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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 analysis of best-seller fantasy novel covers in 2019 through multimodal lens Arinal Haqqiyah Ahmad; Bukhari Daud; Dohra Fitrisia
English Education Journal Vol 12, No 1 (2021)
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The purpose of this research was to analyze ten covers of 2019 best-seller fantasy novels through multimodal. The research method used was qualitative research. The objects in this research were ten book covers of 2019 best-seller fantasy novels. The instruments used were documentation that aimed at obtaining data, including relevant books, study, activity reporting, relevant research data. Content analysis was used to obtain the data. This study used five phased cycles in analyzing the data; compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting, and concluding. The result of analyzing the novels is emphasized in two focuses, including representation and interactive function. Several novels have a narrative aspect, while others contain conceptual interpretation, which is part of a representative function. It was very challenging to interpret some implicit meaning of the symbols in some of the novels as it requires mythical knowledge. Therefore, it is expected that understanding the implicit meaning comprehensively will make readers easier to understand the story outline of the novel.
STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES IN ENGLISH SPEECH PROGRAM Miftahul Jannah; Bustami Usman; Saiful Marhaban
English Education Journal Vol 11, No 4 (2020)
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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.
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SUMMARIZING ACTIVITY BY USING SOMEBODY WANTED BUT SO (SWBS) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION Mursyida Mursyida; Iskandar Abdul Samad; Asnawi Muslem
English Education Journal Vol 11, No 3 (2020)
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The aim of this research is to find out if there is a significant difference between the students who were taught through summarizing activity using somebody wanted but so (SWBS) strategy than those who were not taught through the strategy to improve the students’ reading comprehension in terms of finding out the main idea, specific information, word meaning, reference, and inference. This study employed a true experimental design in which there were two classes as the samples classified into experimental and control classes. The classes were chosen by using cluster random sampling and each class consisted of 36 students. In collecting the data, pre-test and post-test were used and the data were analyzed by using SPSS version 21. The result of the study found the post-test mean score at the experimental class is 84.78, and the post-test mean score at the control class is 73.33. Furthermore, the result of the z-score between both experimental and control classes is 6.05 at the level significance of 5% (0.05). Thus, it indicates that there is a significant difference between the students who were taught through SWBS strategy than those who were not taught through this strategy to improve the students’ reading comprehension.
DYSPHEMISM USED IN PROHABA NEWSPAPER Intan Maulana; Zulfadli A. Aziz; Bukhari Daud
English Education Journal Vol 11, No 4 (2020)
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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.
USING THINK-TALK-WRITE STRATEGY IN TEACHING WRITING AN ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT Ita As’ar Muna; Zulfadli A. Aziz; Kismullah Abdul Muthalib
English Education Journal Vol 11, No 3 (2020)
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This research was conducted to know the effect of Think-Talk-Write strategy on the students’ writing analytical exposition improvement and to know the students’ responses toward the use of this strategy in teaching writing an analytical exposition text. This is a quasi-experimental research in which the samples were taken from two classes, experimental class (XI-IPA F) which consisted of 34 students and control class (XI-IPA G) which consisted of 36 students. The instruments of this research were pre-test and post-test. The result showed that the mean scores of pre-test in the experimental class was 61.47, while the mean score of post-test in the experimental class was 76.67. Moreover, both scores were analyzed by comparing the z-z-score of pre-test and post-test in the experimental class. The result of the z-test was -11.09 at the level significance 5% with assumption if the z-score is beyond -1.96 and 1.96, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. Furthermore, the result of the questionnaire showed that the students gave positive responses toward the implementation of Think-Talk-Write strategy on teaching writing analytical exposition text where 57% of students strongly agreed and 40% of students agreed with the implementation of Think-Talk-Write strategy. In conclusion, the implementation of Think-Talk-Write strategy could improve the students’ ability to write an analytical exposition text.
MACROSTRUCTURE OF CLASSROOM SPOKEN DISCOURSES PRODUCED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS Meta Keumala; Iskandar Abdul Samad; Dohra Fitrisia
English Education Journal Vol 11, No 4 (2020)
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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.
LEXICAL BUNDLES IN STUDENTS’ ESSAY WRITING Nadia Ulfa; Kismullah Abdul Muthalib
English Education Journal Vol 11, No 3 (2020)
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This study was aimed to find out the frequency of three- word and four- word of lexical bundles which were used in the essay writing of the undergraduate students studying at English Education Department of Syiah Kuala University. This study employed a corpus based analysis which compiled a specialized small corpus consisting of 161 students’ essays under linguistic topic. In order to generate the frequent list of sequences, computational software named AntConc 3.5.8 by Laurent Anthony was used. The results showed that the number of three-word bundles was higher than four-word bundles in terms of the frequency of co-occurrence in which the most common expression the function of as three-word bundles and the advantages of being as four-word bundles were found.
LANGUAGE STYLES USED IN EDUCATIONAL ADVERTISEMENT OF THE JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER Rifka Fani Syuhada; Iskandar Abdul Samad; Kismullah Abdul Muthalib
English Education Journal Vol 11, No 3 (2020)
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The educational advertisements are displayed in various media: printed or electronic media. The advertisements are set in many types, forms, and styles of the language used to persuade customers. However, they have not been clearly investigated yet until there are no certain determinates to these cases, especially, the language styles use. This research aims to describe the styles of language in the educational advertisement of The Jakarta Post newspaper published from May 2018 to August 2019. The theory used in this study was put forward by Moriarty, Mitchell, and Wells (2012). This research used a descriptive qualitative method. The results showed that there were three language styles from twenty-four advertisements that appeared in the educational advertisement on The Jakarta Post newspaper. These were hard-sell style, straightforward style, and the combination of hard-sell and straightforward. However, the most dominant language style appearing in the educational advertisement of The Jakarta Post newspaper in May 2018 to August 2019 edition was a hard-sell style because the language style of this advertisement provided detailed information in which it is very often used in displayed advertisements.
THE VISUALIZATION METACOGNITIVE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION Putri Restu Damayanti; Siti Sarah Fitriani; Saiful Marhaban
English Education Journal Vol 11, No 4 (2020)
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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.
A visual analysis of English textbook “Pathway to English 3” used by Indonesian senior high schools Anna Nuriskia; Sofyan A Gani; Saiful Marhaban
English Education Journal Vol 12, No 1 (2021)
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This paper focused on analysing the visual values found in the Pathway to English 3 textbook. In conducting this research, a descriptive qualitative approach was used. The content analysis model was applied. The data was taken from an English textbook published by Erlangga in 2015 entitled Pathway to English 3. A documentation approach was used to collect the data. The textbook was examined the data based on Kress and Leeuwen (2006) visual complementarity. There are three results of the research. First, most participants employed in Pathway to English 3 textbook are human participants (53.4%). Meanwhile, the non-human participants mostly used are object participants. Second, in terms of interactive meaning, the textbook supports the medium shot (69.5%) and the oblique perspective (54.9%). All of the pictures in the book are in black and white (100%). Additionally, (81.7%) images have a background. Last, from the compositional meaning, it was found that the images in the textbook are more presented to be informative (38.6%) rather than illustrative (34.8%) and decorative (26.6%). Furthermore, the dominant positions of the images are top/bottom position (60.7). In conclusion, textbook pictures can serve pedagogical purposes by supporting students in completing the tasks that follow the pictures.

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