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ELTIN Journal: Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia
ISSN : 23391561     EISSN : 25807684     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
ELTIN, Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia is published twice a year by STKIP Siliwangi, Indonesia. This journal represents the field of English Language Teaching in its widest sense. This journal addresses (applied) linguistics, literary appreciation, language education, and so forth.
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION (CIRC) TO TEACH WRITING VIEWED FROM STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY aseptiana parmawati
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Volume 3, Issue 2, October 2015
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The research was conducted at finding out whether (1) CIRC is more effective than Direct Method; (2) the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Cepu Central Java who have high creativity have better writing skill than those having low creativity; and (3) there is interaction between teaching methods and students’ creativity to teach writing. This research was done in SMP N 2 Cepu Central Java. The subject of the research is the eighth grade students in the academic year of 2012 – 2013. The method which was applied in this research was experimental Study. The samples were taken by using cluster random sampling technique. The class 8F was used as the experimental class and class 8E as the control class. Each of the classes consisted of 30 students. The data were obtained from students’ score of creativity test and score of writing test. To analyze the data, researcher used descriptive analysis, ANOVA, and Tukey test.The result of the research shows that: (1) CIRC is more effective than Direct Method in teaching writing for eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Cepu Central Java; (2) students who have high creativity have better writing skill than students who have low creativity; (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and students’ creativity in teaching writing at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Cepu Central Java. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that CIRC is an effective method to teach writing viewed from students’ creativity at the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Cepu Central Java. Recommendations are addressed to English teachers and future researchers. English teacher should consider utilizing CIRC due to the benefits of the method. For future researchers, it is suggested to conduct more sophisticated research on the same topic. Keywords: CIRC, Direct Method, Creativity
USING E-LEARNING TO SUPPORT LEARNING AND TEACHING LANGUAGE: The Importance of Virtual Learning Environments (VlE) to Improve Students` Sepaking Ability Anita Anggraeni
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 2, No 1 (2014): Volume 2, Issue 1, April 2014
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It is not enough to train and empower  students through out-dated and traditional methods of learning. Technology has the power to transform education. It is essential to bring it into the classroom to empower learning. Besides the extensive impact on communication and business, the Internet is poised to cause a paradigm shift in the way people learn. Nowadays anywhere, anytime, education is possible. Recently speaking has played an increasingly important role in second/foreign language settings.  However, in many universities in Indonesia, EFL students rarely communicate in English effectively. This present study aims at investigating the implementation of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) and its effect on EFL learners` speaking in one college in the southern of Bandung.  This college already makes Memorandum of Understanding with one of prestigious college in Malaysia.  One of the programs is making a long distance lecturing using VLE e-learning. Speaking pretest and post test, student interaction in VLE e-learning recording analysis, student questionnaires, and student interviews constitute  data collection during the 4-week instruction period.  Results show that VLE e-learning have positive effects on improving students` speaking in terms of language quality and the improvement of vocabulary, and students express opinions on the implementation of VLE e-learning. Keywords:   VLE e-learning, technology, education
THE ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ TEAM ACHIEVEMENT DIVISIONS (STAD) USED IN LEARNING PRACTICE OF TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING Anita Rakhman; Isry Laela Syatroh
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Volume 3, Issue 2, October 2015
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This research deals with The Analysis of Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) used in Learning Practice of Translating and Interpreting. This research explores the implementation of STAD and find out the advantages and disadvantages of STAD used in learning Practice of Translating and Interpreting. The objective of the research was to motivate students and encourage them to be active in learning, to accelerate student achievement, to improve behavior in learning, and to find out the students’ ability with STAD method. Data collection technique focused on participant observation, interviews, and documentation. STAD is one type of cooperative learning model using small groups with a number of members of each group of 4-5 students in heterogenic way. It begins by delivering the objectives of learning, delivering of material, group activities, quizzes and group rewards. STAD method also is an effective method of cooperative learning. As with other learning methods, STAD method also has advantages and disadvantages. In the learning process there are good interactions among students, good attitude, increased interpersonal skills. It’s effective in increasing student participation and can train students to be more focus, more concentrate in answering questions from the teacher. It can make students eager to learn. But if the chief of the group can not resolve conflicts that arise constructively, it will be less effective in a group work. And if the number of groups is not considered, that is less than four, it would tend to withdraw and less active during the discussion. And if the number of groups of more than five, then chances for them to be passive in task completion Keywords: Student Team Achievement Division (STAD), Cooperative Learning.
