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RETAIN (RESEARCH ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN INDONESIA)
Published by Universitas Negeri Surabaya
ISSN : 23562617     EISSN : 30322839     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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EFL Students’ Perceptions in Using Instagram in English Language Learning Aqira, Heyma
RETAIN Vol 9 No 03 (2021)
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In teaching-learning, teachers can use many instructional media, especially Instagram. Instagram as social media has influenced society, especially for high school students. This research investigates high school students' perceptions of using Instagram in English language learning. This research used a mixed-method sequential explanatory design with a close-ended web survey questionnaire given to 77 students from the 10th grade until 12th grade in two senior high schools in Gresik, East Java which implement social media in their teaching and learning activities. An interview is also needed to know the students' perception concerning the impact of using Instagram in language learning. The results showed that the students perceive Instagram as a tool for senior high school students to learn English and impact the learners to utilize the features in Instagram for a better cause in learning English. Instagram offers many opportunities for teachers and students since it has plenty of features to use, especially during online learning, making it easier and helpful to connect. In addition, Instagram can motivate the students to learn English from their peers and develop their English skills. By seeing the students' perspectives through the data results, Instagram is a good tool for learning English and connecting teachers and students during a pandemic.
Reasoning Socratic Questioning Method to Enhance University Students' Critical Reading in Critical Reading Course Ummi Abidah, Unsia Fika
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022)
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In this super busy era, students have to know how to ‘digest’ bunch of knowledge or information around them. Every place, even every hour they will have a big chance to find it. In order to build student’s perspective broader, first thing to know is about the tools that can help them to survive. This study was aimed to explore ‘what and how’ to learn reading skill in a proper way. In short, people who want to establish their learning skill of reading through it, they could take the advantage of the method for them selves not only in academic purposes but also in daily life too. This method is well-known as socratic questioning method. For the participants, the researcher has taken 5 university students from English department to filled 10 questions in the questionnaire and also to be interviewed. This study used descriptive qualitative as a research design. The researcher gave an example from a pattern of socratic method and 4 out of 5 agree that the method has asked university students to think critically, and further than that, its method also help them to read critically when they thought it is essential to read with the critical analysis. The way how they to process critical reading are quite similar but different, understanding the main ideas, finding literature review, then, breaking it down. To reach the socratic method, the students have to pass these 5 stages; wonder, hypothesis, elenchus, acceptance/rejection, action. Socratic method did not only answer their question, but also help them to analyze as further information as they keep looking for it. It is also showed that university students have to read more about some methods that can help them to read critically because there are still lots of students who do not know what socratic questioning method is.
Improving Students' Speaking Ability using Podcast Bella, Clara Claudea Oxza
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022)
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This study aims to see improvements in students' speaking ability after using podcasts as a learning media. Moreover, it tends to know the implementation of podcast for teaching speaking and students’ responses toward the implementation. The study used quantitative method to identify the students’ speaking improvement with a pre-experimental design of one group pre-test and post-test and qualitative method to examine the implementation and students’ responses. The subjects were 11th-grade students of senior high school in Indonesia. In addition, the data collection was using tests, observation, questionnaire and an interview with two students who achieved the highest and lowest post-test scores. Based on a statistical analysis of pre-test and post-test scores and the questionnaire results, it showed an increase in students' speaking ability after the use of podcasts. In fact, nine students (36%) felt that their speaking ability improved highly after using podcasts, and most of the students (64%) felt their speaking' ability improved at the intermediate level. The interview results showed that students felt that the use of podcasts was more fun than the conventional method use in the class. It was also helpful in improving the students’ pronunciation of words, adding new vocabulary, and improving students' English grammar. The advantage of using podcasts was time flexibility, while the disadvantage relates to the complexity of creating and uploading podcasts.
Students' Perceptions in Using Google Classroom as Online English Learning Platform Pratika, Nine Dera; Kuswardani, Rahayu
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022)
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Nowadays, distance learning has become an effective strategy in education to reduce the spread of Corona Virus. Google Classroom, a learning platform has become a preferable educational platform. This research investigates the students’ perceptions in using Google Classroom as an online English learning platform. It is limited towards the accessibility of using Google Classroom. The study uses a quantitative method and the questionnaires as the instrument using Likert scale given to 100 eleventh grade senior high school students in Gedangan, East Java who implement Google Classroom to learn English. The data analysis uses descriptive statistics by explaining the frequency, median and mode of the data. The result shows many students agree that Google Classroom is accessible and available on mobile phones. It has understandable features that makes students get clear learning instruction and know their learning progress and history. It helps them in submitting their assignments and it does not drain a lot of internet quota. However, they disagree about having good interaction, finding out which assignments have not been completed and saving their learning time. Meanwhile, they choose neutral for understandable learning material and non-paper usage, but a similar number choose neutral, agree and strongly agree for cheating possibility
Students Perception of Factors Affecting Fluency During Speaking Performance in Higher Education Student utomo, budi
RETAIN Vol 10 No 01 (2022)
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This study identifies factors affecting fluency during speaking performance in higher education student at State University of Surabaya. The students in the debate class are still not fluent and confidence to speak. Therefore, the researcher decided to take this study that identify and describe the challenges during speaking performance. This research is aimed as a reference for the educators to decide the best way to overcome speaking challenges in the class especially in debate class. The research design is qualitative that uses questionnaire and interview as the instrument. The questionnaire distributed to 65 participants and 4 participants were interviewed. This study found that there are several internal and external factors affecting students’ performance in speaking class. Some of the tips are served, those are from the students’ strategies who got the high score in debate class. This study is expected to contribute to the body knowledge and as a reference for the future researchers in the same study field.
