishment. They would like to thank to the school on which this study was conducted. They also would like to thank to State University of Surabaya for allowing this study published. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS Conclusion Regarding to the research questions, there are two things to be concluded: The implementation did run well. There were five steps of learning outlined in the 2013 Curriculum, known as scientific approach, implemented with the learning objective from know to analyze. TBLT approach is useful to enable the students to analyze simple past and past continuous tense in recount text. The students’ responses toward the implementation, in the highest amount, were positive. They said that they could attempt to understand, identify, classify, and transform simple past and past continuous sentences in the recount texts given easily through doing the tasks. They also stated that the tasks enabled them to progress learning the two forms from the first meeting to the second, and from the second to the third. Suggestions Teachers could see this as a reference that TBLT approach is applicable for grammar teaching. 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The Use of Writing Personal Letter in Teaching Recount Text for the Eighth Choirun Nisaa English Education, Languages and Arts Faculty, State Unuversity of Surabaya Choirerunni@ymail.com Dosen pembimbing Him’mawan Adi Nugroho, S.Pd., M.Pd English Education, Languages and Arts Faculty, State University of Surabaya Abstrak Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang penggunaan menulis surat pribadi dalam pengajaran teks recount untuk siswa kelas delapan. Guru EFL sering menempatkan pengajaran menulis pada urutan terbawah prioritas mengajar. Bagaimanapun juga, belajar menulis itu penting bagi siswa. Masalah utama yang dihadapi siswa dalam menulis adalah kebosanan. Guru EFL harus meninggalkan cara yang biasa dalam pengajaran menulis dan mencoba untuk memberikan cara kreatif untuk hal ini. Penelitian ini memiliki dua pertanyaan penelitian; (1) bagaimana penerapan menulis surat pribadi dalam pengajaran teks recount untuk siswa kelas delapan? Dan (2) bagaimana tanggapan siswa pada penerapan menulis surat pribadi dalam pengajaran teks recount? Penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Subyek dalam penelitian ini adalah guru dan siswa kelas VIII D SMP Bahrul Ulum Suranbaya. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah lembar observasi, catatan lapangan, karya siswa, dan kuesioner. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengajaran menulis teks recount mengunakan menulis surat pribadi bisa menarik memunculkan keinginan siswa untuk belajar teks recount. Hal ini di buktikan oleh kondisi dimana siswa aktif selama proses belajar mengajar. Hasil penelitian ini juga menunjukkan bahwa pengajaran menulis teks recount menggunakan menulis surat pribadi mendapat tangapan positif dari siswa. Kebosana dalam menulis yang sering dirasakan oleh para siswa dapat dikurangi. Selain itu, tanggapan positif ditunjukkan oleh hasil karya siswa. Siswa dapat menuangkan ide dalam tulisan mereka. Namun, siswa masih mengalami kesulitan berkaitan dengan tata bahasa. Sebagai kesimpulan, penerapan menulis surat pribadi dalam pengajaran teks recount berhasil diterapkan oleh guru. Hal ini dikarenkaan guru memilih materi yang sesuai dengan tingkatan siswa dan latar belakang pengetahuan siswa. Hal ini juga mendapat tanggapan positif dari siswa. Mereka setuju bahwa penerapan menulis surat pribadi dalam pengajaran teks recount dapat mengurangi kebosanan mereka dalam menulis. Tanggapan positif lainnya ditunjukkan pada hasil karya siswa. Siswa telah mampu menuangkan ide-ide mereka dalam tulisan mereka. Kata Kunci: menulis, teks recount, surat pribadi Abstract This study investigates on the use of writing personal letter in teaching recount text for the eighth graders. EFL teachers often put writing in the bottom list of priorities in teaching. However, writing is essential for teacher. The main problem that students faced in writing is boredom. EFL teachers should leave a conventional way of teaching writing and try to provide a creative way for teaching writing. This study has two research questions; (1) how does the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text for the eighth graders? And (2) how are the students’ responses on the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text? This study is a descriptive qualitative. The subjects are the teacher and the students of VIII D SMP Bahrul Ulum Surabaya. The instruments which are used in this research are observation checklist, field note, students’ work, and questionnaires. The finding of the study shows that teaching writing of recount text involving writing personal letter could attract students willing in learning recount text. It proved by the condition where students are active during the teaching and learning process. The finding also showed that teaching writing of recount text involving writing personal letter gets a positive response from the students. The boredom in writing that commonly felt by the students could be reduced. Moreover, the positive response is showed by the result of the students’ works. Students can deliver idea in their writing. However, students still have difficulty dealing with grammar. In conclusion, the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text was successfully applied by the teacher. It was because the teacher chose an appropriate level of material and students’ input. It also gets positives responses from the students. They agree that it can reduce their boredom in writing. Another positive response is showed in the result of students’ works. Students have been able to deliver their ideas in their writing. Keywords: Writing, Recount Text, Personal Letter INTRODUCTION In Indonesia, English is taught as a Foreign Language (EFL). One of the purposes of teaching English at school in Indonesia is to develop students’ ability in communicating using English. Talking about communication ability, there are four skills that have been widely known, they are; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In order to achieve the goal of EFL learning in Indonesia, These skills should be taught in an integrated way. Many studies on English Language Teaching in Indonesia show that the aim of learning English has never been satisfactorily achieved (Gunarwan, 2000). EFL teachers in Indonesia seem to have a misunderstanding on how English should be taught regarding to the goal of building the learners’ communication skills. They emphasize more on the oral skill, which is actually true in a sense. However, EFL teachers should not put aside the other three skills that are reading, writing, and listening. Listening and reading are categorized as a receptive skill. Receptive skills are the ways in which people extract meaning from the discourse they see or hear (Al-Jawi, 2010). On the other hand, speaking and writing are categorized as a productive skill. In productive skill students use the language that they have acquired and produce a message through speech or written text. It can be said that in productive skill students will be more active than in the receptive skill. It is the reason why people often say that productive skill is more difficult than receptive skill. Writing is a productive skill in a written form while speaking is a productive skill in a spoken form. Writing is a system for thinking process and interpersonal communication put on paper using visible signs or graphic symbols on a flat surface such as paper, cloth or even stone slab (Al-Jawi, 2011). Writing is also called as the ‘forgotten skill,’ it is because it receives the least attention of the teacher. Moreover teachers often put writing at the bottom list of teaching priorities. Some people are more comfortable to communicate in a written form but some others are good in communicating in a form of spoken. People often communicate through writing. This makes it necessary for the EFL learners to learn how to write (Al-Jawi, 2011). The majority of language learners consider the writing skill as one of the most challenging linguistic abilities to foster; indeed, teachers of writing often hear their students complain of uncertainty about how to express themselves in writing (Luchini, 2003). Writing as one of the four language skills is often considered as a difficult skill because the writer should pay attention to their content, organization, purpose, vocabulary, punctuation, and spelling. In writing, students often get difficulty dealing with grammar. As the result, they get serious difficulty in writing. It is also the reason why students get bored in writing. Teacher’s monotonous way of teaching writing also causes in students’ unwilling in writing. In teaching writing, teachers should be familiar with what writing is all about, why people write, what kind of things they write and for what purposes, what a writer of different kinds of writing needs in order to write successfully (Al-Jawi, 2011). Moreover, teachers should know the various stages in the development of writing skills, that is they need to know the main issues that concern teachers of writing so that they can make informed choices in their own practice as a teacher of writing. Helmi (2012) defines several problems that are mostly faced by students in writing, they are; (1) Limited vocabulary, (2) Difficulty in organizing to write about something, (3) No motivation to write, and (4) Lack of confidence in grammar. All of those problems brings the students become lazy in writing. It simply because they are afraid of have a bad writing even they do not have any idea to be written. As a nature, it is important for the teacher to help the students with the problem that students faced. As stated before, students’ boredom is one of the problems of teaching writing in the classroom. It is commonly happened when the teacher teach them in conventional way. Several efforts should be done to solve the problems in teaching writing. Teachers should be creative in designing their way of teaching. The purpose is to make writing becomes easier and more interesting for the students. When it is successfully done, it can attract students’ interest in learning writing. According to Ahlsen and Lundh (2007), many teachers use a rather monotonous way of working with writing. Students are often left on their own with a blank piece of paper and a pencil without many guidelines, inspiration or a defined purpose. From this poit, it is showed that EFL teachers still use conventional way in teaching writing. The thing that should be done by the teacher in teaching writing is that using some approaches, methodes, techniques, strategy, or even providing a classroom activity in the teaching and learning process. When the teacher is successful in doing it, the teacher can make writing become easier and more interesting to be learned by the students. There was a previous study that investigates on the implementation of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. That study observed EFL teacher that implemented writing personal letter in teaching writing. That study focused on the analyzing students’ ability in producing recount text as the result of the implementation of writing personal letter. Another study investigated on the use writing personal letter for teaching narrative text. It was the same with the study that stated before. The deference appears on the text that was taught. This study focuses on the teaching writing of recount text for the eighth graders as stated in Standar Isi (2006), ‘Mengungkapkan makna dan langkah retorika dalam esei pendek sederhana dengan menggunakan ragam bahasa tulis secara akurat, lancar dan berterima untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sekitar berbentuk recount.’ Recount text is a kind of text that tells a story of certain experience. The communicative purpose of the text is to retell events as information or entertainment. The generic structures of recount text are; (1) Orientation, (2) Series of Events, and (3) Reorientation (Standar Isi, 2006). Past tense is used in writing a recount text because it tells a story of a certain experience, which means that the events happened in the past. According to Hyland (2004) cited from Helmi, Recount is a kind of genre that has social function to retell event for the purpose of informing or entertaining. Social purpose of recount is to reconstruct past experiences by retelling events in original sequence. The researcher has conducted a pre-observation to decide the subjects of the study. From the pre-observation, the researcher found EFL teacher who uses writing personal letter in teaching recount text. This teacher teaches the eighth graders. The teacher argued that by providing an interesting writing activity which is writing personal letter activity in teaching writing of recount text, students will be more interested in learning it. Personal letter is a missive communication in writing, addressed to a person or body of person (Bodomo, 2003). According to Stockwell (1981) cited from Suryowati , a personal letter consists of private information about people and things to a certain people in the written form. A personal letter is also called as a private letter. It contains of private information about personal experience in the written form to be sent in a certain people. Another Kompetensi Dasar of Standar Isi (2006) stated ‘Mengungkapkan makna dalam bentuk teks tulis fungsional pendek sederhana dengan menggunakan ragam bahasa tulis secara akurat, lancar dan berterima untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sekitar.’ ‘Teks fungsional pendek’ includes Personal letter. This Kompetensi dasar is in the same Standar Kompetensi with Kompetensi Dasar of recount text. In conclusion, it is the evidence that personal letter id taught for the eighth graders. Personal letter is one of the examples of writing product that can be used as media to interact, sharing experiences and to communicate each other in written form personally (Helmi, 2012). Bodomo (2003) defines the structure of personal letter, they are; (1) Date, (2) Salutation and name of recipient, (3) Introduction, (4) Body, (5) Closure, (6) Complimentary Close, and (7) Signature. From the explanation before, it is known that recount text and personal letter; (1) telling about past events, (2) telling sequence of events, and (3) telling about someone’s experience. The orientation part of recount text is called as salutation in personal letter, the events part of recount text is called as body in personal letter, and reorientataion of recount text is called as closing in personal letter. From this point, the teacher argued that recount text could be written in a form of personal letter. In conducting the teaching and learning process of recount text involving writing personal letter, firstly the teacher explains about recount text. The explanation about recount text includes the generic structures, the tense that is used, also the language features of it. The next step is he explains about personal letter. He shows that recount text and personal letter have similarities. Therefore, recount text could be written in a form of personal letter. In the end of the explanation, the teacher conducts a classroom writing activity involving writing personal letter that tells about students’ personal experience. Students are put in a condition where they are supposed to send some personal letters for their close friend, family, etc. the teacher believes that by doing this, students will be more interested in the classroom writing activities. The investigation on how the use of writing personal letter in teaching recount text is developed by the researcher into research questions: How does the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text for the eighth graders? How are the students’ responses on the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text? Related to the research questions, the objectives of the study can be presented as follows: To describe the result of the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text for the eighth graders. To describe the students’ responses on the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. By doing this study, which is the use of writing personal letter in teaching recount text, the finding will show that the theory used in this study can be applied in the teaching of EFL in Indonesia. Moreover, it is also expected that the finding of this study can inspire teachers in designing and improving their teaching activities related to the theory in this study. It is also expected that writing personal letter activity can attract the students’ interest in composing their own recount text and thus can increase the students’ ability in writing recount text. METODE This study focused on the use of writing personal letter in teaching recount text that was done by EFL teacher. Students’ work of recount text was analyzed, and also students’ responses toward the application in the teaching learning process were collected. This study relied mostly on the teacher’s performance in using writing personal letter in teaching recount text in his EFL classroom. Thus, a descriptive qualitative research design was chosen for the researcher described how the process of the application itself. Qualitative research has four purposes: exploration, explanation, description, and prediction (Marshall and Rosman, 1995, cited in Wilson). According to marshal and Rossman (1999), the purpose of a qualitative research is “to stress the unique strength of the genre for the research that is exploratory or descriptive, that assumes the value of context and setting, and that searches for a deeper understanding of the participant’s lives experiences of the phenomenon.” It was in line with the purpose of the researcher in conducting this study, which was to search for a deeper understanding on the application of using writing personal letter in teaching recount text in EFL classroom. The subjects of the study were the teacher and the students of SMP Bahrul Ulum Surabaya. The students were the eighth graders of Junior High School exactly students of VIII D SMP Bahrul Ulum Surabaya. They were supposed to learn recount text for their writing material in the first semester. The teacher used writing personal letter in teaching recount text to attract students’ interest in learning it. It also used to encourage students’ willing in composing their own recount text. The teacher believed that this activity could reach the goal of his EFL classroom. This study was conducted in SMP Bahrul Ulum Surabaya which was located in Putat Jaya Sekolahan 11-13 Surabaya. This school was chosen since the teacher used writing personal letter in teaching recount text in the EFL classroom. This school had implemented KTSP curriculum which gave the school authority in designing the syllabus based on the school visions and missions. The researcher was the key instrument of this study. The researcher used four instruments in collecting the data, they were; (1) Observation checklist, (2) Field-note, (3) student’s work, and (4) Questionnaire. Basically, there are two types of observation, they are; participatory observation and non-participatory observation. In a participatory observation, the researcher would take a part and participate in the teaching learning process where the research is done. While in non-participatory observation, the researcher would not take a part and participate in the research or the teaching learning process. The researcher would only sit in the back of the class and observe the teaching and learning process. In this study, the researcher had non-participatory observation where researcher was not the one who did the teaching learning process. In conducting an observation, the researcher absolutely needed two kinds of observation’s instrument, which were observation checklist and field-note. For field-note would be explained more in the next explanation. Observation checklist was a list of things which were observed by the researcher. It was noticeable that the list must contain points that were related to the problem of this study, so that the research questions of this study could be answered by the result of the observation itself. In line with the problem of this study, the researcher had several focuses to be included in the observation checklist; they were (1) Teacher’s role, (2) Students’ role, (3) Interaction, and (4) the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. As explained in the previous explanation, another observation’s instrument which was helpful in conducting an observation was field-note. Field-note used to note everything which happened during the observation that was important for the study. It considered that field-note covered things that were not included in the observation checklist. Field-note contained two kinds of material, which were descriptive materials and reflective materials. While observing the teaching learning process, the researcher recorded the activities done in the descriptive part of the field-note. At the same time, the researcher filled in the reflective part of the field-note with the researcher’s comments on the teaching learning process. In the end of the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text, the teacher asked students to compose their own recount text in a form of personal letter. Then teacher analyzed students’ work by using ESL composition profile. There were several aspects that contained in ESL composition profile that was designed by Jacob (1981), They were (1) Content aspect, (2) Organization aspect, (3) Vocabulary aspect, (4) Language Use aspect, and the last one (5) Mechanics aspect. Content aspect was about ideas of students’ work which was recount text. Organization aspect included the compatibility between the students’ writing and generic structures of recount text. Vocabulary aspect analyzed the word choice of students in composing recount text. Language aspect focused on the grammatical used by students in composing recount text, for example the use of past form. Mechanic aspect included the writing of word spelling, punctuation, and capitalization that was used in the recount text. Questionnaire contains questions used to gain information from respondents. There are two types of questionnaire; they are structured questionnaire and unstructured questionnaire. Structured questionnaire has a number of questions with limited choice of answers. The purpose of administering is to get fact. While in unstructured questionnaire, there are also a number of questions but the answers are in the form of essay, so the content of the answer may different and also vary among the respondents. The purpose of administering this kind of questionnaire is to explore something. The structured questionnaire was used by the researcher with aim to avoid a broad answer from the students. However, by doing this, the researcher still could explore the students’ experiences of the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. The content of the questionnaires was about the students’ opinion on the teaching learning process. Three different qualitative data were compiled to be used for answering the research questions. The data of this study were in the form of; (1) check points in the researcher’s observation checklist, (2) words written in the researcher’s field-note, (3) words written of students’ work of recount text, and (4) the answers chosen by the students in the questionnaires. The sources of the data were; (1) observation that was done in the classroom teaching learning process, where researcher observed the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text, (2) students’ works of recount text which were analyzed using the ESL Composition Profile (Jacob, et.al., 1981), and also (3) The questionnaires given to the students, which gave information about students’ responses to the teaching and learning process. In line with the research instruments used in this study, the researcher applied three techniques in collecting the data, they were; (1) doing the observation, (2) collecting students’ work, and the last was (3) giving a questionnaire. As explained before, this research was designed as a descriptive qualitative research. Thus, the researcher was a non-participatory observer. The researcher only observed the teacher when he was conducting the teaching learning process. In the first day of the observation, the teacher taught about simple past tense. It was done as pre-material before he taught recount text. In the second day of the observation, the teacher taught recount text involving writing personal letter. During the teaching and learning process, the researcher filled the observation checklist. Besides, the researcher also used field-note to take notes of things that may support the data collected through the observation checklist. It took a whole duration of teaching for the explanation, so that the activity of writing recount text was done in the next meeting. In the last day of observation, students were asked to compose recount text in a form of personal letter. ESL Composition Profile was used to analyze; (1) the content, (2) the organization (3) the vocabulary, (4) the language use, and (5) the mechanic of the students’ work. In the end, the researcher gave questionnaires to the students which gave information to the researcher about students’ responses to the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. To analyze the data of the study, the researcher read all the data gathered from the observation checklist, field-note, students’ work, and questionnaire. The data gathered through observation checklist and field-notes were analyzed descriptively. The result of observation checklist and field-notes were then compiled to give information to the researcher about teacher’s idea in the use of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. And also the data gave information to the researcher about the problems that occur during the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. Other than from the teacher, the researcher also gathered information from the students who involved in the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. The data gathered from questionnaires given to the students gave information about their responses toward the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. By doing this, the researcher had the idea whether their responses were as expected by the teacher or not. The result of students’ works completed the finding of the research. It gave information to the researcher the students’ quality in composing recount text as a result of the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. After analyzing all the data, the researcher had organized information about the use of writing personal letter in teaching recount text (how the way of the application, the result of students’ work, and students’ responses toward the application). These would be discussed further in the next chapter. RESULT OF CLASSROOM OBSERVATION In conducting the classroom observation, the researcher used two instruments, which were observation checklist and field notes. The classroom observation was conducted in three meetings regarding to the materials being learned, that was recount text. In the previous sub-chapter, the researcher has elaborated the result of the observation checklist and also field notes. Here, the researcher would analyze the result in order to get the answer for the first research questions of the research which is the result of the application. As explained in the previous sub-chapter about the result of observation checklist and also field notes, there are two points that should be investigated. The first point is about the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. The second point is the use of English during the teaching and learning process. Starting with the first point, the researcher would investigate the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. As elaborated in the previous chapter, recount text was included in the KD of the second grade of Junior High Scholl exactly for the second semester. “Mengungkapkan makna dan langkah retorika dalam esei pendek sederhana dengan menggunakan ragam bahasa tulis secara akurat, lancar dan berterima untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sekitar berbentuk recount.” Moreover, personal letter also included in the same SK with recount text but they are in the different KD. “Mengungkapkan makna dalam bentuk teks tulis fungsional pendek sederhana dengan menggunakan ragam bahasa tulis secara akurat, lancer dan berterima untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sekitar.” Personal letter is included in ‘teks tulis fungsional pendek’.In conclusion, it was true that recount text and personal letter are taught in the first semester of eighth graders. In this study, the teacher asked the students to write a recount text in a form of personal letter. He argued that recount text and personal letter are the same in (1) structures, and (2) tense that is used, so that recount text could be written in a form of personal letter. He provided a different way of learning recount text which was by writing it in a form of personal letter. Writing personal letter activity is the activity in which the students write a personal letter about their own personal experience (Stockwell, 1981, cited in Hendriawati). It is in line with recount text where it also tells about personal experience. During the observation, the researcher noticed that the teacher seemed was easy to make students were willing in composing their recount text. The researcher believed that it was because the teacher provided an interesting way in learning recount text which is writing it in a form of personal letter. The teacher had thrown away the monotonous and boredom of writing class by using writing personal letter in teaching recount text. A good condition of teaching and learning process had been created by the teacher. Both teacher and students were interested to be active during the teaching and learning process. It was showed where students delivering several questions related to the teacher’s explanation. It seemed that they were motivated to learn about recount text especially producing it in a form of personal letter. Moving on the second point, the researcher would investigate about the use of English during the teaching and learning process. Since it was an English class, the researcher considered that it was important to investigate this point. The researcher found that the teacher used both English and Bahasa in the teaching learning process. The researcher noticed that it was difficult for the teacher to use full English in the class since most students had less ability in English. The condition that explained before does not mean that the teacher did not encourage the students to use English in the class. The teacher delivered the explanation in English and repeated it in Bahasa. Also for the instruction given was done in English and then repeated in Bahasa by the teacher. However, the teacher tried to stimulate students to use English by always saying something in English and repeating them in Bahasa. Moreover, the teacher also translating the students’ saying in English in order to make students know how to say that in English. RESULT OF STUDENTS’ RESPONSES The last result to be discussed was got from the questionnaires and the students’ works. The discussion on the result of the questionnaires and students’ responses would give an answer to the last research question. Unfortunately, there were 4 students were absent in the last day of the observation. Therefore, the researcher could not have a complete stack of