TELL - US JOURNAL
The purpose of TELL-US Journal is to promote the wide dissemination of the results of systematic scholarly inquiries into the broad field of English research. TELL-US Journal is intended to be the journal for publishing articles reporting the results of research on English. The TELL-US Journal invites manuscripts within spectrum: English Language Teaching General English Studies Linguistics (Language Studies) Literature (Literary Studies) Usage The TELL-US Journal accepts articles in any English related subjects and any research methodology that meet the standards established for publication in the journal. The primary, but not exclusive, audiences are academicians, graduate students, practitioners, and others interested in English research. Discussions on the latest issues in relation to the above topics are the main spectrum of this journal. Research articles, book reviews, or annotated bibliography are welcomed to be published in this journal. All topics need to be the factual and discussed among the scholars in the field of English language and literature or English Education. The primary criterion for publication in TELL-US Journal is the significance of the contribution an article makes to the literature , i.e., the significance of the contribution and on the rigor of analysis and presentation of the paper. The acceptance decision is made based upon an independent review process that provides critically constructive and prompt evaluations of submitted manuscripts.
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<![CDATA[STUDENTS’ POSITIONAL IDENTITY IN ENGLISH WRITING ]]>
<![CDATA[Setyaningrum, Riya Risqi]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 6, No 2 (2020): November 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2020.v6i2.4352
<![CDATA[Writing is the most difficult in English. The students have to master their vocabulary and grammar to make their writing correct. English as international languages for Indonesia students make their vocabulary is very lack, moreover in mastering their grammar. The Indonesian students have to study hard in writing English. In learning writing English, the students’ position have themselves as good writer and bad writer based on ethnicity, economic statues, gender, age, and education. So this study is present to know the students’ positional identity in English writing. The research method of study is descriptive qualitative. The data of study are students’ writing and interviews. The sample of study are students second semester of English Education Department at Lamongan Islamic University and Billfath University. It consists of 40 students both of University. Based on the study, the most of students have position their identity as good writer in writing English based on economic status and education. It means that economic status and education are the most influences in learning writing English in Indonesia. So, the English teachers have to think hard the way to improve the students’ writing in English in class.]]>
<![CDATA[EFL TEACHERS SELF-REPORTED DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES AT KEFTEGNA 23 SECONDARY SCHOOL, ETHIOPIA ]]>
<![CDATA[Melka, Yirmalem Girma]]>;
<![CDATA[Beriso, Italo]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 8, No 3 (2022): English Education Art ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2022.v8i3.6337
<![CDATA[The purpose of this study was to explore selected high school English teachers self-reported differentiated instructional practices that haven’t been addressed in the Ethiopian EFL context. To achieve this purpose, data was collected using questionnaire for EFL teachers and semi-structured interview students. The selected EFL teachers filled the questionnaire based on their willingness and the students were randomly selected from two sections and interviewed to cross-check the data obtained from their EFL teachers. The students were interviewed in Amharic and transcribed in to English and the data were analyzed descriptively. The results of the study indicated that EFL teachers’ perceive that their English classes are composed of students’ with different learning achievement levels consisting of very struggling, grade level and advanced students but instructional practices were not adequately responsive to the students different readiness levels. They rated their students as grade level/average achievers and take this group in to account while delivering English lessons. Besides, results showed that teaching to the middle level is most preferable. Findings further showed that EFL teachers had no experience of pre-assessing students’ different readiness levels or current status to make informed decisions, and hardly modify instruction and highly depend on textbook activities/tasks. Results from the interview further indicated that students experiencing or receiving the EFL teachers’ instructional practices were not perceived favorably. Thus, it is evident to conclude that the EFL teachers’ instructional practices were undifferentiated and it is suggested EFL teachers should get awareness trainings to integrate DI in to their teaching. ]]>
<![CDATA[Practicing English through Lesser Strategy by Teaching Reducing Apprehension ]]>
<![CDATA[Abda, Apraza Pino]]>;
<![CDATA[Asty, Hervina]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 2, No 1 (2016): March 2016 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2016.v2i1.1339
