ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching
The aim of this journal is to promote a principled approach to research on language and language-related concerns by encouraging inquiries into relationship between theoretical and practical studies. The journal welcomes contributions in such areas of current analysis in: first, second, and foreign language teaching and learning; language in education; language planning, language testing; curriculum design and development; multilingualism and multilingual education; discourse analysis; translation; clinical linguistics; literature and teaching; and. forensic linguistics.
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<![CDATA[Enhancing EFL Learners' Talk Through CL Facilitated TBL: Process ]]>
<![CDATA[Asriyah, Siti]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8 No 2 (2019): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v8i2.32927
<![CDATA[This study aimed to explain how cooperative learning facilitates task-based learning in enhancing EFL learners’ talk for eighth-grade students of SMPN 1 Magelang in the academic year 2018/2019. The researcher conducted the study based on Ellis (2003) and Kagan (1994) theories for explaining the process of teaching and learning activities using Task-Based Learning (TBL) and Cooperative Learning (CL) methods for enhancing EFL learners’ talk. This study used a qualitative case study methodology. The instruments used were observation sheet, interview guidelines, and document analysis. Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that cooperative learning techniques that facilitated the task-based learning in learning activities can enhance the EFL learners’ self-confidence to talk in front of the class. Besides, task-based learning facilitated with cooperative learning techniques enhances students’ courage and creativity, it also makes them more active. The practice also made them more understand the materials. There are some suggestions. First, it will become a good alternative for the teacher to look up some interesting materials for the students as their guidance to enhance their speaking habits. The students are suggested to be accustomed to learning to speak using group and pair techniques because the technique can motivate them to have a speaking habit. Lastly, the next researcher needs to conduct further research related to other techniques in helping the students to improve their talk. Keywords: Task-based Learning, Cooperative Learning, enhance, EFL learners’ talk]]>
<![CDATA[Textual Meaning of English Textbook Instruction ]]>
<![CDATA[Rosi, Iftita Kharisma]]>;
<![CDATA[Ningrum, Yusnita Sylvia]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8 No 2 (2019): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v8i2.32956
<![CDATA[This study is about analysis of textual meanings in English textbook instructions. The main purpose of this study is to analyse the textual meanings found in the textbook instructions to support the learning objectives. Textual meaning is indicated by Theme and Rheme within the clauses. Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) said that theme is coded by three elements, they are topical, textual and interpersonal. The student textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris Kelas X 2017 Revision published by The Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture was chosen as the object of the study because it is the most widely used textbook in state shools in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the data were the instruction clauses in Chapters 1-7 (the first semester) of the textbook. The findings show that the English textbook instructions in Chapters 1-7 contains Unmarked Topical Theme (76%), Textual Theme (17%), Marked Topical Theme (5%), and Interpersonal Theme (2%). Unmarked Topical Theme is the most dominant type of Theme found in the clauses which is realized by verb. It is in line with the dominant mood type of the instruction, that is imperative which thematized verb in the clauses (Halliday and Mattheissein, 2014). It can be inferred that the instructions are clear and concise which meant that the instructions were good enough to support the learning objectives (Flake, 2017). Thus, it is concluded that instructions in Chapters 1-7 have good choices of Theme which meets the characteristics of good instructions to support the learning objectives]]>
<![CDATA[Vocabulary Acquisition (Incidental) through Watching Subtitled Video Material ]]>
<![CDATA[Rosales, Alvin Salazar]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 8 No 2 (2019): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v8i2.33356
<![CDATA[Subtitle refers to the time-synchronized text on a video that translates the spoken audio to another language. This research deals with the effect of watching subtitled video material on the vocabulary acquisition (incidental) of the Filipino learners of English with an emphasis on the receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge. The study was participated by 100 university students in a private higher education institution in the Philippines. The study used a pretest and posttest design in which the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale developed by Paribakht and Wesche (1993) was employed. The results show that there is a significant difference between the pretest and the posttest performance in vocabulary acquisition in terms of receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge of the participants. The findings imply the integration of subtitled video material in the teaching of vocabulary in Philippine classrooms because of its effectiveness which, up to this point, is not yet realized.]]>
<![CDATA[The design of multimedia storytelling ]]>
