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JELT (Jambi-English Language Teaching)
Published by Universitas Jambi
ISSN : -     EISSN : 25033840     DOI : https://doi.org/10.22437/jelt
Core Subject : Education,
Jambi-English Language Teaching (JELT) is an international refereed journal in English language teaching. It publishes articles that explore the application of English language in teaching and everyday experience of English in education. Its scope is national and international in that it welcomes articles from academicians, researchers, graduate students, and policy makers. All articles should be in English. The journal publishes articles in English language teaching, issues in teaching and methodologies and application of material designs of English such as in the following disciplines : 1. English language teaching 2. Applied Lingusitics 3. Teaching Methodologies 4. Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design 5. Material Design 6. Teacher Education and Professional Development 7. Linguistic Theories and English Language Teaching 8. Teaching English Specific Purposes
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FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ANXIETY AT ONE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN JAMBI: PERSONALITY TRAITS, MOTIVATION, AND FAMILY ENVIRONMENT ASPECTS: Personality Traits, Motivation, and Family Environment Aspects. Miftahudin; Mukhlash Abrar; Habizar
JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 6 No. 1 (2022): Volume 6 No 1 (2022)
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This research aimed to describe factors that influence students’ speaking anxiety and to explore the strategies used by the students to overcome their anxiety. The site of this research was at one public university in Jambi. The researcher utilised purposive sampling technique in selecting the participants. There were 12 participants of this research which including 7th semester students, 5th semester students, and 3rd semester students who have passed speaking classes. This research employed qualitative study with case study approach in one English teacher study program. In collecting the data, the researcher used interview and documentation as the data collection. The results of this research indicated that there were still several factors faced by the students which influenced their speaking anxiety. Those factors were afraid, shy, unconfident, overthinking, nervous, mood, low motivation, and family support. The most factors felt by the students were overthinking and unconfident. This research also pointed out that the participants used several strategies to overcome their anxiety in speaking. There were 9 strategies employed by the participants including taking a deep breathe, practicing, being confident, calming down, studying hard, being well-prepared, being alone, discussing with friends, and getting motivation from friends.
TEACHERS' VIEWS ON THE MODEL OF STUDENT'S LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING Mutia Rahmadani; Yanto Yanto
JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 6 No. 2 (2022): Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022)
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The objective of this research is to explore the teachers’ views toward the model of student’s language portfolio in English language teaching and learning. Participants of this research included six lecturers in English Education Study Program at Universitas Jambi who teach language skills and had implemented portfolio in their respective class. A qualitative research design was employed by conducting interview with the participants as the primary data as well as document analysis as the secondary data for this research. The result of this research indicates portfolio is used in English Education Study Program at Universitas Jambi although it is not broadly implemented. The finding shows portfolio is developed according to two distinctive purposes, namely process and product portfolio with the tendency towards process portfolio in its implementation. The participants disclosed that the core components of portfolio include collection of students’ learning artifacts, result of peer review, and reflection which considered crucial to bring about effective record of student’s progress in learning. In it’s practice, portfolio implemented in accordance to project-based class within the purpose to encourage the students to work collaboratively in developing portfolio. Portfolio assessment decision is determined by the implementation of holistic assessment and the use of rubrics. Besides, peer review is employed in the assessment process in order to reduce teachers’ work for providing feedback towards students’ portfolio even though it is not accompanied by any scoring guidelines in its implementation.
EXPLORING STUDENTS’ PURPOSES FOR READING BOOK Radiatan Mardiah; Melati
JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021): Volume 5 No 2 (2021)
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Stating a purpose for reading may help shaping the way the students read. It could save time and improve understanding. This qualitative study explored the university students’ purpose for reading book. The participants were a class of law faculty students learning English as a general purpose in a state university in Jambi. The main source of data was the document in the form of students’ reading report. The document was analyzed using qualitative approach. To clarify the data gained, semi-structured interview was applied. It is revealed that students’ purposes for reading book was for content and they use low order thinking verb such as to know to realize it. For more comprehensive book reading, it is suggested that the students use different verbs such as to interpret, to classify, or to explore for stating their purposes.
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JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021): Volume 5 No 2 (2021)
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EFL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE TEXTBOOK SELECTED BY THEIR COURSE INSTRUCTOR Radiatan Mardiah
JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 6 No. 1 (2022): Volume 6 No 1 (2022)
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Students perception on selected textbook they use can be a meaningful information in helping them achieve their learning goal and generally in helping the teacher in designing the course. This paper was aimed at describing EFL students’ perception on a selected textbook entitled Second Language Acquisition: An Introduction written by Muriel Saville-Troike published in 2012. The participants of this descriptive study were 40 EFL students enrolled in Second Language Acquisition course in academic year 2019/2020 in a public university in Jambi, Indonesia. The data were gathered through questionnaire response and WhatsApp discussion. It was revealed that majority of the students perceive that the book is informative, useful, and needed but difficult to understand. The students suggested to develop additional simple material to the book which consist of brief explanation and example, easy to understand words, and have interesting and eye-catching design. This information could be used to design and develop additional course material.
