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RETAIN (RESEARCH ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN INDONESIA)
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ISSN : 23562617     EISSN : -     DOI : -
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Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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The Correlation between Foreign Language Anxiety and Students' Speaking Performance Rofida, Alfi
RETAIN Vol 9 No 2 (2021)
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Abstract Fear of speaking experienced by students when learning foreign language may be categorized as anxiety. Students’ fear of speaking may hamper their speaking performance. This study was a quantitative research that was conducted toi know the correlation between foreign language anxiety and students’ speaking performance. The instruments of this research were Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) questionnaire that was adapted from Horwitz et al., (1986) and speaking rubric score that was adapted from Brown and Abeywickrama (2010). The data of this research were collected online with 50 participants from one of senior high school in Gresik. This research found that the students’ mostly experienced communication apprehension (M = 3.4) and fear of negative evaluation (M = 3.4) rather than test anxiety (M = 3.1). This research also showed that foreign language anxiety has significant negative correlation with students’ speaking performance (p = 0.000, r = -0.98) and the correlation strength was categorized as very strong. The higher level of students’ foreign language anxiety, the worse their speaking performance. Keywords: foreign language anxiety, speaking, speaking performance.
The Use of Zoom Cloud Meeting for Teaching English Grammar in an Online Class Octaviani, Anggi Yanita
RETAIN Vol 9 No 2 (2021)
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Abstract This case study was about the use of Zoom Cloud Meeting for teaching English grammar in an online class. Zoom was the most popular online platform that had many users for a virtual meeting in many countries. However, an English teacher was rarely using Zoom for teaching English in a Senior High School in Gresik. Even though the school suggested that this platform was one of the online platforms for teaching such as Zoom, Google Meet, Google Classroom, and WhatsApp, they preferred to use Google Classroom than Zoom. Therefore, the researcher chose the English teacher who used Zoom and the students who learned grammar materials with the topic “Passive Voice” including “Simple Tense, Continuous Tense, Perfect Tense, and Perfect Continuous Tense” because grammar was the hardest material if it was not taught synchronously. The aim of this study was to describe the use of Zoom for teaching Grammar in an online class including implementation, teachers’ obstacles, and the solutions. The researcher conducted participant observation and semi-structured interview which were online and offline to obtain the data. The result of the observation showed that both the implementation of using Zoom was not successful enough because of bad connection. Meanwhile, the result of the interview showed that the teacher thought that Zoom was useful for teaching grammar even though both teacher and students got the obstacles from media and devices, internet access and network, and facilities. Thefore, teacher solved them by using another platform that has same function. Keywords: Zoom Cloud Meeting, Teaching Grammar, Obstacles, Online Class.
The Correlation Between EFL Learners' Metacognitive Awareness and Listening Comprehension Pancarwati, Mahar Ayu
RETAIN Vol 9 No 2 (2021)
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Abstract Having metacognitive awareness is essentially needed to assist the individual learner in accomplishing listening performance better. Only several studies which investigated carefully on the relationship between metacognitive awareness strategies and students’ listening comprehension achievement in Indonesia context. The previous studies also did not specifically examine on the students’ metacognitive awareness in accomplishing the listening test. Thus, this quantitative study aims to examine the metacognitive awareness listening strategies applied by EFL learners in the listening comprehension test and also to find out its correlation. The data were obtained from online questionnaire with the total sample of 66 including the sophomore and junior university students in one of universities in Surabaya. Based on the research data analysis, students mostly apply problem-solving strategies with the means score 4.89 then it was followed by planning and evaluation with means score 4.50, direct attention with means score 4.43, mental translation with means score 3.95, and the least used was person knowledge with the means score 3.91. As for the results of the analysis of this study also revealed the correlation coefficient value r = -0.203 (P = 0.102; P> 0.05) which means there is no correlation between EFL Learners’ metacognitive awareness and listening comprehension score. Keywords: Listening Comprehension Score, Listening Comprehension Test, Metacognitive Awareness
QUESTION -ANSWER RELATIONSHIP (QAR) AS A STRATEGY TRAINING TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT Anggraini, Desti
RETAIN Vol 9 No 2 (2021)
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Reading comprehension is a complex activity that requires the prior knowledge of the readers to grasp the information’s details contained in the passage. It is one of the challenges that students in senior high school face in comprehending the text's meaning. They have lack of reading comprehension which makes them difficult to grasp and find important information contained in a text. As a result, it makes the teacher must use a proper and effective strategy for assisting students to conceive and comprehend the text. Therefore, this study focused on the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) as a strategy training to improve student’s reading comprehension in narrative text and discover the student’s responses after applying QAR in the classroom activity. The result of this study showed that QAR as a strategy training is useful and effective for improving student’s reading comprehension ability in the class. The students became better at responding comprehension questions in the narrative text. This strategy also promoted students to be more attentive in class and increased student’s confidence to answer questions and differentiate questions about the text they had read.
