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Tefla Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistic Journal)
Published by Universitas Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin
ISSN : -     EISSN : 26545152     DOI : https://doi.org/10.35747/tefla
Core Subject : Humanities, Education,
Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
TEFLA is a high-quality open access peer-reviewed research journal that is published by Universitas Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin and managed by the English Language Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin. This is a biannual journal, published every January-June and July-December. TEFLA provides a platform for researchers, academicians, professionals, practitioners, and students to impart and share knowledge in the form of high-quality empirical and theoretical research papers, case studies, and literature reviews. The focus areas of the journal are English linguistics, English literature, and English language teaching and education. TEFLA welcomes and acknowledges high-quality theoretical and empirical original research papers, case studies, review papers, literature reviews, and conceptual frameworks about English linguistics, English literature, and their teaching from researchers, academicians, professionals, practitioners, and students from all over the world.
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Correlation between Students’ Reading Habit and Their Cross Cultural Understanding Agustina Lestary; Ninuk Krismanti; Imam Hendra Saputra
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v2i2.1045

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This study is conducted to describe the correlation between reading habit and cross cultural understanding. The subject of this study is students of English Department of STKIP PGRI Banjarmasin. The data are obtained through questionnaire, to find out students’ reading habit, and test, to measure students’ intercultural knowledge. SPSS is used to analyze the correlations between these two variables. The result of the test shows that most students make mistakes in answering the questions related to cultural knowledge. However, the reading habit is not the determinant factor of the test’s result. This means that there is no significant correlation between students’ reading habit and the cross cultural knowledge.
Balancing Fluency and Accuracy Practices: Model of Instruction from a Private English Course Rahma Pitria Ningsih
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v2i2.1046

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This observational research focused on the teaching methods to investigate the techniques and strategies employed by the English instructors in their teaching-learning in the classroom. The present study analyzed the findings and figured out the useful model of instruction, which can cover both accuracy and fluency practices. A descriptive qualitative approach was the design of the research by utilizing observation and interviews as data collection methods. The observation was conducted to record the practice of teaching for ten meetings. During the observation, field notes and observation checklist were used to carefully collect all the data needed during the teaching and learning process. Eight English instructors at the course were invited for interviews so more comprehensive data related to their method and teaching strategies can be gathered. The findings of the research showed that ELITE English Course Banjarmasin applied the combination of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and Presentation Practice Production (PPP) as a model of their instructions, so the students got opportunities to practice both accuracy and Fluency in the classroom. During the observation, field notes and observation checklist were used to carefully collect all the data needed during the teaching and learning process.
An Analysis of Teacher Talk and Student Talk in English Classroom Interaction Using FLINT System at The Ninth Grade of SMP Negeri 3 Hulu Sungai Tengah Septiana Astutie
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v2i2.1047

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The research aims to describe the types of teacher talk and student talk found in the English classroominteraction using Foreign Language Interaction (FLINT) system. This research was conducted in SMPNegeri 3 Hulu Sungai Tengah and involves two class of the ninth grade. This research used descriptivequalitative design. The data were obtained with observation and recording of interaction between teacherand students during teaching and learning activity. The data on the recording converted into transcript andanalyzed with selecting, focusing and summarizing which fit to teacher talk and student talk categories. Thefindings showed teacher and students were using the categories of talk which mentioned in FLINT system.The result revealed the teacher mostly used asking question category. Then, the teacher continued to usingtalk categories such as, giving information, giving direction, praising or encouraging, criticizing studentsbehavior, using ideas of students and dealing with feelings. Meanwhile, students was giving their specificresponse and their open-ended response during learning activity. Based on the result, it can besummarized that teacher mostly using asking question to build and interaction in the classroom and thestudents always giving their response every time the teacher asking a question. Furthermore, somesuggestions formulates as: for the teacher, they should evaluating and developing their talk throughclassroom interaction. Then, for the future researcher, they can using this research as a references withcompleted data and extending research in English classroom interaction at different location.
Improving Students’ Ability in Writing Recount Text by Using Lexicon List at First Year Of SMA Negeri 3 Palangka Raya in Academic Year 2011/2012 Susva Amiyana
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v2i2.1048