NEEDS ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE STUDENTS IN ENGLISH ORAL COMMUNICATION Angga Maulana; Fegy Lestari
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 5, No 2 (2017): Volume 5, Issue 2, October 2017
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The purpose of this study is to identify factual information about the needs of students of English Literature in the activities and supporting factors of oral communication by using English, whether linguistic and non-linguistic, and analyzing the difficulties of the situation of oral communication of English Literature students using English. This research uses descriptive method. Data collection is done through two stages: the questionnaire and the interview, followed by the review of someliteratures. The results of this study indicate that in general the students of English Literature feel that participating in a formal discussion is more important than the informal. While in terms of ability in the oral communication activity, generally students mastered informal communication activities. In terms of linguistic factors, the choice of vocabularies, and good and correct sentences are considered very important, although they only feel quite capable in it. It is also found that talking with self-confidence, having proper English pronunciation and mastering the topic of conversation become the important non-linguistic factors. The same thing does not happen on loudness and facial mimic. In general, students feel it is not important enough to master. Regarding situations that facilitate students in oral communication in English, they generally feel that well preparation, self-confidence, and mastery over vocabulary and what is being discussed becomes an easier factor. Different things revealed by most students about the difficult vocabulary and the lack of preparation in oral communication. It is difficult. As for things that require improvement, students generally feel that the confidence and the amount of vocabulary that is mastered should be improved in order to improve the quality of oral communication in English.
USING AUTHENTIC MATERIAL TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING INTEREST (A Classroom Action Research in the Second Semester Students of STKIP Siliwangi Bandung) Aseptiana Parmawati; Rasi Yugafiati
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 5, No 1 (2017): Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2017
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Reading is a complex process that involves generation and getting information, analyzingmeaning, and making any decision about content.To improve the students’ learning interesttoward reading skill, the lecturer need to know how to teach reading effectively, and whatinstructional materials is the most suitable for their students. Output required of this research asa scientific publication in local journal that have ISSN. The researchers identify some problems,such as: 1) Doesteaching reading using Authentic Material improve the students’ readinginterest?, 2) How is the teaching and learning situation when Authentic Material implemented inthe reading class?. From the result of pre-test, we found that the result of students’ reading wasunder average and still far from what was expected.The finding was supported by the result ofstudents’ reading scores. The average score of pre test was 60.57. After the implementation ofAuthentic Material in every cycle, the students’ reading score were getting better. It can be seenfrom the result of students’ average score Cycle 1 was 64.00 and Cycle 2 was 80.87. It can beconcluded that Authentic Material can improve students’ reading interest and AuthenticMaterial can improve reading classroom into a better situation. Keywords: Authentic Material, Reading Interest, CAR
THE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH SPEAKING COMPETENCE BASED ON KTSP CURRICULUM Acep Haryudin
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 4, No 2 (2016): Volume 4, Issue 2, October 2016
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The primary aim of this research is to investigate and measure level of students’competency based on KTSP Curriculumin English Speaking Skill at second gradestudengts of SMAN 1 Cilograng-Banten. In this research, the writer used quantitativemethod.The result of data analysis indicate that the scores and students’ competencelevels of English speaking skills are; pronunciation 3,38 (average level competence),grammar 3,61 (high level competence), vocabulary 3,23 (middle level competence),fluency 3,42 (middle level competence),and comprehension 3,47 (middle level competence). The writer calculated and concluded whole data and the cumulative data is 3,49. If the Mean score is identified in the qualitative scale, the result is in thedistance of 3,5-4,5 (60%) It means that level of students’ competence in EnglishSpeaking skill is in intermediate level.Keywords:Students’ Competence, KTSP Curriculum, and Speaking Skill
THE INFLUENCE OF GENDER AND LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGY PREFERENCES TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION Wiwit Rosnayawati; Kaswan Kaswan
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 4, No 1 (2016): Volume 4, Issue 1, April 2016
