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JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching
ISSN : -     EISSN : 25976281     DOI : https://www.doi.org/10.33087/jelt
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JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching that published by the English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Batanghari University. JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching aims at reporting high-quality empirical and original research contributions for the benefit of researchers in the field of English Language Teaching. The scope includes theory and practice in English language teaching and learning and Linguistics. It is published twice a year in the months of April and September. It presents articles on analysis studies, application of theories, research reports, materials development and review. Focus and Scope JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching is an open access published by Batanghari University, Jambi, Indonesia. The main objective of JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching is to provide a platform for the academicians and researchers to share the contemporary thoughts in the fields of language, language teaching, and linguistics. The journal publishes research papers in the all the fields of language, language teaching, and linguistics such as: Language Teaching, Language Development, Translation, Teaching and Education in general, Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Lexicology, Syntax, Semantic, Pragmatic, Discourse Analysis, Grammar Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Language Evolution, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, and other related studies of language
Articles 179 Documents
Swearing Words in “Celebrity Read Mean Tweets” in Jimmy Kimmel Late Night Show : A Sociolinguistic Study Rezky Surya Darma; Wennyta Wennyta; Nurul Fitri
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 1, No 1 (2017): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (89.296 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v1i1.8

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AbstractHistorically, swearing is assumed as a form of the curse but since the sexual revolution happens in 1960, swearing not only used as a form of cursing, it can be used as a form of insult, emphasis, or even strengthen the bond between friends and co-worker. A Sociolinguistic analysis of swearing words in Celebrity read mean tweets purposes is to find out types and functions of swearing based on the meaning of the word. The data is gotten from the tweets in celebrity read mean tweets. The design of this research is qualitative research. For collecting the data, the researcher retypes all the swear words found in the celebrity read mean tweets with left the tweet without swear words, change the data from video into the word file. Then, the technique for analyzing the data was by pointing out the swear words and describing its meaning with the dictionary. The researcher has also categorized the type and function from the highest to the lowest. In the end, the result was found is sex swear words are the most frequent type of swearing and abusive swearing is the most frequent function of swearing. The conclusion is many of the cursing in religious terminology is changed with sex, and people cursing with sex swear words. Also, the gender-based swear words not only uttered based on the sex addresse, but can be also addressed by its opposite sex because the gender-based swear words can be used as the epithet for people. And the last is the swear words can be used as adjective, noun or adverb without following the grammatical rules from these three subject, because of the wide-usage of swear words.Keywords: Swearing words, Social media
An Analysis of Illocutionary Act in “Ratatouille” A Movie by Brad Brid Bela Antalia Putri Asykin; Suyadi Suyadi; Efa Silfia
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2 (2021): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (78.311 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v5i2.93

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This study aimed to find out the type of illocutionary acts that is contained the utterance of the main character and to determine the most dominant illocutionary act that is used by the main character in the movie. This research use applies qualitative method. As the result there are 48 utterances that contain illocutionary act found in Ratatouille movie. The researcher found 4 classifications of illocutionary act by using Yule’s classification. The fourth types are; directives found 20 utterances, expressive found 11 utterances, representatives found 10 utterances and commissive found 6 utterances. The researcher not found the type of illocutionary act of declaration. The most dominant illocutionary act is directives.Key Words: Speech acts, Illocutionary acts, Ratatouille Movie
An Analysis on Reading Activities of an English Textbook Used at Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Jambi City in Academic Year 2020/2021 Faradila Dian Arizal; Suyadi Suyadi; Kartika Dewi
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 5, No 1 (2021): APRIL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (158.829 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v5i1.75

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This research aimed to analyze the reading texts provided in English textbook used in SMA N 1 Jambi City based on the criteria of reading text. The criteria are the variety, exploitability, suitability of content, the length or size, readability and authenticity of the text. In this research, the researcher used descriptive qualitative. Specifically, the research method that used in gathering the data is content analysis method. The data were gathered by reading all of the reading texts repeatedly to identify and classify the necessary data. There are seven reading text with different variety which includes narrative, expository, speech, play script and recount text. All of these texts were also provided with reading activities which is split into three phase including pre-reading, while reading and post reading activities. These texts have different topic and theme which also found to be suitable for high schools students. The topic and theme of the text are interesting and can be referred to the other subjects in their learning. However, the length of the texts are seems to be not suitable for high school students. Most of the texts were considered to be more suitable for students in lower level. The texts also met the readability criteria since the topic are familiar to the students and there is no over-detailed or oversimplified explanation within. Finally, the results also show that the texts are met the authenticity criteria, which means most of them are taken from authentic sources that relevant to the topic. Keywords: Reading Activities, Textbook
An Analysis of Students’ Narrative Text Translation from English to Indonesian at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 3 Kota Jambi Academic Year 2018/2019 Laela Fitriyani; Wennyta Wennyta
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 3, No 2 (2019): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (150.956 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v3i2.40