<![CDATA[Bibi, Sarah]]>;
<![CDATA[Sari, Dian Shinta]]>;
<![CDATA[Putra, Muhammad Iqbal Ripo]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9 No 1 (2020): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v9i1.34614
<![CDATA[In teaching English, the use of media is essential to underpin and facilitate the process. With the recent waves of Technology, some teachers also make an exercise of a digital platform to develop new Media. It is easier to attract students to follow the lesson and also increase their pursuit of learning. This research directed to how the design of digital storytelling to teach narrative for students. The researcher used Educational Research and Development cycle from Borg and Gall (2007) which adjusted into five steps, namely (1) research and information gathering, (2) planning, (3) preliminary product developing, (4) preliminary field testing, and (5) primary product revision. The result of the research shows that digital storytelling can be utilised as a medium to teach narrative. The purpose of the medium must be communicative and attractive for the students. Equally, for the students, they are interested in using digital storytelling medium to learn about narrative. Hence, digital storytelling is designed to occupy those needs and is expected to be useful to teach narrative.]]>
<![CDATA[Teachers’ reinforcement and students’ perception to the teachers in English classroom ]]>
<![CDATA[Lestari, Maria Ana Mei]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9 No 1 (2020): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v9i1.36461
<![CDATA[The study focuses on the positive reinforcement that is used by the teachers in each class and students’ perception towards reinforcement itself. This research involved two English teachers and two different classes of year ten students in SMA Kristen YSKI Semarang. To describe the use of reinforcement by the teachers, their teaching process were recorded and observed. Questionnaire and interview were done at the end of the lesson to describe how the students perceive reinforcement. This study is qualitative research. The data showed that the teachers used various types of reinforcement based on the theory of reinforcement by Moore (2007). They are Verbal, Non-verbal, Vicarious, Delayed, and Qualified Reinforcement. They used almost all types of reinforcement, except the Delayed Reinforcement. In general, Non-verbal Reinforcement was mostly used by the teachers. The interview results showed that the students agreed that reinforcement is important and useful for them during teaching and learning process.]]>
<![CDATA[Theme-Rheme configuration in recount texts produced by Indonesian EFL students ]]>
<![CDATA[Meiarista, Kiki]]>;
<![CDATA[Widhiyanto, Widhiyanto]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9 No 1 (2020): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v9i1.37148
<![CDATA[The topic of this study is the textual meaning in recount texts written by the fourth semester students of English Department Universitas Negeri Semarang in the academic year 2018/2019. This study is conducted since there are still limited research that is conducted in Indonesia which analyses the problems of thematic development because most of Indonesian researchers are only analyses the thematic structure and thematic development pattern. This study aimed to figure out the thematic structure, thematic development pattern, and the problems of thematic development in students’ recount texts. The text analysis of qualitative method was employed to enhance the results. The result of the thematic structures showed that the unmarked topical Theme was frequently used than the marked one in terms of topical Theme, the conjunctions became the mostly used element in textual Theme, and the modal adjuncts became the frequently used constituent in interpersonal Theme. In the case of thematic development patterns, the Theme re-iteration (constant Theme pattern) became the mostly used pattern since the function is to keep the text focused. It has been found that there were three problems of thematic development in students’ recount texts: (1) the problem of the brand-new Theme, (2) the problem of double Rheme, and (3) the problem of empty Rheme. The results of this study indicate that the students belong to beginner (inexperienced) writer.]]>
<![CDATA[Students’ preferences and teachers’ beliefs towards written corrective feedback ]]>
<![CDATA[Tri Adhi Kencana, Alviana]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9 No 1 (2020): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v9i1.37187
<![CDATA[Writing skill has been considered as a crucial skill that EFL students need to master. One of the techniques usually employed by teachers to help students improve their writing is via Written Corrective Feedback (WCF). Although many studies have been conducted to test its effectiveness, fewer studies have examined students’ and teachers’ preferences and beliefs towards the usefulness of WCF. Therefore, the present study analyzed students’ preferences and teachers’ beliefs regarding WCF. The participants consisted of 35 EFL students and 5 EFL teachers enrolled in SMK Negeri 1 Bawang Banjarnegara, a vocational high school in Banjarnegara, Indonesia. The data were both obtained through written questionnaires for the students and interview questions for the teachers. The collected data were analyzed based on WCF types classified by Ellis (2008), specifically for certain types like direct, indirect, and metalinguistic corrective feedback. The result of the present study demonstrated that both students and teachers mostly agreed that students should receive WCF in large amounts. Both of them also agreed that teachers should provide comprehensive feedback which consists of correction and explanations. Finally, both of them also had similar opinions that form-focused errors should be prioritized for correction than content-focused errors.]]>
