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Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature
Published by Institut Agama Islam Negeri Kediri
ISSN : 30252369     EISSN : 30218101     DOI : https://doi.org/10.30762/ireell
Core Subject : Education, Social,
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other
Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature (IREELL) is biannual (April and November) peer-reviewed and open access journal that publishes research within the area of English language education, linguistics, and literature in second or foreign language contexts. The journal provides a venue for the dissemination of research reports to promote scholarly exchange among teachers and researcher in the field. It encourages submissions from across disciplinary and interdisciplinary research traditions that are previously unpublished to advance knowledge, theories, or methodologies in English education and linguistics.
Arjuna Subject : Ilmu Sosial - Linguistik dan Bahasa
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Teachers’ Strategies In Teaching Reading Skills During Offline Learning In Post Covid-19 Pandemic Period Nadian, Rera; Afifi, Nur
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i1.1095

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The convenience of online learning during the covid-19 pandemic period has left lingering effects to the post-covid face to face learning making offline learning in the class a difficult task that sometimes demotivates the students. This problem has a lot of influence on student’s learning process of various subjects, one of them was an English reading class. The teachers are demanded to be creative by employing interesting and attractive strategies to keep the student engaged during the class. Teacher’s strategies will help the students in gaining, maintaining and honing their reading skills. This study aimed to portray the challenges faced during the offline learning post covid pandemic period and the strategies employed by the teachers to overcome the challenges. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative. The data on challenges and strategies were obtained through observation and interview from two English teachers in the tenth grade of the school. The data then was analysed following qualitative data analysis by identification, categorization and drawing conclusion followed by triangulation to ensure the validity of the analysis. The results showed that the challenges faced by the teachers in the class were on the following matter: attendance, building motivation, sharing the lesson, vocabulary, reading skills. The attendance challenge was approached by knowing more about the students and the reasons of their absence. Other challenges were approach by employing various teaching techniques such as apperception, brainstorming, giving feedback and employing videos in the teaching learning process
Self-Efficacy and Its Correlation With Reading Comprehension Of Senior High School Students Apriliyani, Eka Putri; Usuludin, Moh. Ana
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i1.1096

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Self-efficacy becomes one of psychological factor affecting successfully in doing some activities. By having self-efficacy, people can measure themselves in doing some tasks briefly. Self-efficacy is necessary because it influences people’s performance. Self-efficacy in reading comprehension is also called reading self-efficacy. The objective of this study is the researcher wants to know the correlation between self-efficacy and reading comprehension achievement of the eleventh grade Senior high School student. This study uses correlation quantitative research as a research design. The participant of the research was 179 students of eleventh grade of senior high school students in Indonesia. The instruments used were the reading test and self-efficacy questionnaire. For the reading test, the researcher adopted from TOEFL for Junior. Then, for self-efficacy questionnaire, the researcher adapted from MSLQ. The result showed that there was a very low correlation between self-efficacy and reading comprehension with a significance value was .020 and coefficient correlation of .174.
Improving Students’ Speaking Skill in Descriptive Text Using Mind Mapping Method at Seventh Grade Junior High School Darussalam, Gilang Manik; Ningrum, Ary Setya Budhi
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i1.1100

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Speaking is one of the English language skills that must be mastered by students where there are students who can express their opinions, ideas and understanding in capturing the material presented by the teacher. There are several methods used to improve students' English speaking skills, this time the researcher used the mind map method. The focus of this research is to improve students' speaking ability in English descriptive text. This method is implemented to the research subjects of class VII students of MTs Raudlatuth Thalabah Kediri. The research method uses classroom action research and the data collection starts from student observations, pre-test, and post-test. Based on the results of the findings, the researchers found that the development of students' speaking skills from each test result that had been presented with the explanation of the last post-test data as follows, the lowest score of students in the second cycle post-test was 60.00 and the highest score was 90.00 then the class average value in the second cycle post-test was 78.1481 so that this study resulted in that this mind map method succeeded in improving students' English speaking skills even though some researchers found obstacles in the research process.
EFL Students’ Intercultural Awareness in Multicultural Classroom: A Narrative Inquiry Saharani, Annisa Aulia
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i1.1125