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This research was done to analyze the translation methods used by the tenth of social grade students at SMA N 3 Kota Jambi Academic Year 2018/2019.  The method of this research was descriptive qualitative. The sample of this research was the tenth of social grade students at SMA N 3 Kota Jambi. Then to get the sample of this research, the researcher used random sampling technique. The instrument of this research was a translation test. In translation analysis processes, the researcher used theory of translation method based on Newmark Theory. The findings of this research showed that there are only four methods used by the students in translating the text. They are Word-For-Word Translation, Literal Translation, Free Translation, and Communicative Translation. It can be seen from the table that the most dominant method used by the 26 students was literal translation method. The second dominant was word-for-word translation method. Meanwhile, the third and fourth translation method applied by the students was free translation and communicative translation. Then, there are four methods which did not applied by the students in translating the story. They were faithful translation, semantic translation, adaptation translation, and idiomatic translation method. Here, the students used more than one method to translate the narrative text. Based on the data, literal translation method is the most dominant method used by the students. It happens because the students just translate the words by its literal meaning and they tried to achieve the nearest equivalence meaning in the target language.Keywords: Analysis, Translation Methods, Narrative Text.
The Communication Strategy Used by English Teachers in Teaching and Learning Process at Junior High School Number 17 Jambi City Dira Evitarani; Yanti Ismiyati; Nurul Fitri
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 6, No 2 (2022): SEPTEMBER
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (176.6 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v6i2.117

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The purpose of this study was to determine the types of communication strategies used by English teachers in the teaching and learning process and to explain the reasons for using these strategies at Junior High School Number 17 Jambi City in the 2021/2022 academic year. This study used qualitative research and data analysis was carried out by classroom observations and interviews with English teachers. The subjects of this study were four English teachers at Junior High School Number 17 Jambi City, using total sampling. The results of this study indicate that there are two approach communication strategies used by teachers in the teaching and learning process of English, namely two-way communication is the most widely used strategy by teachers in the classroom and one teacher uses two-way communication and also transactional communication in the learning process. learn to teach it. Thus, from the results of observations and interviews, this research concluded that teachers often use various communication strategies in the teaching and learning process of English so that students understand the lesson more easily.
The Effect of Note-Taking Method Toward Listening Ability at Second Semester at English Language Education Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Batanghari Jambi Nurul Lidyanti; Wennyta Wennyta
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 4, No 2 (2020): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (141.299 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v4i2.66

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This research was aimed to find out whether there is any effect in using note- taking method toward listening ability at second semester at English language education faculty of teacher training and education University of Batanghari Jambi. The researcher methodology of this research was an experimental research. Which conducted the experiment class and control class. The population of the research was the second semester at English language education faculty of teacher training and education of students was 30 students consist of two classes. The experiment class (X) was 15 students and control class (Y) was 15 students as samples. The researcher gave listening test to collected data. There were two test, pretest and posttest. The formula that was used analyze the data was used T-test. The researcher found thet the pretest mean of experiment class was 58.67 and posttest mean was 79.33. the pretest mean of control class 52 and posttest mean was 68. It was found tobservation =2.323, where is ttable was 2.048 for 5%. The tobservation higher than the ttable (2.323 >2.048), so Ha was accepted while H0 was rejected. It means that there was significant effect of Note-taking method toward listening ability at second semester at English language education faculty of teacher training and education University of Batanghari Jambi.Keyword: Listening Ability, Note-taking Method.
THE PROBLEM OF LEARNING IN ENGLISH LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 8 BATANG HARI ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018 Gesa Sepritiani; Nurul Fitri
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 3, No 1 (2019): April
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (316.351 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v3i1.34

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This study was intended to find out the s\students problem of learning English listening. The research method used qualitative method and questionnaire design. The population of this study was second grade students of SMA N 8 BATANGHARI JAMBI which consisted of 5 classes with 152 students divided into 69 men and 83 female. Tthe researcher only took randomly 5 class XI MIA 1, 5 class XI MIA 2, 5 class XI IIS 1 , 5 class IIS 2, 5 class IIS 3. The data of this research was collected by giving the questionnaire to students as the sample. The collected data were analyzed by using likert scale. After conducting the research, the researcher found that the problems in listening SMAN 8 as follows: 1) Difficult when students listen to the text just one time students need to practice their listening skills to capture text ideas, 2) listeners also need to take notes while listening to long listening texts. Students often ask to stop recording where there is a sound coming from the corridor or from another classroom. They feel more comfortable if the listening test is done in some places dedicated to listening like lab listening. Listening is one of the important skills in learning English. In addition, there are also three other components such as speaking, listening and writing. For students, it is recommended that they should improve their listening skills on time, so that students can perform tasks easily and correctly in the classroom.
The Students’ Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text At The Second Grade Of SMP Negeri 6 Kota Jambi In Academic year 2018/2019 Nuryani Nuryani; Suyadi Suyadi
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 4, No 1 (2020): April
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (238.371 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v4i1.57

