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ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching
Published by Universitas Negeri Semarang
ISSN : 22526706     EISSN : 27214532     DOI : https://doi.org/10.15294
Core Subject : Humanities, Education, Social,
Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other
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.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH STORY BOARD GAME
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 2 No 2 (2013)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v2i2.2415

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This journal is made based on the action research in order to improve students’ speaking ability by using story board game. This action research was conducted in SMA Negeri 1 Grabag. The action research was carried out in some steps. Those steps were pre-elimination test, conducting the cycle starting with planning and action, observing and reflecting. As data source, observation sheets and questionnaire are used in this research. The implementation of the game was reflected on the classroom activity and the result of observation sheets. While, he score was gotten from the scoring system. By using this game, the students’ speaking ability increased. Some aspects in speaking assessment were also increased. The analysis of observation sheets and questionnaire give more description about the implementation of this game. According to the study, it can be concluded that by using this game in speaking class, students’ speaking ability can be improved. This game is good media to help the students in speaking English in more enjoyable way.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PICTURED BILINGUAL DICITONARY COMPARED TO NON-PICTURED BILINGUAL DICTIONARY TO IMPROVE THE VOCABULARY MASTERY OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 2 No 2 (2013)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v2i2.2417

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This journal is based on an experimental study involving the fourth graders of SDN Jatibarang 01 in the academic year of 2012/2013. The objective of this study is to prove the effectiveness of pictured bilingual dictionary to improve the vocabulary mastery of elementary school students. The study involved two groups of students that were experimental and control groups. During the treatment, students in experimental group used pictured bilingual dictionary, while students in control group used non-pictured bilingual dictionary. The design was pretest-post test design. According to the pretest result that had been analyzed by using t-test formula, there was no significant difference in the vocabulary mastery of both groups (0,095<1,721, df = 21, α = 5%). However, the post test result showed that the vocabulary mastery of experimental group is significantly different with the vocabulary mastery of control group. It is proven by the result of t-test analysis toward the post test result in which tvalue exceeds ttable (1,911>1,721, df = 21, α = 5%). As a result, pictured bilingual dictionary is more effective compared to non-pictured bilingual dictionary to improve the vocabulary mastery of elementary school students. Therefore, I suggest the students to have pictured bilingual dictionaries compared to non-pictured bilingual ones. I also suggest the institution to equip the school library with pictured bilingual dictionaries to ease the students get the dictionaries and to facilitate the English learning process.
THE USE OF MANUAL SUPER TEXT TWIST GAME TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH VOCABULARY MASTERY
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 2 No 2 (2013)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v2i2.2418

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This study concerns about the use of manual Super Text Twist game to improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. Therefore, the objective of this study is to obtain how well the game contributes for solving vocabulary problems of Junior High School students. This study was conducted by using classroom action research design. The subjects of this study were VIIIB students chosen by using purposive sampling technique. There were two cycles in this study. The treatment was given in each cycle. In order to get data, she used several instruments. They were tests, questionnaires, and observation checklists. She gave several pre-tests and post-tests to obtain the improvement of the subjects’ vocabulary mastery. In order to carry out the subjects’ opinion and interest toward the learning process, she used the questionnaires. She also recorded the subjects’ behavior in an observation checklist. The result of this study showed that there was a significant improvement of the subjects’ vocabulary mastery. It was proved by the high increase between the subjects’ score of initial pre-test and final post-test. The average of the initial pre-test scores was 64, while the average of the final post-test was 80. In addition, the subjects gave positive perception, opinion, and interest toward the learning process by using the game. This fact was supported by the result of the questionnaires. Moreover, participation of the subjects increased after the treatment was given. The subjects were more enthusiastic in participating the learning process. This condition was based on result of the observation checklist. According to the results above, it can be concluded that game gives positive contribution to the improvement of the subjects’ vocabulary mastery. The use of the game is recommended for English teachers as an alternative technique for teaching vocabulary. Through this technique, teachers are able to enhance students’ interest and motivation in the learning English.
Analysis of Character Education Aspects in Narrative Texts of the Electronic Textbook “Developing English Competencies”
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 2 No 2 (2013)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v2i2.2419

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The issue of character education has mushroomed recently as many as social problems in Indonesia. Thus, character education should be taken into consideration in teaching and learning activity. The aim of this study is to identify the character education aspects in narrative texts found in the electronic textbook used for senior high school students grade XI entitled Developing English Competencies based on the eighteen character education aspects mandated by the Ministry of National Education. This research applies descriptive qualitative method. In collecting the data, the writer used documentary method. The research instrument used in this study was documentation protocol and check list. The result of this research shows that there are 301 sentences from 605 sentences found in all the narrative texts which contain the character education aspects. So the percentage is 49,75 %. The sentences in the 17 narrative texts are relevant to the eighteen character education aspects.
THE IMPACT OF TEAM PAIR SOLO TECHNIQUE AND ROUND ROBIN TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 2 No 2 (2013)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v2i2.2422