<![CDATA[A study on interpersonal meaning negotiated teacher-students classroom interaction in vocational high school ]]>
<![CDATA[Tyas, Ghita Aning]]>;
<![CDATA[Widhiyanto, Widhiyanto]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9 No 2 (2020): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v9i2.37221
<![CDATA[Interaction and teaching learning process are two things that cannot be separated. Interaction is a main point or component in communication. Communication skill has to be mastered by students including Vocational students because they need this skill as preparation for their professional work in the future. A good communication is when it has meaning in interaction. Halliday & Matthiessen, (2014) stated that there are three potential meanings, one of them are interpersonal meaning. This study was aimed to analyse interpersonal meaning between teacher and students in the eleventh grade of SMKN 2 Purwokerto and how it construct their role through various kinds of interaction. There were two activities in gathering the data of this study: observation and interview. In analyzing the data, the researcher used Mood system proposed by Halliday & Matthiessen (2004). Theory from Harmer (2001) and Johnson and Paulston (1976, cited in Richard and Rogers 1986) also used to analyze the role relationship between teacher and students. The findings showed that teacher and students produced three types of speech functions (Mood clause) besides Non-typical Mood Clause and Minor clause. In the class, both teacher and students applied different types of classroom interaction in which they took many roles. It can be concluded that teacher and students delivered various types of clause, classroom interaction, and roles during the teaching learning process.]]>
<![CDATA[Cohesion and coherence in the final project abstracts written by undergraduate students ]]>
<![CDATA[Arifin, Ilham Setiawan]]>;
<![CDATA[Farida, Alief Noor]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9 No 2 (2020): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v9i2.37785
<![CDATA[Writing an abstract was not different from writing other kinds of text. As a part of the final project, an abstract should be written clearly, cohesively and coherently. This study aimed to examine cohesion and coherence of the students’ final project abstracts. It also focused to reveal the factors which influenced the quality of the students’ final project abstracts. This study concerned with text analysis. The investigation approach of this study used written discourse analysis. The data of this study were thirty abstracts which were taken from final project abstracts of English Department undergraduate students of Universitas Negeri Semarang in the academic year of 2017-2018. The findings showed that the students did not utilize the five types of cohesive devices to build cohesion in their abstracts. However, it was sufficient to utilize at least three types of cohesive devices to make the abstracts cohesive. Based on Theme and Rheme theory by Halliday, the abstracts were written coherently because they applied the use of cohesive devices. This research also found that there were two factors which influenced the quality of the abstracts. They were the usage of cohesive devices to build cohesion in the abstracts and the usage of Theme and Rheme and thematic progression to build coherence in the abstracts. In conclusion, it was clear that the usage of cohesive devices and Theme and Rheme helped the students write the abstracts cohesively and coherently.The abstract should be written in one paragraph of 150-250 words. Calisto MT font size 9 single spacing. It should containgeneral statement about the primacy of the topic under investigation, research gap, the objectives, method, main findings, and the conclusions.]]>
<![CDATA[Teacher social competence, student learning motivation, and learning outcomes in English subject ]]>
<![CDATA[Ainy, Qurrot]]>;
<![CDATA[Pratama, Hendi]]>
<![CDATA[ ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9 No 1 (2020): ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/elt.v9i1.38131
<![CDATA[This study aimed to investigate the correlation between teacher social competence, student learning motivation, and learning outcomes in English subject. The population of this study is all the students of Junior High School 1 Purbalingga academic year 2019/2020. The sample in this study is 90 students. The sampling technique is stratified convience sampling. In collecting data, there were some research instruments used; questionnaires and documentation. The research data were analyzed by Peason product-moment correlation. Based on the analysis and statistical quantification, it was found that the results of the study were (1) there is a positive and significant correlation between teacher social competence and student learning outcomes as shown by the value of Pearson correlation coefficient 0.919; (2) there is a positive and significant correlation between student learning motivation and student learning outcomes as shown by the value of Pearson correlation coefficient 0.908; (3) there is a positive and significant correlation between teacher social competence and student learning motivation as shown by the value of Pearson correlation coefficient 0.994. In conclusion, teachers’ social competence correlation is higher than students learning motivation. Therefore, the teachers should work on their social skill to improve student learning outcomes. On the other hand, the students needs to motivate themselves.]]>
