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Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL)
Published by Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
ISSN : 23019468     EISSN : 25026747     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
A Journal of First and Second Language Teaching and Learning
Arjuna Subject : -
Articles 626 Documents
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Saudi Arabia EFL university students’ voice on challenges and solution in learning academic writing Alharbi, Mohammed Abdullah
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 8, No 3 (2019): Vol. 8 No. 3, January 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v8i3.15276

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The present study aims to investigate the difficulties faced by 74 English as a foreign language (EFL) undergraduate students in developing a well-written paragraph in academic writing by designing a writing course based on the students’ voices. The self-report survey (5-point Likert scale) was used as the pre- and post-questionnaire, and pre- and the post-tests task was used to track students’ writing improvement before and after taking a writing course. Pre-questionnaire and pre-tests showed that participants had difficulties in using the mechanics of writing (punctuation, spelling, grammar, topic sentences, and supporting sentences). The majority of the students’ responses in the post-survey shows that they believed their writing improved and encountered fewer difficulties in writing as compared to their views in the pre-questionnaire. The result of the post-tests indicates improvements in students’ writing samples. The study concludes that EFL writing courses should be designed on the basis of challenges faced by the students in order to get the best outcome from the course.
IDEATIONAL AND INTERPERSONAL MEANINGS OF CHILDREN NARRATIVES IN INDONESIAN PICTUREBOOKS Hermawan, Budi; Sukyadi, Didi
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 7, No 2 (2017): Vol. 7 No. 2, September 2017
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v7i2.8139

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Recent understanding as strongly believed by studies investigating the interactive or interpersonal meanings of images in such printed texts as textbooks and picturebooks shows that interpersonal relation can be established not only through verbal sentences as the primarily representational mode of our experiences but can also be represented through visual forms such as photographs and pictures. Further, studies on how meanings are represented through verbal and visual modes have revealed how readers’ experiences and readers’ social roles in relation to the content of the texts are constructed. The construction of readers’ social roles through the use of images in printed texts has been regarded to be parallel with how interactants’ social position is enacted in direct communication relying on the use of verbal sentences. In Indonesian contexts, however, studies on how verbal and visual modes represent experiences and construct social position of the interactants seem to be underexplored. The present study examined three Indonesian picturebooks using the perspectives of multimodality and reported how the children’s experiences were represented through the verbal and the visual modes used, and how these two semiotic resources represented the social relationship between the characters in the picturebook and the potential readers of the books. The examination of the verbal texts has been focused on the clauses as the building blocks of the texts by identifying the participants, process types, circumstances, and clause types. The examination of the pictures has been focused on such visual elements as who/what are in the picture, what activities taking place, the attributes possessed by the represented participants, and the circumstances. In addition, how the represented participants address the viewers was also examined. The results of the analysis show that ideationally the narrative is mostly centered around the activities done by and to children, which are presented as an offer to the readers. Verbally and visually the represented participants are socially equal to the children readers. The three picturebooks are excellent examples of picturebooks that present a narrative of Indonesian children designed for young readers because of their simple vocabulary, simply-constructed Indonesian grammar employed, and simple yet interesting plot they deal with. 
MAKING EXTENSIVE READING EVEN MORE STUDENT CENTERED Jacobs, George; Renandya, Willy
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 4, No 2 (2015): Vol 4 No. 2 January 2015
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v4i2.691

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Abstract: This article begins by explaining the student centered learning paradigm.  Next, the article explains various features of a student centered approach to education and how extensive reading (ER), as it is most often practiced, fits with those features.  The bulk of the article suggests how ER might be implemented to make it even more learner centered. 
WHAT MAKES EFL SPEAKERS’ UTTERANCES MORE INTELLIGIBLE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL INTELLIGIBILITY? Moedjito, M.; Jaelani, Selamet Riadi; Asrobi, Maman
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 9, No 1 (2019): Vol. 9 No. 1, May 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v9i1.15235