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Being an intercultural speaker has become a necessity in global communication. Multicultural classes have a positive impact on intercultural learning because students from various cultural backgrounds come together to learn English. Therefore, this study aims to explore and narrate the development of intercultural awareness achieved by the students based on their experiences in a multicultural class setting. This study is a qualitative research with a narrative inquiry method. The participants in this study are three Indonesian students and two Thai students who are majoring in English Education and are in the same class at one of the universities in Indonesia. Data was collected through in-depth questionnaires with open-ended questions. The results of the study show that the students in the multicultural class have a good level of intercultural awareness. They have mastered all levels of intercultural awareness, from basic cultural awareness, advanced cultural awareness to intercultural awareness. Although they faced obstacles such as language barriers and limited exposure to the target language's culture in the class, they are able to practice tolerance and respect for different cultures. In addition, they have been able to adapt and integrate their cultural knowledge to be implemented in communication with speakers from different cultures
The Effects of Teacher Believes and Practice On Students’ Achievement Of English Language Teaching Husaini, Rizqi; Prasetiyowati, Eni
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i1.1414

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Teachers’ beliefs are important for understanding and improving educational process. This is important because teachers believe is a guideline for the teacher to conduct or make the strategy in teaching learning process. It can shape learner’s learning environment, their motivation, and their learning achievement. The aims of this research to describe about what teachers believe about learning the language, whether there is a similarity between the teachers with other teachers. Secondly is about the influence from the teachers' beliefs about language learning with students' level of understanding of score taken either seen or directly to the confirmation on these students. And as a result, each teacher has a different understanding with other teachers. This is due to several factors other than the level of education is also on the material level and what is taught to students. Second, it also has an influence on the level of student understanding. Because teachers will use different approaches differ depending on what he believed and understood.
Illocutionary Act Analysis on United Nations Women Press: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda Fadzila, Nadia Nur
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i1.1467

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Illocutionary acts as part of the study of Pragmatics concern with the speakers’ intended meaning when they make utterances. The intended meaning can be the same as the literal meaning in the locution or it has different meaning depending on the context of the utterances. This paper reports on the illocutionary acts in the text of “Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda” that is released in a press conference held by United Nations Women on February 15, 2018. Using categorization of type of Illocutionary acts from Yule (1996), that are representative, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative. This study asked the question of what kind of illocutionary acts are found in the text and what is the dominant of them. The data was collected through documentation from UN women’s press website. This study found 5 types of illocutionary acts with a total of 44 data. The results of the study showed 27 representative illocutionary acts consisting of 1 warning, 7 assumptions, 10 demands, 6 affirmations, 1 stating, and 2 hypotheses, while commissive was found in total of 8 data, consisting of 3 promises, 1 swears, 3 advises, and 1 does. Directives type of illocution was found only in 2 utterances; both are about advice. Expressive Illocution was found in 3 data, comprising 1 praise, 2 thank. Lastly, directive was found in 4 utterances with 3 states and 1 asks. Therefore, the most widely used illocutionary speech act is representative with 27 utterances.
An Analysis on Figurative Language in Kitchen Nightmares TV Shows Sa'adah, Hana; Rohana, Yogi
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i1.1503