<![CDATA[Lesser strategy is a strategy that helps students manage their thinking or ideas when they want to write some paragraphs in writing process. Not only manage students’ ideas but also explore students’ ideas in making longer writing based on their thinking. Thus, this strategy also guides students how to make list based on students’ thinking before they start writing. It is hoped that after the readers read this paper, the readers are able to use this strategy in the classroom, especially in writing class. Lesser strategy gives concrete procedures of constructing an essay. That is why the writer would like to give some suggestions for English teacher, and also candidates of teacher. For English teacher, it is very useful to introduce and to apply lesser strategy in teaching writing at Senior High School because this strategy can help English teacher and also the students to understand the main point of an essay in order to help the students are able to write by using the lesser strategy’s steps, because it has simple steps that is easy to be implicated for all the students in writing class.]]>
<![CDATA[VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN AGE 18 – 24 MONTHS ]]>
<![CDATA[Oktadela, Resy]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 3, No 2 (2017): September 2017 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2017.v3i2.2626
<![CDATA[This paper aims at describing the first language acquired by the children in age 18 - 24 months. This period can be said as at the beginning point when children starting to produce words in their life. The data were taken from a baby 19 months’ years old, named Elpon, he lives in Trivana Regency, PekanBaru Province. The method is by using diary to note the vocabularies have been acquired.]]>
<![CDATA[TYPES OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS USED BY FUTSAL COACH IN VAMOS ACADEMY PADANG ]]>
<![CDATA[Dermawan, Adit]]>;
<![CDATA[AS, Rina Marnita]]>;
<![CDATA[Revita, Ike]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 6, No 1 (2020): March 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2020.v6i1.3786
<![CDATA[This study aims to describe the types of directive speech acts used by futsal coach in Vamos Academy Padang. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The researcher uses speech act theory proposed by Searle (1979) and speech act theory proposed by Kreidler (1998) in analyzing data. The data in this study are the utterances of coach toward the students which are contain the intention of directive. The data were collected using observation methods and recording techniques. The results showed that the coach used three types of directive speech acts in communicating with students when coaching in Vamos Academy Padang. The three types of directive speech acts are commands, requests and suggestions. From the three types of directive speech acts, command is the type of directive that is most often used by coach toward the students in Vamos Academy Padang with 59%. Furthermore, it is followed by request with 26% and suggestion with 15%. The use of dominant command by the coach toward students in Vamos Academy Padang is influenced by the participant context in the utterance where the coach is the coaching leader in the field who has the authority and responsibility for the success of the material given to students in the exercise.]]>
<![CDATA[ENCOURAGING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY BY PROVIDING E-ASSESSMENT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC ]]>
<![CDATA[Sariasih, Wiwit]]>;
<![CDATA[Latifah, Latifah]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 8, No 2 (2022): September 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2022.v8i2.6013
<![CDATA[Covid-19 pandemic has struck the world and coerce the people to work and study from home. The impact of the pandemic has caused the public services including schools, colleges and universities to apply online learning. The assessment for and of the learning would also be conducted online. E-assessment can be provided to the students using several tools such as web-based assessment, social media, blog, etc. However, it is prone to the academic misconduct or academic dishonesty. Thus, it is very urgent to advocate academic integrity to students in doing the e-learning and e-assessment. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate e-assessment that was used by the lecturers and how the lecturers encourages students to perform academic integrity in doing the e-assessment task. The study was conducted using descriptive-survey research where the sample was the English literature department of Universitas Pamulang. The strategies of conducting this study were; searching for related literature and related studies, designing the instrument based on the theory of e-assessment and academic integrity, collecting the data through the questionnaire, and interviewing and analyzing the data using descriptive statistic and narrative. The finding were; 1) there were two types of e-assessment used by the lecturer; discussion forum and multiple-choice questions. 2) The lecturer encouraged their students to conduct academic integrity by giving positive feedback for those who conducted academic integrity and building good communication and motivation to students.]]>
<![CDATA[The Translation of Similes in Andrea Hirata’s The Rainbow Troops ]]>
<![CDATA[Barathayomi, Wieka]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 1, No 2 (2015): November 2015 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2015.v1i2.1283