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In this globalisation era, native-like pronunciation has no longer become the goal of pronunciation teaching in EFL classrooms. Instead, intelligibility, more specifically, global intelligibility, has become a legitimate goal of pronunciation teaching (Moedjito, 2009). However, researchers and practitioners have not reached to the final conclusion of what makes EFL speakers? utterances more intelligible. This paper is to report a study investigating factors which made EFL speakers? utterances more intelligible in the context of global intelligibility. In order to achieve the goal, the present researchers used three instruments to collect data: a questionnaire, an in-depth interview, and an assessment of EFL speakers? utterances from the in-depth interview. The quantitative data from the questionnaire and assessment of EFL speakers? utterances were submitted to a Pearson?s Product Moment test to assess the correlation coefficient of each independent variable to intelligibility and to a multiple regression test to examine the predictive power of the independent variables to intelligibility as the dependent variable. Meanwhile, the data of the in-depth interview were qualitatively scrutinised. The results of the data analysis revealed that word pronunciation accuracy might become the most influencing factor which made EFL speakers? utterances more intelligible. In addition to the accurate pronunciation, meaningful vocabulary might crucially account for intelligibility of EFL speakers? utterances. These findings were positively confirmed by the results of the in-depth interview analysis. The major pedagogical implication of the study is that in English pronunciation classes, there should be more focus on word pronunciation accuracy in EFL classrooms.
AN ANALYSIS OF COHESION OF EXPOSITION TEXTS: AN INDONESIAN CONTEXT Emilia, Emi; Habibi, Nurfitri; Bangga, Lungguh Ariang
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 7, No 3 (2018): Vol. 7 No. 3, January 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v7i3.9791

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The paper reports on the results of a study aiming to investigate the cohesion of exposition texts written by eleventh graders of a school in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The study used a qualitative case study research design, especially text analysis, involving 32 students. In the interest of space, the paper will present the data obtained from six texts written by 6 students, representing low, mid, and high achievers. The texts were analyzed using systemic functional linguistics (SFL), especially in terms of schematic structure and linguistic features, especially those contributing to the cohesion of the texts, such as Theme progression and cohesive devices. The results show that all texts show students? grasp and understanding of the schematic structure of an exposition, including thesis, argument, and restatement of the thesis. All texts also successfully use the zig-zag and the Theme reiteration patterns, which indicate the students? emerging capacity to create a text with cohesion at the clause level. However, only texts written by high achievers employ the multiple Theme pattern, indicating the students? emerging capacity to create a text with better sense of connectedness, unity, and flow of information at the global level. High achiever texts also employ discourse features which allow the reader to predict how the text will unfold and guide them to a line of understanding of a text as a whole. Moreover, in terms of cohesive devices, all texts use some simple cohesive devices?reference, lexical cohesion, and conjunction. It should be mentioned that all texts are rudimentary with some inappropriate word choices and grammatical problems. This suggests that the students still needed more guidance and time to do research on the topic in focus, to go through the process of writing as professional do, to allow them to create a better text with more elaboration and characteristics of written language with consistency and accuracy. It is recommended that further research on different perspectives and foci of analysis of different text types using systemic functional linguistics, with more representative samples, and studies on the teaching of writing be conducted.
TRANSLATOR TRAINING BY DISTANCE LEARNING — A DUAL APPROACH1 Karnedi, Karnedi
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 5, No 1 (2015): Vol. 5 No 1 July 2015
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v5i1.840

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A variety of approaches have been adopted by institutions of higher education offering programmes in translator training. Some of these approaches are centred on early training; while others on socio-constructivism. Presenting a facet of training that differs from those generally used in most programmes, this paper examines how task-based approaches used over the course of the curriculum and the project-based approaches adopted in the final year in the form of translation portfolio can be an integral part of an undergraduate translation programme run by distance learning. Translation students? performance while completing the project online is used as the data supported with online questionnaires. A critical analysis of these two approaches engenders a crucial discussion of increased student autonomy. The project-based translation portfolio is better suited to more advanced students, whereas task-based translation activities are for students at the early stages of training. Nevertheless, the two approaches are compatible and complementary.
FACTORS AFFECTING MALE AND FEMALE INDONESIAN EFL STUDENTS’ WRITING ANXIETY Salikin, Hairus
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 9, No 2 (2019): Vol. 9, No. 2, September 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v9i2.20229

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This study is aimed at investigating the writing anxiety levels of foreign language learners and factors affecting the foreign language writing anxiety levels on the learners based on the gender variable. It applies close-ended questionnaires as instruments to collect the data, adopted from Cheng (2004) about Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI), and Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI) questionnaire adopted from Younas (2014). The results of the study show that Indonesian English learners suffered a mediocre level of English writing anxiety, especially cognitive anxiety as preference. In relation to gender, female students tend to have significantly higher anxiety level than male in terms of writing English compositions. The study reports that both male and female learners suffered from anxiety due to lack of linguistic competence.
THE IMPACT OF TECHNIQUES AND TRANSLATION IDEOLOGY ON THE CLARITY OF PRAGMATIC MEANINGS TRANSLATION OF THE QUR’ANIC IMPERATIVE VERSES Al Farisi, Mohamad Zaka
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 7, No 3 (2018): Vol. 7 No. 3, January 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v7i3.9818