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This journal is based on a study which attempts to improve the students’ writing ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Parakan to write descriptive text using Team Pair Solo technique and Round Robin technique. The study aimed to examine the effectiveness of Team Pair Solo technique and Round Robin technique to improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text. Test and scoring system were used as the instruments to collect the data needed. Pre-test and post-test were given to both experimental group and comparison group. In the treatments, the students of the experimental group were taught using team pair solo technique. On the other hand, the students of comparison group were taught using round robin technique. Posttest was given after the treatments. The t-test result showed that tvalue was 2.64 and ttable for σ = 5% was 2.01. It can be clearly seen that tvalue is higher than the critical value (2.64>2.01). It means that the hypothesis of H1 is accepted and H0 is refused. Based on the proven hypotheses, the writer can conclude and assume that Team Pair Solo technique and Round Robin technique are proven effective to be implemented in teaching written descriptive text for seventh grade students at secondary school.  
A CORRELATION STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL AND STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION ABILITY (A Case of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2012/2013)
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 2 No 2 (2013)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v2i2.2423

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This final project is about the correlation between the students’ listening skill and students’ pronunciation ability. The subject of the research was the eleventh grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Semarang. The basic problem the writer wanted to discuss in this final project was the importance of listening skill and pronunciation ability of the eleventh grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Semarang in order to develop their communication skill. The final project was aimed at finding out the level of listening skill of the eleventh grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Semarang in the academic year of 2012/2013, examining their pronunciation ability, and finding out whether there is a correlation between students’ listening skill and students’ pronunciation ability. The population of this final project was the eleventh grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Semarang in the academic year of 2012/2013 and it was 43 students. Twenty students were taken as the representations in this research. After conducting the research, it was found that the average score of the students’ listening skill was 80.1, that was in good level. On the contrary, their pronunciation score was poor referring to their average score, which were 48.78. Moreover, the result of data analysis using SPSS shows that the correlation coefficient between the two variables (listening skill and pronunciation ability) is 0.379, while the critical value for 18 students and 95% confidence is 0.468. Since the correlation coefficient obtained (0.379) is lower than the table value (0.468), it means that there is no significant positive correlation between the two variables and the correlation is considered to be low. Based on the research findings, it is suggested that the teachers should find an effective way to develop the students’ listening skill and their pronunciation. Furthermore, since pronunciation is not explicitly specified in the curriculum, the teachers have a duty to help their students in improving their pronunciation ability.
THE BENEFITS OF USING DIALOGUE JOURNAL WRITING FOR IMROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING OF PERSONAL LETTER
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 3 No 1 (2014)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v3i1.3967

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This study aims at investigating how dialogue journal writing benefits students’ writing of personal letter and how significance the resulted improvement is. Personal letter is important for it is used by people in their daily lives in diverse forms. Meanwhile, dialogue journal is chosen as the method for it is powerful to bridge learners’ needs of supplementary learning times and a private student’-teacher’s interaction. The research design of the study is mainly qualitative. However, quantitative analysis is still used to reveal students’ overall writing proficiency and the significance of students’ improvement. The five writing aspects mentioned by Brown (2004) are used as the basis of both analyses. The qualitative analysis attempts to describe how the students perform the aspects in their writing. Meanwhile, the quantitative analysis tries to assess students’ performance of the aspects by giving each aspect a score realization according to the criteria outlined in Brown’s rubric of writing assessment. The results of the analysis show that students’ writing improves all the aspects quite well. The biggest improvement lies in the content aspect. Majority of students’ earlier writing fails to address the topic of writing. Nonetheless, all of their final writing has already addressed the topic correctly. Meanwhile, the aspect of style and quality of expressions seems to undergo the least improvement. Some vocabularies are still found to be incorrectly used. However, students’ later writings exhibit a better sentence variety realized through the use of various cohesive devices. The improvement unfolded in the qualitative analysis is supported by the findings of the quantitative analysis of which all of the twenty students improve their writing scores in the final test. Some scores are even elevated quite significantly. The improvement of the five aspects presented in students’ later writing has turned the writing to be more communicative. Therefore, the mastery of the aspects is very beneficial. Since all the five aspects belong to the micro and macro-skills of writing, the teaching of these skills is then imperative to be given.
COMPARISON BETWEEN USING AUTHENTIC SONG LYRICS AND PICTURES AS MEDIA TO TEACH STUDENTS’ WRITING COMPETENCE OF NARRATIVE TEXT
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 3 No 1 (2014)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v3i1.4001