SHORT STRUCTURED SUMMARY USING 5W1H TO IMPROVE 10TH GRADE STUDENT'S WRITING COMPETENCE ALAM, BINTANG PERMATA
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Short Structured Summary is one of the learning strategies which aims to assist students in improving their writing competence. In addition, the use of this strategy indirectly helps students in understanding the text. In implementing this strategy, classes were conducted virtually with three intensity meetings. The material taught to students was narrative text material. After the Short Structured Summary using the 5W1H approach was implemented, the researcher then analyzed the students' writing skills through the assignments given by the teacher and the results of interviews with five student representatives. This research was designed as qualitative descriptive research in which data was obtained through the observation process. Field notes were also carried out to collect all information related to teachers' and students' teaching and learning processes. Based on field notes, the teacher has gone through the teaching stages well, from opening to closing in each meeting. Through virtual meetings, the teacher approached students by introducing narrative text first, then explained and implemented the Short Structured Summary strategy using 5W1H at the next meeting. The results of this strategy's implementation, students were assigned to write a short structured summary to be assessed using an assessment rubric that the researcher has set. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with five student representatives to complement the data obtained. This study found that the teacher has implemented the Short Structured Summary using the 5W1H strategy to improve students' writing competence.
The Implementation of Extensive Reading Using Line Webtoon to Enhance Students’ Reading Comprehension in Narrative Story Asmara, Rizki Amalia
RETAIN Vol 9 No 2 (2021)
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Reading comprehension is one of the essential things in learning English at schools. In practice, reading is not easy for students to understand because of the complexity of the text and the lack of interest in the reading text. The purposes of this study are the implementation of extensive reading through LINE Webtoon to enhance students' reading comprehension and how students respond to its implementation. The descriptive-qualitative approach was carried out by observing the process of teaching and learning English activities carried out by the English teacher in an online class attended by 36 high school students and interviews with seven selected students in the class. The observation activity aims to observe the implementation of extensive reading using LINE Webtoon to enhance reading comprehension in a narrative story. In contrast, the interview activity aims to describe students' responses to the implementation. The data were obtained by using three instruments: (1) observation using check-list and field note in worksheets during two meetings; (2) questionnaire to select the students to be interviewed and; (3) interview. The results showed that the implementation of extensive reading using LINE Webtoon could enhance students' understanding of a narrative story. Students agreed that reading text with pictures makes it easier for them to understand the story’s context, even when they encounter unfamiliar words. Future researchers can develop further studies for other types of reading text as well as for listening, writing, and speaking skills.