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The objective of this study is to find out the connection between lexicon list and students’ ability in writing recount text and to find out the degree of the students’ improvement of writing recount text at the first year of SMA Negeri 3 Palangka Raya in academic year 2011/2012. The subject involved in this study was the first year students of SMA Negeri 3 Palangka Raya. The writer used X-3 which gets the lowest score for writing skill the class consists of 35 students. The research method that used in this study was classroom action research. This classroom action research was carried out by the researcher collaboratively with the teacher in the first year students of SMA Negeri 3 Palangka Raya by implementing lexicon list. The writer described improvement in students’ writing skill through several procedures such as identifying the problem, carrying out the real classroom research such as planning, implementing the action, observing and reflecting the observation result and the last doing evaluation. According to the result of post-test on every end of the cycle, the increase of the students’ achievement was recorded. At the pre-test was 38.17 % (Very Poor), Post-test cycle I was 55.23 % (Poor), and at Post-test cycle II was 73.03 % (Good). This indicated that there was an increase by 17.06 % from pre-test to post-test cycle I and 17.8 % from post-test cycle I to post-test cycle II. Total increase from pre-test to post-test cycle II was 34.86 %. This means that lexicon list method positively increase students’ writing skill on recount. In addition to test results, the results of questionnaires showed that students had difficulty in understanding the recount text. The students agree that in the teaching learning process using the media as motivation and attraction students in learning English especially recount text.
“Making the Old Fashion Shines Again”: A Review on Instructional Media and Innovation Course at STKIP PGRI Banjarmasin Yasyir Fahmi Mubaraq; Imam Hendra Saputra
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v2i2.1049

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Instructional media and innovation course is a compulsory subject for the pre-service teachers who are studying at STKIP PGRI Banjarmasin - a teacher training and education collage. This course requires the students to master the recent media design and educational technology. The old fashion media such as puppets, big books, and miniature are also taught to the course participants. Which at the same time, they also learn to use the recent media such as Edmodo, Kahoot!, and the newest related educational technology. This paper illustrates how the lecturers design their teaching and learning plan as well as underlines some recommendations for this course.
Developing a Handbook of Peatlands and the Smog Disaster: An English for Specific Purpose (ESP) Yusuf Al Arief
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v2i2.1050

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In 1998, 2002, and 2015, Indonesia experienced the worst smog disaster. Not only caused disruption inIndonesia, but the smog also caused problems in neighbouring countries. Most people think that this is the resultof forest fires, but in fact the smog is caused by something else related to peatlands. This must be introduced tothe people of Indonesia and the world so that there is no ongoing misunderstanding. Therefore, the authorsdeveloped an English for Specific Purpose (ESP) textbook related to peatlands and smog. This research isintended to develop a textbook on the relationship between peatlands and smog disasters which will be used forthe educational process related to this matter which will be distributed in the form of textbooks. The methodologyused in this research is Research and Development, where researchers will conduct data and informationcollection qualitatively. Furthermore, the findings will be the basis for the development of textbooks containingmaterial about peatlands and smog. The results showed that the smog that occurred, especially in the Kalimantanarea, was not pure due to the burning of forests for plantation land only. The smog turned out to be caused byburning peatlands where the fire was below the surface of the ground, making it difficult to extinguish and causesmoke to continue to spread for a long time. Root structure and content in peatlands is the main source of smogproblems. This was then used as material for the preparation of English for Specific Purposes textbooks:Peatlands and the Smog Disaster. This research is limited only to peatlands in Kalimantan, smog, and developingtextbooks as an educational tool. Since the focus of this study is only on the peatlands and the smog disasterdeveloped for textbooks as educational reference material, the results of this study can be said to be classifiedas new research and have a high urgency to be carried out.
IMPROVING ENGLISH LEARNING MOTIVATION OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN STUDENTS THROUGH JIGSAW METHOD AT STMIK ASIA MALANG Tri Wahyuni
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 2 No. 1 (2019)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v2i1.1051