answered questionnaires also students’ works. The questionnaires were divided into two focuses. The first focus was on the students’ opinion toward the application of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. The next focus was on the students’ opinion toward the advantages of the implementation of writing personal letter in teaching recount text. The result of the first focus showed that students were all interested in the teaching learning process involving writing personal letter that was done by the teacher. It proved by the condition where students were willing to involve in the writing activity and also compose their own recount text. Moreover, the teacher kept on encouraging the students to use English in the class by accustoming them to say common greetings and simple utterances in English rather than by forcing them to speak in English fully. The result for the next focus was also good. Students agreed that learning and composing recount text through writing personal letter was such kind of interesting way in learning it. It was not only interesting but also it was easier to be understood. It proved by the result of the students’ work where students had been able to write recount text with complete generic structures and also good content. Therefore, it can be considered more effective than a conventional way of teaching and learning recount text. The result of analysis toward students’ work would be discussed to support the result that was got from the questionnaires. As explained before that there were five aspects that had been scored toward students’ work. There would be a conclusion for each aspect’s result later on. For the first aspect was the content of students’ work. Knowledgeable, originality, accuracy, unified, good development of main idea, and also relevancy to the topic were the points that were scored. The result of analyzing was satisfying. Most of students were able to deliver their idea in composing their recount text in a form of personal letter. The researcher believed that it could be happened because the teacher was good in choosing the topic of the recount text which was about students’ personal experience. Students were interested in doing it since it was easy enough for them. The second aspect was the organization of students’ work. It measured the suitability of students’ writing toward the generic structures of recount text. Moreover, the sequence idea in each part was analyzed here. The result of the analysis was satisfying. Most of students were able to compose their recount text in a form of personal letter with complete generic structures. Most of the also could deliver a sequence idea in their writing. However, students still faced a problem about grammatical order. The third aspect was the vocabulary used by the students. It focused on analyzing word choice of students’ work. It was done since when students were wrong in using it, it could result in the changing of meaning. It was found that there were several students used common verbs but they put it not in proper way. The result was confusing meaning of their sentence. Several students also used unfamiliar words to their level but they did not know the exact meaning of it. That is why, they were wrong in arranging sentences using this words. Moreover, the researcher noticed that grammatical problem was still appeared in their work. The fourth aspect was the language used of students’ work. It focused on the grammatical used, they were; the use of past form and pronoun. The result of analyzing was poor. There were many students that still had difficulty in producing past form and using a correct pronoun. The researcher believed that the root problem of this phenomenon was the students’ understanding of past tense form. With the time, the researcher hoped that students could master this kind of grammatical pattern. The last aspect was mechanic of students’ work. It focused on the writing of past form, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, and also handwriting. The result was good enough. Most students were able to write every single word correctly. The problem just appeared in the punctuation and also capitalization. As the researcher observed, students still needed more practicing on how arrange a good paragraph. These problems could be solved by regular practice. Finally, the researcher could conclude that the result of students’ work of writing recount text in a form of personal letter was good. Students were able to composing a good recount text in a form of personal letter. Common problems that were faced by the students such as; grammatical errors and paragraphing could be solved by regular and also intensive practice. CONCLUSION In conclusion, the aim of using writing personal letter in teaching recount text is to reduce students’ problem in writing which is boredom. The teacher believes that by creating a condition where the students are supposed to write a letter to someone can make them being willing to compose recount text. In this case the teacher leaves a conventional way of teaching writing and applied a creative way for teaching writing. Based on the data analysis in the previous chapter, the researcher concludes that writing personal letter in teaching recount text was successfully applied by the teacher. Students’ input and appropriate level of material were considered by the teacher, so that it results in students’ interest of learning activity. Moreover, both teacher and students had a good corporation during the teaching and learning process. The students were willing to ask when they have difficulty toward the material given, while the teacher was being a guide during the teaching and learning process The way the teacher teaches writing by providing classroom writing activity which is writing personal letter got positive response from the students. It is supported by the result of students’ works. Overall, students have been able to compose recount text. They have been able to deliver their idea in their writing. The problem appears in the students’ ability in mastering English grammar especially the use of past form. However, with time and regular practice, they will have their best dealing with grammar. SUGGESTION Regarding to the result of the study, the researcher finds that it is necessary to give several suggestion dealing with the teaching recount text using writing personal letter.The teacher has creates an enjoyable condition in teaching writing by using writing personal letter. 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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTEGRATED WRITING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING JOB APPLICATION LETTER TO THE TWELFTH GRADERS OF VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTEGRATED WRITING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING JOB APPLICATION LETTER TO THE TWELFTH GRADERS OF VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL YUNI YULIANTI S1-Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Surabaya e-mail: yuniyuliantibisa@gmail.com Pembimbing: Him’mawan Adi Nugroho, S.Pd.,M.Pd. Dosen Jurusan Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Surabaya e-mail: himmawanadi@englishunesa.com. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada perbedaan yang signifikan dalam hasil belajar menulis surat lamaran pekerjaan antara siswa yang diajar dengan Teknik Menulis Terpadu dan mereka yang tidak. Peneliti melakukan penelitian ini pada siswa kelas dua belas diSMK Negeri 1 Grati - Pasuruan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian eksperimen dengan menggunakan dua kelompok sampel yaitu kelompok eksperimental dan kelompok kontrol. Data yang diperoleh dari penelitian dianalisis dengan menggunakan prosedur Independent - sampel t -test dan Paired - sampel t -test di SPSS. Hasil analisis dari penelitian menjelaskan bahwa Teknik Menulis Terpadu efektif dalam meningkatkan nilai menulis siswa dalam kelompok eksperimen, karena skor total tulisan siswa di kelompok eksperimen mengalami peningkatan dengan kekuatan kenaikan skor sebesar (0,52) eta squared menunjukkan efek peningkatan yang sangat besar, lebih tinggi dari kenaikan total skor tulisan siswa di kelompok kontrol yang hanya mengalami peningkatan sebesar (0,14) eta squared. Dalam aspek isi, skor menulis siswa pada kelompok eksperimen meningkat dengan peningkatan sebesar (0,33) eta squared (sangat besar ), dalam aspek organisasi meningkat dengan besarnya peningkatan (0,43) eta squared (sangat besar ), dan dalam aspek kosakata meningkat dengan besarnya peningkatan (0,18) eta squared (besar). Peningkatan – peningkatan tersebut lebih tinggi dari peningkatan skor siswa dalam kelompok kontrol yang hanya sebesar (0,05) eta squared dalam aspek isi, (0,16) eta squared dalam aspek organisasi, dan (.0,01) eta squared dalam aspek kosakata. Namun, dalam aspek tata bahasa, peningkatan skor kelompok eksperimen hanya sebesar (0,17) eta squared lebih rendah dibandingkan peningkatan kelompok kontrol yang sebesar (0,41) eta squared. Kemudian, dalam aspek mekanik, tidak ada peningkatan, tetapi terjadi penurunan dengan besarnya penurunan (0,006) eta squared. Akhirnya, diperoleh beberapa kesimpulan bahwa Teknik Menulis Terpadu lebih efektif daripada teknik konvensional dalam mengajar menulis surat lamaran pekerjaan, yang dapat meningkatkan skor menulis siswa dalam aspek isi, organisasi, dan kosa kata. Namun, dalam aspek tata bahasa, teknik konvensional dianggap lebih efektif daripada Teknik Menulis Terpadu. Kemudian, Teknik Menulis Terpadu juga dianggap tidak efektif dalam mengajarkan menulis surat lamaran pekerjaan untuk meningkatkan skor siswa dalam aspek mekanika. Kata Kunci: Teknik Menulis Terpadu, Hasil Belajar Siswa, Menulis Surat Lamaran Kerja. Abstract This study was aimed to find out whether there is significant difference in learning outcomes of writing job application letter between students who are taught by integrated writing technique and those who are not. The researcher conducted this study to the twelfth graders of SMK Negeri 1 Grati – Pasuruan. This study used experimental research method with two groups designed called experimental group and control group. Then, the data obtained from the research were analyzed by using Independent – samples t-test and Paired – samples t-test procedures in SPSS. The result of this study explained that Integrated Writing Technique is effective in improving the students in experimental group writing scores since the students’ composition total scores of experimental group was getting increase with magnitude of increase (.52) eta squared indicates very large effect size, higher than the increase of control group’s composition total score which only has magnitude of increase (.14) eta squared indicates large effect size. In term of content, the students writing scores in experimental group increased with magnitude of improvement (.33) eta squared (very large effect size), in term of organization increased with magnitude of improvement (.43) eta squared (very large effect size), and in term of vocabulary increased with magnitude of improvement (.18) eta squared (large effect size). Those improvements are higher than the improvement of students’ scores in control group which only (.05) eta squared in term of content, (.16) eta squared in term of organization, and (.01) in term of vocabulary. However, in term of language use, the improvement of experimental group scores is only (.17) eta square lower than control group’s which is (.41) eta square. Then, in term of mechanics, there is no improvement, but reduction with magnitude of decrease (.006) eta square. Finally, it is gained some conclusions that Integrated Writing Technique is more effective than conventional way in teaching job application letter, which can improve the students’ writing skill in term of content, organization, and vocabulary. However, it is considered that conventional way is more effective than Integrated Writing Technique in term of language use. Then, it is considered that Integrated Writing Technique is not effective in teaching job application letter in term of mechanics. Keywords: Integrated Writing Technique, Learning Outcomes, Writing Job Application Letter. INTRODUCTION In language learning, writing is an important language skill that must be mastered by students who learn language. Moreover, for vocational high school students who learn English for specific purpose which will be needed in their work place, writing as a key method of communication for most people, become more important for them to master and struggle. Although writing and communication skills have degraded since the development of technology in which more and more people communicate through email and text messaging, developing writing skills is still important in the business world to create business letter. So that, creating job application letter especially for vocational school students is still also important. The importance of teaching and learning writing as a key method of communication is stated on Standar Isi SMK/MAK (BSNP, 2006). English subject is taught to vocational high school students as adaptive subject to improve the students communication skills that will be needed in their vocational program and in further work place. For the twelfth graders, it is hoped that the students are able to communicate using English in intermediate level both oral and written. One of that expected skills is writing bussiness letter includes job application letter that will be needed by the students to apply for a job. Unfortunately, writing is not an easy skill for both EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers and learners since English is not their first language. Morover, learning writing contains some issues that must be learned. As Rass (2001), stated that writing is a difficult skill for both native speakers and nonnative speakers alike, because authors must balance multiple issues such as content, organization, purpose, audience, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling, and mechanics such as capitalization. Zheng (1999) in Yan (2005), stated that acquiring the writing skill seems to be more laborious and demanding than acquiring the other three skills (reading, listening, and speaking). Madsen (1983: 101) added that there are many factors must be considered in writing such as mechanics (including spelling and punctuation), vocabulary, grammar, appropriate content, diction, rhetorical matters of various kinds (organization, cohesion, unity; appropriateness to the audience, topic, and occasion); as well as sophisticated concerns such as logic and style. So that, many of teachers and students face certain problems in teaching and learning writing as English as Foreign Language (ESL); included writing job application letter. Therefore, since the importance of the skillfulness of writing job application letter for vocational high school students, it is needed many kinds of methods, techniques or strategies to teach it. Among some techniques of writing, there is a good technique to teach writing which is introduced by Cecilia B-Ikeguchi (1997). The technique is called integrated writing technique. Integrated Writing Technique is a technique of teaching writing that integrates some skills; those are speaking, listening, reading, and writing. In the teaching and learning activity, those four skills are combined and are divided into three phases; those are assignment phase, interactive phase, and writing phase. Indeed, students‘ writing composition will be the product in the end of the teaching and learning activity. As Ikeguchi (1997) explained that in Integrated Writing Technique, there are three phases; those are assignment phase, interactive phase, and writing phase. First phase of the lesson begins one week before teaching and learning process with the giving of the assignment. In this assignment phase, the students have to choose any topic that they are most interested in. Then, they have to look for a short magazine or newspaper article, read it thoroughly until they understand the content, and make a copy to bring to class. Next, the second phase is interactive phase which begins in the next meeting, the students in the same topic take turns in reading or reporting each of their articles to the group members. While, everybody else listens and then asks questions to clarify points that are unclear, or make comments. Finally, in writing phase, the students have to write about two things: (1) the topic they had chosen to read and to bring to class, and (2) the other related aspects of the same topic that they found out from the group interaction. In teaching writing job application letter, the implementation of integrated writing technique was as follow; in assignment phase, teacher wrote on the white board a list of some job field which the teacher thought would attract the students to apply. The teacher allowed each of the students to choose one job field that they were most interested in. Then, the teacher asked them to look for a job vacancy advertisement dealing with the job field that each of them had chosen from newspapers or internet, then read the job vacancy advertisement thoroughly until they understood the requirements of it, and made a copy of it, then brought it to class in the next meeting. In the interactive phase which was started in the next meeting, the teacher explained about job application letter; what it is, what its structures are, and what its contains are. After giving explanation, teacher asked the students who had chosen the same job field to sit together and form a group of four. Then, the teacher asked the students within the same group to take turns in reading -or reporting- each of their job vacancy advertisement to the group members. While, everybody else listened and then asked questions to clarify points that were unclear, or gave comments. Its aim was to recognize job requirements relating to the job field, so that they could think of their needed qualification in order to be able to apply for the job. Then, the teacher gave each group two examples of job application letter to be discussed and identified their structures based on the teacher’s explanation. The teacher allowed as much time as the students are willing to talk, or half of the whole class time. The students are required to understand about the job application letter well. In writing phase, the teacher asked the students to get back to their seats, and asked them to summarize the applicants’ requirements which is required in the job vacancy advertisement that they brought to the class, and outlined or wrote their curriculum vitae (included their personal and contact information, qualifications (education), experiences (work history and fields of interest), and their awards (professional membership, courses, and professional qualification) based on the requirements on the job vacancy advertisement in several sentences in a paragraph. Besides, they were also asked to express their personal opinion or belief toward the job vacancy based on their qualification that they can fill the mentioned carreer position in a paragraph. Finally, in the last meeting, the teacher asked each of the students to compose a job application letter by developing their outline they had already made in the previous meeting. Due to the goodness of Integrated Writing Technique above, the researcher thought that it would be helpful to cope the teaching problem in SMK Negeri 1 Grati Pasuruan. It is since when the teachers taught the twelfth graders writing job application letter through conventional way, the students commonly copied the content and sentences of the sample of job application letter given when they were asked to compose their own job application letter. Meanwhile, job application letter must reflect the applicant's personality in a positive way and includes basic information about job applicant’s expertise and qualifications. It should reflect job applicant’s enthusiasm and competency for the job. As Kurniawan (2008) stated that job application letter’s main objective is to get the applicant in the door for an interview and must be written well enough to attract the attention and interest of the person who has power to recommend the applicants. If the students learn to write job application letter, they must be able to state positive arguments about their own personality and personal information toward their appropriateness to the job, not by copying the sample of job application letter given. Therefore, since in Integrated writing technique there are activities which require students to be creative in expressing their personal opinion or beliefe, it is hoped that this technique will be effective in improving the students’ skill in writing good job application letter, and minimize the copying which is commonly done by the students. For those reasons, the researcher was eager to do this research in SMK Negeri 1 Grati - Pasuruan in order to know know whether this writing technique would be effective to improve the students learning outcomes of writing job application letter or not. In order to know the improvement of the students learning outcomes, the reasearch question of this study was whether there is significant difference in the scores of writing job application letter between students who are taught by integrated writing technique and those who are not. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Research Design This study used Experimental Research design since this study investigated the effectiveness of Integrated Writing Technique in teaching English in Indonesian context especially in improving the students learning outcomes in writing job application letter. It is in line with the statement stated by Ary et al. (2010:265) that experimental research is a scientific investigation in which the researcher manipulates one or more independent variables, controls any other relevant variables, and observes the effect of manipulations on the dependent variables. In this study, the researcher aimed to find how successful integrated writing technique in improving the students learning outcomes. It is investigated by comparing the improvement of students scores in writing job application letter in term of content, organization, vocabulary, mechanics, and language use, between the students who were taught by using integrated writing technique and those who were not. There were two groups of sample used in this study; those were experimental group and control group. The experimental group was expected to give the influence of the independent variable to the dependent variable, while the control group was not. Firstly, both experimental and control groups were given Pre-test in order to measure their ability in writing application letter. Then, treatment was given to the experimental group. After that, the treatment was examined through a post-test that was administered to both groups. Research Variables There were two variables in this study. They were independent variable and dependent variable. Marczyk, G et al. (2005:42) stated that “the independent variable is the factor that is manipulated or controlled by the researcher”. In this case the independent variable of this study was Integrated Writing Technique. In addition, Marczyk, G et al. (2005:44) added that “the dependent variable is a measure of the effect (if any) of the independent variable”. The dependent variable of this research was the students’ ability in writing job application letter. Population and Sample Ary et al. (2010: 148-149) stated that population is all members of any well-defined class of people, events, or objects in a large group to which the researcher wishes to generalize the the results of the study. In this study, the population was the twelfth graders of SMK Negeri 1 Grati Pasuruan, that was divided into 14 classes; those are XII AK 1, XII AK 2, XII KI 1, XII KI 2, XII TPM 1, XII TPM 2, XII TPc 1, XII TPc 2, XII TAV 1, XII TAV 2, XII ATUg, XII API, XII MM 1, and XII MM 2. Ary et al. (2010: 148-158) also explained about sample and sampling techniques. Sample is a small group as a part of a population that is observed. To determine the sample, there are two types of sampling that might be used; they are probability sampling and non probability sampling. In probability sampling, the methods of sampling are simple random sampling, stratified random sampling, cluster random sampling, and systematic sampling. While in non probability sampling, the methods of sampling are accidental sampling, purposive sampling, and quota sampling. In this study, the researcher used purposive sampling technique, since the researcher selected the sample from population with a particular reason. (Ary et al, : 2010). In this study, the researcher determined two sample classes from population by a certain purpose; that is to choose two classes which has similar ability in learning English. It aimed in order to ease the teaching and learning process, and also to keep the validity of data. After getting the sample, the researcher determined the experimental group and the control group randomly. Thus, the researcher used a tossing coin to decide which group would get the treatment. The two sample classes were chosen from 14 classes of population by a certain purpose. Based on the information from the teacher, the learning ability of both XII KI 1 and XII KI 2 are not too different, and the ability of the students in the both classes are various. Thus, the researcher decided to choose them as samples in this study. Then the researcher chosed which class would get the treatment randomly by tossing coin. Finally, the result was XII KI 2 as an experimental group which was given the treatment, and XII KI 1 as the control group which was not given the treatment. Instrument In collecting data, the researcher used an instrument as the device to get the data needed. The instrument which is used in this study was a test. “A test is a set of stimuli presented to an individual in order to elicit responses on the basis of which a numerical score can be assigned. This scores, based on a representative sample of the individual’s behavior, is an indicator of the extent to which the subject has the characteristic being measured.” (Ary, et. al, 2010: 201). Tests that are widely used in educational research, such as this study, are achievement tests. Also based on (Ary, et.al, 2010: 201), there are five kinds of achievement tests; those are standardized tests, researcher – made tests, norm – referenced and criterion – referenced tests, test performance range, and performance assessment. In this study, the researcher used researcher – made test, so that the researcher could suit the test with the specific objectives of this study, it means that the test was hoped could match more closely with the content that was covered in this study. Madsen (1983:5) stated that tests is an important part of every teaching and learning experience that can provide insights into ways that can improve the evaluation process and also help us answer the important questions. So that, a test in this study was writing test which is important to answer the research questions about the effect of using Integrated Writing Technique as a technique for teaching writing job application letter to the twelfth graders of SMK Negeri 1 Grati - Pasuruan. In this study, the test was in the form of composition test. The test was administered twice; those were pre-test and post-test. Pre-test was administered first in order to assess the students‘ writing ability before the treatments, while post-test was administered next after the treatments in order to assess the students‘ writing ability after the given treatments. Pre-test and post-test were given to the both groups; experimental and control groups. The form of composition test was chosen in this study since it only required short time to construct and it was considered able to be the way to measure the students‘ writing ability directly. In this case, the composition test was composing a job application letter. The students were given 45 minutes to do the test. The instruction of the composition that should be composed by them in pre-test was the same as the instruction of the composition that should be composed by them in post-test. The instruction was ― Write an application letter to apply for a job based on job vacancy advertisement given. Before the real application of pre-test and post-test, the researcher conducted tryout. The purpose of tryout was to enable the researcher to get the appropriate test item that is suitable for the students’ level and also to get validity and reliability. Morover, it also gave the researcher an idea about the time allocation for the students to do the test. In this tryout, the test was in the form of composition test. It was given to the group which does not belong to both experimental group and control group. In this study, tryout was conducted before doing pre-test to the experimental and control group; the researcher conducted tryout on Tuesday, 19th of November 2013 in the 7th period of lesson to the students of XII AK 2. In this tryout, the students was asked to compose a job application letter with the instruction “Write an application letter to apply for a job based on job vacancy advertisement given.” The result of tryout showed that the test instrument was valid and reliable that is presented in the following explanation. Validity of Tryout Test Instrument The test that was given to the students should be valid. A test will valid if it can successfully measure what will be intended to measure. As explaine before, that the tryout was conducted before conducting pre – test and post - test in order to examine the test as an instrument. One of things that must be examined is the validity of the test. Validity is the most important consideration in developing and evaluating measuring instruments. Ary et.al, (2010: 224), defined validity as the extent to which scores on a test enable one to make meaningful and appropriate interpretations. Then, he explained that there are three types of validity; those are content validity, criterion – related validity, and construct validity. In this study, the researcher used content validity, as consideration that content validity relates to the consistency of the test with its objective (Susanto, 2000: 17). Content validity was used to examine the content of the test. The test should representatively contain the item that supposed to be measured. So, content validity was gained by mapping the test item with the objectives stated in the curriculum; that Vocational High School students in the twelfth grade are expected to be able to write bussiness letters include a job application letter. ( BSNP: 2006). Thus, the item in the test must represent the objective that stated in the curriculum. The result of analysis toward the test considered that the test instrument was valid. It is since the test item which asked the students to write their own job application letter based on the job vacancy advertisement given, is relevant to the learning objectives stated in the curriculum. The learning objectives are; students are able to understand the parts of application letter, students are able to understand the content of application letter, students are able to understand an advertisements on job vacancies, and students are able to compose job application letters to respond job vacancy advertisement. Reliability of Tryout Test Instrument Besides examining the validity, the researcher also examined the reliability of the test since it is also an important element to measure the quality of the test. Reliability indicates how consistently a test measures whatever it does measure. To be able to make valid inferences from a test’s score, the test must first be consistent in