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Identified as the core skill, the importance of reading is deniable for some reasons. First, reading is a receptive skill in that people get a lot of information and knowledge through reading. Second, reading is the fundamental for more advanced skill - writing. However,  the performance of reading comprehension differs from one learner to others. This study investigated the influence of gender and language learning strategy (LLS) preferences towards students’ reading comprehension. The participants of this study are 155 students in 9th grade of SMP N 9 Cimahi who are  divided into 68 males and 87 females. Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) proposed by Oxford (1990) and reading comprehension tests were used as the instruments. Employing causal comparative method, two way ANOVA was used in exploring 1) the differences between male and female in reading comprehension, 2) the difference between all of type LLS in reading comprehension, and 3) the interaction between gender and LLS towards reading comprehension.  This study also examines what LLS  most frequently used. To sum up, social strategy is the most one preferred  by both male and female students. Statistically significant difference is not found both in gender (p= 0.133 > 0.05) and LLS (p=0.450 > 0.05). In addition, there is no significant difference in their interaction with regard to reading comprehension (p=0.103 > 0.05).Keywords: gender, language learning strategies (LLS), reading comprehension
THE USE OF PICTURE SERIES IN TEACHING WRITING RECOUNT TEXT Yanuarti Apsari
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 5, No 2 (2017): Volume 5, Issue 2, October 2017
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The objective of the research is to investigate the kind of activities take place during the processof teaching writing recount text through picture series and to identify the benefits that the students obtained from writing recount text through picture series. This research used a qualitative descriptive research method. The respondents of the research are an English teacher and seven grade students of Mts Nurul Hidayah Batujajar. The data were obtained from observation and interview. The results of the study revealed that the teaching writing by using picture series can improve students’ ability in writing recount text. Specifically, they showed some improvement on process of writing and vocabulary. Moreover, the data from observation and interview showed that there are some benefits, which are the development of students’ writing ability, the increasing of students’ participation in the class, fun learning’s atmosphere and the increasing of students’ writing interest.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF ESTEEM AND READING ABILITY OF INDONESIAN EFL STUDENTS Intan Satriani
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 5, No 1 (2017): Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2017
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The present study is employed to understand the relationship between self esteemand reading ability of Indonesian EFL students. The study was conducted on bothIndonesian male and female graduate students of English department in aPostgraduate school in Bandung. During the research, questionnaire developed byHyde (1979 in Bagheri, et al., 2012) was used as the research instrument to obtainthe score of students‟ self esteem. In addition, the data of reading score werecollected from TOEFL score which has been standardized. Those instrumentswere administered in one session. The data were analyzed by Pearson momentcorrelation to identify the relationship between two variables. The result of thisstudy showed that the null hypothesis of this study is rejected. Sincetheprobability value of students‟ self esteem is lower than the level of significant(.697>0.05). It indicates that there is a correlation between self esteemandstudents‟ reading ability.Keywords: Self-Esteem , reading Ability
STUDENTS’ OPINION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PEER ASSESMENT Gartika Pandu Buana
Eltin Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching in Indonesia Vol 4, No 2 (2016): Volume 4, Issue 2, October 2016
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As alternative assessment, peer assessment offers some advantages for teaching and learning process. Some experts believe that it can enhance students’ motivation,autonomy, and responsibility. This study aims to investigate students’ opinion to theimplementation of peer assessment. This study was qualitative. The respondents of thisstudy are second semester students at one of University in Bandung. The collected datais obtained through questionnaire. The data gained is categorized and analyzed based onthe some theories relating to peer assessment. Regarding the result, it is found thatbasically the students have positive response to the implementation of peer assessment.This is because of the potential benefits offered from peer assessment. Students perceivethat it helps them to evaluate their ability in speaking English, enhance their intrinsicmotivation, improve their critical thinking, and recognize the assessment criteria. Thisfinding indicates that peer assessment is worthwhile to be conducted in assessingstudents’ oral skill. Keywords: students' opinion, peer assessment, oral skill

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