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English Education Journal
Published by Universitas Syiah Kuala
ISSN : 20853750     EISSN : 30259789     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
EEJ (English Education Journal) is a peer-reviewed and open access academic journal published by the Graduate Program of English Language Education, University of Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It presents the work/research of students and lecturers who are in the program. It is published four times a year in the months of January, April, July and October. The articles are those in the scopes of English language teaching and learning, linguistics, and literature.
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THE TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDING OF CONTENT AND PROCESS STANDARDS OF 2013 CURRICULUM AND THEIR ABILITIES IN PREPARING ENGLISH LESSON PLAN Rusydi Rusydi; Usman Kasim; Iskandar Abdul Samad
English Education Journal Vol 11, No 4 (2020)
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Teachers’ understanding of how both content and process standards affect their preparation on the lesson plan (RPP) is still weak. There is a lack of learning assessment, basic competence, indicators, teaching materials, and learning models and their use which is not appropriate based on the Indonesian 2013 curriculum. This research was aimed at finding out the English teachers’ understanding of two main elements of the 2013 curriculum; content and process standards that lead the teachers to prepare appropriate lesson plan (RPP) which has a direct interaction with the instructional process. The selected samples were six English teachers from different levels of junior high schools in Banda Aceh. The questionnaire and interview guide were used as research instruments. The result of the teachers’ understanding of the content standard of 2013 curriculum showed that the English teachers had an fairly good understanding of the standard of the content of the curriculum 2013 as indicated by an average score of 65.23, while teachers’ understanding of process standard of curriculum 2013 showed the English teachers already had a good understanding of the standard of the content of the 2013 curriculum, as shown by an average score of 72.21. Overall, the average score of lesson plan (RPP) preparation was 65.16 which was categorized as being fairly good.
THE USE OF MIME MEDIA TO ENHANCE WRITING OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ON RECOUNT TEXT Syahyar Ridhana Putra; Sofyan A. Gani; Kismullah Abdul Muthalib
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This study was aimed at finding out the implementation of the mime media to enhance students’ writing skills on recount text at the tenth-grade students of Islamic Senior High School Langsa. This study is quantitative research which used some numerical data that were analyzed statistically. The subjects of this study were 42 students who were taken from X MIA 3 as an experimental group and X MIA 4 as a control group. The instruments used to collect the data were pretest, posttest, and questionnaire. The result of the pretest score in the experimental class was 63.61, and the result of the posttest score in the experimental class was 77. The result of the pretest score in the control class was 63.80, and the result of the posttest score in the control class was 74.47. The test of the hypothesis using the t-test formula showed that the t-count was higher than the t-table. The score of the t-value was 1.72, while t-table on = 5% with df 40 was 1.68, which means the hypothesis was accepted. It could be concluded that there was a different result between the students who were taught by using mime media and those who were not, where the students who were taught by using mime media gained better scores. In the questionnaire, the researchers found that almost all the students choose “agree” toward mime media in writing recount text processes.
USING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN COSMETIC ADVERTISEMENTS ON INDONESIAN TELEVISION Mastura Sofyan; Zulfadli A. Aziz; Bukhari Daud
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Advertisement is one of the essential types of mass communication expected to persuade people to buy  products or services. In advertisement, language use should be persuasive because it intends to influence the customers to purchase the items. Using figurative expression in advertisement is one way to attract consumers ‘attention. This qualitative research was aimed at finding out the types of figurative expression and its function used in cosmetic advertisements advertised on Indonesian television. The data of this research were the cosmetic advertisements showed on Indonesian television in 2018 that employed English figurative expression in slogan of the advertisement. From 23 data identified, the researchers found that all of them deployed figurative expressions in various types. The most dominant figurative expression found in this research was hyperbole. It was found that out of 23 advertisements, twelve of advertisements used hyperbole expression, whereas personification expression was found in one advertisement. Besides, the researchersfound five advertisements using repetition expression, two advertisements employing metaphor expression, two slogans of advertisement using simile expression, and one parallelism expression found in advertisement.
THE INVESTIGATION OF REFUSAL STRATEGIES USED BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Aulia Fitri; Asnawi Muslem; Saiful Marhaban
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The aim of this research is to investigate the refusal strategy used by Acehnese EFL university students and  how the  interlocutor’s power status affects on it. The sample of this study were 25 students at fifth-semester of English language department of Syiah Kuala University. In collecting the data, this study used a discourse completion test consisting of 10 situations, and semantic formula were analyzed and categorized according to the Beebe, Takahashi and Uliss-Weltz (1990). The results show that the students used different manners in presenting the refusal strategies. In refusing the intelocutors, they tended to choose an indirect strategy by stating regret or saying 'sorry', and excuses or explanations, while the direct and adjunct strategies were the least to be used. Moreover, this study has also been shown that the interlocutor's status became a significant role in the number of strategies used for refusing. The higher the status of our interlocutor was, the more polite the use of refusal strategies the participants employed. Additional analysis revealed that the students’ culture greatly influences the presenting of their strategy in refusing. The study's results are expected to pave future research concerning English foreign language learners' refusal strategies.
STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES IN ENGLISH SPEECH PROGRAM Miftahul Jannah; Bustami Usman; Saiful Marhaban
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The purpose of this mixed method research is to describe the students’ perspectives, the students’ challenges and how they overcome those challenges in English speech program. Approximately 68 students filled the questionnaires and 15 of them were selected for the interview. The instruments used in this study were a closed ended questionnaire consisting of 22 questions adapted from the public speaking competence rubric proposed by Schreiber, Paul and Shibley (2012) and the interview guideline adapted from Abubakar, Atmowardoyo and Korompot (2017). The findings of the study revealed that the English speech program was an essential program to increase the students’ speaking ability (65%). Moreover, the program gave advantages to the students (51%). It also found out that the program mostly challenged the students to choose the appropriate topic to the audience (69%) and to use good language (59%). From the interview, it found out that the students made the following efforts to overcome the challenges, namely making independent preparation for the performance, doing practice with friends and having consultation with classroom coordinators.
DYSPHEMISM USED IN PROHABA NEWSPAPER Intan Maulana; Zulfadli A. Aziz; Bukhari Daud
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The unique use of language plays an important role in media, especially for the journalist business like newspapers. As a strategy to develop journalistic business, many mass media work hard to attract the reader's attention, such as the use of language style of dysphemism. This research aimed at finding out the types of dysphemism and its function contained in Prohaba Newspaper, a daily newspaper published in Banda Aceh. In this qualitative research, the data were obtained from the newspaper published in June-December Edition 2018. The data were analyzed and categorized based on the types of dysphemism proposed by Warren (1992) and its functions by Allan and Burridge (2006). It was found that Prohaba  contains the five types of dysphemism with their own functions. Out of 26 dysphemism, the most dominant dysphemism type, 14 cases, that was found in this research was dysphemism with the function to insult. Term of insult or disrespect type was found in three pieces of news which compared people to animals. Furthermore, taboo terms were used in other three pieces of news, and the last three of news used euphemistic dysphemism type.
MACROSTRUCTURE OF CLASSROOM SPOKEN DISCOURSES PRODUCED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS Meta Keumala; Iskandar Abdul Samad; Dohra Fitrisia
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For English teaching practice, it is important to deliberate productive talks that spur students’ comprehension, creativity, and problem solving ability. This research aimed at finding out the spoken discourse based on six phases of macrostructure in English classrooms. In this study, the writers employed observation guide sheets to collect the data and it was employed to 2 English teachers in Aceh Besar. The guide was developed based on Van Dijk (1980) on macrostructure in discourse society. The theory was adopted and adjusted based on the classroom spoken discourse. The data were analyzed using the interactive model analysis by Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014). The steps were data condensation, data display, and data verification by using a percentage formula. The findings indicate that two teachers conducted the process of teaching and learning activities according to the lesson plans that they had previously designed. Even though both of them had different teaching strategies, but the lesson plans had a complete structure with 6 steps in macro-phases.
THE VISUALIZATION METACOGNITIVE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION Putri Restu Damayanti; Siti Sarah Fitriani; Saiful Marhaban
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Improving the reading comprehension of the students requires creativity in finding the strategy and motivation to read. Therefore, this research aims to implement visualization metacognitive strategy to improve the students’ reading comprehension. The researcher focuses on the implementation of visualization metacognitive strategy in improving the reading comprehension by using recount text. Then she also limits the scope on reading sub-skills that consists of main idea, supporting details, inference, reference, and vocabulary.  This research used tests which are divided to pretest and post-test and also questionnaire as the instruments. The samples were the students from SMAN 4 Banda Aceh, which consisted of 66 students and divided into experimental class and control class. The scores were tabulated statistically by using t-test. Then, the researcher also analyzed the students’ visual representation. The result of hypothesis testing of this research showed that students’ reading comprehension is significantly improved. This strategy developed students’ knowledge on reading sub-skills. Furthermore, the result of the students’ responses toward the strategy was responded positively by the students as it shows the result of 97% at the questionnaire. Therefore, it is suggested to implement visualization metacognitive strategy in improving reading comprehension. In conclusion, this research has demonstrated that the treatment activities have improved the students’ reading comprehension as they enjoy  competition and fun in learning English.

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