measuring whatever is being measured. (Ary, et.al., 2010: 239). There are some general types of reliability; those are inter-rater reliability, test – retest reliability, internal consistency, and inter method reliability. In this study, the reliability of the test was examined by using inter – rater reliability. It means that one test was administered once and it was scored by two people. This type of reliability, indeed, to measure the consistency of the test. So, there were two raters to examine the students’ composition. The raters must be in the same ability of writing knowledge. In this case, the first rater was the researcher, and the second rater was the researcher’s colleague who is also studying in English Education major and taking research course. Then, in order to analyze the reliability of the test, it was used Pearson Product Moment formula to know the correlation. The formula is as follows by using Pearson r (Bartz, 1976: 193): (1) In which: N : number of pairs of scores Σ X Y : sum of the product of each pair of scores Ẍ : mean of the X distribution Ÿ : mean of the Y distribution Sx : standard deviation of X distribution Sy : standard deviation of Y distribution The inter – rater reliability analysis, also showed that the instrument of tryout test was reliable. It is since the the instrument was considered consistent proved by the result of Pearson Product Moment analysis is 0.64 indicates the criteria of strong r (reliable). Since the tryout test instrument was valid and reliable, then it was used to be an instrument for pre-test and post-test. Scoring Guide To assess the students’ composition, the researcher used a scoring guide which is design by adopting Jacob et.al’s idea (1981) about testing ESL composition. The scoring guide assessed the students’ composition in some factors of writing that can be evaluated as explained by Madson (1983: 101). However in this case, the guidance only assesses the students’ composition in five writing areas that related to writing job application letter; those are content, organization, vocabulary, mechanics, and language use. Each of these components has different criterion and different point ranges. In using scoring guide, the raters should read the students’ composition first, and then decided the points to be computed become the total score. Data Collection Technique The data of this study was collected through the tests; tryout, pre – test and post – test; to investigate the students’ learning outcomes in writing a job application letter. The fist step, the researcher conducted tryout that is administered on Tuesday, 19th November 2013 in the 7th period to the students of XII AK 2. Then, before implementing the technique, the researcher administered pre – test to both experimental and control groups. Each students in both two groups were asked to write a job application letter with the instruction “Write an application letter to apply for a job based on job vacancy advertisement given” in 45 minutes time allocation. The test was the same with the tryout since the result of the tryout was valid and reliable. The pre-test was conducted to know the basic ability of the students in the beginning of the study. The pre-test was conducted on Wednesday, 20th November 2013 in the 2nd period to the control group, and in the fifth period to the experimental group. After administering pre – test, the researcher gave treatment to experimental group, but not to control group. The researcher taught writing job application letter to the experimental group by using Integrated Writing Technique, then asked them to compose job application letter in the end of meeting. Indeed, the topic of writing job application letter in the teaching and learning process was different from the topic in the pre-test and post-test. The treatment was conducted three times in which each treatment needed 45 x 2 minutes time allocation. The first treatment was conducted after administering pre-test on Wednesday, 20th November 2013 in the 6th and 7th period, the second treatment was conducted on Wednesday, 27th November 2013 in the 5th and 6th period, and the third treatment was conducted on Wednesday, 04th December in the 5th and 6th period. However, the control group was also taught by the teacher without using Integrated Writing Technique, but with the same material about writing job application letter through conventional way of teaching. The control group was also taught three times with 45 x 2 minutes time allocation in each meeting. The first meeting was conducted on Wednesday, 20th November 2013 in the 3rd and 4th period, the second meeting was conducted on Wednesday, 27th November in the 3rd and 4th period, and the third meeting was conducted on Wednesday, 04th December 2013 in the 2nd and 3rd period. Finally, the last step, the researcher conducted post – test for the both experimental and control groups. The purpose of this post – test was in order to know whether there is any significant difference in terms of writing job application letter learning outcomes between the experimental group and control group. The test that was used here was the same with the pre – test. So that the students both in experimental and control groups in this post-test were asked to make a job application letter based on the given job vacancy advertisement. The post-test was administered after the third treatment, that was on Wednesday, 04th December 2013 in the 4th period for control group, and in the 7th period for experimental group. Data Analysis Technique After tabulating the scores from pre – test and post – test of each group, the next step was that the scores were analyzed statistically by using procedure of analyzing t – test through SPSS. It since the result of the study was determined by comparison of pre – test and post – test, as McMillan (1992:197) stated that t-test is used to compare two means to see the level of significance for rejecting the null hypothesis. Pallant (2010) provided the procedures for analyzing t-test by using SPSS. From several number of different types of t-tests available in SPSS, the researcher used two types of t-test which were used in analyzing the data in this study; those are independent-samples t-test, and paired-samples t-test. Pallant (2010 : 239) stated that independent-samples t-test is used to compare the mean scores of two different groups of people or conditions, while paired-samples t-test is used to compare the mean scores for the same group of people on two different occasions, or to match pairs. In this study, independent-samples t-test was used to compare the mean score on the result of students’ compositions in pre-test and post-test, between experimental group and control group. Its aim is to know whether there is any significant difference in students’ writing ability between experimental group and control group in the pre-test and post-test. Besides, in analyzing the data of this study, the researcher also used paired-samples t-test to assess the result of the students’ composition in both pre-test and post-test for each of experimental and control group. Its aim is to know whether there is any development in the students’ writing skill after conducting the treatment and teaching and learning process. RESULT AND DISCUSSION The explanation of the statistical result showed that the main Alternative Hypotheses (H1) which stated that there is significant difference in learning outcomes of writing job application letter between students who are taught by integrated writing technique and those who are not is accepted. It since the result of Independent – samples t-test showed that in pre-test, the students scores of control group was higher than experimental group with their mean difference was (p) value = .105 with magnitude of difference was (.06) eta squared showed moderate effect size. Meanwhile, in post-test, although the mean scores of control group was still higher then experimental group, but their magnitude of difference was decreased. Their (p) value = .92 with (.0002) eta squared shows very small effect size; far smaller than their magnitude of difference in the pre-test. It is since based on the result of Paired – samples t-test analysis, the improvement of students’ writing job application letter learning outcomes or scores of experimental group is higher than control group. Paired – samples t-test showed that there is statistically significant increase of experimental group writing scores from pre-test to post-test with (p) value (.000), and the magnitude of improvement is (.52) eta squared (very large effect). While, the increase of control group writing composition scores is statistically considered has no significant increase from pre-test to post-test, since its (p) value is (.069). Although its magnitude of improvement is considered has large effect size with (.14) eta squared, but it is far smaller than the magnitude of improvement of experimental group. Thus, based on the result, it can be concluded that overall integrated writing technique is more effective than conventional way in improving the students learning outcomes in writing job application letter. The terms of content in writing composition of job application letter is knowledgeable of the content, means that the content or body of application letter is relevance to the assigned job vacancy advertisement. In this case, the students were asked to compose job application letter based on the job vacancy advertisement given. So that, the researcher investigate whether the content of the students job application letter composition is relevance with the information and requirements stated in the job vacancy advertisement or not. In the job vacancy advertisement given, the job position could be applied is Sales and Leasing Executives (S&LE) in Pakuwon Group. While the requirements for the applicants are; having 3 years experience in advertising, event organizer, sponsorship, or leasing space, having education background of minimum D3 in economy – management, marketing, or relevant major from reputable University, and must be fluent in English, having good appearance, and presentable. The result of analysis toward students writing ability in term of its content, also accept the Alternative Hypotheses (H1) which stated that there is significant difference in learning outcomes of writing job application letter in terms of contents between students who are taught by integrated writing technique and those who are not. The result of paired – sample t-test showed that there was significant increase of students’ writing job application letter learning outcomes in terms of content of experimental group. The increase magnitude is (.33) eta squared; indicates very large effect size with a substantial increase in the students’ composition scores in terms of content from pre-test to post-test. However, the scores of control group writing compositions in term of content was getting decrease from pre-test to post-test with magnitude of decrease (.05) eta squared indicates moderate effect size of decrease. So that, based on the result, it can be concluded that integrated writing technique is more effective than conventional way in improving the students’ learning outcomes in writing job application letter in term of its content. The term of organization in writing composition of job application letter consists of structure and sequence. A job application letter must be composed well organized and logically sequencing based on the correct form of job application letter. The body of job application letter must consist of first paragraph contains the applicants’ background, second paragraph contains the applicants’ qualification, final paragraph contains applicants’ interest, and closing paragraph consists applicants’ request for an interview that must be written sequencely. Besides, a job application letter must also has Return Address, Date, Addressee, Salutation, Body, Closing, and Signature). For students’ composition ability in term of its organization, statistical analysis concluded that the Alternative Hypotheses (H1) which stated that there is significant difference in learning outcomes of writing job application letter in terms of organization between students who are taught by integrated writing technique and those who are not is also accepted. The conclusion that is maintained from the result of paired – sample t-test which stated that the mean increase of students composition scores in term of organization of experimental group is higher than control group. The magnitude of increase of students composition score in experimental group is (.43) eta squared indicates very large effect size. While, the magnitude of increase of students composition scores in control group is only (.16) eta squared. Then, it can be concluded that integrated writing technique is more effective than conventional way in improving the students learning outcomes in writing job application letter in term of its organization. The term of vocabulary in the job application letter composition consists of word choice and usage, word form mastery, register. A good job application letter will be composed by using effective word choice and usage, good word form mastery, and appropriate register. Based on the result analysis and explanation toward students’ composition scores in term of its vocabulary, Alternative Hypotheses (H1) which stated that there is significant difference in learning outcomes of writing job application letter in terms of vocabulary between students who are taught by integrated writing technique and those who are not is also accepted. The conclusion is maintained from the result of paired – samples t-test which stated that the mean increase of students composition score in term of vocabulary of experimental group is higher than control group. The magnitude of increase of students’ composition in term of vocabulary in experimental group scores is (.18) eta squared indicates large effect size. While, the magnitude of increase of students’ composition in term of vocabulary in control group scores is only (.01) eta squared indicates small effect size. Then, it can also be stated that integrated writing technique is more effective than conventional way in improving the students learning outcomes in writing job application letter in term of its vocabulary. The term of language use in a job application letter composition means complex construction consists of tenses, number, word order or function, article, pronoun, and preposition. A good composition of job application letter is composed by using appropriate tenses, number, word order or function, article, pronoun, and preposition. However, the result of statistical analysis toward students’ composition scores in term of its language use rejected the Alternative Hypotheses (H1) which stated that there is significant difference in learning outcomes of writing job application letter in terms of language use between students who are taught by integrated writing technique and those who are not. It since the result of paired – samples t-test stated that the mean increase of students composition score in term of language use of control group is higher than experimental group. The magnitude of increase of students’ composition in term of language use of control group is (.41) eta squared indicates very large effect size. While, the magnitude of increase of students’ composition in term of language use of experimental group is only (.17) eta squared lower than control group. Thus, Null Hypotheses (H0) which stated that there is no significant difference in learning outcomes of writing job application letter in terms of language use between students who are taught by integrated writing technique and those who are not is accepted. The term of mechanic in writing composition of a job application letter means convention which contains of spelling, prepositions, punctuation marks, and capitalization. The well written job application letter is composed by using the correct spelling, prepositions, punctuation marks, and capitalization. The statistical analysis toward students’ composition scores in term of its mechanics also rejected the Alternative Hypotheses (H1) which stated that there is significant difference in learning outcomes of writing job application letter in terms of mechanics between students who are taught by integrated writing technique and those who are not. The result of paired – sample t-test showed that integrated writing technique was not effective in teaching writing job application letter in term of its mechanics. It since the students’ composition scores in term of mechanics for both experimental group and control group was getting decrease from pre-test to post-test. The mean decrease of experimental group is 0,091 with (.006) eta squared magnitude of decrease; while the mean decrease of control group is 0,609 with (.3) eta squared magnitude of decrease. CLOSING Conclusion After the result was obtained from conducting the research and analyzing the data, it can be concluded some conclusion: 1) Integrated Writing Technique is overall more effective than conventional way in improving the students learning outcomes in writing job application letter. It since the result of students’ composition total scores of experimental group was getting increase with magnitude of increase (.52) eta squared indicates very large effect size, higher than the increase of control group’s composition total score which only has magnitude of increase (.14) eta squared indicates large effect size. 2) Integrated Writing Technique is more effective than conventional way to improve the students learning outcome in writing job application letter in term of content, organization, and vocabulary. In term of content, the improvement of scores of students who were taught by using Integrated Writing Technique with magnitude of increase (.33) eta squared is higher than theirs who were not which only has magnitude of increase (.05) eta squared. In term of organization, the improvement of scores of students who were taught by using Integrated Writing Technique with magnitude of increase (.43) eta squared is higher than theirs who were not which only has magnitude of increase (.16) eta squared. In term of vocabulary, the improvement of scores of students who were taught by using Integrated Writing Technique with magnitude of increase (.18) eta squared indicates large effect size, higher than the increase of control group which only has magnitude of increase (.01) eta squared indicates small effect size. 3) In term of language use, Integrated Writing Technique is less effective than conventional way to improve the students learning outcome in writing job application letter. The improvement of scores of students who were taught by using Integrated Writing Technique with magnitude of increase (.17) eta squared indicates large effect size, lower than the increase of control group which has magnitude of increase (.41) eta squared indicates very large effect size. 4) The last, in term of mechanics, Integrated Writing Technique is not effective to improve the students learning outcome in writing job application letter. It is since in term of mechanics, the scores of students in both experimental and control group were getting decrease. The magnitude of decrease of experimental group is (.006) eta squared, while the magnitude of decrease of control group is (.3) eta squared. Suggestion The researcher would offer some suggestions to the next practitioners related to this study; comprises the next researchers and teachers. For the next researchers, it can be done research related to testing the effectiveness of integrated writing technique in teaching writing that focused on the other genres of text. Therefore, it can enrich the outcomes that hopefully could strengthen the result of the previous research by extending the focus on other writing genres. Or it can be research about the application of this technique to teach writing job application letter by using classroom action reasearch design. Then, for the teachers, the researcher suggests that the teachers would apply integrated writing technique to teach writing job application letter. It since this technique is proven effective to improve the students‘ writing job application letter ability; although only in terms of content, organization, and vocabulary. To improve the students’ learning outcomes in terms of language use and mechanics, the teacher could apply other additional technique combined with this technique. 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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN TEACHING SPEAKING OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TO THE ELEVENTH GRADERS OF SMAN 1 SIDOARJO
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN TEACHING SPEAKING OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TO THE ELEVENTH GRADERS OF SMAN 1 SIDOARJO Dina Nur Elia English Education Department, Language and Arts Faculty, Surabaya State University. Email: dina.elia99@gmail.com Dr. Oikurema Purwati, M.Appl English Education Department, Language and Arts Faculty, Surabaya State University. Abstrak Pembelajaran kemampuan berbicara bahasa Inggris merupakan hal yang penting dalam konteks bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing. Kemampuan berbicara dikategorikan sebagai kemampuan yang produktif. Dimana terjadi proses berpikir di dalammnya. Salah satu tujuan pembelajaran kemampuan berbicara adalah siswa dapat berkomunikasi dengan orang lain melalui komunikasi yang berarti dan berterima. Dalam studi ini, penulis telah mengobservasi seorang guru bahasa Inggris yang telah menerapkan collaborative learning dalam pembelajaran kemampuan berbicara. Guru tersebut telah menciptakan kegiatan yang menarik dalam kegiatan berbicara dimana siswa diminta untuk mempresentasikan sebuah topik yang telah ditentukan oleh guru di depan kelas dengan berkolaborasi . Banyak manfaat yang didapat dari kegiatan tersebut. Penelitian ini dirancang dalam penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Subject penelitiannya adalah guru dan siswa kelas XII IPA 8 di SMA Negeri 1 Sidoarjo. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian tersebut adalah catatan lapangan, panduan pertanyaan wawancara, dan traskrip penampilan siswa ketika presentasi di depan kelas. Penerapan metode collaborative learning dalam pembelajaran kemampuan berbicara pada teks analytical exposition telah berhasil menarik siswa dalam kegitan pembelajaran berbicara. Guru tersebut mampu mnerapkan metode tersebut dengan sukses. Langkah-langkah yang diterapkan oleh guru tersebut telah memenuhi kriteria langkah-langkah yang ada pada metode collaborative learning. Para siswa telah menunjukan respon yang baik terhadap metode yang diterapkan oleh guru tersebut. Dalam penentuan hasil penerapan dari collaborative learning tersebut, apakah menunjukan hasil yang baik atau kurang baik tidak hanya dilihat dari respon siswa terhadap penerapan collaborative learning tersebut saja, tetapi juga mengacu pada hasil penampilan siswa dalam mempresentasikan topik yang diberikan oleh guru di depan kelas. Penampilan siswa mampu mewakili pemahaman siswa dalam kaitannya dengan materi yang diberikan oleh guru. Hasil dari penerapan collaborative learning akan lebih efektif ketika siswa mampu menguasi lebih banyak kosakata bahasa Inggis. Kata Kunci: Teks anlytical exposition, kemampuan berbicara, collaborative learning. Abstract Teaching speaking is essential in EFL teaching learning. Speaking is categorized as productive skill. There is a system for thinking process in it. Speaking activity in EFL classroom has aim to use the knowledge that students have acquired for producing an oral text. Moreover, the use of learning speaking is that one is able to communicate with other through meaningful and receptive pattern. In this study, the researcher observes a teacher who uses collaborative learning in teaching speaking. The teacher creates an interesting way for speaking activity in which students are asked to present the topic that given by the teacher in front of classroom collaboratively. Many adavantages appear in this activity. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The subjects are the teacher and the students of SMA Negeri 1 Sidoarjo in eleventh grade. The instruments, which are used in this research, are fieldnote, interview guideline, and the transciption of students performance. The implemeantation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition text was successfully attract the students’ eager in speaking activity. The teacher are able to implement the method successfully. It is appropriate with the steps in the collaborative learning. The students’ give a good respond toward the implementation of collaborative learning. In establishing the result of the applicition of collaborative learning wheter it is good or not is not only by considering the students’ respond toward the implementation of the method. The students’ works are able to present the students’ comprehension toward the material given. The students’ ability in speaking analytical exposition was satisfy. The result would be better when the students could learn more vocabulary to support the result. Keywords: Collaborative learning, teaching speaking, analytical exposition. INTRODUCTION Speaking is one of four skills in language that should be mastered by someone when learning English. It is used by people to communicate each others. Therefore, it is important to master it. Besides that, English is one of the subjects which should be taught in education program in Indonesia. Moreover, it has become one of the subjects, which must be examined in National Examination of some school’s levels, Junior and Senior High School. In addition, it has an important role in developing people’s capability to communicate with others in today’s world (Cahyono, 2010). Therefore, it is important for students to master English. Richard (2008) points out that in speaking one tend to be getting something done, exploring ideas, working out some aspect of the world, or simply being together. In writing, it may be creating a record, committing events or moments to paper. Based on the definition above can be concluded that the purpose of speaking are to deliver, converse, or express ideas. The teacher has responsibility to make the students able to speak. However many students are reluctant to speak. Experiences have shown that students often lack of confidence and feared that classmates would make fun of them if they make mistakes or spoke incorrectly. Most of the students prefer to keep silent than express their opinion. Chou and Yen-Lin (2004) state that lack of speaking competence prohibits the opportunities for Asian students to interact with the instructor and peers in the ESL classroom. The characteristic of students in senior high school are expressive and like to gather and trust their friend. As a result the students like to tell everything to their friends. As a result the students are able to communicate well with society around them in their own mother tongue. Therefore, the students have no chance to practice English in their daily life. Therefore, students will find difficulty when they are asked to communicate in English. Considering the teaching speaking, the role of the teacher is important. Teacher should create an interesting activity to make the students motivated in learning speaking, especially for students in eleventh graders of senior high school. Students in eleventh grade of senior high school must be able to produce oral analytical exposition text. It is required in teaching learning process that is based on standar isi Bahasa Inggris 2006 the eleventh graders in the first semester in speaking skill that the eleventh graders of senior high school are expected having competence in responding a simple spoken text, in this case a simple analytical exposition text. Based on the research that has been done by Pattanpichet (2011) which is concern in investigating the effect of collaborative learning toenhance students’ speaking achievement, the researcher going to analyze the use of collaborative speaking in teaching speaking of analytical exposition. There are many kinds of activities that can help students in learning speaking. One of them is collaborative learning. Collaborative learning is a method in which the students work together on an assignment. These kinds of activities are expected to help students to build their self-confidence. By doing collaboration students will present about something with the partner. It makes them easier to work and easier to produce more words in their performance. Collaborative speaking also expected to make students more relax and confident with their performance. Students feel there is reinforcement in their performance because of the partner. Partner gives big influence in students’ performance. Moreover when student forget some words or one of part in the presentation the partner can remind and support the performance. Therefore their performance will be better. Lutters (2002) argues that collaborative learning encourages an iterative process of mutual understanding. Presentation in the workplace is rarely concluded with theatrical applause, but in contrast is routinely followed by active questions and answers from the “audience”. This kind of activity is expected to improve the students’ speaking ability in analytical exposition. Research done by Ulan (2011) has been proven that collaborative learning is an effective way in teaching speaking. Therefore, the writer will apply collaborative speaking in teaching speaking of analytical exposition. This study is expected to help students to perform and produce better spoken language of analytical exposition text. Moreover, it is expected that collaborative speaking will support each other performance and interaction. The students will be asked to present a topic in front of class in a pair. This activity is expected to improve their self-confidence and engage students in active classroom activity. Therefore, they can perform the best performance. Those explanataion aboe=ve lead the researcher to draw three research question in relation to the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition. The questions are as follow: How does the teacher implements collaborative learning n teaching speaking of analytical expositon? How is the students’ speaking ability after collaborative learning is implemented in teaching speaking of analytical exposition? How do the students’ respond toward the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition? METHOD Based on the research question and the objective of the study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative. Descriptive research studies are designed to obtain the information concerning the status of phenomena (ary, et al. 1985:322). The aim of this study is to describe a natural situation without giving manipulation or special treatment to the subject of the research. another expert, named Sukmadinata (2006:18) stated that descriptive research is a research which aims to describe a situation or natural phenomenon and it is done without manipulation or giving special attention to the subject of the research because all of events or activities grow nature. This research is design in word. It observe the process of implementation the collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition and also the students’ speaking ability, and the students respond. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative as the research design based on two reasons, which are the objective of this study is to describe the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition. The subject of the study were the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 1 Sidoarjo. The reason why the researcher chooses the eleventh grade students because analytical exposition text is one of the essential lesson in the first semester for those senior high school students. She wants to know how to make the students easily to understand the material without make the students bored. In this study, the researcher was collecting the data through observation, because the writer going to investigate the process of collaborative laerning activity in teaching speaking of analytical exposition directly in the classroom. The writer become an observer or non-participator and she uses the fieldnote to take a note about the activity that occur during teaching an dlearning process. Therefore, the reseracher can gather valuable information to complete this research. Then, the writer make a list of questions to interview the teacher who will implements the technique. And last, the writer also make some documentations such as the result of study during teaching learning process. According to Ary et.al (2010) states that three are three kinds of data collection in qualitative reasearch. They are observation, interview and document. In this case the researcher uses observation and interview as the technique to collect the data. Observation was used to gather information about the process in how the teacher implement the collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition. Moreover, the collect information about the students achievement the reseacrher uses document that is recorder of student’ performance. The last, in gathering information about the students’ respond toward the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analyticla exposition the researcher uses interview. In accomplising this research, the researcher uses feild note, interview guideline, and recorder as the instruments of this research. After all of data was collected, the researcher than arrange the data in to three part to analyze the data. According to Ary at.al (2010) there are three steps in the process of data anlysis in qualitative reserach. Theay are organizing and familiarizing, coding and reducing, and interpretating and representing. The first steps the reseracher familiarizing and organizing the valuable data. Then, the researcher give code in ecah valuable data and reduce it. The last, the reseacrher draw a conclusion to intrpretate and represent the research. RESULT AND DISCUSSION This chapter presents the result and discussion of the study as the answers for the research questions regarding to the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking f analytical exposition, the students’ spekaing ability wafter the collaborative learning is implemented, the last is regarding to the students’ respond toward the implementation of collabortive learning in teaching speking of analytical exposition. The Implementation of Collaborative Learning in Teaching Speaking of Analytical Exposition In completing the research, the researcher conduted observation in SMA Negeri 1 Siodarjo was in three meetings. During conducting research, the writer made a list of the implementation of collaborative learning, students’ speaking ability, and students respond. The result was based on the three research questions. As a result, the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking analytical exposition text had some points that could be compared further. The points were dealing with the topic, the method and the teaching learning process in SMA Negeri 1 Sidoarjo High School. The topic here refers to the material given in the class. The topic was about speaking analytical exposition text. It was suitable with the curriculum standard, because in that school analytical exposition text begin to be taught in eleventh grade. Furthermore, the topic was also understandable and could lead students to be an active speaker. Even though they faced some difficulties in those activity, they were still enthusiastic to express their own idea. The method here refers to the implementation of collabortaive learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition. Since the teacher and students could implement those activity in teaching learning process, it means that this method was applicable. The students were participated actively in the class because the method encouraged them to share their opinions in the group work or individually. The researcher divided the discussion in to three parts. They are the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition and the second is the students’ speaking ability toward the implementation of collaborative learning, and the students’ respond to the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition. According to the brown (2004) speaking is a productive skill that can be directly and empirically observed, those observations are invariably colored by the accuracy and effectiveness of a test-takers listening skill, which necessarily compromises the reliability and validity of an oral production test. Moreover, Brown (2004) stated that one kind of speaking is Extensive oral production tasks include speeches, oral presentations, and storytelling, during which the opportunity for oral interaction from listeners is either highly limited or ruled out altogether. In this case the researcher highlight the term of oral production task include speeches, oral presentation and ruled out together. For that statement the researcher can conclude that there is a correlation between collaborative learning and speaking skill. Presentation belongs to part of speaking that the goal is ruled out together. The statement also supported by Ellis (2001) points out that the philosophy behind the subject was that of building a collaborative learning environment with the students finding information themselves, evaluating and critically analyzing the information. This condition makes them more creative and enjoys following the teaching learning process in the classroom, discussing it with one another, building structured arguments and drawing conclusions about the various topics under discussion. Therefore, collaborative learning can help students to be more active and creative. It can be concluded that collaborative learning can be used to teach speaking. Based on the result of observation, the researcher could conclude that the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking of analytical exposition was implemented successfully. Relating to the steps of collaborative learning the teacher did the steps in collaborative learning. The first meeting the teacher asked the students to write down their own opinion about the topic that given by the teacher. in ths case the teacher was done the first stpe in collaborative learning. It is activate the students opinion as a brainstorming activity. The second, the teachers gave a text to the students and asked the students to find out the main idea of each paragraph in pair then discussed it with the classroom. According to the step of collaborative learning, it refers to the second stage of collaborative learning. The students work collaborative in small group. The last activity the teacher asked the students to present a presentation. In this case the students who became the audience are asked to ask or give coment toward the other group prsentation. This activity refers to the thrid stage of collaborative learning as stated by Lai (2011). He states that the third stage of collaborative learning when the students work individually on a similar assigment task. each students evaluating and critiquing others group performance. Therefore, it can be concluded that the teacher activity in teaching and learning process has similarity toward the collaborative learning stage. The Analysis of Students’ Works The second point is related to the students achievement, The researcher analyzed the students’ individual speaking ability based on the ESL speaking proficiency adapted from Haris (1969). The components of ESL speaking proficiency are pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and grammar. The result of the analysis showed that for pronounciation aspect. Most of students’ pronunciation problem necessitate concentrated listening and occasionally lead to misunderstanding. While others students’ pronounciation was always intelligible, though one is conscious a definite accent. Furthermore, the rest of the students’ pronounciation Has few trace of foreign accent. The next aspect of students’ speking ability is fluency aspect. It focused on the speed of speech that used by the students in explaining or presenting their topic in front of classroom. The result of the analysis showed that among 30 students, most of students’ fluency is that their speed and fluency are rather strongly, affected by language limitations. It was turned out when the students were trying to find the vocabulary of certain word they often used ‘e’ or silent in a second. While others students’ fluency showed that their speed or speech seems to be slightly affected by language problems. The students seemed interference with their native language. The rest of the students’ fluency aspect showed that their speech as fluent and effortless as that of native speaker. The next aspect is the vocabulary aspect of students’ performance. In this part, the analysis is focused on the word choice. It was important since the errors of it could result the change of meaning. The result of the analysis showed that among 30 students, most of students vocabulary aspect is that sometimes the students use inappropriate terms and/or must rephrase ideas because of lexical of inadequacies. Then several students vocabulary aspect was that they frequently used the wrong word: conversation somewhat limited because of inadequate vocabulary. The rest of students vocabulary aspect they used of vocabulary and idioms is virtually that native speaker. The next aspect that analyzed was the comprehension of students’ performance or presentation. In this part, the analysis focused on the content of the topic that presented by the students. The result of the analysis showed that among 30 students, most of students understood nearly everything at normal speed, although occasionally repetition may be necessary. When the students presented their presentation they oftenly repeated certain word or said’what I mean is...’. Several students understood most of what is said at slower-than-normal speed with repetition. The rest of students appeared to understand everything without difficulty.. The last aspect was the grammar aspect. The result of the analysis showed that among 30 students, most of students occasionally made grammatical and/ or word order errors that did not obscure meaning. The others students showed that they made frequent errors of grammar and word-order which occasionally obscure meaning. A few students made few (if any) noticeable errors of grammar or word order. Unfortunately, there was a student got this criteria grammar and word-meaning errors make comprehension difficult. Must often rephrase sentences and/ or restrict himself to basic pattern. The result above show that the students’ speaking ability was satisfy. This result is in hence to the statement by Nunan (2003) sataed that group work can be a quality time for the students to increase their opportunity to speak the target language during the lesson. In this case the students’ speaking ability were satisfy due to the teacher gives chance for the students to dominate the lesson. While the teacher only observed them and took their score. Therefore, the students achievement were satisfy. From the explanation above, it can be concluded that the implementation of collaborative learning in teaching speaking analytical exposition was successful. It could be turned out from the result of interview. The students said that it helped them in speaking. It also forced them to speak in front of class. The students were active in asking and answering section. They also get chance to practice their speaking skill. It is stated by Chou and Yen-Lin (2004) that lack of speking competence prohibit the opportunities for Asian students to interact eith the instructor and peers in the ESL classroom. In this case, when the teacher applied collaborative learning, in which the students are asked to make a presentation in group the stdents’ speaking ability were satisfy. It turns out that collaborative learning can be applied in teaching speaking. The Students’ Responses to the Implementation of Direct Reading Activity to Teach Reading Descriptive Texts From the result of interview, the researcher got information about the students’ respond to the implementation of collaborative learning in speaking of analytical exposition. The students agreed and supported that collaborative learning could be a method that applied in speaking class. The reason was the students got a chance to speak about a topic that there was no relationship to their lesson. Therefore, they should speak orally. They also stated that they are easier in delivering their ideas to become oral words. They were more confidence because they explained the topic together with their friend. It could support each other’s. The students also said that they more brave to speak in front of class. Collaborative learning is a good method to be implemented in speaking class. The teacher stated that the students were more active in speaking class. They could explain their topic well and more than she expected before. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION Conclusion The collaborative learning method can be implemented in teaching speaking of analytical exposition text to the eleventh graders of senior high school. The steps of the method are: Introducing the text. in the first meeting the teacher introduces analytical exposition text to the students. Explaining the definition of analytical exposition, explaining the goals, and explaining the generic structure of analytical exposition text. Regarding to the teaching and learning process toward the method, it is suitable. The teaching and learning activity match to the stage in collaborative learning. The first stage the teacher ask the students to deliver their own opinion about the topic that given by the teacher. then she askedd the students to discuss in pair about the assignment that given. The thrird stage, the teacher asks the students to present their presentation. In this case the students work individually to ctiqiue, comment, or ask questions toward the others group presentation. The students’ speaking ability toward the implementation of collaborative learning showed satisfaction result. The speaking components that adapted from Harris (1969) showed a satisfy result. Most of students’ pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and grammar were satisfy. 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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING TO TEACH SPEAKING DESCRIPTIVE TO THE FIRST GRADERS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING TO TEACH SPEAKING DESCRIPTIVE TO THE FIRST GRADERS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Evi Yuniarisda Hutagalung English Education Department, Language and Arts Faculty, Surabaya State University. Email: veeyah@rocketmail.com Dr. Oikurema Purwati, M.Appl English Education Department, Language and Arts Faculty, Surabaya State University. Abstrak Berbicara adalah keterampilan paling penting yang harus dikuasai oleh siswa EFL. Namun, siswa menganggap keterampilan berbicara sebagai keterampilan yang paling sulit untuk dicapai. Untuk mengatasi hal ini, guru sebaiknya menggunakan sebuah pendekatan yang dapat memotivasi siswa untuk berbicara. Salah satu pendekatan yang dapat digunakan adalah task-based language teaching yang telah terbukti dapat memajukan progress akademik siswa dan keterampilan berinteraksi. Sayangnya, studi tentang task-based language teaching di kelas-kelas SMP di Indonesia sangatlah jarang. Oleh karena itu, penting untuk melakukan penelitian tentang ini. Task-based language teaching merupakan pendekatan dalam mengajar bahasa inggris yang menitikberatkan pada penggunaan tugas bersifat mendidik yang merupakan tugas kelas yang melibatkan siswa dalam memahami, memanipulasi, memproduksi atau berinteraksi dalam target bahasa dimana mereka lebih fokus pada pemahaman daripada bentuk. Task-based language teaching dipercaya dapat memajukan progress akademik siswa dan keterampilan berinteraksi. Singkatnya, task-based language teaching memungkinkan siswa untuk memproduksi target bahasa melalui penyelesaian tugas yang komunikatif. Penelitian ini bermaksud untuk mendeskripsikan implementasi dari task-based language teaching untuk menagajar berbicara deskripsi pada siswa kelas satu SMP Negeri 26 Surabaya dan untuk mendeskripsikan kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah implementasi tersebut. Desain penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif. Untuk melaksanakan penelitian ini, field notes digunakan sebagai instrumen yang memiliki komponen-komponen, yaitu bagian deskripsi dan bagian refleksi. Data yang dikumpulkan adalah data deskriptif yang lebih fokus pada kata-kata daripada angka atau statistic. Sumber data adalah field notes yang mendeskripsikan detail dari implementasi task-based language teaching dan juga transkrip siswa yang mendeskripsikan kemampuan berbicara mereka. Subyek penelitian ini adalah guru dan siswa SMP Negeri 26 Surabaya, terutama siswa kelas VII F. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah bahwa implementasi task-based language teaching untuk mengajar berbicara deskripsi dilaksanakan tepat dan sukses sesuai dengan framework yang diusulkan oleh Ellis. Task-based language teaching sangatlah menarik dan memotivasi siswa karena siswa ditantang untuk menyelesaikan tugas yang bersifat komunikatif. Terdapat interaksi di antara siswa. Kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah implementasi tas-based language teaching pada pertemuan pertama dan kedua juga memuaskan. Kata Kunci: task, task-based language teaching, berbicara, descriptif, SMP. Abstract Speaking is concerned as the most important skill that must be mastered by EFL students. However, students regard speaking as the most difficult skill to attain. To overcome this, teachers should use an approach which motivates students to speak. One of the approaches is task-based language teaching which has been proven to promote learners’ academic progress and interaction skills. Unfortunately study about task-based language teaching in junior high classroom in Indonesia is rare. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a research about this. Task-based language teaching is an approach in teaching English which emphasize on the use of pedagogical task which is a piece of classroom work that involves learners in comprehending, manipulating, producing or interacting in the target language while their attention is primarily focused on meaning rather than form. Task-based language teaching is believed to promote students’ academic progress and interacting skills. In short, task-based language teaching enables the students to produce the target language through the completion of communicative task. This research aims to describe the implementation of task-based language teaching to teach speaking descriptive to the first graders of 26 State Junior High School and to describe the students’ speaking ability after the implementation. The design of this research is a qualitative research. To conduct the research, field notes were used as the instrument which components are descriptive part and reflective part. The data collected was a descriptive data which focus on words rather than numbers or statistics. Source of the data were field notes which described the detail of the implementation of task-based language teaching and students’ transcription which describes the students’ speaking ability. The research subjects were the teacher and the students of 26 Junior High School Surabaya, especially the students of VII F Class. The result of this research is that the implementation of task-based language teaching to teach speaking descriptive was conducted properly and successfully according to the framework suggested by Ellis. It was very engaging and motivating because the students were challenged to complete a communicative task. There was a good interaction among the students. Students’ speaking ability after the implementation of task-based language teaching on the first and on the second meeting was satisfying. Keyword: task, task-based language teaching, speaking, descriptive, junior high school. INTRODUCTION Increasing speaking ability is concerned as the most important objective of teaching English. Unfortunately, in the field, numerous students cannot even express their thoughts. Malihah (2010) states that among the four language skills, learners regard speaking as the most difficult skill to attain because it needs great courage as well as preparation to produce the language. Many students only learn English at the surface. That is, they only learn about sentence structure, such as grammar which includes; tenses, modals, passive voice, etc. Of course, this language component is something important. However, if the process of learning English is only focused on the sentence structure, a question of when the students will speak to express their ideas and feelings would appear. It is surely known that this has been a problem in learning English. Students learn English, but they never use the language to speak. This is, of course, not the prime objective of learning English. According to the Standard Competence 2013 for the first graders of junior high school, students are expected to be able to produce spoken descriptive text. “4.12. Menyusun teks deskriptif lisan dan tulis, sangat pendek dan sederhana tentang orang, binatang, dan benda, dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan, secara benar dan sesuai dengan konteks” (Gunawan, Khatimah et al. 2013). In mastering the goal, the students have to be able to use the language feature such as when to use the article of ‘a’ and ‘an’, to use subjects and possessive pronouns, to distinguish the plural and singular noun, etc. In the other words, students are expected to be able to produce a very simple spoken descriptive text about something or someone. Descriptive text is a kind of text which consists of specific description about a person, an animal, or a thing. Students are expected to be able to describe the characteristics and behaviors of a person, an animal, or a thing. Hence, teachers are indeed expected to activate students’ motivation and skill to do so. To meet the goal of this learning, teachers can try to use some approaches which enable students to speak. One of the approaches is Task-Based Language Teaching. Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been developed during the last twenty years. Its characteristic as a learner-centered approach makes it becomes a highly recommended approach to be used by EFL teachers. Task-Based Language Teaching itself is an approach which emphasizes on the process of learning to communicate through interaction in the target language (Nunan 2004). Through this approach, the students are trained to concentrate their minds not only to learn the structure of a language, but also to produce the language. This is in line with the principles that task-based language teaching is the stipulation of opportunities for students to focus not only on language but also on the learning process itself (Nunan 2004). Nunan (2004) states that task-based language teaching represents a realization of communicative language teaching philosophy. Malihah (2010) states that the communicative language teaching focuses more on language learning as interaction, and meaningful communication becomes the main point rather than the complexity of grammar rules. Therefore, task-based language teaching will stimulate the students to talk more during the learning process like talk about themselves, to have a joke, deliver some ideas and thoughts, without being hesitated or afraid from making some mistakes or errors of the grammar. They just have fun whilst they are doing the task. Dailey (2010) also believes that TBL has its valuable points and is a new, exciting, and interactive approach to improve communicative competence. According to Freeman (2000) TBLT is an approach which intends to provide students with natural situation for language utilization. This approach allows the student to have the opportunity to actualize themselves through conversational English. As stated by Freeman (2000) when student are instructed to complete a task, they surely have a lot of opportunities to interact one another. This kind of interaction enables the students to acquire some language uses and expressions that are beyond their conjecture. This is due to the fact that they have to try to understand one another to solve the problems in a task they are doing. According to the notions of TBLT stated above, it is clearly seen that TBLT can be used as an approach to reach the target language in learning English; producing target language through interaction. Through the implementation of TBLT, it is hoped that learners become aware of the importance of using language to interact and to communicate. By implementing this approach, many teachers are also expected to change their traditional ways of teaching to become more engaging, challenging, and giving more experiences through the tasks which stimulate the students to learn by doing. The advantages of task-based language teaching stated above are in line with the research done by He and Lin. He and Lin (2004) found that implementing the TBLT can stimulate the learners to work together in groups. The research found that students learned something real when carrying out real-world tasks in pairs/groups, not leaning something on books. Every student in the class had his own characteristics and parts which enable them to learn from each other when they are interacting together (He and Lin 2004). A research conducted by Hadi (2012) has proven some benefits gained from implementing the task-based language teaching into a classroom. This research was conducted using perception questionnaires as the instrument. The results of the research show that TBLT promotes learners’ academic progress (36.4% of the students’ vote), TBLT improves learners’ interaction skills” (80.7% of the students’ vote), “TBLT encourages learners’ intrinsic motivation” (56.8% of the students’ vote), “TBLT creates a collaborative learning environment” (75% of the students’ vote), and finally “TBLT is appropriate for small group work” (71.6% of the students’ vote). In addition, a research conducted by Xiongyong and Samuel (2011) found that task-based language teaching exposes that most EFL teachers had positive attitudes toward TBLT execution due to a higher level of understanding of task and TBLT concepts. Hence, some of the participating teachers decided to apply TBLT which is believed to encourage students’ intrinsic motivation (81.6%), enhance students’ interactive strategies (75.7%), and generate a collaborative learning environment (73.8%). By contrast, the smaller percentages argued that TBLT promotes students’ academic progress (63.1%) and adapts to small group work (68.9%). The other category (4.9%) involves the diversity of promotion of students’ learning interest and initiatives. Finally, Candlin and Murphy (1987) state that the central of the teachers concern is language learning, and tasks offer this in the form of a problem-solving compromise between knowledge that the students have already known and new knowledge. Thus, the students will use the language to communicate. They speak. However, studies about TBLT are rare. Moreover there is no study about the implementation of TBLT in junior high classrooms in Indonesia. In fact, this study is needed to see the stages of implementing TBLT in junior high classrooms. In addition, this study is beneficial to describe the students’ speaking ability after implementing TBLT. Thus, many teachers will understand the correct phases or stages in implementing TBLT and will see the students’ speaking ability after the implementation. Method Design that was used in this research was a qualitative research. The researcher used a qualitative research design because it is less subjective. By using this research design, the researcher could observe the implementation of task-based language teaching the way it was. The result of the research was also very objective. The subjects of this research are the teacher and the first graders of 26 Junior High School Surabaya, especially the students of VII F classroom. The researcher chose 26 State Junior High School because it is one of some junior high schools in Surabaya that has been chosen to firstly implement the curriculum of 2013. The researcher felt a necessity to observe the implementation of task-based language teaching and the students’ speaking ability after the implementation according to the recent curriculum rather than the older one. The researcher chose VII F students because according to the teacher the English proficiency of the students varied. The researcher used field notes as instrument to conduct the research. Field notes contain everything that the researcher will see and heard. The researcher did a non-participant observation as a technique to collect the data needed to answer the research questions. Non-participant observation is less subjective which latter involves observing actions and interactions, perhaps sitting in a corner of the room, silent, but attentive (Koshy 2005). Ary et. al (2010) named this kind of observation as complete observer who simply observes and records events as they occur. No attempt is made to alter the situation in any way. This was also done by the researcher. The researcher sat in the corner of the classroom and observed the teacher who implemented task-based language teaching. Result and Discussion Result Firstly, the researcher will describe the result of the research which answers the first research question; how is the implementation of task-based language teaching to teach speaking descriptive to the first graders of junior high school. On the first meeting, in the pre-task, the teacher asked the students to mention the things in the classroom. This was done to stimulate the students’ motivation to learn. Next, the teacher showed the students a picture of a room on slide-show. The teacher asked them to describe the room they saw. After giving the students a chance to describe and mention the things in the picture, the teacher explained a little bit about the simple present tense, the use of “there is” and “there are”, articles ‘a’ and ‘an’, subjects and possessive pronouns, and singular and plural nouns. Subsequently, the teacher came to the next stage of implementing the task-based language teaching in the classroom which was the during-task. In this stage, the teacher asked the students divide themselves into seven groups. Two groups consisted of four students and five groups consisted of five students. The teacher instructed each group to describe parts of a house. The teacher gave the students fifteen minutes to discuss about what they were going to say to describe the picture. The teacher observed the class actively and always advised the students to keep speaking in English. The teacher warned some of them who spoke in Indonesia or Javanese. In the last stage, post-task, the teacher evaluated the students’ work in front of the class. The teacher called the group one by one to come forward and present their works orally. Every member of the group took turn to describe the picture he/ she got at least two sentences. After that, the teacher asked him/ her to write what he/ she had said on the whiteboard. This was done so the other