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Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL)
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Published by Institut Agama Islam Negeri Palangka Raya
ISSN : 20881657     EISSN : 25026615     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) is an open access academic, scholarly peer-reviewed journal and follows a double blind review policy. The Journal is scheduled for publication biannually, in March and September, with the first issue to appear in March 2011. This Journal has been indexed on DOAJ since 2016 and accredited “Sinta 3” as a scientific journal under the Directorate General of Research Enhancement and Development, Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education since 2017.
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MBOK: ITS DISTRIBUTION, MEANING, AND FUNCTION Tur, Ajar Pradika A.
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 4, No 1 (2014): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (245.069 KB) | DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v4i1.72

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Mbok, in Javanese language, has not only a ’mother’ in meaning. As a lexicon in the language, mbok in one side truly means a ‘mother’ and still has the same meaning although it experiences the morphological process to be, at least, embok, simbok, or mboke. The variations exist and are spoken by Javanese native speakers throughout the Javanese dialects such as Suroboyoan, Solo, Yogyakarta, Bagelen, and Banyumasan dialects spread from the East Java, Yogyakarta, and Central Java. However, mbok, as a particle has different meaning, even different various meanings relying on its distribution in a sentence. Then the meanings bear its different various functions as well in the sentence based on the context of the sentence (grammatical-semantics meaning). Through Teknik Balik (Converse Technique) the data gained was analyzed to distinguish the position of the particle in the sentence in order to reach its significant different meanings and functions. At least, from the analysis, we have three positions of mbok in the sentences, that are in the initial, middle, and the end of the sentences. These positions affect the meanings and functions that can be seen as follows; ‘, is not it?’ (Tag Question) and ‘is/are” (Verbal Question) for emphasizing, ‘please’ for requesting a help, ‘may be’ and ‘in case’ for expressing possibility, and ‘causing’ for expressing cause-effect.Keywords: mbok, semantics, Banyumasan dialect
Appropriate writing assessment, how do we do it properly? Putra, Martin Surya
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 1, No 1 (2011): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (227.202 KB) | DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v1i1.32

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This paper describes the assessment upon the 3rd semester Business Administration students’ writing work of State Polytechnics Samarinda. Results show that there are weaknesses done by the English lecturer of this Polytechnics in evaluating his students’ work: 1) Instructions given to his students were not clear for examples: how many pages or how many words they had to write, resulting in a very short paragraphs, a very long paragraph written by students, 2) criteria of assessment were not clear, reflected by his own judgment and interpretation in form of words like: good, fair, excellent; 3) Students were not given a feedback on what they had written in form of the first draft and neither were they told to rewrite the first draft for final product. 
HELPING STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE TEXT THROUGH SCAFFOLDING Nugraha, Deni Sapta
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 3, No 2 (2013): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

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This study reported the practice of helping adult students to comprehend the texts in Indonesian Civil Aviation Institute majoring at Air traffic controller programme, Curug - Tangerang. The article demonstrated of how teacher helped them to comprehend the text during 100 minutes reading class in three meetings. It was employed as their input session to acquire context, knowledge and specific vocabulary in aviation or what so called as phraseology. Students were asked to construct some questions dealing with the text both literal and inferential comprehension suggested by Barrett (in Eanes 1997). The result showed that students attained three main bonuses; they get used to build questions that impact to their grammatical awareness, they get used to communicate orally, and they are successful to comprehend the text thoroughly by acquiring new knowledge, vocabulary as well as context.Keywords: reading comprehension, text, scaffolding
DEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS OF ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY FOR ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COLLEGE-LEARNERS Umam, Chothibul
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 5, No 1 (2015): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (63.889 KB) | DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v5i1.94

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The role of knowledge on English Morphology for the students of English Language Education (henceforth ELE) cannot be neglected. However, the preliminary observations done by the researcher during the instructional process of English Morphology at the State College for Islamic Studies (STAIN) Kediri Indonesia, for three academic years shows that most of the students still get difficulty in understanding the course content.  The researcher, therefore, is of the opinion that the instructional materials used in the classes need to be developed. The adaptation version of Borg & Gall (1983) model of R & D  covering preliminary observation, designing preliminary product, expert validation, product revision, field testing or try out, and revision to produce final product is used to develop an instructional material on English Morphology. The products mostly concern on 1) the course content, 2) the exercises, and 3) the level of language difficulty or word choice. The researcher expects that the final product of this study could be used as a handbook for the students in studying English Morphology.Keywords: instructional materials, material development, English morphology
USING FUN ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILL Andyani, Hanna
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 2, No 2 (2012): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (233.435 KB) | DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v2i2.54

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Based on the researcher’s experience in teaching English at MTsN Mojokerto, there are three problems dealing with the teaching of listening especially for the third year students: 1) most of the students’ scores on listening test are still under the minimum passing criterion (KKM), which is 60; 2 most students are not very enthusiastic in listening activities; 3) it is difficult for students to understand native speech in a tape recorder. Based on the problems, the main purpose of the study is to improve the ninth grade students’ listening skill using Fun Activity in the form of Games at MTsN Mojokerto. The design of this study was Classroom Action Research. The instruments were the listening tests, observation checklist and questionnaires. With the implementation of the games, the criteria of success were successfully achieved in Cycle 2. 74% of the total number of the students could get the scores more than 60 and 90% have positive responses on the implementation of games.Keywords: tic tac toe game, running dictation game, whispering game, listening skill
STRATEGIES OF EXPRESSING WRITTEN APOLOGIES IN THE ONLINE NEWSPAPERS Wardoyo, Cipto
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 4, No 2 (2014): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (186.865 KB) | DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v4i2.77