Using Cognitive Behavioral Strategy to Overcome Affective Factors of Students' Speaking in Senior High School Rizqy, Elmira
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022)
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The aim of this study is to investigate the student speaking problemand the effect of student speaking factor trough behavioral strategy. This research used quantitative research design. This research used questionnaires and observation as instruments to gain the data. The subjects of this study are 21 students in senior high school. The data would be analyzed in quantitative-descriptive. It was found that by using cognitive behavioral strategy, students could make improvement only on affective factors while for listening ability, topical knowledge and performance condition, there is no impact at all.
Teachers' Roles in Applying Problem Solving Activity to Teach Speaking Branigan, Laura Adhi Pramadhika
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022)
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The goal of this research is to find out the teacher’s roles in applying problem solving activity to teach speaking. This research was carried out on 1 English teacher and 1 group of 36 students. The participants were the tenth graders of SMKN 1 Jombang. Observation was done to find out the teacher’s knowledge about her roles in applying problem solving activity to teach speaking. Interview also was done to the teacher to know the roles in applying problem solving activity to teach speaking. The participants also demonstrated from the questionnaire to elicit their opinion about the effectiveness of applying problem solving activity to teach speaking. The result showed the tenth graders have a positive response towards the applying problem solving activity to teach speaking.
Improving Public Speaking Skills at University Level through TED Talks Short Sessions Aprilia, Rizma Ajeng
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022)
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For English learners, being able to speak English in public circumstances is a crucial thing in the process of delivering and retaining ideas both from speakers and listeners. Nevertheless, this course is often shunned from other language skills like listening, reading, and writing. It also creates feelings of anxiety toward learners. Even scholars argued that students studying English as a second or foreign language are having higher rates of experiencing problems. Thus, the researcher was eager to implement digital short supplementary material to university students to improve their performances in public speaking classes, namely TED Talks short session videos. This research aim was to investigate the effect of TED Talks on college students' public speakingperformances. The study took one month and a half to be finished and involved 40 participants as the sample from English Education freshmen of Universitas Negeri Surabaya. The students were divided into two groups, which were an experimental group and a control group. Under experimental pretest-posttest research design, the students were assessed on their speaking performances based on the components set in a speaking rubric. The data were analyzed using an independent sample t-test using SPSS 26. The results of the study showed that there was a difference in the outcome scores between the control group and experimental group which was significant. This was evidenced in the Independent Sample t-Test with a significance value of 0.00. Then, it was confirmed on the mean data in the experimental group which is 89.10 and the control group which is 83.60. The finding of this research revealed that TED talks short sessions can be constructive and beneficial to improve college students' public speaking performances
The Article of 'High Achievers' Use of Self-Talk as a Strategy in Speaking Clarissa, Angela Nova
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol. 10 No. 01 (2022)
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Speaking in public for academic purposes is one of the most fear that undergraduate students suffer from, especially student teachers. For that case, researchers have proposedseveral strategiesfor public speakingincluding self-talk that could help students to bebetter speakers. The purpose of this study isto understand the way high-achiever students do self-talk fortheir speech performances and the frequency of their self-talk. Usingbasic qualitative data analysis, this study investigatedwhich type of self-talkhigh-achiever students’use and their way to do their self-talkduring speech performances.The research gap from existing studies is that this research elaborate focused participants, which only aimed to understand high achievers students. The researcher usedtheself-talk concept from Brinthauptas the primary theory and utilized it to determine the participants’ type of self-talk.The participants for this study were four high achiever undergraduate students. The result of this study wasthat all of the participants used self-management, there was no self-criticism found, and the frequency of the participants’ self-talk affected their communication apprehensive.
The Use of Mind Mapping Technique in Learning Writing Recount Text in Junior High School
RETAIN Vol 10 No 01 (2022)
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Abstrak Menulis adalah salah satu dari empat kemampuan yang paling sulit dikuasai mengingat ada beberapa hal yang perlu diperhatikan. Selain melihat struktur kata yang tepat dan kosa kata yang efektif, siswa perlu meningkatkan minat menulis pada diri mereka sendiri. Karena akibat dari pandemi membuat siswa menjadi jarang menulis dan kemampuan menulis menurun. Maka dari itu, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengungkap penggunaan teknik mind mapping dalam pembelajaran menulis teks recount pada sekolah menengah pertama. Jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kuantitatif. Instrumen-instrumen penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah lembar observasi, kuesioner, dan rubrik mind mapping. Hasil yang dapat ditemukan di dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa lebih mudah membuat teks recount dengan membuat kerangka dari mind mapping terlebih dahulu. Melalui pemanfaatan teknik mind mapping dalam pembelajaran menulis teks recount, banyak siswa yang memberikan respon yang baik. Kesalahan dalam membuat teks recount yang sering terjadi pada siswa tidak hanya terletak pada struktur kata dan kosakata, tetapi juga pada mekanik. Kata kunci : Mind Mapping, Teks Recount, Sekolah Menengah Pertama Abstract Writing is one of the four proficiency which is the most arduous ability to be mastered seeing from the components must be paid attention to. Besides, taking notice of proper grammar and effective vocabulary, students need to intensify their writing interest. Because of a pandemic, the students find idleness in writing so that their writing ability goes down every single day. Therefore, the objective of this research is to reveal the application of mind mapping techniques in learning writing recount text in junior high school. This type of research is descriptive quantitative. The research instruments utilized in this research were observation sheets, questionnaires, and mind mapping rubrics. The result that can be found in this study is easier for students to make recount texts by making a framework from mind mapping at first. Through the utilization of the mind mapping technique in learning to write recount text, lots of students gave good responses. The error in making recount texts that often occurs in students is not only in grammar and vocabulary but also in mechanics. Keywords: Mind Mapping, Recount Text, Junior High School

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