students could check their friends’ sentences and then correct what might have been incorrect. After the first three groups presented, the teacher started to evaluate the students’ work. He checked the text written on the whiteboard and also invited the students to check it too. Some students were so eager to evaluate their friends’ works. Some of them stated the incorrect expressions and sentence structures made by their friends. The teacher let them to correct the text. Most students had awareness of the errors in the text. The teacher continued to call the other groups and revised their utterances. After giving the evaluation to all of the groups, the teacher stimulated the students to ask the things they did not understand yet. No student questioned. All of the students seemed like they had already understood. The post-task stage had been done successfully. The teacher closed the process of teaching learning. The teacher closed the lesson. On the second meeting, the teacher reviewed the lesson on the previous meeting. All of the students showed good response which meant that they still remembered about what they had learned before. After reviewing the lesson on the previous meeting, the teacher remarked that they would conduct a puzzle game. Next, the teacher mentioned some conditions while playing the game that the students should play fairly, use English when interacting, and finish the game in five minutes. The students agreed with the conditions. The teacher divided the class into seven groups. There were one group consisted of three students, one group consisted of six students, two groups consisted of four students, and three groups consisted of five students. The teacher instructed the each group to make a circle. After that, the teacher distributed the puzzle to each group. The puzzles were all different. In the during-task, the teacher started the game and let the students to finish their puzzles. The teacher also observed the students. In the last stage, post-task, the teacher called each group to come forward to present their works. Each member of the group had to describe the picture in the puzzle they had arranged. When the student was describing the picture, the teacher wrote any mistakes and errors made by the student. The teacher evaluated the students after each group performance. Next, the researcher will describe the result of the research which answers the second research question; the students’ speaking ability after the implementation of ask-based language teaching. The first meeting: Group One Describing a classroom This is my classroom. My classroom is orderly. (AKT: 04). There are three pens colors purple, green, and pink. There are three pictures. (FAN: 15). There is one ruler. There are two erasers of soft. (FIT: 18). There are six chairs of make from wood for students. There is one cupboard at the corner of class. (IKF: 20). There is a vase pretty. There are seven tables. There is one book above a table. (SIN: 35). From the transcript we can see that group one made only few mistakes. AKT gets the highest score because she made almost no mistakes. Her grammar and vocabulary were very good. She could even speak very fluently. It seemed that she could comprehend every word she said although her pronunciation is not perfect. AKT’s score was 4 for pronunciation, and 5 for grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The second speaker from group one was FAN. FAN made a little mistake by saying “there are three pens colors purple, green, and pink” which is grammatically wrong. She should have said “there are three pens. They are purple, green, and pink” or “there are three pens. The pens are purple, green, and pink”. Her pronunciation was good enough so she got 4 for her pronunciation. Because she made a little bit mistakes grammatically, she also got 4 for grammar. Her vocabulary and comprehension were also good enough that she got 4 for each component. However, she got 3 for fluency, because she spoke rather strongly affected by language problem. She did some repetition when she spoke. The third speaker was FIT. Her pronunciation was good enough that she got 4 for it. However her grammar, fluency, and, comprehension were not good that she got 3 for each component. She said “There are two erasers of soft” which was grammatically wrong. She should have said “There are two soft erasers”. Similar to FAN, FIT also spoke rather strongly affected by language problem. She did some repetition when she spoke. The fourth speaker was IKF. IKF got the second best score after AKT. Her pronunciation, grammar, fluency, and comprehension were good that she got 4 for each component. And her highest score was at vocabulary that she got 5 for it. She used many vocabularies. Although she made a little bit mistakes grammatically by saying “There are six chairs of make from wood for students”, but it was still understandable. The last speaker of group one was SIN. She got the third best score after AKT and IKF. All of the language components were 4. Although she made a little bit mistakes by saying “there is a vase pretty”, but the sentence was understandable. The sentence she stated should have been “there is a pretty vase”. She spoke fluently enough. Group Two Describing a living room This is my living room. My living room is clean. Emmm, there are three pictures (ADD: 01). There is sofa. It is brown. There is a table. It is black (DEV: 10). There is a. There is. There is a bookcase. It is brown. There is a telephone. It is blue (FRH: 16). There is a television. Television is…is beside telephone. Television is blue. There are floors. It is white. There is a carpet (FRN: 17). There are ‘certains’ (curtains). They are red. There is a wall. It is yellow. Emm, there are windows. There is a plant. It is green (RAT: 33). ADD’s pronunciation and fluency was good that she got score 4 for each component. Her grammar was perfect. She made no mistake. She also used enough vocabulary. She seemed comprehended what she was trying to say. Therefore she got score 5 for grammar, vocabulary, and comprehension. DEV forgot to add an article ‘a’ when she said “there is sofa”. It should have been “there is a sofa”. However, it did not obscure the meaning. Her fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension were not categorized as good, but enough. Therefore, she got score 4 for pronunciation and grammar and score 3 for fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. FRH got score 4 for pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, and comprehension. Her pronunciation was good. She also made almost no mistake grammatically. She stated enough vocabulary. It also seemed like she understood what she was trying to say. However, her fluency was scored 3 because she often made pauses when she spoke. FRN got score 4 for pronunciation, vocabulary, and comprehension. However, he got score 3 for grammar and fluency. He made some mistakes by saying: “There are floors. It is white”. Floors are plural nouns that he should have been said: “The floors are white”. He did not speak fluent because he sometimes stopped when he spoke and seemed like thinking. RAT got score 3 for pronunciation because she pronounce ‘curtains’ as ‘certains’. Her grammar was perfect that she got 5 for it. She made no grammar error. Her vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension also got 5 for each. The second meeting: No. Name Transcription 19. IGN There is. There are. There is one whiteboard. This is my class. There is a whiteboard. 29. NYI My class, there are three pictures. 6. AND There is one whiteboard. There are eleven computers. 24. MEG Pause for while. There are three pictures. 22. KHO There are is seven table. IGN as the first speaker got score 4 for pronunciation because his pronunciation was good. He grammatically made no mistakes that he got score 5 for it. He stated enough vocabulary that he got 4 for vocabulary score. However, his fluency was scored 3 because he did repetition when he spoke. His comprehension was good that he got 4 for it. NYI got score 4 for pronunciation and grammar. Her pronunciation was good. Her grammar was also good. She said “My class. There are three pictures”. This would have been more correct if she said “There are three pictures in my class”. She used only few words which indicated vocabulary limit. Therefore, she got score 3 for vocabulary. It needed sometimes for her to say a word. Her fluency was poor that she got score 2 for fluency. Her comprehension was scored 3. AND’s pronunciation was good. He only pronounced ‘computers’ like in Indonesia ‘komputers’. His grammar was perfect. He made no mistake grammatically. He stated enough vocabulary that it was good and was scored 4. However his fluency was poor that he got 2 for it. It needed sometimes for him to say a word. His comprehension was good. MEG’s pronunciation was good. Her grammar was perfect because she made no mistakes. She used only few words that she got 3 for it. She seemed confused to choose a vocabulary. Her fluency was poor because she took time to speak. She paused for a while to just say a sentence. Her comprehension was scored 3. KHO’s pronunciation was good. Her grammar was scored 3 because she was still confused whether to use ‘are’ or ‘is’. Her vocabulary was also scored 3 because she only said a short sentence. It seemed difficult for her to choose a vocabulary. Her fluency was poor because she took time to just say each word. Her comprehension was scored 3. No. Name Transcription 32 RAR This is store. This is a ‘snack=snake’ This is people. And this wall is grey. 30 QUD The calendar above on, in, on the on the aquarium. The student stand up on stand up on the floor. 31 QUI This is a store. There is a freezing machine. There is a glass cabinet. And then a customer. And then some food sell there. RAR’s speaking aspects were all categorized as fair. He pronounced the word ‘snack’ as ‘snake’. He also made grammar error by saying “this is people”. The sentence would have been grammatically correct if it is said “there are some people”. His vocabulary and comprehension were also enough. QUD’s pronunciation was good that she got score 4 for it. However, her grammar was poor because she made some grammar mistakes. She was confused to use the correct preposition and it occurred several times. She states enough vocabulary. Her fluency was poor because she made a lot of repetition. Her comprehension was enough. QUI’s pronunciation and grammar were scored 4. She got score 5 for vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. QUI’s pronunciation was good and clear. Her grammar was also good. She only made mistake by saying “some food sell there”. The sentence should have been “some foods are sold there”. However this was fine because QUI’s utterance was still understandable. Her utterance did not obscure the meaning at all. She could use varying vocabulary, such as freezing machine and glass cabinet. Therefore, she got perfect score for vocabulary. She spoke fluently and comprehended what she was saying well. Discussion In this part, the researcher will discuss the result of the research in the relation of the theory. On the first meeting, in the pre-task stage, the teacher organized the students to make some groups. There were five groups consisted of five students and the other two consisted of four students. The teacher instructed each group to describe a picture of a classroom and parts of a house. There were seven pictures of parts of a house and a classroom. The teacher explained a little bit about the simple present tense, the use of “there is” and “there are”, articles ‘a’ and ‘an’, subjects and possessive pronouns, and singular and plural nouns. The students were so quiet and enthusiastic to listen to the teacher’s explanation. In the second stage or during stage, the teacher gave the students fifteen minutes to think about what they were going to say to describe the picture. Before letting the students did the group discussion, the teacher had stated that the teacher would not help them at all. The students should work themselves. This is in line to what Willis suggests. According to Willis (1996), in this stage, teachers shouldn’t help the students. Teachers should let them work themselves to construct the sentences and the language expression they would use. During the post-task, the students worked together in groups well. This is in line to the finding that task-based language teaching can stimulate the learners to work in groups (He and Lin 2004). In the last stage or the post-task stage, the teacher evaluated the students’ work in front of the class. The teacher called the group one by one to come forward and present their works orally. Every member of the group took turn to describe the picture by mentioning the things in the picture. After that, the teacher asked him/ her to write what he/ she had said on the whiteboard. This is done so the other students could also check their friends’ works. Evaluation or feedback is important to gain students’ knowledge about what is correct and incorrect. Task-based language teaching helped the students in the form of a problem-solving compromise between knowledge that the students have already known and new knowledge (Candlin and Murphy 1987). On the second meeting, in the pre-task stage, the teacher reviewed the lesson on the previous meeting. On this meeting, the teacher explained a little bit more about the simple present tense. After that, the teacher remarked that they would conduct a puzzle game. Next, the teacher mentioned some conditions while playing the game that the students should play fairly, use English when interacting, and finish the game in five minutes. Next, the teacher divided the class into seven groups. The teacher instructed each group to make a circle. After that, the teacher distributed the puzzle to each group. In during stage, the puzzle game started. The teacher moved around the class and observed the students. Like always, the teacher, asked the students to speak in English while solving the game. Through the completion of this puzzle, the students were challenged to finish the task fast. They were trained to work in team to solve the problem. While solving the problem, they used the target language. Although sometimes some of them still use Bahasa Indonesia, but they still tried to speak in English while they are interacting with their friends. This is in line to the findings done by Hadi. Hadi (2012) has proven that task-based language teaching improves students’ interaction skills. In the post-task stage, the teacher called each group to come forward to present their works. Each member of the group had to describe the picture in the puzzle they had arranged. When the student was describing the picture, the teacher wrote any mistakes and errors made by the student. After that, the teacher conducted an evaluation towards the students’ works. In conclusion, what the teacher did on the first meeting and the second meeting were all in line to the framework of task-based language teaching suggested by Ellis. According to Ellis (2006) there are three stages in implementing task-based language teaching in a classroom, which they are the pre-task stage, the during stage, and the post-task stage. Therefore, task-based language teaching was implemented properly and successfully. The teacher also understood the notion of the task given to the students. The task was designed not only to be completed, but also to reach the communicative purpose in order to achieve an outcome Willis (1996). It can be seen from the first and the second meetings that all of the students tried to not only complete the task given by the teacher, but also produce the language. On the first meeting, five students were absent. There were thirty three students in the classroom participated in this research. Therefore, the average score of each language component of students’ speaking ability was divided to thirty three. Whereas, on the second meeting, six students were absent. There were thirty two students in the classroom participated in this research. Therefore, the average score of each language component of students’ speaking ability was divided to two. The researcher concluded the final result of the students’ speaking ability by drawing the average score from the first and the second meetings. These are the description of the students’ speaking ability on the first and the second meeting using the speaking proficiency suggested by Harris (1969): The students’ average score of pronunciation was good. This scale of pronunciation is categorized as intelligible, though one is conscious a definite accent. Most of the students pronounce the words correctly and clearly, though some of them still have worse pronunciation which was influenced by the pronunciation of Indonesia. The students’ average score of grammar was good. This scale of grammar indicates that most of the students occasionally made grammatical and/ or word order errors which did not obscure meaning. The students’ average score of vocabulary was good. According to Harris (1969) this scale of vocabulary indicates that the students sometimes use inappropriate terms and/ or must rephrase ideas because of lexical of inadequacies. This is true that some of the students in VII F occasionally used inappropriate terms. The students’ average score of fluency was good. This scale of fluency indicates that the students speed or speech seems to be slightly affected by language problems. The students’ average score of comprehension was good. This scale of comprehension indicated that the students understood nearly everything at normal speed, although occasionally repetition might be necessary. In conclusion, the students’ speaking ability after the implementation of task-based language teaching was satisfying. This finding showed that implementing task-based language teaching to teach speaking descriptive to the first graders of 26 State Junior High School effects on positive results on students’ speaking ability. This finding equals to the finding done by Xiongyong and Samuel (2011) which found that task-based language teaching promotes learners academic progress. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION Conclusion According to this research, it is concluded that the implementation of task-based language teaching to teach speaking descriptive to the first graders of junior high score was conducted properly and successfully according to the framework suggested by Ellis. 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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF “MURDER MYSTERY GAME’ TO TEACH SPEAKING OF NARRATIVE TEXT TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 21 SURABAYA
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF “MURDER MYSTERY GAME’ TO TEACH SPEAKING OF NARRATIVE TEXT TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 21 SURABAYA Genggam Prayudha Wiradini English Education Departement, Faculty of Language and Art, State University of Surabaya genggampw@hotmail.com Ririn Pusparini, S.Pd., M.Pd. English Education Departement, Faculty of Language and Art, State University od Surabaya rrn.puspa@gmail.com Abstrak Speaking mengambil peranan penting dalam pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris dan harus dikuasai oleh siswa dengan baik. Sebelumnya, beberapa siswa berpendapat bahwa speaking adalah aktifitas yang berat karena mereka merasa susah untuk menata kata-kata secara langsung. Oleh karena itu, dibutuhkan guru yang mempunyai kreativitas and cara yang sesuai untuk menyampaikan materi agar kemampuan speaking siswa menjadi baik Pada penelitian ini, “Murder Mystery Game” sebagai teknik yang disarankan kepada guru untuk membantu siswa agar tertarik aktifitas speaking di kelas. Sebagaimana Erzos (2002) berpendapat bahwa game dapat digunakan untuk memberikan banyak praktek pada komunikasi. Penelitian ini mengacu pendeskribsian implementasi “Murder Mysteru Game” pada pengajaran speaking teks narrative untuk kelas delapan dan juga untuk mengetahui kemampuan siswa berbicara setelah pengimplementasian game ini. Penelitian ini menggunakan deskriptif kualitatif. Subyek pada penelitian adalah kelas delapan di SMP Negeri 21 Suarabya di kelas VIII-A. Data pada penelitian adalah hasil darpada observasi, catatan lapangan, transkrip siswa dan questionnaire. Datanya dianalisa secara deskriptif untuk menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan penelitian. Hasil penelitian memperlihatkan bahwa implementasi game ini berada segaris dengan tujuh langkah-langkah pada pembelajaran speaking. Hasil transkrip siswa memperlihatkan bahwa siswa dapat berbicara lebih baik karena pengimplementasian “Murder Mystery Game”. Selebihnya, aktifitas guru berada segaris dengan prinsip-prinsip pengajaran speaking. Berdasarkan hasil-hasil tersebut, dapat dilihat dari nilai siswa, pengimplementasian “Murder Mystery Game” dapat membantu siswa berbicara secara narrative. Dan sebaliknya, kemampuan siswa berbicara juga terlihat baik. Kata Kunci: speaking, narrative text, game, murder mystery game Abstract Speaking takes an important role in learning English and it should be mastered by the students well. Yet, some of the students consider that speaking is difficult activity because they feel difficult to arrange the words naturally. Thus, it needs the teachers who have creativity and appropriate ways to deliver the material in order to improve the students’ ability in speaking. In this study, “Murder Mystery Game” as a technique is considered to the teachers to help them to make an interesting activity speaking class. As Erzos (2002) states that games can be used to give practice many types of communication. This research aims to describe the implementation of “Murder Mystery Game” in speaking of narrative text for the eighth graders. It also aims to know the students’ ability in speaking after the implementation of this game. This study is descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this research is the eighth graders in SMP Negeri 21 Surabaya at class VIII-A. The data in this research are the result of observation, field note, students’ transcription, and questionnaire. The data are analyzed descriptively to answer the research questions. The result of the observation showed that the implementation of this game was in line with seven stages in teaching speaking. The result of the students; transcription showed that students can speak more active by the implementation of “Murder Mystery Game”. Moreover, the teacher’s activity was in line with principles of teaching speaking. Based on those result, the implementation of “Murder Mystery Game” helped the students to speak in Narrative. It could be shown in the students score. Meanwhile the students’ speaking ability showed better. Keywords: speaking, narrative text, game, murder mystery game. INTRODUCTION There are four basic language skills that should be practiced by people, there are; listening, speaking, reading and writing. These four basic skills are categorized into two, receptive and productive. Among these four skills, speaking is one of the productive skills that aim to communicate with others in spoken words, and it is very important in daily communication. It is supported by Herbert (1977:56) that “speaking is a basic of human activity”. In communication, people put ideas into words talking about perception, feeling and intension. Mastering the art of speaking is the single most important aspect of learning a second or foreign language and success measured in terms of the ability to carry out the conversation in language (Nunan, 1977:56). Speaking skill also takes an important role in learning English. In learning English as a foreign language, especially for junior high school, students get difficult to have conversation on a topic that they know little about (Baker and Westurp, 2003:5). Most of the students consider that speaking is difficult activity because they have to arrange words into good sentences and they feel ashamed if somebody figures out the grammatical mistakes. In addition, Mafruchah (2009) states in her thesis that “in the speaking activity, students of junior high school still get difficulties in expressing ideas. They are afraid seemed reluctant in front of their classmates because of their mistakes and if the teacher asks the students to practice, they prefer to keep silent”. It is happens, because the students do not have their self confidence and lack of motivation from the teacher who sometimes chooses uninteresting materials in the learning process. To gain the students’ interest in the speaking activity, it needs the teacher who was able to choose an interesting topic which is familiar to students’ speaking materials and set up a real life condition in order not to make the students get bored. As Sauvignon (1980:34) in her book says that the importance to the learner’s progress in variety of activities in which the students can use language in the real situation which created by the teachers and can avoid students’ boredom. Furthermore, the teacher should create an active speaking class atmosphere, stimulate students’ motivation, likeness, curiosity, develop students’ acquisitions in learning English, as well as should be creative enough to implement a technique in order to make her or his students enjoy and comfortable with the activity in learning process. There are many kinds of techniques that can be used in the speaking class, there are: role play, discussion group, debate, games and so on. All of them represent strategies for providing the emotional involvement necessary for authentic interaction in the classroom (Sauvignon, 1976: 41). One of the techniques that seems to encourage the students’ speaking ability is game. Halliwell says that, “Games provide an opportunity for the real language use” (1992:6). Wright as cited by Kenongo (1983:1) states that games also help and encourage many learners to sustain their interest and work. From these statements, it can be said that games mostly enjoyable and fun for students. In addition, students are encouraged to express themselves freely in the language from the beginning through experiences and games which provide them with framework for spontaneous, communicative creation (Rivers, 1978:6). It means that by using and playing the games, students will be free to express their ideas without feel afraid to speak something and make mistakes. “Murder Mystery Game” is not a new game and usually played by the teenagers of Western people at the end of dinner party activity. As Hadfield (1987) classifies languages games into more categories and some of them are problem-solving games and role play games. “Murder Mystery Game” is an adaption games from problem-solving games and role play games because the students are expected to work in a group that includes five until six students and they have their own secrets and rules, take a role, expected to be the player and try to solve the problem to find who the real murderer is as stated in the paper they got from their teacher. By using this game, the students are demanded to interact with the members of the group and speak freely in longer utterances on the topic given The advantages of this game are the students can interact and share opinion among the member of the group and also the teacher can observe the students’ speaking ability from each group. Moreover, based on the standard competence 2006, narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kinds, which in turn finds a resolution. “Murder Mystery Game” seems appropriate for students in learning speaking narrative text because the contents are orientation, complication and resolution. Depdiknas (2006: 35) states that the function of narrative text is to entertain. Hopefully, by the implementation of “Murder Mystery Game”, there will be any encouragement of students’ speaking ability in the classroom. Based on the background of the study above, the research questions are formulated as follows: 1.2.1 How is the implementation of “Murder Mystery Game” in teaching speaking of narrative text to the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 21 Surabaya? 1.2.2 How is the students’ speaking ability toward the implementation of “Murder Mystery Game” in teaching speaking of narrative text to the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 21 Surabaya? 