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This study aims to improve motivation through jigsaw method. This research was a classroom action research. The subjects were students of S1 degree from Visual Communication Design or Desain Komunikasi Visual (DKV) STMIK Asia Malang at 2018/2019 academic year. The action research was conducted to measure how jigsaw method can improve students’ learning motivation in the English subject. The data were collected using learning motivation questionnaire which were classified into good, enough, fair, and bad classification. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. This research shows that there is an improvement in students’ learning motivation through jigsaw method with an average score from the first cycle to the second cycle is 95%. The researcher suggests that teachers need to apply various learning activities through group discussion especially jigsaw. Jigsaw can improve students’ learning motivation as students can actively involve in the teaching learning process.
Metacognitive Reading Strategies of EFL Learners: A Narrative Research Armin Fani; Nia Karuniasih; Ika Rusdiati
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v3i1.1052

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EFL learner need abundant knowledge of metacognitive reading strategies to improve their reading comprehension process. Since, the employment of metacognitive reading strategies has positive correlation with reading comprehension achievement. Thus, it is a worth conducting to investigate the metacognitive reading strategies employment by EFL learner. This study aims to investigate (1) what are metacognitive strategies employed by EFL learners in before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading phases? (2) how do EFL learners employ their metacognitive reading strategies? Conducting through narrative principle, the result of this study shows that particular metacognitive reading strategies were employed by the participant of this research. The result also show that the strategies were employed based on problem and purpose of reading comprehension process. Therefore, effective reading comprehension process should be equipped with reading comprehension employment.
DEVELOPING NURSING ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS BY USING SIMULATION TECHNIQUE TO INCREASE ENGLISH ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILL FOR NURSING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Tenny Murtiningsih; Ahmad Kailani
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 2 No. 1 (2019)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v2i1.1054

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Nursing English is one of the branches of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) that require the instructors to take into account specific students’ learning needs. This is a Research and Development aimed: (1) to know the problems which are faced by the nursing students in studying English, (2) to develop nursing English materials by using simulation technique. There were 58 nurse students of the sixth semester at a private university in Indonesia invited to participate in the study. The data were garnered through questionnaires. Interviews were also conducted with students, teachers and subject specialist teachers. To enrich the data focus group discussions were carried out. The findings indicated that students’ speaking skill increased even though this method seemed challenging to them. Subject specialist teachers were familiar with this teaching technique since in the nursing field almost all the subjects need a simulation. This research contributes to the TESOL methodology and future research may expand the findings from another perspective.
Implementing Quizizz as Game Based Learning and Assessment in the English Classroom Rudi Irwansyah; Muna Izzati
TEFLA Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35747/tefla.v3i1.1055

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Quizizz is an online assessment tool as a fun multiplayer classroom activity that allows all students to practice together with their computer or Smartphone. The aim of this paper is to describe the implementation of Quizizz as a game based learning and assessment in the English classroom of SMA Negeri 1 Tamban Barito Kuala regency. There are 6 clasess learn English through this app during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quizziz is used for 20 minutes before finishing English class once the students feel very tired, sleepy, and getting bored for their English class. The teacher can easily make assessment using this application because the score directly showed at the report. Some of questions asked to those students regarding to their opinion of implementing Quizizz during the English class. The students feel excited and motivated doing the task because the display of the application very interesting like playing a game. According to testing the implementing of Quizizz by writer during the English skill classroom, found that all students were very active to answer the questions which provided by researches, and more concentrated on the topic. The findings shows that the students display the positive attitude for quizizz and become more motivated in learning English.

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