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This final project is a quasi experimental research aiming at investigating any significant difference of students’ achievement in writing narrative texts which are taught by using authentic song lyrics and the one who are taught by using pictures with an assumption that these media can help them to interpret the content of the course. The subjects of the study were the eleventh graders of Semarang State Senior High School 2 in the academic year of 2013/2014. There were two groups which were given different treatments. The first group was the experimental group consisting of 34 students that was taught by using “authentic song lyrics” as media and the second group was the control group consisting of 34 students that was taught by using “pictures”. In conducting experimental research, there were two classes that were used, XI Natural Science Program 11 as the experimental group and XI Natural Science Program 9 as the control group. Both groups were given pre test, treatments, and post test. In analyzing the data, normality test, homogeneity test, and t-test were used. The results of the study showed that the “authentic song lyrics” media which was applied in creating narrative text gave contribution in helping them write narrative texts. The data proved that there was a significant difference between the experimental and the control group achievement. Based on the statistical analysis, it could be seen that the students’ post-test in the experimental group was higher than the control group. The mean of the experimental group improved than the control group. The t-value for two means of post-test was 3.333; meanwhile the critical value at α = 5% was 2.035. It proved that there is significant difference between the experimental group which was given “authentic song lyrics” media and the control group which was given “picture”. It can be concluded that the “authentic song lyrics” is more effective than “pictures” to help the students in writing narrative texts.
THE MAINTENANCE OF IMPLICATURES IN THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF DIALOGUES IN THE NOVEL “THE LAND OF FIVE TOWERS” (A Descriptive Qualitative Study)
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 3 No 1 (2014)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v3i1.4004

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This final project is about the implicatures found in the source novel entitled “Negeri Lima Menara” written by Ahmad Fuadi that are translated into English by Angie Kilbane entitled “The Land of Five Towers”. In understanding the novel, implicature seems harder to be understood since implicature means something beyond what is stated; it may emerge many interpretations. Besides, the implicatures in this novel actually contain the point or message of the novel. So, it is essentially needed for the readers to understand those implicatures for understanding the novel. The objectives of this project are to describe the maintenance of implicatures in the English translation of dialogues in the novel “The Land of Five Towers” and to explain the achievement of the equivalence in meaning. This project was designed as descriptive qualitative. It means that descriptive interpretation was used for examining the data on this research so that the conclusions were based on that interpretation. The object of this project is the utterances containing implicatures that were found in both the Indonesian text as the source text and English text as its translation. Documentation method was used to collect the data in this research. The data was in the form of printed text in the novel, both Indonesian and English versions. In analyzing the data, observation method was done in six steps; they were listing, identifying, classifying, tabulating, interpreting, and drawing conclusion. The findings of this project are from 780 utterances that are stated in these novels, 40 of them are found as utterances containing implicatures. Those utterances flout one of the maxims that Grice stated, whether it flouts maxim of quality, quantity, relevance, or manner. The percentages of them are as follows: there are 11 (27.5%) utterances flouting maxim of quality, 7 (17.5%) utterances flouting maxim of quantity. In addition, there are 6 (15%) utterances flouting maxim of relevance and 16 (40%) utterances flouting maxim of manner. Moreover, for keep maintaining the implicatures, they are mostly translated literally and the translator keeps using some cultural and religious terminologies for keep showing the cultural and religious situation in the translated novel. Furthermore, the meaning equivalence is mostly achieved since the original and the translated novels have the same meaning of the implicatures. By considering them, it can be concluded that the implicatures are mostly maintained when they are translated into English because the meanings and conditions of those implicatures can be similarly understood like what are stated in the ST.
TEACHING WRITTEN ANNOUNCEMENT THROUGH GALLERY WALK TECHNIQUE (An Experimental Study of Eighth Grade Students at SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Weleri, Kabupaten Kendal, in the Academic Year of 2013/2014)
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 3 No 1 (2014)
Publisher : English Dapartment, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/elt.v3i1.4007

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The objective of this study was to find out whether there was significant difference in the achievement of writing announcement text between the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Weleri in the academic year of 2013/2014 who were taught by using Gallery Walk technique and those who were taught by using conventional method. To meet this objective, an experimental research design called pretest-posttest control group design was applied. The research was carried out at SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Weleri. The subjects of the research were two classes. The experimental group was the students of VIII-A which consisted of 28 students and was taught by using Gallery Walk technique. The control group was the students of VIII-B which consisted of 28 students and was taught by using conventional method. The data of the research were obtained from the writing test on pre-test and post-test. Based on the pre-test analysis, the value of tvalue was 0.38, while the value of ttable was 1.67. Since the value of tvalue was lower than the ttable, it meant that there was no significant difference in the students’ achievement of writing announcement text between experimental and control groups on pre-test. Meanwhile, based on the post-test analysis, the value of tvalue was 1.76. Compared with the value of ttable, 1.67, the tvalue was higher than the ttable. It meant that there was significant difference in the students’ achievement of writing announcement text after the treatment was given where the students’ achievement in experimental group was higher or better than the control group. The result above indicates that the use of Gallery Walk technique in teaching writing announcement text brought about significant improvement.

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