1.2.3 What are the students’ responses in the implementation of “Murder Mystery Game” in teaching speaking of narrative text to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 21 Surabaya? Speaking Speaking is a mean of expressing or delivering opinions. People communicate through an oral expression to get much more information. According to Bailey (2003: 48) speaking is the productive skill that people use to communicate orally. In learning a foreign language, speaking skill is as important as other three skills. Agustien (2004: 6) also says that naturally speaking, people learn spoken language first before they learn written version. It means that, speaking plays an important role in order to communicate with others, especially speaking English because nowadays English is considered as an International language. David as cited by Kenongo (2010: 7) “there are generally five components recognized in the analysis of the speaking process: (1) Pronunciation, including the segmental features, vowels, consonants, stress, and intonation patterns; (2) Grammar; (3) Vocabulary; (4) Fluency, the ease and speed of the flow of the speed; (5) Comprehension. However, the students should not to master all of the language components but they can improve their language components by practice speaking. In addition, River (1970: 35) states that “students of a new language will not learn to speak fluently by hearing speech in class, since speaking skill involves active participants on the part of students”. So the teacher should activate the speaking class and give the opportunities to the students to practice their speaking as much as possible. Game One useful technique to encourage language acquisition is using language games. When using games in the classroom, it is beneficial for teachers to have a complete understanding of the definitions of games, which usually are defined as a form of play concerning rules, competition, and an element of fun (Deesri, 2002). Games also help the teacher to create context in which language is useful and meaningful. Of course, in this case, the teacher should be careful to make the games enjoyed by young learners and at the same time some language items are learned. Brown (1985:317) states that games involve: 1. Rules which must be followed 2. Competition between individuals or teams 3. Determination of a winner if teams of players are part of the games plans, cooperative learning as well as competition can result. The game also has many advantages. They make the students more easily to understand the teacher’s instruction, strengthen the students’ understanding of the context of learning. Kinds of Games According to Hadfiled (1987), “language games can be divided into two further categories: Linguistic games and communicative games. Linguistic games focus on accuracy, such as applying the correct antonym. On the other hand, communicative games focus on successful exchange of information and ideas, such as two people identifying the differences between their two pictures which are similar to one another but not exactly alike. Hadfield (1987) also classifies language games into many more categories as follow: • Sorting, ordering or arranging games: For example, students have a set of cards with different products of them, and they sort the cards into products found at a grocery store and products found at a department store. • Information gap games: In such games, one student has access to the information which is not held by the other student, and this student must acquire the information to complete the task successfully. Information gap games can involve a one-way information gap or a two way information gap. • Guessing games: In these games, someone knows something and the others must find out what it is. • Matching games: As a name applies, participants need to find a match for a word, picture or card. • Labeling games: These are form of matching game, in that participants match labels and pictures • Puzzle-solving games: The participants in the game share or pool information in order to solve a problem or a mystery. • Role play games: The terms role play, drama and simulation are sometimes used interchangeably but can be differentiated. Role play can involve students playing roles that they do not play in real life, such as dentists, while simulations can involve students performing roles that they already play in real life or might be likely to play, such as a customer at a restaurant. Dramas are normally scripted performances, whereas in role plays and simulations, students come up with their own words, although preparation is often useful. Narrative Text According to 2004 English curriculum (Depdiknas, 2004b: 3) the structure of narrative comprises Orientation (sets the scene and introduce the characters), Complication (a crisis/ problem arises), and Resolution (the crisis is resolved for better or worse). Narrative is a familiar type of communication to entertain the listener and the reader with a real or fiction experience. Some types of narrative are fairy stories, mystery, science, fiction, horror/ scary, fable, adventure, romance, and etc. Narrative also has some characteristics based on its linguistic features (Depdiknas, 2004a: 6), those are: Specific participant and individual participant In the narrative text that tells chronological story consist of orientation, complication and resolution. In this word, narrative text shows the specific participant or individual participant. It means event that happens with repetition of the participant in the sentence. Many action verbs (material process) A sentence is consisting of subject, verb and object. In this case, narrative text often uses many action verbs, such as the word walk, run, etc. Verbal process and mental processes sometimes used in the narrative text. The example of verbal process is the word say, tell, etc. The mental process includes the word believe, know, etc. Using past tense In narrative text uses past tense because the story was happened. So the event of the story is not related with activity now. The time signals usually used in narrative text are: once upon a time, yesterday, ago, etc. Using linking words related to time Linking words are used in the narrative text that they do with time such as then, when, one day, etc. So the text seems chronological story because it introduces orientation then complication and finally the participants solve it that is called resolution. Descriptive language Descriptive language means a text that tells to the objective. In this case, the author grows the listeners’ imagination. So he or she can descript the event of the story, such as the word good, bad, beautiful, etc. Using pronouns The pronouns (I, he, she, and they) are often used in the narrative text. In this case, it is easy for the reader to understand the text because of the pronouns is mentioned. Using illustration to support the text. To support the text is needed the illustration. It can help the students to understand the text easily. Moreover it is interesting when the teacher can stimulate the students to feel and imagine the story. Anderson and Anderson (1998: 3) as cited by Widyastiningrum states that narrative text also has some text organizations or generic structures and language features that should be fulfilled in constructing the text, that is: Generic structure of narrative text: First, an orientation in which the narrator tells the audience about who is in the story, when the story is taking place and where the action is happening. Second, a complication that sets off a chain of events that influences what will happen in the story. Third, a sequence of events where the characters react the complication. Fourth, a resolution in which the characters solve the problem created in the complication. Fifth, a coda that provides a comment or moral based on what has been learned from the story (an optional step). Language features of narrative text: First, there are nouns that take the role to identify the specific characters and places in the story. Second, adjectives that provides accurate descriptions of the characters and settings. Third, verbs that show the actions that occur in the story. Fourth, time words that connects events, telling when they occurred. Murder Mystery Game As the writer stated in the previous chapter before that Hadfield (1987) classifies languages games into more categories and some of them are problem-solving games and role play games. “Murder Mystery Game” is an adaption games from “problem-solving games” and “role play games” because the students are expected to work in a group that includes five until six students and they have their own secrets and rules, take a role, expected to be the player and try to solve the problem to find who the real murderer is as stated in the paper they got from their teacher. However, as Schneider and Kortuem (2005) state that “Murder Mystery Game” is the combination between multiplayers with Live-Action Role-Playing (LARP) games. Multiplayer games are based on social interactions as the key feature contributing to the players’ enjoyment. In the other hand, LARP games are the variants of boards’ games that need a real people to play the role. When these games are played with the real people, it will increase the interaction among the members of the players and they remained rare until recently. Implementing “Murder Mystery Game” in Teaching Speaking Narrative Pre-Activity: Step one: Explain to the class that we are going to play a murder mystery game. Everyone will be a character in the game and one of them is the murderer. Give them the background information Step two: Define a class into a group and each group consists of 5 until 7 students. The main character cards all contain clues to working out the mystery. For bigger groups use the supplementary cards (they contain no real clues) or for groups of fourteen or more, split the students into two groups and play the game as a competition to see who can work out the mystery first. Give each student a character card. They need to read and memorize the information. The aim is to act out the game, become the character and not to just read the information from the card. At this point answer any questions students might have about their character. Whilst Activity: Step three: Hand out the worksheets, explain to the class they need to collect information about everyone who was at the party and fill any relevant information on the sheet. At this point go over key vocabulary: alibi, motive, and clue. Step four: This stage is a mingling activity with students asking questions and collecting information. Monitor the language used at this point and correct where necessary. Post Activity: Step five: When the students have spoken to everyone who was at the party, have them go back into their original groups. Take back the character cards. Using the information they have collected, the students try to work out who killed the victim and why they did it. This part of the lesson usually leads to some lively discussion, most students will quickly guess who the killer is but the information needs to be carefully looked at to work out the why. Previous Study: Many colleagues had conducted studies on the same field. The studies are about using games in the teaching of speaking. That is: Jay Schneider and Gerd Kortuem (2010) whose entitled “how to host a problem-solving game supporting face-to-face interactions in live-action roleplaying”. In their study, they found that live-action roleplaying game can be benefitted when two personal devices are in communication they know their owners are in each others social space and can communicate face-to face. They expected that the applications described above to give a tremendous advantage to those game players who use them. Based on the previous study above, the researcher conducted a research entitled “The Implementation of Murder Mystery Game to Teach Spaking of Narrative Text to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 21 Surabaya”. The researcher wants to know whether this research can be used in this school. This research is different with the research which have been mentioned above. This research focusses on teaching speaking narrative by “Murder Mystery Game” while the first research focusses in the live communication roleplaying. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY In doing this study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative research, since it more focuses on the process rather than outcomes of the phenomena. The subjects of the study were the English teacher and the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 21 Surabaya the setting of the study was SMP 21 Suarabaya which is located on Jln. Jambangan IV Surabaya. The researcher collected the data through some instruments. The instruments were observation checklist and field note to gaint the data for the first research question, students’ speaking task result to gain data for the second research question, with Haris’s ESL Composition Profile and closed-structured questionnaire analyzed third research question.. RESULT AND DISCUSSION The Implementation of “Murder Mystery Game” in Teaching Speaking of Narrative Text This observation was done on 3rd November, 13th ovember, and 15th November 2013. It was held to gain the information about the implementation of “murder mystery game” to teach speaking of narrative text to the eighth grade students. In the first meeting, the teacher organized the students to make groups and introduce the topic which was about narrative text. In this observation, speaking narrative text was not a new activity for the students. But, “murder mystery game” was something new for them. Thus, the teacher introduced the use of this technique to make speaking narrative easier and more enjoy full. In the second meeting, the students produced narrative speech in pair groups. In this meeting, the teacher used worksheet to support “murder mystery game”. The teacher asked the students to complete the worksheet by find the real murderer and then discussed it together with their groups. In this activity, the teacher asked the students to perform spontaneously, but still in groups, but pair groups. In the third meeting, the teacher gave the same topic but in different way. The teacher asked the students to rewrite their understanding about the story in narrative text with their own words. Then, the teacher asked the students to retell or perform the story in front of the class without read their story. The students produced narrative speeches toward the story individually. The teacher did it to make the students became more confident. From the students’ performance, the teacher said that most of them had better performance than before. The main reason why games are considered effective learning aids is that "they spur motivation and students get very absorbed in the competitive aspects of the games; moreover, they try harder at games than in other courses" (Avedon, 1971). Naturally when playing games, students are trying to win or to beat other teams for themselves or on the behalf of their team. They are so competitive while playing because they want to have a turn to play, to score points and to win. In the class, students will definitely participate in the activities. Therefore, it is possible for a teacher to introduce students to new ideas, grammar, knowledge and so on. As in the “Murder Mystery Game”, students are so competitive that they want to finish first and participation. They can motivate students to want to learn more. Moreover, they can transform a boring class into a challenging one. The Students’ Speaking Ability in Speaking of Narrative Text after using “Murder Mystery Game” In this part, the researcher wants to discuss the result of students’ speaking of narrative text. The students’ spoken narrative are analyzed based on Haris’ ESL Speaking Rubric (1969), they are: pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension. Most of them could be accomplished well by the students. Based on the result of the students’ speaking tasks, it could be said that the students’ pronunciation was getting better even though it got stagnant in the second but then, it got better in the third meeting. Brown (2007) stated that good pronunciation did not just mean saying individual words or individual sounds correctly. In the second meeting, the mean from the result of the students’ pronunciation there were just a few students got score two that the pronunciations were very hard to be understood, must frequently be asked to repeat. Most of them got score three that there were few errors in pronunciation and pronunciation problem necessitated concentrated listening and occasionally lead to misunderstanding. And some of them got score four who were always intelligible and almost no errors in pronunciation. In the third meeting, the result of the students’ pronunciation score was three point six and the criteria were almost no errors in pronunciation. Fifteen students or a half of the whole students got score three that there were few errors in pronunciation and pronunciation problem necessitated concentrated listening and occasionally lead to misunderstanding. Fifteen others or another half of the students got score four. They were always intelligible and almost no errors in pronunciation. And just two students or a few got score five that had few trace of foreign accent. The next was about the students’ grammar. Generally, both first and second language learners were seen to proceed from knowing a few structures to knowing more and more, from using simple structures to using more complex ones, and from making errors to making a few if any at all (Louma, 2004). In the second meeting, the result of the students’ grammar score was three point four. They made frequently errors of grammar and word-order which occasionally obscure the meaning. There were two students or just few of them got score two that their grammar and word-meaning errors made comprehension difficult. Must often rephrase sentences and restrict them to basic pattern. The rest were thirty students or most of them got score three that made frequently errors of grammar and word-order which occasionally obscure the meaning. And they occasionally made grammatical and word-order errors which did not obscure the meaning. In the third meeting, the result of the students’ grammar score was three point nine. The students occasionally made grammatical and word-order errors which did not obscure the meaning. Some of the students got score three that made frequently errors of grammar and word-order which occasionally obscure the meaning. Meanwhile, there were many students got score four that occasionally made grammatical and word-order errors which did not obscure the meaning. And a few of them got score five. They made few noticeable errors of grammar or word order. Overall, it could be said that the students’ grammar was getting better from the second until the third meeting seen from the means of the score for three meetings which were significantly improved. The next explanation was about the students’ vocabulary. In the second meeting, the result of the students’ vocabulary score was three point five. They frequently used the wrong word because the limited vocabulary but most of vocabularies were correctly used. A few students got score two. They used very limited vocabulary that made the comprehension quite difficult. Some of them got score three. They used an adequate variety of words and most of them were correctly used. And most of them got score four. They used rich variety of words but sometimes used inappropriate word. In the third meeting, the result of the students’ vocabulary score was four point five. They used rich variety of words and almost all of the vocabularies were appropriate. There was a student got score three. She used an adequate variety of words and most of them were correctly used. There were eleven students or many of them got score four, they used rich variety of words but sometimes used inappropriate word. There were twenty students or most of them got score five, they used rich varieties of words and almost all of the vocabularies were appropriate. All in all, it could be said that the students’ vocabulary was getting better from the second until the third meeting seen from the means of the score for three meetings which were significantly improved. The next point was about the students’ fluency. One central part of fluency was related to temporal aspects of speech, such as speaking rate, speech-pause relationship, and frequency of dysfluency marker such as, hesitation, repetition, and self-corrections (Louma, 2004) In the second meeting, the result of the students’ fluency score was two point nine. The students’ speed and fluency were rather strongly affected by language problems. some of the students got score two. They were usually hesitant or often force into silence by language limitation. Most of the students got score three. Students’ speed and fluency were rather strongly affected by language problems. And few of them got score four, their speed or speech seemed to be slightly affected by language problems. In the third meeting, the result of the students’ fluency score was three point nine. The speed or the speaking skill of the students seemed to be slightly affected by language problem beside that the speeches were occasionally hesitant, with some unevenness caused rephrasing and grouping for words. There were some students got score three. Students’ speed and fluency were rather strongly affected by language problems. Most of them got score four. Their speed or speech seemed to be slightly affected by language problems. And few students got score five. Their speeches were effortless and smooth. Overall, it could be said that the students’ fluency was getting better even though it got stagnant in second meeting, but then, it got better in the third meeting. It was told by the mean of the students’ fluency score. The last was about the students’ comprehension. In the second meeting, the result of the students’ comprehension score was three point three. There were few students got score two. They had great difficulties following what they said. They can comprehend only “social conversation” spoken slowly and with frequent repetitions. Many students got score three; other students understood most of what they said at slower than normal speed with repetitions. And most of them got score four. They understood nearly everything at normal speed, although occasionally repetition may be necessary. In the third meeting, the result of the students’ comprehension score was four point one. The students’ speaking was nearly-everything understandable at normal speed, although occasionally repetition may be necessary. Few students got score three. They understood most of what they said at slower than normal speed with repetitions. Most of the students got score four. They understood nearly everything at normal speed, although occasionally repetition may be necessary. And many students got score five. They appeared to understand everything without difficulties. All in all, it could be said that the students’ comprehension was getting better from the first until the third meeting seen from the means of the score for three meetings which were significantly improved. The Students’ Responses to the Implementation of “Murder Mystery Game” in the Speaking of Narrative Class Based on the questionnaire that be used by the writer to know what the students’ responses were good. The “Murder Mystery Game” made the students far from worried because they could speak freely so it could encourage their vocabulary. Based on the result of the students’ responses toward the implementation of “murder mystery game” through the questionnaire, it can be stated in general that most of the students like the implementation of “murder mystery game” in English class very much, most of the students were very interested with the implementation of “murder mystery game” in teaching speaking of English class, most of the students like the teaching material presented in the implementation of “murder mystery game” very much, most of the students understand about the teacher’s explanation in implementing “murder mystery game” very much, and most of the students feel very helped by the implementation of “murder mystery game” in teaching speaking narrative text. From those explanations, it proved that “murder mystery game” was easy to apply. The students enjoy and like to study English especially speaking through using the game, the students like the teaching material presented in the game including the lesson and the media. Besides that, the game could help the students to find the idea when they made a narrative text orally in speaking class. Finally, all of those statements can support the validity or the truth of some experts’ opinion in this study written in chapter one and chapter two. For instance, Uberman states that games are highly motivating and can give the shy students more opportunity to express their opinion and feeling (1988:20). Therefore, because of the implementation of this game forced students to work in groups also in pair, it made the students feel enjoyable and did not feel worry of making mistakes in pronunciation and fluency. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS Conclusion Based on the result of the data analysis which is obtained through the observation and the student’s speaking, the researcher concludes that: The implementation of “Murder Mystery Game” which was done in three meetings on 3rd, 13th and 15th November 2013 gave a good impact in speaking skill. It can be shown in the result of observation checklist that the teacher gave the suitable material for speaking of narrative text. The game also helped the students to speak up. The result of the scoring criteria and the students’ speaking transcription showed that the students’ speaking ability is better in the third meeting. Although there were many students made mistakes in grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary and so on, that is not the main problem. The most important thing is the students’ courage, spirit, motivation, and interest in participate the class activity which play important role for them in getting success of mastering any material of the lesson. The result of students’ responses toward the implementation of “Murder Mystery Game” was good. This game is considered as positive way in providing an authentic academic setting because the students can practice to have conversation with different partners as many as possible. Suggestions Based on the conclusion above, the researcher gives the following suggestions: First, for the teacher, she should choose the material that appropriate with the students’ interest. She also should not worry with different idea; let the students speak up to tell the story without feel afraid of making mistakes. Second, the teacher should rearrange again the the lesson plan of the activity because the time is limited to conduct the speaking activity. Speaking class needs more time because from speaking, the students also practice their listening and reading. 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USING MODIFIED GAMEJEOPARDY! AND HOP-SCOTCH TO IMPROVE ENGLISH VOCABULARY MASTERY OF SEVENTH GRADERS IN SMP NEGERI 1 BONDOWOSO
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USING MODIFIED GAMEJEOPARDY! AND HOP-SCOTCH TO IMPROVE ENGLISH VOCABULARY MASTERY OF SEVENTH GRADERS IN SMP NEGERI 1 BONDOWOSO Yuniar Bestiana English Department, Languages and Arts Faculty, State University of Surabaya ybestiana_196@yahoo.co.id Prof. Dr. Hj. Lies Amin Lestari, M.A., M.Pd English Department, Languages and Arts Faculty, State University of Surabaya lies.aminlestari@yahoo.com Abstrak Kosakata adalah aspek utama dan mendasar (dari sebuah bahasa) yang harus dikuasai penuturnya. Oleh karena itu, pembelajaran kosakata yang tepat akan mengoptimalkan hasil belajar siswa dalam belajar bahasa. Berdasarkan pengamatan awal yang dilakukan, pembelajaran kosakata membuat siswa menjadi bosan dan akhirnya, siswa tidak dapat memperoleh hasil yang maksimal. Untuk itu, penggunaan media dalam bentuk permainan bahasa dipercaya efektif untuk menciptakan sebuah pembelajaran kosakata yang dapat membantu kesuksesan hasil belajar siswa (Huyen dan Nga, 2003). Penelitian ini menggunakan metode dua grup eksperimental dengan pretest danposttest untuk mengetahui efektivitas penggunaan permainan modifikasi Jeopardy! dan engklekdalam meningkatkan hasil belajar pembelajaran kosakata bahasa Inggris di kelas VII SMP Negeri 1 Bondowoso. Kuesioner digunakan untuk mengetahui respon siswa setelah diajar menggunakan permainan tersebut. Hasil analisis uji t menjelaskan bahwa siswa di kelas eksperimental mendapatkan hasil yang lebih tinggi secara statistik dibandingkan dengan siswa di kelas kontrol, dengan nilai t 3.6, nilai p .001 (df=66), dan eta squared .16. Ini menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan permainan modifikasi Jeopardy! dan engklek secara statistik dapat meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam mempelajari kosakata. Data dari kuesioner juga menunjukkan bahwa lebih dari 80% siswa menyukai permainan ini dan setuju bahwa permainan yang digunakan telah memenuhi 5 kriteria desain permainan oleh Hill, et. al (2013). Kata Kunci: kosakata, Jeopardy!, engklek, kelas VII Abstract Vocabulary becomes the first and the foremost aspect of a language which should be mastered by every language learner. That is why; a good vocabulary instruction will result in the success of learning achievement. Preliminary observation done showed that the existing vocabulary teaching made students feel demotivated and thus they could not achieve a satisfying result. Thus, the use of media in the form of language game is believed to create a more motivating instruction which leads students to be a successful learner (Huyen & Nga, 2003). Using a two-group pretest and posttest experimental design, this study aimed to explore the effectiveness of using modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch to teach vocabulary in reading descriptive text about things around to the seventh graders in SMP Negeri 1 Bondowoso and investigate the response of the students after being taught by using the game. Using independent samples t-test analysis, the scores of posttest of the two groups were compared and the result showed that by using the game, students in the experimental group scored significantly higher than students in the control group, with the t value of 3.6 and p value of .001 (df = 66, mean difference = 11.2), eta squared of .16. This shows that the modifiedgame Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch was effective to improve students’ vocabulary mastery. Furthermore, data from the questionnaire which was analyzed by using descriptive statistics showed that more than 80% of the students gave positive responses and agreed that the game fulfilled the five criteria of game design proposed by Hill, et.al(2013). Keywords:Vocabulary, Jeopardy!, Hop-scotch, Seventh graders INTRODUCTION If the ability to use a certain language can be analogized to a car, vocabulary is the fuel. Without having enough fuel, the car will not work. Vocabulary is an important element which constructs a language and it can be used to show the degree of mastery of the speakers or students (Schmitt, Schmitt, & Chaplam, 2001). Experts agree that developing vocabulary, both theoretically and practically, is very essential in the language learning process in which students at every level should focus on strengthening their vocabulary because it can determine the success of learning. Students are still able to communicate without the correct form of grammar; but not without vocabulary because without syntax or grammar, students can still maintain the meaning; but without vocabulary, students cannot find the meaning of certain word or sentence (Folse, 2003). In addition, most students are having difficulty to say what they want to say because of their insufficient vocabulary (Chastain, 1988). It can be said that vocabulary is the key to be a successful language speaker. In teaching vocabulary, the teacher nowadays uses drillings and other repeated written exercises to enable the students memorize the vocabulary. He gives the students a certain text and asks them to find the synonym, antonym, or the meaning of a word which is stated in the text. The students find that this kind of teaching activity is not enjoyable, yet de-motivating (Hill, Sumarniningsih, & Lestari, 2013). Moreover, the teaching-learning processes are mostly teacher-centered, where the teacher talks all over the time, explains the material and the students sit and listen to the teacher (Huyen & Nga, 2003). As a result, students are very passive during the teaching and learning process. As regard to the explanation above, it can be inferred that the on-going teaching and learning process could not give the students positive experience since the way the teacher conduct the instruction is likely to be de-motivating and teacher-centered. Thus, the teacher as a director and facilitator of learning experiences should find a solution for this problem; the teacher should create an instructional design which enables students to acquire the language effectively as well as gives the students positive experience (Bortoluzzi, 2003). Therefore, applying instructional media in the classroom may be a key to manage the poor condition since instructional media can set up conditions in which the students acquire knowledge, skill, and attitudes more easily. There are numerous kinds of instructional media which can be used in teaching and learning process. Hence, the teacher should choose one among those kinds of media which is the most suitable for the teaching-learning process, the condition of the students and school, and the availability and practicality of the media (Gerlach & Ely, 1980). Experts have classified the various instructional media into several categories. The most common classification is made based on its form; whether it is visual, things that can be seen; audio, things that can be heard; audiovisual, things that can be both seen and heard; or multimedia, things that combine all form of media and mostly uses computer. So far, the use of multimedia is being a trend in teaching. The use of multimedia has been broadly used by the teacher due to the fact that most of people nowadays, especially school-aged children and teenagers, are very familiar with the use of technology. Moreover, it is believed that the use of multimedia technology can change the old classroom setting which tends to be teacher-centered and de-motivating to become a sophisticated classroom setting which engage and give positive experience to the students during the teaching-learning process (Abdelraheem & Rabame, 2005). One of the implementation of multimedia is the use of computer game. Game is used as a media based on the consideration that game can engage the students in an enjoyable and challenging activity so that the students can actually practice the language (Shaptoshvili, 2002). They will concentrate on how they win without having to be worry whether they