<![CDATA[The aim of this research is to find out the translation strategies used by the translator to translate similes in Andre Hirata’s novel L a s k a r P e l a n g i from Indonesian into English. This research is descriptive qualitative. The data were taken from Andrea Hirata’s novel L a s k a r P e l a n g i and its translation The Rainbow Troops. The result of this research shows that there are several strategies used by the translator to translate similes which include: using simile of similar form and meaning, using simile of dissimilar form but similar meaning, and translate directly without using a simile.]]>
<![CDATA[THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ENGLISH SONG IN BUILDING ENGLISH VOCABULARY AT MURNI KINDERGARTEN PADANG ]]>
<![CDATA[Mokhtar, Meidiawaty]]>;
<![CDATA[Mayuasti, Mayuasti]]>;
<![CDATA[Ikhsan, M. Khairi]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 3, No 1 (2017): March 2017 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2017.v3i1.2520
<![CDATA[Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis penerapan lagu Bahasa Inggris dalam memperkenalkan kosakata Bahasa Inggris oleh guru di Taman Kanak–Kanak Murni Padang. Peneliti menganalisis tahap penerapan sebuah lagu bahasa Inggris yang dapat digunakan oleh guru Bahasa Inggris dalam memperkenalkan kosakata Bahasa Inggris berdasarkan teori dari Case, Lynch, dan Sophya. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif. Dalam penelitian ini, peneliti meminta peneliti sejawat memberikan evaluasi dalam bentuk ceklis observasi yang berisi saran dari peneliti sejawat tentang ketiga tahap observasi penelitian yang telah dilakukan. Dari data yang diberikan oleh peneliti sejawat setelah melakukan tiga kali observasi, ditemukan bahwa guru belum menerapkan seluruh tahap pengajaran dengan sempurna dan anak TK belum mengenal kosakata disaat observasi pertama. Saat observasi kedua, guru telah menerapkan seluruh tahap pengajaran dan anak TK mulai mengenal kosakata. Di akhir observasi, peneliti sejawat menganalisis bahwa peneliti mampu menerapkan seluruh tahap pengajaran lagu bahasa Inggris kepada anak TK Murni dan anak TK mampu mengenal kosakata yang telah dipelajari. Disimpulkan dari hasil penelitian ini bahwa peneliti sudah mampu melakukan seluruh tahapan pengajaran bahasa Inggris melalui lagu dan anak TK meningkat kosakata yang dikenal secara bertahap.]]>
<![CDATA[FORM, MEANING AND FUNCTIONS OF GALA AMPEK JINIH PAGA CANCANG ETHNIC IN NAGARI KOTO BARU, SOLOK ]]>
<![CDATA[Mahardhika, Dedek]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 5, No 2 (2019): September 2019 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2019.v5i2.3263
<![CDATA[The focus of this research was on dissecting gala ampek jinih of Paga Cancang ethnic in Nagari Koto Baru, Kubung Sub-District, Solok Regency. The analysis was carried out on aspects of form, meaning and functions. The location of data collection was in Nagari Koto Baru, Kubung Sub-District, Solok Regency. The approach used in this research was a descriptive qualitative approach. The data collection phase included the process of observation, interview and field notes. Furthermore, the data was transcribed from spoken language into the written one, categorized the form of gala, defined the meaning contained and examined the function of each gala. The results of data analysis indicated that there were three forms of address categories of gala ampek jinih of Cancang paga ethnic used in Nagari Koto Baru, Kubung Sub-District, Solok Regency. The forms of gala included; (1) Title plus name, (2) Title plus last name, (3) First name plus second name and (4) Title plus first name. Moreover, the delivery of meaning in this study was in the post-structuralism domain; that one word does not always have one meaning. Gala ampek jinih has its own construction of meaning based on the title position of the person. Analysis of the meaning construction reflects the function of the title itself.]]>
<![CDATA[CLASSIFYING THE READABILITY LEVEL OF READING TEXT ON ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED “PATHWAY TO ENGLISH” ]]>
<![CDATA[Rahmi, Ulfa]]>;
<![CDATA[Riza, Armilia]]>;
<![CDATA[Yelliza, Yelliza]]>
<![CDATA[ TELL - US JOURNAL Vol 8, No 1 (2022): March 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22202/tus.2022.v8i1.5616
<![CDATA[Reading was an activitythat could not be separated from teaching andlearning activities. It cause the textbook was one of source in learning. In this case, each reading texts had different difficulties, so it was important for teacehrs to chose appropriate text for students so they would comprehended the text. Based on the phenomenon, the researchers interested to conduct a study that aimed to classified the readability of reading text on English textbook entitled "Pathway to English" for class XI for interest group. The researchers found 22 reading text. This study used a descriptive research method with a quantitative approach. In calculating the readability level, the researchers used the Flesch Reading Ease formula (6 levels). The result of readability level analysis on reading texts showed there were 6 categorizes of readability levels, namely easy, fairly easy, standard, fairly difficult, difficult and very difficult. The classification of reading texts were easy 2 texts, fairly easy 2 texts, standard 7 texts, fairly difficult 6 texts, difficult 4 texts and very difficult 1 text.]]>