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Many students find some problem in reading. A major problem faced by the students in reading texts is that they often do not comprehend the overall have been major obstacles to understanding. Narrrative text is a text, shich related a serried of logically and chronologically related event that are cause or experienced by factor, there are generic structure, orientation, complication, resolution, reorientation or coda. The research is aimed at knowing how to  the students’ reading comprehension focused at narrative text in the second grade of SMP Negeri 6 Kota Jambi in Academic year 2018/2019. The research was conducted in a pre-experimental method. The subject of the research class VIII J,  this class consists of 36 students. This research, the data were collected from tests result. The tests consisted of pre-test and post-test, the instrument in this study was a test of students reading in  narrative texts and answer the questions about narrative stories, The test was in the form of multiple choice test with five alternative answer a,b,c,d,e with 20 test.  The finding of research was the mean score of pre-test is 40, and the mean score of post-test is 61,8. each test to find out the improvements of students’  reading comprehension in narrative texts.  The result of the research shows that the comparison  of  Frequency Scores Pre-Test and Post-Test, the persentage of the students who got the score low  category in the pre-test (94,4%) and in post-test score high category (71,8%). It can be seen that in mastering narrative texts that can significantly improve students' reading comprehension skills.Key word : Reading Comprehension, Narrative Text.
An Analysis of Students’ Ability In Writing Descriptive Text at The Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 11 Jambi Academic Year 2017/2018 Prasetyo Hariyadi, Wennyta, Nurul Fitri
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 2, No 2 (2018): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (61.428 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v2i2.24

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Abstract          The purpose of this research is to analyze the student’s ability in writing descriptive text at the tenth grade student of SMAN 11 Jambi academic year 2017/2018. This research used descriptive research with qualitative method. This research used Random Sampling to get the sample and then got X MIPA 3 as a sample with the total 35 students but two students did not follow the test. There were 33 students as a sample. In collecting data, the instrument of this research is writing test by using descriptive text. The findings of this research showed that, the student’s ability in writing descriptive text was categorized 18 students or (55%) were categorized as good, 9 students (27%) were categorized as excellent, 5 students (15%) were categorized as satisfactory, 1 student (3%) were categorized as unsatisfactory and there were no student who categorized failed. The researcher concluded that the student’s ability in writing descriptive text at the tenth grade student of SMAN 11 Jambi is Good because from 33 students 18 students or (55%) got score 13 – 16 and the level of student’s ability is good.Keywords: Writing Skill, Descriptive Text
The ability of Students in Pronunciation English Palatal Alveoral Fricative and Palatal Alveoral Affricative Consonant at Ninth Grade of Junior High School 17 Jambi City Suci Wulandari; Efa Silfia; Kartika Dewi
JELT: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 6, No 1 (2022): April
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (175.216 KB) | DOI: 10.33087/jelt.v6i1.107

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Pronunciation is one of the components in speaking ability. This component plays very important role in communication, because by pronouncing the English words correctly students are able to avoid misunderstanding when they are speaking, therefore to be able to say English words fluently and correctly, the students should have good mastery in pronunciation especially in pronouncing English palatal alveolar fricative and affricative consonant sounds. This research is aimed at describing students” ability to pronounce English palatal alveolar fricative and affricative consonants (∫ and t∫) and find out in which position (initial, medial, and final) are the most difficult to pronounce. The design of this research was descriptive quantitative method approach. This research was conducted Junior High School Number 17 Kota Jambi in January 2022. in conducting this research, this research administered the pronunciation test one time, the. The population of this research was the ninth-grade students at SMPN 17 Jambi City in academic year 2021-2022, the total number of them were 340 students. As the sample was the ninth-grade students, they consist of 10 students. This research used purposive sampling technique in taking the sample if this research. The result of this research showed that on the test there were 4 students belong to very good categories, 2 student belongs to good categories, 3 students belong to fair categories, 1 student belongs to weak category and none of the student belong to poor category. the ability of the students in pronouncing the English palatal alveolar fricative (∫) and (t∫) affricative consonant was 78%, this is categorized as good. The students” ability in pronouncing sound (∫) belongs to very good category (85%) and sound (t∫) belongs to good category (73%)

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