use the correct structure or pattern of the language. But still, soon or later, their fluency and accuracy in using the language will be increased, thus they can attain the communicative competence. Game also provides the students the knowledge of language in a meaningful context of a language (Chen & I-Jung, 2005). By engaging in a game-context activity, students give good responses and show their positive attitude (Uberman, 1998). Furthermore, a result of an action research confirm the effectiveness of the game since students likely to need relatively short period to learn and attain the materials in an enjoyable and comfortable environment than those activities in traditional classes (Huyen & Nga, 2003). One of the games which can be used in vocabulary teaching is Jeopardy!, which is actually an American quiz television show, a quiz in which the participants choose one question with a certain score and will achieve the score if they are success or lose the score if they are failed answering the question ("Jeopardy!," 2002). A study by Jones in 2005 had proved that Jeopardy! helped the students review vocabulary word and idiom (Jones, 2005). Moreover, the game fulfilled the five criteria of game design; enjoyable, educational, English promoting, engaging, and easy to use (Hill, et al., 2013). However, in Jeopardy! game, there is a table with several columns and rows, each of the cells contains a question with certain score. Indonesian students do not familiar with this and there are too many questions to be answer in one game. To cope with this, there is a need to modify the game to make it simpler and suitable for Indonesian context, especially for seventh graders. One of the ways to meet the need was by combining the game with an Indonesian traditional game, Hop-scotch. In Hop-scotch game, there is a pattern which is usually drawn on the soil ground and the players should hop over the boxes in the pattern with one foot. The decision to combine the game with a traditional game of Indonesia, which was Hop-scotch, was made since Indonesian students were very familiar with this traditional game. Moreover, this game is also able to promote and preserve Indonesian culture. In the modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch, the basic rule of win 100 or lose 100 of Jeopardy! was maintained, but the number of questions were decreased. The table of questions in Jeopardy!was not used; instead, the pattern of Hop-scotch was used. Moreover, the two games were modified into a computer game. The teacher did not need to prepare many things which would be considered as a time consuming; they just needed to prepare the power point presentation which was easy to obtain, create, or modify (Fisher, 2003). No papers would be wasted; no big space would be needed. Moreover, the game was engaging since it involves all of the students in the class; all of them would participate and be active during the teaching and learning process (Deesri, 2002). So basically, the two games were combined, modified, and used to create a more motivating, engaging, and effective vocabulary teaching. Therefore, a study of the use of modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotchto improve students’ vocabulary mastery was conductedin SMP Negeri 1 Bondowoso. However, since vocabulary is classified as micro skill, the teaching process should be integrated into the teaching process of macro skills. Subsequently, in this study, the activity of teaching of vocabulary was a part of teaching reading, which is reading descriptive text about things around. The topic was chosen since the students who were the subject of the study were seventh graders; it was the first time for them to learn English genres in formal education. Hopefully, it would be easier for them to understand the text. Hence, this study was intended to find out whether the use of game would help students and the teacher met the objective of the study more effectively and efficiently. In addition, this study also investigated the responses of the students after they were being taught by using the game. Hopefully, this study would be beneficial for English teachers and students and other researchers for giving them ideas, experiences and inspiration in creating a motivating and successful vocabulary instruction. METHODOLOGY A two-group experimental research with a quantitative approach was conducted in this study.There were two groups, experimental and control group, which were assigned randomly. Pretests and posttest were given to both groups, while the game was applied to the experimental group only. The control group was taught conventionally. The scores of both groups were then compared to explore the effectiveness of the treatment. This study was conducted in SMP Negeri 1 Bondowoso. The decision for choosing this particular school as the population of the study was made based on the fact that each class of this school was equipped by at least a computer in the teacher’s desk, a music stereo, and a multimedia projector. But then, based on the informal observation done previously, the teacher could not maximize the resources available there. Some of the teachers would simply use power point presentation, which according to most students, was not an attractive way, even de-motivating. In this study, a cluster sampling was chosen to draw the sample of the study. The groups were assigned based on the students’ original classes; from VII A to VII I, since this process helped the researcher and the teacher conduct the study in regard to the effectiveness and the efficiency. Then, a process of random assignment, a process in an experimental study in which the samples of the study to act as control or experimental group are assigned, was conducted randomly, by doing a lottery. Finally, VII D was chosen as control group while VII E was the experimental group. This study used two instruments; tests and questionnaire. Tests, which consisted of pretest and posttest, were used to collect the data about the use of the game to improve students’ vocabulary mastery. There were 30 multiple-choice items in the test and the students have 30 minutes to answer the questions. Before the tests were administered, a tryout was conducted to analyze the reliability of the test. The result of the reliability statistics from SPSS showed the value of Cronbach’s Alpha of .723. Based on Pallant (2010), Cronbach’s Alpha value which is greater than .7 is seen as acceptable; thus the items were reliable. A questionnaire was usedto explore the responses of the students after being taught by using the game. The questionnaire was given to students in the experimental group after they did the posttest. The questionnaire was in the form of ten closed items which contains 4 scales, from strongly disagree to strongly agree. The items were made up based on the five criteria of game design as proposed by Hill, et al (2013); enjoyable, engaging, educational, English promoting, and easy to use. A quantitative data analysis was conducted in this study. To analyze the score of the students, independent samples t-test was usedto analyze whether the means of two groups, experimental and control group, are statistically different from each other. To analyze the responses of the students in the questionnaire, descriptive statistics which includes percentage analysis, mean, mode, frequencies, and others, was calculated. RESULTS The effect of using modified game Jeopardy! and traditional game Hop-scotch to improve students’ vocabulary mastery was investigated through comparing the mean scores of the pretest and posttest between the experimental and control group. Table 1 below showed the descriptive statistics of scores of both groups in pretest and posttest. Table 1 Scores of Pretest and Posttest for Experimental and Control Group Test Class N Mean Std. Deviation (SD) Std. Error Mean Pretest score experimental 35 60.2886 11.78428 1.99191 Control 33 65.5606 14.66392 2.55266 Posttest score experimental 35 77.8971 11.82819 1.99933 Control 33 66.6667 13.61604 2.37025 The tablepresentedthat for experimental group (n=35), the mean score of the pretest was 60.29 (SD=11.78), while the control group (n=33) scored higher, which was 65.56 (SD=14.66). However, in the posttest, the experimental group scored higher than the control one; they scored 77.89 (SD=11.82) while the control group scored 66.67 (SD=13.62). The result of the descriptive statistics shows that both group scored higher in posttest and the experimental group seemed to have a greater improvement than the control one. Though, to make sure whether the implementation of modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch really gave a significant effect on the experimental group, a statistical testing of independent-samples t-test was conducted. It is a statistical testing which is used to compare scores of two groups under one condition (Pallant, 2010). In this study, the scores of posttest between the experimental and the control group was used to explore the effect of the game by using SPSS. Below is the output of independent-samples t-test from SPSS. Table 2 Independent Sample T-test Levene's Test for Equality of Variances t-test for Equality of Means F Sig. T Df Sig. (2-tailed) Mean Difference Std. Error Difference 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference Lower Upper Equal variances assumed .397 .531 3.637 66 .001 11.23048 3.08795 5.06519 17.39577 Equal variances not assumed 3.622 63.487 .001 11.23048 3.10087 5.03481 17.42614 The table provides Levene’s test for equality value of 0.531. This value was greater than 0.05. This means that the variances of the two groups were equal (Pallant, 2010). So, the first line of the table was used. The result shows that the t value of the independent samples t-test was 3.6 with p value of 0.001 (df = 66, mean difference = 11.2) and 95% of confidence interval ranging from lower bound of 5.07 to the upper bound of 17.4. The two groups were said to be statistically different if the p value was lower than 0.05 (Pallant, 2010). Since the p value of this test was 0.001, it means that the mean score of posttest between experimental and control group was significantly different. To ensure whether the difference of the two groups did not occur only by chance, a calculation of effect size by computing eta squared formula was done. Below is the calculation. Cohen (1988) in Pallant (2010) proposed that the value of eta squared which greater than 0.14 as a large effect; thus for this study, the eta squared of 0.16 was seen as large effect. This means that there was a significant difference between the mean score of posttest of experimental and control group and the magnitude of the difference between the mean score of posttest of experimental and control group was large. To sum up, the hypothesis which said that students who are taught using the modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch in learning vocabulary score higher than those who are not was accepted. To explore students’ responses of after being taught by using modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch, a questionnaire was used. The questionnaire was given to students in the experimental group after they did the posttest on 7th of December 2013. Table 3 Results of the Questionnaire The Five E’s Strongly disagree (%) Disagree (%) Agree (%) Strongly agree (%) Enjoyable (Q1, Q2, Q3) 0 4.8 32.4 62.9 Engaging (Q 4, Q5) 0 8.6 20 71.4 Educational (Q6) 4.3 1.4 24.3 70 English promoting (Q7) 2.9 0 22.9 74.3 Easy to use (Q8,Q9,Q10) 0 4.8 33.3 61.9 The results of the questionnaire showed that 62.9% of the students strongly agreed that the game was enjoyable; they convinced that they liked the game because the game was fun and created a relaxing and motivating atmosphere in the classroom. The rest of them; 32% agreed and there were 4.8% of them who disagreed if the game was enjoyable. They also said that the game was engaging; the game made them feel more motivated and confident to work together with their group and compete with the other groups to be the winner. There were 71.4% of students who strongly agreed, 20% of them who agreed, while 8.6% of them disagreed if the game was engaging. Furthermore, most of the students were strongly agreed that the game was educational. They thought so since they believed that the game helped them learn English and recall English vocabulary better and easier. There were 70% of them who strongly agreed, 24.3% of them agreed, while 1.4% of the students were disagreed and 4.3% were strongly disagreed. Moreover, the students convinced that the game was English promoting. Since the slides of the game were written in English and they answered the question also in English, they said that they had a lot of chances to practice and use English more frequently during the classroom. There were 74.3% of them who strongly agreed, 22.9% who agreed, while the rest 2.9% of the students strongly disagreed. The last, the students thought that the game was easy to use. They said that they loved the game more because the rules of the game were simple and easy to use; the power point slides were clear, understandable, and attractive; and the use of multimedia such as computer, LCD projector, or power point slides were very effective and efficient. There were 61.9% who strongly agreed and in line with the statement, 33.3% agreed, while there were 4.8% of the students who had different opinion and convinced that they were disagreed if the game was easy to use. In conclusion, the result of the questionnaire showed that the majority of the students convinced that the game fulfilled the five criteria of game design as proposed by Hill, et. al(2013)since for each aspect of the five criteria, there were always more than 80% of the students who strongly agreed and agreed. There were only less than 10% of them who disagreed or strongly disagreed. It means that most of the students had a positive response toward the game. DISCUSSION The above results of this study proved and supported the theory that the use of game is effective to teach English, which in this case is teaching English vocabulary. The students in the experimental group showed a great progress and scored significantly different with those of control group. This is so based on the fact that games are very helpful and effective for vocabulary presentation and revision (Uberman, 1998). Based on students’ response through the questionnaire which said that the game eased the students to learn and recall vocabulary and also the result of posttest in the experimental group, the students can obtain and learn new vocabulary better than those of control group when games are applied since games create relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. This result proved that games not only provide a non-stressful atmosphere, but games can provide the students with the educational value as well (Richard-Amato, 1996). The findings of the National Reading Panel stated that active engagement during the lesson will make the vocabulary learning become more effective (Hiebert & Kamil, 2005). Through the responses of the students obtained from the questionnaire which said that games can engage students to be actively participated during the lesson, the theory has been proven. The students loved the game since it motivated them to be active and gave them chances to practice their skill in an enjoyable way. Moreover, games are able to motivate shy students by giving them more chance to express their opinions and feelings (Hansen, 1994). Furthermore, one of the elements of game, which is competition, can naturally bring a competitive value into the classroom. Students will try their best to win or to beat other teams or groups (Deesri, 2002). As a result, it encourages their active participation for the activity. The implementation of the modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch has supported this theory based on students’ response. During the implementation of the game, the students focused on winning the game. They worked with their friends, being very anxious to be the first to answer the question to get more points. By so doing, the students can volunteer themselves to be active during the lesson. However, this competition does not always result in active participation from the students. During the experiment, there were still some students who felt reluctant to be involved in the game. This happened mostly when they felt that they were incapable. Besides, the rules of “the fastest can answer the question” which was applied made some students feel more unconfident because they could not get the chance to answer the question since their other friends were faster. Apart from the element of competition, the use of technology to present the game has proved the theory that the use of technology to teach vocabulary is effective and efficient (Hiebert & Kamil, 2005). Students nowadays are very familiar with technology, technology help them finishing their work faster and easier. Not only had the students, the teacher had also felt that the use of technology was efficient since the technology saved much time and resulted the students to be more motivated since they loved it. In short, the use of modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch is effective to teach vocabulary since games help the students learn better for they provides the students with a comfortable atmosphere, element of competition, communicative context, and lots of opportunities to practice. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS Conclusions An independent samples t-test was used to explore the effectiveness of implementing the modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch in teaching vocabulary to seventh graders in SMP Negeri 1 Bondowoso. The scores of posttest of the experimental group and control group were compared to investigate whether there was a significant difference between them. The result shows that the t value of the independent samples t-test was 3.6 with p value of 0.001 (df = 66, mean difference = 11.2) and 95% of confidence interval ranging from lower bound of 5.07 to the upper bound of 17.4, eta squared of .16. Since the p value was less than .05 and eta squared was seen as a large effect, was concluded that the experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group thus the use of this game was effective to teach vocabulary to seventh graders in SMP Negeri 1 Bondowoso. Data obtained from the questionnaires which were distributed to the students who were taught by using the modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch was used to investigate the responses of the students toward the game. A descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data.The result proved that the students had a positive response toward the game. More than 80% of the students convinced that they loved the game and said that the game was also fulfilled the five criteria of game design; enjoyable, engaging, educational, English promoting, and easy to use. Suggestions Considering the effectiveness of the use of modified game Jeopardy! and Hop-scotch to teach vocabulary to seventh graders in SMP Negeri 1 Bondowoso, it is suggested that other researchers develop this study by exploring the use of this game for either other material, micro or macro skills, or the levels of students. 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A STUDY OF CODE-SWITCHING OF TEACHER TALK ON TRAINEE TEACHER IN PPL II PROGRAM OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF SURABAYA
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A STUDY OF CODE-SWITCHING OF TEACHER TALK ON TRAINEE TEACHER IN PPL II PROGRAM OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF SURABAYA Renata Kenanga Rinda 10020084019 English Education, Faculty of Languages and Art, State University of Surabaya email: renata.rinda195@gmail.com Dosen Pembimbing: Prof. Dr. Hj. Lies Amin Lestari, M.A, M.Pd English Education, Faculty of Languages and Art, State University of Surabaya Abstrak Terdapat perbedaan pandangan tentang penggunaan alih kode dalam bahasa guru pada pengajaran bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa kedua. Di satu sisi, bahasa Inggris sangat dianjurkan untuk digunakan sebagai bahasa satu-satunya dalam mengajar, namun teori lain justru mengusulkan penggunaan beberapa bahasa sebagai alat guru dalam mengajarkan bahasa Inggris. Menanggapi masalah tersebut, penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui jenis-jenis bahasa, jenis-jenis alih kode, dan alasan penggunaannya yang dilakukan oleh calon guru pada PPL II, Universitas Negeri Surabaya. Catatan lapangan dan rekaman digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data yang diperlukan dalam penelitian deskriptif kualitatif ini. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada tiga jenis bahasa yang digunakan oleh calon guru; Bahasa Inggris, Indonesia, Jawa, dan Arab, dengan tiga jenis alih kode; tag-switching, inter-sentential switching, dan intra-sentential switching. Hasil penelitian juga mengungkapkan lima alasan penggunaan alih bahasa yaitu sebagai alat untuk mengajar, member penegasan, mengkritik, menyemangati, dan menanyakan hal kepada siswa yang membantu calon guru dalam mengelola kelas. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, dapat disimpulkan bahwa hasil penelitian ini mendukung teori kedua yang menganjurkan penggunaan beberapa bahasa dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa kedua. Kata Kunci: mengajar bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa kedua, bahasa guru, alih kode. Abstract The practice of code-switching in teacher talk for the teaching of English as second language exposed a contradictive theory about it. On the one hand, English was strongly proposed as the only language to be used while other theories allow the use of various languages as medium of instruction implemented used as the teacher’s equipment in managing the classroom. Coping with the above dilemma, this research aimed at investigating the types of languages, types of code-switching, and reasons of using them in trainee teacher's teacher talk in PPL II program of State University of Surabaya. Field notes and audio recording were employed in five observations to confirm the data revealed under the descriptive qualitative research. The findings pointed out that there were four types of languages used in trainee teacher's teacher talk; English, Bahasa Indonesia, Javanese, and Arabic, with three types of code-switching; tag switching, inter-sentential switching, and intra-sentential switching. The findings also described five reasons of using code-switching; lecturing, giving directions or confirmation, criticizing or justifying authority, praising or encouraging, and asking question toward the students which helped the trainee teacher managed the class. In sum, the result of this study supported the second theory which allows the use of various languages in teaching English in second language classroom. Keywords: teaching English as a second language, teacher talk, code-switching introduction Reinforcing the Indonesia’s competitiveness as a member of the developing nations, the demand to improve people’s education level is enormously needed. Then, to cope with it, teachers as the foremost stakeholder in this area have the biggest role to settle on whether the improvement can be achieved or not. This fact is agreed as a general truth for the reason that the students’ enhancement in the class is most impacted by the teachers (McCaffrey, Lockwood, Koretz, Louis, & Hamilton, 2004). As a result, this reality becomes a powerful foundation for the Government to construct a shifting rule in education policies. Several policies are made, then the most significant one is the lecturers and teachers regulation that is called UU No. 14/2005, short of Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 14 Tahun 2005 Tentang Guru dan Dosen. Basically, it has three major points stated; the general rules of teachers, teachers’ competences and qualifications, and then the obligations and rights of the teachers. The three of them go in certain directions which make the system of education enhanced through the development of the teachers’ quality. Fulfilling the above goal, the policy regulates some criteria that teachers should have; pedagogical, personality, professionalism, and social competences. Indeed, realizing the four criteria mentioned is not an effortless task to deal with. The Government will not be able to reach it without working hand in hand with other components in the education world. Under this consideration, the Government calls for shot to the education institutions to prop up the new policy. One of the umbrella institutions that gets the mandate is State University of Surabaya that has main responsibility to educate the undergraduate students who take education as their major of study. Regarding to the Government’s requirements, State University of Surabaya tries to bring them into reality through a program named PPL, stands for Program Pengalaman Lapangan consisting of PPL I and PPL II. Consequently, all of the students in Education Department, State University of Surabaya, which is English Department, have to participate in both programs. In materializing those programs, in the sixth semester, the English Education Department conducts PPL I program carried in the campus to train the undergraduate students through microteaching activity. After that, the PPL II program starts on the seventh semester. This program held in the real teaching environment in several schools chosen for approximately three months long. This makes PPL II different from PPL I. Among several schools selected by the English Education Department, SMP Negeri 1 Madiun is one of them. In this school, there were four English undergraduate students who practiced teaching in the academic year of 2013. They had conscientiousness to manage the classroom in the seventh grade as real teachers. Based on the informal observation toward those trainee teachers, it was found that all of them tried to handle the class by using English. They greeted the students, delivered the material, and even responded to the questions by utilizing the same language. This special language used by the trainee teachers to address the students in English classroom is called teacher talk (Ellis, 1985). Moreover, teacher talk turns out to be a major resource of the students related to their language input (Al-Otaibi, 2004). By giving good model through their talk, it is hoped that students can get good example in practicing English. Understanding this theory, the trainee teachers in SMP Negeri 1 Madiun were in the right track to keep implementing English in their talk. By giving the proper model of applying English, the students were expected to do the same. Nonetheless, the implementation of teacher talk of trainee teachers by using English in the seventh grade of SMP Negeri 1 Madiun was not supported well. Many students’ responses came up beyond the expectation. When the classroom atmosphere was packaged in all English, most students got confused and frustrated. They neither understood some words nor comprehend the teachers’ instructions. As a result; some students lost their attention to the trainee teachers. In order to cope with the unforeseen condition, the trainee teachers frequently changed their teacher talk into other languages such as Bahasa Indonesia or Javanese as alternative languages. These changing languages always happened automatically. In the first minute, the trainee teachers used English then suddenly changed it into Bahasa Indonesia or Javanese then got back into English. The three languages were used in one single sentence. In another occasion, the different pattern was found; sometimes the trainee teachers’ teacher talk was implemented in English while the class began, then in the middle of running the class, the use of Bahasa Indonesia was implemented then finally the trainee teachers closed their talk by reusing English. The above process of changing one language into other languages that happen in the middle of talk is called code-switching (Cook, 2000). The code-switching possibly involved in teacher talk is an unavoidable result of communication that happens among various languages circumstances. Moreover, because of code-switching in teacher talk is a special occurrence in teaching English, there are many analysis and theoretical discussions that are elicited in the previous decades (Gumperz, 1982). Several findings towards it spread out in the education world. Regarding to the above fact of code-switching language in teacher talk, it provided the underlying principle for undertaking this descriptive research, and which was initiated in a challenge to describe the types of languages, types of code-switching, and reasons of using them in trainee teacher’s teacher talk. Furthermore, by identifying them, it is expected that the findings of this research will be useful to draw the map of code-switching language that might happen in five or ten years later when the trainee teachers of PPL II program of English Education Department become a part of materializing the Indonesia’s education improvement as real teachers. METHODOLOGY Research Subjects Reflecting on the purposes of this research, it considered the three parameters in choosing the research subject; the status, the background language, and the achievement. The status of the subject observed was a trainee teacher. The researcher selected her rather than the real English teacher at that school since the trainee teacher observed right now would replace the position of the real teacher in conducting the second language classroom in the future. As a consequence, the research findings would be valuable information prepared for the trainee teacher before being a teacher. Then, the second reason was the language background. The trainee teacher and the students of SMP Negeri 1 Madiun, speak the same languages, it made the phenomenon of code-switching possibly appeared. Besides, the researcher considered the trainee teacher chosen for being a good model and achieving good GPA; 3, 57 within 0 – 4 scale. Instruments In this research, the field note observation and audio recording were utilized as the research instruments. By implementing the field note observation, it is possible to focus on the ongoing behaviors occur and note the most important feature in the classroom (Bailey, 1994). The model of field note was adapted from Konsep Penetian Tindakan Kelas dan Penelitianya. It consisted of four parts; identification, instruction, description material, and reflection material (Susanto, 2010). Then, the audio-recording was also employed as the second instruments to record the detail information appeared. Data Collection In collecting the data, five observations were conducted. Each observation took 2 sessions in 80 minutes. Moreover, the five observations were done in five weeks; four weeks on July and one week on August that were classified into two parts; direct informal observation and direct formal observation. Direct informal observation was conducted on the first week of August before running the formal one in order to know the basic information and condition of the subject observed in the classroom. Then, on the first, second, and third formal observations, the audio recording was placed on the nearest area of the trainee teacher in order to get the clearest sound. Then, the field note described the types of language, types of code-switching, and reasons of using them in the trainee teacher’ teacher talk on the description material. Next, the reflection material column was completed with the researcher’s point of view related to the case found. Last, while the fourth formal observation was completed, the