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One of the stylistic features of the Qur?an is the existence of imperative verses that have certain pragmatic meanings. The feature often makes the Indonesian translation of these verses complex. This is mainly related to the fulfillment of the aspect of clarity in translation. This study aims to reveal the subtle translation of imperative verses of the Qur?an with certain pragmatic meanings. This descriptive-evaluative study used the design of embedded case study because the findings apply only to the imperative verses that serve as the research sample. The sample of the study was chosen purposively from the Qur?anic verses that contain imperative speech. They are imperative verses that have certain pragmatic meanings, such as al-tahdid (threatening), al-ihanah (humiliating), and so forth. The focus of the study is on the subtle translation of imperative verses contained in the translation version by UMT. In general, based on the responses of respondents and the test results, the translations of imperative verses by UMT produce acceptable clarity.
COMMUNITY OF ASSESSMENT PRACTICE OR INTERESTS: THE CASE OF EAP WRITING ASSESSMENT Al-Maamari, Faisal
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 5, No 2 (2016): Vol. 5 No. 2 January 2016
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v5i2.1351

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Setting, disseminating and applying assessment standards are part of university academic programmes of study. Nowadays, assessment is increasingly viewed from a social practice perspective, and so doing entails exploring how the quality of assessment is shaped by interaction and co-participation with different communities of practice. Therefore, based on this perspective, the study reported here aimed to examine the assessment policies and practices of laboratory report writing of first year students in credit-bearing, English for Special Purposes programmes at a university in the Sultanate of Oman. Interviews of programme administrators and the instructors plus institutional and programme documents were examined to investigate these assessment policies and practices. The programme administrators were asked about how they planned the written assessment in their programmes, and the instructors were asked about their experiences of these assessments. The data were then analysed thematically using community of practice framework, namely in relation to (1) a shared repertoire of communal resources, (2) mutual engagement, and (3) a sense of joint enterprise. It was found that instead of community of practice, there were (sub)communities of practices wherein interaction, negotiation and communication amongst members and non-members were punctuated by control, power and autonomy, all working with the aim of narrowing the range between the personal goals of the academic and the communal goals of the institution. The overarching conclusion is that in their assessment practices, the two instructional programmes exhibited varying degrees of community of practice based on the above three attributes.
A PORTRAIT OF THE ENGLISH COURSE AT A FACULTY OF EDUCATION IN SUMATERA Petrus, Ismail
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol 1, No 2 (2012): Volume 1 No. 2 January 2012
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17509/ijal.v1i2.85

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Abstract: English is one of the compulsory courses taught in tertiary education in accordance with Paragraph 2 Article 37 of the National Education Law No. 20/2003 and Paragraph 2 Article 9 of the Government Regulation No. 19/2005 on national standards of education. Some people believe that college English may not be taught as English for General Purposes, but it should be designed on the basis of needs analysis. As the students have learnt the basic knowledge and skills of English at secondary schools, college English should aim at building study skills or developing professionalism and specification of the students? choice. This paper depicts the existing conditions of the English course at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of a University in Sumatera. The portrait of the course was described in terms of such aspects as institutional goals, class management, instructional materials, instructors, teaching methodology, and evaluation. This paper was based on a study involving 378 second-semester students of 7 study programs, 10 instructors, 7 heads of study programs, 2 heads of departments, 2 faculty?s heads, and the head of the university?s language institute. The research data were collected through (a) a questionnaire given to the students, (b) interviews with the instructors, the heads of departments/study programs, the faculty?s heads, the language institute head, (c) observations in the classroom, and (d) a review of the documents. The methods of data analysis were both quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative method of analysis was first used for assessing the responses obtained; and secondly, the qualitative analysis provided the evaluation and interpretation of the figures and insights gained from the interviews, observations, and review of the documents. The results of the research showed that: (a) the English course at the faculty could be considered as General English, (b) there was no needs analysis conducted, (c) half of the instructors had master?s degrees in accordance with the Law No. 14/2005 on teachers and lecturers, (d) the teaching and learning activities were mostly lectures and question-answer sessions in the theatre seating arrangement, (e) there was no course evaluation, and (f) there was no collaboration among the study programs, instructors, and language institute in designing the course. The findings of this research would be useful for the coordinator of the English course to redesign the syllabus for a better instruction.   Key words: English course, needs analysis, English for Specific Purposes

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