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Figurative language is a part of semantics, which has the function of making literary works or even daily conversation more interesting, attractive, and alive. TV-show is the one of electronic media which provides variety entertainment to the people. With the infrequency of linguistics research on TV shows, therefore the purpose of this study is to analyze the figurative language that is found on Kitchen Nightmares TV shows. The research was a content analysis, evaluating and interpreting data from targeted sources. The data was obtained from the official YouTube channel of Kitchen Nightmares. The data collection was done using the data sampling method. In data analysis, the researcher classified, identified, analyzed, and calculated the data to find the dominant types. In validating the data, analyst triangulation was done. After that, the top type related to the context to then draw a conclusion. The result showed that; (1) 4 metaphor, 8 metonymy, 8 hyperbole, 1 litotes, 21 irony, 8 simile, 10 personification. (2) the percentage of the types of figurative language were 7% metonym, 13% hyperbole, 2% litotes, 35% irony, 13% simile, and 17% personification. Hence, the dominant type of figurative language was irony, with the percentage 35% or 21 data. Furthermore, this study provided contribution in the education field to increase the students’ language skills.
An Analysis of Politeness Strategies Used by Teacher and Students in English Class at SMPN 1 Mojo Kediri Mukharomah, Lailatul; Sumanto, Ossa Bodhi Tala
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i1.1589

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Politeness is a vital component in communication as it assists in preventing misunderstandings, reducing conflict, and building harmony between interlocutors, such as communication between the educator and learners in the educational setting. This descriptive qualitative study attempts to explore the types and preferred politeness techniques employed by both educators and learners in an English class. An English teacher and 40 students of class 7 G SMPN 1 Mojo Kediri were the participants of this research. The research's primary instrument was an observation by video recording and documentation, which was afterward examined by the researchers through data reduction, display of data, conclusion drawing, and triangular validation. The data was evaluated employing Leech's politeness theory, involving the following maxims: tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim, and sympathy maxim. The findings revealed that the instructor employed all six maxims, namely tact, generosity, approbation, modesty, agreement, and sympathy maxim. While the students only employed four maxims, they displayed tact, modesty, agreement, and sympathy maxim. There are 132 utterances between the instructor and students, and it was discovered that the agreement maxim was the most frequently employed politeness approach by the teacher and students, with 41 frequencies used by the teacher and 37 frequencies used by the students.
An Analysis of the Level of Students’ Anxiety on Their Writing Skills Puspita, Anggun Guna
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i2.1970

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Since English has been a foreign language in Indonesia, many achievements are needed in teaching and learning in school. English as subject material in school has four basic language skills, they are reading, writing, speaking, and listening. In learning English as a foreign language, anxiety is a common issue that hinders the student's learning process, including writing skills. The anxiety experienced by students in writing is called writing anxiety. The aim of this qualitative case study is to find out the level of writing anxiety experienced by students in classX-6 at SMAN 1 Prambon and find out teacher's strategies to help students overcome their writing anxiety. The data were collected through the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) questionnaire by Cheng (2004) and interviews were conducted with students of class X-6 and English teachers. The results show that there is a high level of writing anxiety in class X-6 students, with factors such as low self-confidence, lack of topical knowledge, language difficulties, pressure of perfect work, and pressure of limited time. Meanwhile, the teacher has several strategies to help students overcome their writing anxiety, such as memorizing vocabulary sessions at every meeting, giving random questions to help students develop their ideas, providing writing exercises with layouts and pictures to practice their writing skills, giving motivation in every assessment, doing icebreaking and playing games
The Students' Perceptions of Practicing Speaking Skill By Using British Council Website Ali, Aprilia Anggraini; Palupi, Ica Catur; Aini, Nurul
IREELL: Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023): IREELL
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/ireell.v1i2.1311

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This study aims to determine the perception of the use of the British Council website. This study uses quantitative methods and the research participants were 20 students in the 6th semester of the English Education Program at IAIN KEDIRI with twenty one statements concerning how they felt about using British Council Website to practice their English language skills. The data were collected through a questionnaire distributed to students using Google Forms. The highest point of those questionnaires was students “Agree” that British Council Website helps them practice in speaking. While the lowest point of questionnaires was “Disagree”. They can improve their speaking skill by noting important details in their notebook when they watch videos on the British Council Website. In addition, the finding shows that British Council website is effective to help teacher in delivering material and boosting the students’ motivation to speak. In conclusion, many students agree that the British Council website can help students with their problems in learning English.

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