researcher had to pay more attention toward the subject observed. Here, since the trainee teacher did not make any difference towards her types of languages, types code-switching used, and reasons of using them, the researcher could stop the observation. Data Analysis Types of Languages Related to the types of languages, the data found in the first observation were coded by “a”, second observation coded by “b”, and third observation coded by “c”. Then they were identified based on the four types of languages used; English, Bahasa Indonesia, Javanese, and Arabic. Those four types of languages were reclassified by the researcher based on the language combinations made by the trainee teacher namely first, English and Bahasa Indonesia, second, English and Javanese, third, English and Arabic, fourth, Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese, and last, English, Javanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. Types of Code-switching The types of code-switching were grouped based on Sankoff & Poplack (1981) namely tag-switching, inter-sentential switching, and intra-sentential switching. Moreover, the trainee teacher reclassified them concerning on the process involved; tag-switching were divided regarding on the simple fixed word insertion at the beginning and the end of code-switching, inter-sentential switching was reclassified into code switching between sentences or sentence and clause, and intra-sentential switching reclassified into word or phrase embedded in phrase or clause from another language, word or phrase inserted between words or phrases from another language, and words or phrase stayed between two types of languages. Reasons of using code-switching in teacher talk The reasons of using the code-switching in teacher talk made by the trainee teacher were identified based on Flanders (1970). There were seven categories which are lecturing, giving directions, criticizing or justifying authority, accepting feeling, praising or encouraging, accepting or using the students’ thought, and asking question towards the students. RESULTS Types of Languages After analyzing the field notes and audio recording transcriptions that were completed by the researcher on August 21st, August 28th, and September 4th, 2013, it was found that there were 211 code-switching used by the trainee teacher in her teacher talk. In those code-switching, four languages were used as the trainee teacher’s tool to accomplish the process of teaching English. Then, those four types of languages were reclassified by the researcher based on the language combinations made by the trainee teacher namely first, English and Bahasa Indonesia, second, English and Javanese, third, English and Arabic, four, Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese, and last, English, Javanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. The supporting facts quoted from the trainee teacher’s teacher talk related to the four languages found are provided in the following paragraphs. Firstly, the combination between English and Bahasa Indonesia languages contributed in three observations conducted. In the first observation, there were 53 code-switching composed by the two types of languages mentioned. Then, on the second observation it gained enlargement and reached 76 numbers. Last, it reduced slightly to 19 numbers on the third observation. Moreover, one of those examples was labeled by 1: (1) Student 18 :I will go to Mecca on May. Teacher :That’s enough. Sekarang mana Karina? Could you please tell me what is Azar’s plan on May? (1) Student 28 :He will go to Mecca. Teacher :On May, he will go to Mecca, repeat it. The code-switching marked by 1 was the example of the code-switching that used English and Bahasa Indonesia combination. At that time, the trainee teacher wanted student 18 namely Azar to tell his plan on May. After hearing Azar’s plan, the trainee teacher asked another student that was student 28, Karina, by first implementing the code-switching that was stated in Bahasa Indonesia, “Sekarang mana Karina?” to call her and then followed by English sentence stated in interrogative form,” Could you please tell me what is Azar’s plan on May?” Then, related to the reason of using it, the trainee teacher did the code-switching for asking question toward student 28 in order to tell what student 18 planned on May. Another example of this combination was also found in the code-switching numbered by 2: (2) Student 1 :Silent. Teacher :No? Why? You still have no idea? Okay, I will play the video again and listen. (Playing the video). You all must know how to tell time. What is the importance of telling time? This is the answer. So, what do you think about it? I need to learn telling time because I need to know time to go to school for example. What else? What else? Seperti yang disebutkan di video tadi (2). Students : Silent. Teacher :I need to telling time because? Anyone? Anyone? Aga? Through the above example, the existence of English and Bahasa Indonesia were also clearly seen. Firstly, the trainee teacher asked the students about the importance of the material given. Since the students were not able to answer the trainee teacher’s question, she delivered her question again. Then, she finally answered her own question in order to show the students how to deal with it On the contrary; the students were silent and gained no movement. Moreover, related to this example, the code-switching was used. English came first then followed by Bahasa Indonesia. Then, the unique thing appeared in this example was when the trainee teacher switched her talk from English to Bahasa Indonesia, there was also English word insertion “video” in the middle of Bahasa Indonesia sentence. Next, in line with its function, through this code-switching, the trainee teacher tried to give confirmation about the answer of the question mentioned before. Then, the second combination involved the two types of languages which were English and Javanese, also recorded in the three observations conducted but the combination was only found in one number for each. The trainee teacher did this second combination in 3: (3) Students :Doubt . . . climbing. (Repeating the teacher) Teacher :Yes, right. Student 13 :ndaut . . .ndaut (Speaking in Javanese) Teacher :No, it is different. Ndaut is an activity which is usually done by the farmer, right? (3) At this point, the word ndaut taken from Javanese came first then followed by English. This code switching was implemented when the trainee teacher taught the pronunciation of the word doubt. The trainee teacher lectured the students in correct way by saying /daƱt/. Otherwise, the students made fun of it and preferred to pronounce doubt as ndaut since they had already known and more familiar with this Javanese word comparing to English. For that reason, the trainee teacher commented on the students’ pronunciation by criticizing them by delivering code-switching containing English and Javanese language. Then, the second example related to the same combination was stated in 4: (4) Student 15 :Raising her hand. Teacher :Okay. Student 15 :We need to know time to have breakfast. Teacher :Okay, we need to know what time to have breakfast. And then? Heh, sorry, what is your name? (4) At this point, the trainee teacher had a discussion with the students about the importance of telling time. When the students wanted to share their idea about it, they had to raise their hands then the trainee teacher gave them a score by marking their name list. The trainee teacher used the code-switching to call the student by mentioning him in Javanese word heh to replace the student’s name since she did not know yet. Then, it was followed by a question formed in English. By implementing this code-switching, the trainee teacher used it as a tool for asking question to the student. Next, the third combination was comprised from English and Arabic language. This language combination was only found in the second observation in one number. It was supported by the code-switching labeled 5: (5) Student 3 :Balik ke Surabaya kapan? Teacher :Insyaalloh, I will back to Surabaya at September, 15 (5). Guys, on September 14, my friends and I will have a surprise for all of you Students : Apa? Surprise? This code-switching appeared while the students asked when the trainee teacher would back to her college in Surabaya. In answering the students’ question, she implemented an Arabic word insyaallah that was commonly used in Indonesia even though most of Indonesians do not speak Arabic well. Moreover, it was used as a mark of certainty related to the future plan as cited in,” “Insyaallah, I will back to Surabaya at September, 15.” The Arabic word was stated first then an English sentence formed in the future tense mentioning the exact date of the trainee teacher’s leaving. Through this point, it could be observed that the trainee teacher used code-switching as the teacher’s tool for giving a confirmation for a certain case. The fourth combination was the only one that did not contain English in it. It was composed from Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese that appeared on three numbers in the second observation and one in the third observation. The example was labeled by 6: (6) Teacher :Kamu tahu kata kerja bentuk pertama? Student : . . . . . (silent) Teacher :Kata kerja pertama itu gak enek embel-embel e (6). Students : Ohh . . . At first, Bahasa Indonesia was implemented, and then it was switched to Javanese language in gak enek embel-embel e. Moreover, by delivering this code-switching, the trainee teacher lectured her students in defining the verb used for telling the daily activities. She said, the verb one should not be added by –ed or –ing that the students usually made mistakes on. Another example of the same language combination mentioned in 7: (7) Teacher :Begini, kita di sini dinilai sama guru pamong. Guru pamongnya siapa? Bu Pur. Student 8 :Yang bahasa Inggris itu? Teacher :He em, guru angkat yang di sini. Ibu angkat yang di sini (7) Student 32 : Brarti tinggalnya di mana? Similarly, the trainee teacher implemented Bahasa Indonesia first, and switched to Javanese then. Nevertheless, in 7, the trainee teacher used the code-switching to give confirmation toward the student 8’s question by saying he em in order to express her agreement with the student’s statement. The last combination happened among English, Javanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. This combination was comprised from three types of languages that did not appear on the first and second observation but finally used in one number in the third observation. It was labeled by 8: (8) Student 21 :Masih bingung, Miss Teacher :Okay. Verb one do not contain embel-embel apapun. Gak enek embel-embel apa-apanya. Hanya bentuk dasar, okay (8). Firstly, English was used to mention the case that the trainee teacher explained, then Javanese appeared in the middle of the sentence, and finally it was ended by the code-switching to Bahasa Indonesia. The trainee teacher used this code-switching to answer the students’ question related to the correct form of the verb that should be used in making a sentence based on the picture given on the slide show. Since there were many students got confuse, the trainee teacher chose to explain the case by implementing Javanese and Bahasa Indonesia in order to make the students get a clear understanding. Through the above descriptions in connection with the types of languages in the three weeks observations that were conducted in row, in short, the trainee teacher did the code switching in her teacher talk by utilizing four languages by implementing five combinations. In addition, the trainee teacher preferred to use the first combination of English and Bahasa Indonesia comparing to the other four combinations namely English and Javanese, English and Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese, and English, Javanese, and Bahasa Indonesia that only appeared in less than three numbers. Types of Code-switching In terms of the types of code-switching used, three observations that were conducted by the researcher gave the same results. Then, they were grouped based on Sankoff & Poplack (1981); tag-switching, inter-sentential switching, and intra-sentential switching. Tag-switching was the easiest type of code-switching that could be identified. Its characteristic which is the insertion of simple fixed word from one language in a sentence from another language becomes a valuable sign in marking this code-switching’s type. Moreover, there were 60 tag-switching found during the observations; 18 of them used in the first observation, 26 in the second observation, and 16 in the third observation. They created two different patterns related to the simple fixed word place of insertion. The first pattern was the simple fixed word insertion embedded at the beginning of the sentence. As it was stated in 9: (9) Student 21 :Miss, saya? Teacher :Tunggu, Budi duluan. Come on Budi, kamu bisa Budi (9). Kamu bisa, ini sangat gampang. Come on as part of English simple fixed word was inserted at the beginning of code-switching then was followed by Bahasa Indonesia language. At that time, the trainee teacher wanted Budi to come forward and tell his assignment in front of his friends. On the contrary, the student did not give any response and kept silent. Dealing with it, the trainee teacher encouraged the student by saying “come on” then did automatic changing language by switching her talk to Bahasa Indonesia. As a result, Budi participated in the classroom activity and showed his ability in presenting the assignment. Another example of this pattern was also mentioned in 10: (10) Teacher :Can I borrow it? Just for showing the slide show. Just for showing the slide show. Student 23 :Giving his laptop. Teacher :Okay, thank you. Sorry, something goes wrong with the laptop. Sorry. Just be quite while waiting me to set the laptop. Just wait. Do not make any noise. Just wait. Just wait. The laptop is error. Sorry. Just wait. Just wait. We will still continue the lesson. Nah, it should be like this (10) Comparing to the previous question, in this tag-switching, the simple fixed word was formed in Bahasa Indonesia nah. Then, related to its function, the trainee teacher tried to give a confirmation related to the picture projected from the laptop. However, the code-switching that was labeled by 10 still had the same pattern with the previous one. Another tag-switching that had different pattern related to the position of the simple fixed word insertion was observed in 11: (11)Students : . . . . . . . . (making noise) Teacher :I won’t start if you are still making noise. Anyone, hello boys over there back to your seat please. I won’t start the lesson if you still make noise, sudah? (11) Students :Sudah. Teacher :Okay, anyone, do you remember what we did in last lesson? Do you still remember what we did last lesson? In this tag-switching, sudah was inserted in the end of the sentence. It was contradictive with the previous pattern that the simple fixed word used at the beginning of the tag-switching. In 11, sudah was spoken in Bahasa Indonesia that was embedded in the English sentence. Moreover, concerning to its function, by delivering this code-switching the trainee teacher justified her authority in controlling the classroom situation since there were many students who kept busy in their talking when the lesson started. After delivering this tag-switching, the trainee teacher started the classroom activities when the situation was not too noisy. Then, not only found in 11, the second pattern of tag-switching also observed in 12: (12)Student 4 :Great time? Teacher :Great time has the same meaning with very happy. Mereka sangat bahagia setiap kali mereka berkumpul, clear? (12) Students :Yes. In 12, the trainee teacher spoke in Bahasa Indonesia first, then, she switched her talk to English by mentioning a simple fixed word “clear”. Through this example, the trainee teacher used the same pattern of tag-switching as shown in 11 but it had different reason which was asking question toward the students’ understanding. Besides the above examples, other simple fixed words found were eight in English; okay, sorry, right, hello, please, now, guys, and stop, and three in Bahasa Indonesia; ya, siapa, and jangan. All of them created the same pattern with the two examples explored which were either embedded at the beginning or at the end of the tag-switching. After investigating the existence of tag-switching, the second types of it namely inter-sentential switching was also implemented by the trainee teacher. There were 92 inter-sentential switching used by the trainee teacher during her teaching; 25 found in the first, 36 in the second, and 31 in the third observation. Generally, it happened in two patterns which were first, inter-sentential switching between sentences and second, inter-sentential switching between sentence and clause. The trainee teacher did inter-sentential switching between two sentences in 13: (13)Teacher :Okay, could you please continue your plans? Student 25 :I will visit Bandung on January. Teacher: Now, Rio. What is Granta’s plan on January? Gak usah tanya yang lain (13). Student 26 :He will . . . The utterances in 13 were composed by two sentences, first sentence formed in all English and then it was followed by the second sentence stated in Bahasa Indonesia. The trainee teacher changed her talk after finishing her full sentence in one language first, and then stated the sentence in different language. This reason made it classified into inter-sentential between two sentences. Next, concerning on the function of this switching, at this time, the trainee teacher wanted student 28 to answer her question about student 25’s plan on January. To elicit the student, the trainee teacher directed a question to him. Another example of inter-sentential switching between two sentences also used in 14: (14)Student 5 : Ya ampun angel e. Teacher :Contohnya seperti tadi ya. Just make piece of paragraph or writing. Caranya gampang kan, seperti tadi. (417) Student 5 :Ini dikumpulkan? The example showed that the trainee teacher mentioned the sentence in Bahasa Indonesia that was switched to English then returned to Bahasa Indonesia. This inter-sentential switching turned up when the trainee teacher wanted to give confirmation to the students related to the assignment given which was about creating a simple paragraph. Showing the different pattern, inter-sentential switching used between sentence and clause was found in 15: (15)Teacher :Just say the tree is okay, but tree of hopes is also okay because your tree contains of so many hopes so you can say the tree of hopes. Student 9 :Opo? Opo? Teacher :The tree is okay. The tree of hopes is okay. Because almost of all of these contain your hopes. That is okay. I give the name “the tree” or “the tree of hopes” karena pohonnya banyak sekali mengandung harapan-harapan kalian (15). The English sentence was spoken first and then followed by clause in Bahasa Indonesia. Here, the English sentence could actually stand by itself without any clause followed. However, in this case, the clause spoken in Bahasa Indonesia was used as an extended reason for the preceding sentence. As a consequence, it made the existence of inter-sentential switching between sentence and clause clearly seen. Moreover, through this switching, the trainee teacher gave a confirmation toward the title of the assignment given that the students asked. Also, the pattern of inter-sentential switching was observed in 16: (16)Students :Discussing and continuing their tree of hopes with their friends. Student 4 :Kalau pengen lihat Sakura di Jepang? Teacher :I will visit Japan to see the beautiful Sakura. Seperti ini nanti, on January I will visit France. (16) Bahasa Indonesia clause seperti ini nanti was stated just before the English sentence. Here, the trainee teacher used it as a tool to lecture the students about how to write down their plan for each month. Last, the analysis of the third type of code-switching which is intra-sentential switching found in 59 numbers. Starting from the first to the last observation, the number of intra-sentential switching was decreasing. There were 10 numbers found in first, then 20 numbers in the second, then reached up to 12 in the last observation. Furthermore, the present of intra-sentential switching can be observed when there is an insertion of word or phrase embedded in phrase stated in another language inside the sentence boundary. There were three patterns found contributed in intra-sentential switching. First pattern of intra-sentential switching is a phrase or word that was embedded into another phrase or clause formed in different language. This pattern was mentioned in 17: (17)Teacher :Apa ini pentingnya? Kenapa harus mempelajari ini? Kenapa kita harus mempelajari telling time? (17). Student 3 :Silent. Teacher :Ada yang tahu? On the above situation, the trainee teacher implemented intra-sentential switching by using Bahasa Indonesia to ask the students about the importance of the material given, Kenapa kita harus mempelajari . . . However, she still stated the theme of the lesson by inserting English phrase “telling time” at the end of the sentence that made the existence of intra-sentential switching used. By implementing this intra-sentential switching, the trainee teacher was able to make the students answer the question she asked about. The second example of the same pattern of intra-sentential switching labeled by 18: (18)Teacher :Jadi seperti itu, kalau misalkan kalian menggunakan ekspresi I wish (18). Contohnya seperti itu. Okay? Students : Yes. In the 18, the trainee teacher lectured the students by implementing tag-switching that happened between Bahasa Indonesia clause and an English phrase. The trainee teacher put her effort in order to explain the material given to the students by using this intra-sentential switching. Then, the second pattern is a word or phrase inserted in the middle of other words or phrases from another language. This pattern was stated in 19: (19)Teacher :Do you have another question? Student 9 :Kalau merayakan ulang tahun temen itu apa, Miss? Teacher :I will celebrate my friend’s birthday. My friend pake apostrophe (19). Student 32 :Miss? Miss? The word pake which was taken from Bahasa Indonesia was inserted by the trainee teacher in between English phrase and word. My friend and apostrophe enclosed it on either side, therefore, pake was placed in the middle of them. Moreover, by delivering this intra-sentential switching, the trainee teacher lectured the students related to the lesson given. She informed the students about the use of apostrophe as a possessive noun mark that the students confused. Then, the same pattern of intra-sentential switching also supported by 20: (20)Teacher :To give me a new mobile phone. HP itu mobile phone. (20) Okay? Student 3 :Miss, kalau punya banyak permintaan? Teacher : I have a lot of . . . Here, the word taken from Bahasa Indonesia also stayed in between the two English words. Here the trainee teacher used it to give a confirmation to the students that hand phone is just the same with the mobile phone. Next, the third pattern of intra-sentential switching happened among several words in three languages in one sentence. This pattern appeared only in 8: (21)Teacher :Kata kerja pertama itu gak enek embel-embel e. Student :Ohh . . . Student 21 :Masih bingung, Miss Teacher :Okay. Verb one do not contain embel embel apapun (8). This intra-sentential switching was contributed by three types of languages; English, Javanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. It made the third type different from the two previous examples that were only composed from two types of languages. Furthermore, the word embel-embel, which was stated in Javanese, was inserted by the trainee teacher in between English phrases and Bahasa Indonesia word. This intra-sentential switching was delivered by the trainee teacher when she lectured the students about present tense. At that time, the students commonly made mistakes related to the form of verb that should be used in present tense. As a consequence, the trainee teacher gave them further understanding toward the case by saying intra-sentential switching in 8. After describing the types of code-switching used in trainee teacher’s teacher talk, in summary, there were three types of them used in teaching foreign language classroom. They were tag-switching marked by the existence of simple fixed at the beginning or the end of the code-switching, inter-sentential switching identified from its composition between sentences or sentence and clause, and intra-sentential switching that used through word or phrase embedded in phrase or clause from another language, word or phrase inserted between words or phrases from another language, and words or phrase stayed in between two types of languages. DISCUSSION Related to the types of languages contributed on the code-switching done by the trainee teacher in her teacher talk, the implementation of various languages in the second language classroom was proven. The results pointed out the four types of languages; English, Bahasa Indonesia, Javanese, and Arabic that were reclassified by the researcher into five combinations based on the language combinations made by the trainee teacher. They were English and Bahasa Indonesia, English and Javanese, English and Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese, and English, Javanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. They were used by the trainee teacher in running the second language classroom of the seventh grade in SMP Negeri 1 Madiun. Since the trainee teacher used various types of languages, it can be said that teaching English as a foreign language will not be able to be separated with the practice of other languages that both trainee teacher and students acquired before. Also reflecting on the same facts, the trainee teacher mostly used the first combination which was English and Bahasa Indonesia stated on 203 numbers in three observations recorded. Then, the others combinations only contributed in few numbers; English and Javanese appeared in 3 times, English and Arabic in once, Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese in twice, and last combination, English, Javanese, and Bahasa Indonesia in once only. Regarding to this fact, among the five combinations found, the trainee teacher preferred to use the first one among the others. Having compared to the theory of teaching English in the second language classroom, the trainee teacher’s decision for applying various languages but still put English as the preferable language used among the others was on the correct track. It is believed since the implementation of English provides the language input for the students when there is a very limited support from the other resources (Stern, 1983). This condition was represented by the teaching English as a second language in the seventh grade of SMPN 1 Madiun. The students were lack of resources since English was only used in the English classroom. Then, concerning on the second research question, which was the types of code-switching used, there were three types of them were used in teaching second language classroom based on Sankoff & Poplack (1981). They were tag-switching marked by the existence of simple fixed at the beginning or the end of the code-switching, inter-sentential switching identified from its composition between sentences or sentence and clause, and intra-sentential switching used through word or phrase embedded in phrase or clause from another language, word or phrase inserted between words or phrases from another language, and words or phrase stayed in between two types of languages. Among the three types of code-switching used, inter-sentential switching was most implemented. The use of it was found in 25 numbers in first observation, then it became higher in the second observation which covered 36 numbers, then it decreased slightly in the last observation, 31 numbers. Then, in the second rank was tag-switching found in 60 numbers. In the first observation, it appeared on 18 numbers then enlarged up to 26 in the second observation then finally decreased to be 16 numbers in the third observation. Last, the fewest type of code-switching used was intra-sentential switching that was found in 59 numbers. Ten of them were implemented in the first observation then increased in the second observation and reached up to 12 numbers in the last observation. Referring to the theory in teaching English as a second language, the implementation of code-switching was also allowed to do. It is believed since the use of code-switching becomes an alternative way that can be utilized in bilingual or multilingual circumstances (Auer, 1998). Since English was taught as a foreign language in Indonesia, both teacher and students acquired their first language first. In this case, Bahasa Indonesia, Javanese, and Arabic were languages they spoke before. This reason caused the code-switching made by the trainee teacher composed of the four languages. Conversely, if both teacher and students did not live under the bilingual or multilingual circumstances, they would not have been able to speak various languages then the implementation of code-switching would not be there. Also, by implementing the first language, the process of acquiring the second language which was English would be considered as a successful process since both teacher and students understood the different things about them (Faerch & Kasper, 1983). When the code-switching was implemented, the English was not the only language that was allowed to be used. Here, both first language and English were used together. Through this practice, the understanding about their differences could be clear. For example, in 3, the trainee teacher described the differences between doubt and ndaut. The first word was taken from English while the second one was from Javanese. They both did not have any correlation related to their meaning. In order to make the students understand about them, the trainee teacher used both words in English and Javanese. The third point, in line with the reasons of using the code-switching in teacher talk reflected on Flanders (1970) which are lecturing, giving directions or confirmation, criticizing or justifying authority, accepting feeling, praising or encouraging, accepting or using the students’ thought, and asking question towards the students. Among the seven reasons mentioned, only five of them became the reasons why the trainee teacher used code-switching in her talk when teaching English as foreign language was done. They were lecturing the students, giving confirmation, criticizing or justifying the authority, praising and encouraging, and asking question. Based on the above discussions, related to the types of languages and code switching done by the trainee teacher in her teacher talk, both of them were not deniable to be implemented since it revealed five positive reasons of using them. However, the use of English as a foreign language should be maximized in order to give a comprehensible input for the students. CONCLUSIONS Regarding to the results revealed in this study, it exposed the four conclusions related to the research questions discussed. First, related to the types of languages used by the trainee teacher in her teacher talk, there were four types of languages English, Bahasa Indonesia, Javanese, and Arabic represented on the five combinations namely English and Bahasa Indonesia, English and Javanese, English and Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese, and English, Javanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. 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