The Development of English Learning Materials for Culinary Art Program Using Four-D Model Maula, Minhatul
RETAIN Vol 9 No 2 (2021)
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English is one of the compulsory subjects in high schools, both in public and vocational schools. However, the learning materials used by both are still the same. In fact, in vocational schools, English becomes English for Specific Purposes, which has unique needs based on the students’ majors, such as in the Culinary Art Program. Therefore, the development of English learning materials for this program is needed. This study used the Research and Development (R&D) method involving students majoring in Culinary Art Program at SMK Dharma Wanita Gresik. This study used the Four-D model formulated by (Thiagarajan et al., 1976) in developing learning materials. This research was conducted to investigate the implementation of the Four-D model in developing English learning materials for the Culinary Art Program and finding out the quality of Culinary Art Program English learning materials being developed in terms of its effectiveness, practicality, and readability. This study used three instruments, including a questionnaire involving one class of Culinary Art Program students, interviews involving ten students and an English teacher majoring in Culinary Art Program, and aspects (specification) of an instructional material rubric that has been validated by an English teacher of Culinary Art Program and a lecturer. The results showed that the purpose of developing English materials for the Culinary Art Program was to adjust the content and assignments based on the culinary students’ needs, where this stage is the define stage in the Four-D model. Furthermore, the needs analysis results showed that the basic competencies developed are on procedure text and offering and responding services. Moreover, the material that must be included is the theme according to the Culinary major. This stage becomes the design stage in the Four-D model. Finally, the results of the assessment of the materials that have been developed showed that they had a good quality by meeting the aspects of effectiveness, practicality, and readability. This stage referred to develop stage in the Four-D model. Keywords: Material Development, English learning materials, needs analysis, Four-D Model, basic competencies, effectiveness, practicality, readability, Culinary Art Program.
The Use of "Among Us" as Independent Learning Media to Assist Student's Speaking Ability Darmawan, Randy Diego
RETAIN Vol 9 No 2 (2021)
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Speaking ability is a productive ability in language to deliver meaning using verbal expression. Speaking ability is an essential skill and becomes one indicator of how far students know the target language. In teaching speaking, special treatment and methods are needed, which are different from teaching other skills. In this research, the researcher proves that the online game "Among Us" can be one of the learning media to help students practice their speaking ability. The method used in this research was qualitative research with a profound observation of teaching-learning activity in one of the senior high schools in Surabaya. From the observation field note from three meetings, it was found out that the teacher applied pre-teaching, whilst teaching, and post-teaching activity. The implementation of "Among Us" occurred on whilst teaching activities at the first and second meetings. The material used in this research was asking and giving information about condition, action, and activity in the past. The result found that asking and giving information about condition and activity employed the most by the students while asking and giving information about the action in the past was rarely employed. The result of student's speaking performance on the third meeting was evaluated using the speaking performance rubric. Most of the students notably achieved the target, and only a few sufficiently achieved the target. Several students performed outstandingly. From the findings, the researcher concludes that "Among Us" can be applied as independent learning media to assist students' speaking ability in asking and giving information about condition, action, and activity in the past.
The Application of Audio Recording in a Smartphone to Assist Students' Speaking Skills in Senior High School Santika, Nathanael
RETAIN Vol 9 No 2 (2021)
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Abstract In this study, the researcher is interested in knowing how the teacher uses the audio recording strategy to help students with their speaking skills. Students can use the audio recording to analyze their speaking skills and explore how to speak fluently with their classmates. Since the audio recording contains pauses and repetitions, students are better prepared to say confidently. As a result, it would encourage students to use English more often. The data was gathered through observation and communicating rubric performance. The results found that the teachers used the audio recording to assist their speaking activities. The researcher hopes that implementing this strategy will help the students with their speaking abilities. Keywords: Speaking skills, learning media, audio recording.
The Use of Quick Response Codes for Listening Comprehension in Junior High School hidayati, nurul
RETAIN Vol 9 No 03 (2021)
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The study aims is to describe the use of QR Codes in listening comprehension for Junior High School and students’ responses toward the use of QR Codes in listening comprehension for Junior High School. This study used a descriptive qualitative method applied to eight grades of Junior High School through observation, interview, and questionnaire. The instruments used to collect the data among them are field notes, interviews sheet, and questionnaire in Google form. The results of the data showed that QR Codes are an appropriate medium to promote students’ listening skills because the use of QR Codes are simple and effective. Besides that, the use of QR Codes in learning listening in the class also got a positive response from students.

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