POLITENESS STRATEGIES CONVEYED BY THE STUDENTS IN ONLINE DISCUSSIONS Riris Handayani; Rachmawati; Tubagus Zam Zam Al Arif
JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 6 No. 2 (2022): Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022)
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The present research is inevitable revealing the politeness strategies conveyed by the students of English study program at Jambi University through online discussions. The data of the research are utterances of the research subjects (students) obtained from the students’ Whatsapp chat histories in Literature for Educational Purposes and Teaching English for Young Learners courses all through the classroom interactions. The technique of collecting the data is accomplished by means of reviewing the students’ chats as the consequence of online classes during the period of Covid-19. Every single word obtained from the students’ chats has been read conversely not all of the utterances are regarded as the data (data reduction process). The results of this research highlight four genuses of politeness strategies, namely positive politeness, negative politeness, bald on record, and off record. Briefly, the cultural issue entirely have the aftermath on the politeness strategies realized by the research subjects.
AN ANALYSIS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN EFL TEXTBOOK OF GRADE TWELFTH OF HIGHSCHOOL Elin Wahyuni; Melati; Nely Arif
JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 6 No. 1 (2022): Volume 6 No 1 (2022)
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The aims of this research were to discover how the communicative competence is represented and to examine how intercultural communicative competence is promoted in EFL textbook “Bahasa Inggris” for Twelfth Grade. Dealing with textbook analysis, this research applied content analysis with a qualitative approach. The data were analyzed based on five steps; observation, marking checklist, classifying, coding, and interpretation. The finding of research revealed that the learning task in the textbook represented four component of communicative competence and predominated by Linguistic. Moreover, the four elements of Intercultural Competence were well covered but less then the other competence, with the dominance of knowledge aspects. Thus, based on this finding, hopefully the textbook will be developed more to assist students in building their Intercultural Communicative Competence.
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION IN LEARNING SPEAKING BY VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT hezy nazera; Robi Soma; Habizar
JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 6 No. 2 (2022): Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022)
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This study aimed to know students’ perception in learning speaking by virtual learning environment. This study employed a quantitative research with used a survey method by using questionnaires to collect the data and SPSS to analyze the data from 51 respondents from one of university in Jambi. This research expected to be useful for students and other researchers. The questionnare consist of six category in this research. The result of this research showed that in the first category got three interpretation (High, Moderate, Low) for five total item. The scale of the item rangging from 2.88 to 3.76 mean score. The second category got a moderate interpretation with the percentage 60% of the respondents chose neutral and 28% chose agree. The third and fourth category got high and moderate intepretation. The fifth and the last category got a moderate interpretation with the most of participants chose neutral. The result of the data analysis revealed that most of the students as the participants had a positive perception of learning speaking by virtual learning. Moreover the lack of internet connection should have accessible for them to get access on the internet. Beside that, 34% of the respondents prefer to learning by offline learning (traditional learning).
THE USE OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE BY STUDENTS IN WRITING A NARRATIVE ESSAY Nuri Nadifhah Khairunisa; Nunung Fajaryani
JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 6 No. 2 (2022): Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022)
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Learning English means learning the four skills, namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Of the four skills, writing is the most difficult skill to acquire. Fortunately, in this 21st century, technological developments are very helpful for us, especially in language. Many translation tools are very easy to use. One of the translation tools that is available to use by people nowadays is Google Translate. This research focused on the use of Google Translate in the writing narrative essay of 3rd semester English education students at Jambi University and used qualitative approach. The results of this research showed that students use Google Translate to help them solve their problems with vocabulary and grammar. Even though Google Translate could not fully help students to improve their writing skills, it is known to have a contribution to making students more independent, they will work alone, not depending on lecturers and friends. Students used Google Translate to ease their work in writing.
STUDENTS' PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF WHATSAPP APPLICATION FOR ONLINE LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Samsiya; Marzul Hidayat; Mukhlash Abrar
JAMBI-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Vol. 6 No. 2 (2022): Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022)
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The impact of the spread of the covid-19 virus on the world of education requires educators and students to be adapted quickly to existing changes. Before the pandemic, the learning activity was original to be held face-to-face directly in the classroom, however, an integrated learning system through the virtual internet network (online learning) must be implemented during the pandemic. The implementation of English learning for students was still done online using WhatsApp. Based on this, the purpose of this study was to investigate students’ perceptions on the use of the WhatsApp application for online learning during the covid-19 pandemic. This study employed quantitative research with a survey method. This study used questionnaire data to collect the data. The results of questionnaire data analysis indicated that 122 of 168 respondents gave a good perception of the use of the WhatsApp application. In addition, the teacher used the features provided in the WhatsApp application, such as messages, voice messages, documents, videos, and images to improve students’ ability and evaluate the extent of students’ ability with the material that had been studied. The conclusion of the study is the existence of the benefits of WhatsApp media that teachers can use for learning English. Because WhatsApp has many advantages that support learning, this application can be used to send text messages, download and upload images, documents, or videos, and send voice messages.

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