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Expressing apology is a universal activity although people have different strategies or ways to express the apology based on the culture, situation, and context. An apology has played a vital role in verbal politeness; it is certainly impolite when someone does not express an apology when he or she has commited an offence to the others. Apologies in the Pragmatic study is classified under speech act theory. An apology based on Searle (1969) is classified as expressive speech acts because it expresses speaker’s physiological attitude. An apology expresses speaker’s sorrow and regret because he/she has offended hearers or readers.  This paper tries to discuss strategies of editors in expressing written apologies in the online newspaper. The objective of this paper is to explain what the strategies of written apologies are in the online newspaper. This study uses qualitative method; the writer chooses descriptive interpretative technique for analyzing data. There are four written apologies in the online neswpapers as data sources in this paper, the data are taken from The Jakarta Post, The Daily Express, The Sun, and Brisbane Times. The writer tries to describe and analyzes utterances in the data sources based on Olshtain & Cohen theory (1986). There are five main strategies in expressing apologies according to Olshtain & Cohen (1986); they are Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID), expression responsibility, explanation/justification, offer repairs, and promise forbearance. The writer found that all of the written apologies used combination strategies, they used IFID by using performative verb: apologize and be sorry then followed by expression resposbility, explanation, offer repairs, and promise forbearance.Keywords: apologies, speech acts, politeness, pragmatics
The acquisition of WH-questions: A simple case in Indonesian children Fauzi, Iwan
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 2, No 1 (2012): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

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In the first stage of language acquisition, children do not give any question word markers to their utterances. The questions without an interrogative word can be thought of yes/no– nucleus, where the yes/no marker is expressed as rising intonation. The most common wh question forms in children are some version of What’s that? and Where Nounphrase (go)? and What Nounphrase doing? This study discusses the typical forms of WH-question construction in Bahasa Indonesia acquired by Indonesian children in the early stage of their language development.
WHY MUSLIM STUDENTS PLAGIARIZE IN WRITING ENGLISH TEXTS Nashruddin, Wakhid
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 3, No 2 (2013): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (239.805 KB) | DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v3i2.68

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Reasons for copy-pasting someone else’s works has attracted attention from many sides that copy-pasting activities, or more popular with term plagiarism, have been considered as a threat for academic life. It also happens at the case of muslim students, in which Islam teaches the students to be honest and not to steal from others. For understanding why it happens, this exploration is conducted. The students of English Department of IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon have to write many of their assignments in English. The result of my observations, the quality of the students’ writing is not good enough. One of the cases found is the copy-paste works, or plagiarism. Using interviews instrument, I try to figure out why students of English Department of IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon. There are at least three reasons behind why students act plagiarism; ignorance on the quotation and citation rules, poor writing skills, and the need of instant writing result. This paper tries to explore these reasons.Keywords: copy-paste, plagiarism, writing in English
Developing Speaking Skill in EFL English Course Abadi, Citra Priski
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 5, No 2 (2015): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

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The main objectives of this study are to describe factors contributing the development of speaking skill, and to describe techniques and strategies used by the teachers to develop speaking skill in EFL English Course (PEACE English Academy and PEACE Camp 4 Boy in Pare, Kediri, East Java). The research design used was an ethnography principle. The subjects of the study were 80 students of PEACE English Academy from 4 class levels, PEACE Camp 4 boy, 4 teachers and 1 home principle. The data were gained from observations, interview, and artifact and field notes. The findings depicted that (1) teachers as the main factor of presage variable were observed using many kinds of strategies, and techniques for developing speaking skills, and (2) appropriate speaking techniques and strategies were used to develop speaking skill in the mentioned different speaking class levels. The strategies and techniques are realized because teachers as the main factor applied some unique ways–how to make the English language classroom to be a lot of fun and dynamic place, to enhance students’ motivation, and to build English atmosphere in class and outside class as well.
An Analysis of Grammatical Errors on Speaking Activities Simbolon, Merlyn
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) Vol 5, No 2 (2015): JEFL
Publisher : IAIN (State Islamic Institute) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

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This study aims to analyze the grammatical errors and to provide description of errors on speaking activities using simple present and present progressive tenses made by the second year students of English Education Department, Palangka Raya University. The subject for this study was 30 students. This research applied qualitative research to describe the types, source and causes of students’ errors taken from oral essay test which consisted of questions using the tenses of simple present and present progressive. The errors were indentified and classified according to Linguistic Category Taxonomy and Richard’s classification, well as the possible sources and causes of errors. The findings showed that the errors made by students were in 6 aspects; errors in production of verb groups, errors in the distribution of verb groups, errors in the use of article, errors in the use of preposition, errors in the use of questions and miscellaneous errors. In regard to resource and causes, it was found that intra-lingual interference was the major source of errors (82.55%) where overgeneralization took place as the major cause of the errors with total percentage of 44.71%.

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