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English Education Journal
Published by Universitas Negeri Semarang
ISSN : 20870108     EISSN : 25024566     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
Education
English Education Journal (p-ISSN 2087-0108 e-ISSN 2502-4566) is a quarterly journal published by Graduate School of Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia, in the months of March, June, September, and December. It is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to enhancing and disseminating scholarly work in the form of conceptual and research-based articles within the fields of teaching English as a second or foreign language (TESL/TEFL), English language learning, ESL/EFL language teachers' training and education, English linguistics, translation, and literature, which have not been published or are under consideration elsewhere.
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MIND MAPPING AND EVERYBODY WRITES TECHNIQUES FOR STUDENTS WITH HIGH AND LOW WRITING ACHIEVEMENT Muhib, Abdul; Anggani L.B., Dwi; Hartono, Rudi
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 2 (2014)
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This research investigated the effectiveness of Mind Mapping and Everybody Writes techniques used for students with high and low writing achievement. The subjects of the study were the seventh graders of State Islamic Junior High School of Slawi Tegal in the academic year of 2013/2014. Two of fifteen classes in the school were selected as the samples of the research.The experiment was set up according to a pretest and posttest for both groups. The experimental research with factorial design 2x2 was used by using technique of multifactor analysis of variance (ANOVA). The finding of this research indicates that Mind Mapping and Everybody Writes techniques are effective and significant for students with high and low writing achievement. Everybody Writes teachnique is more effective than Mind Mapping technique for teaching writing. There is an interaction among writing skill, techniques and students’ achievement. This research finding can be seen from the results of the pretest and posttest that is very significant.
PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN TEACHING GRAMMAR FOR HIGH AND LOW MOTIVATED STUDENTS The Case of The Tenth Graders of Sman 1 Bangsri In The Academic Year of 2013/2014 Nurcahyoko, Kunto
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Although the present body of literature supports the use of project-based learning (PBL) to teach grammatical accuracy, there is still huge urgency to investigate its effectiveness for language learners with different motivation. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of PBL, the effect motivation in teaching grammar for ten graders and the interaction among techniques, motivation, and students’ grammar. The study is a 2X2 factorial research design involving 48 students in two experimental groups and two control groups. The samples are divided into high and low motivated where the experimental groups are taught using PBL and the control groups are taught using collaborative learning. The data are collected by using a pretest and a posttest. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) is used for analyzing the data. The content analysis reveals that students’ motivation does not effect students grammar significantly in both experimental and control groups. The finding also shows that both techniques are effective to improve students’ grammatical accuracy for high and low motivated students. The analysis of variance shows that there is no interaction among students’ motivation, techniques, and students’ grammar with the level of significance at 0.934. The study suggests that teachers must be able to consider the presence of both variables in teaching and learning, especially to teach grammatical accuracy.
THE UNITY OF MEANINGS IN THE VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOK Rukmini, Dwi; Sutopo, Djoko; Rahmawati, Amalia
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This study aims to describe the cohesion, coherence, thematic progression and the unity of meanings of the texts in the tenth grade of vocational high school textbook. There are twenty five texts in English textbook published by LP2IP as the data source. This study is a descriptive qualitative discourse analysis. The finding show that the high percentage of cohesive devices is reference and repetition, which means that the texts are cohesive enough. The use of reference and coherence contribute the unity of meanings grammatically and lexically. The high percentage of reiteration theme in the texts means that the texts use simple sentence. The use of simple sentence is because the readers are students of tenth grade vocational high school. There are five out of twenty five texts that have problem in thematic progression. 80% texts are unified, and 20 % are problematic text. The problems occur because of the overuse of reiteration theme and the unconnected idea of the clauses. As a material in teaching and learning, texts should be unified to make the students easy to understand.
THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH IN TEACHING SPEAKING FOR VARIOUS TEXTS (The Case of Three Teacher Candidates of Wiralodra University Indramayu in The Academic Year 2013/2014). Wati, Atikah; Anggani Linggar Bharati, Dwi; Hartono, Rudi
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This study investigated the implementation of scientific approach in teaching speaking for various texts. It is aimed to describe and capture how teacher candidates implement scientific approach which consists of observing, questioning, exploring, associating and communicating in their teaching practice. What problems they faced during their teaching practice and how teacher candidates solve those problems.This studyuseda qualitative research design.The subjects of this study were three students of English Department of Wiralodra University who were doing teaching practice (PPL). Triangulation was used to validate the data. The findings showed that the three teacher candidates had implemented scientific approach in their teaching speaking although there still a lot of imperfectness and it can be concluded that between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd teacher candidates, the 3rd was the best to implement the scientific approach. The three teacher candidates also found problems in their teaching such as many students were hardly to speak English directly because of the vocabulary and lack of practice. However, both teacher candidates were able to solve the problem by peer error correction.
HEDGES IN THESIS ABSTRACTS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS OF SEMARANG STATE UNIVERSITY Wahyuningsih, Sri; Sofwan, Ahmad
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This study is meant to describe the hedges used by the English, Mathematics, Science, Social and Education Management graduate students of State University of Semarang in writing their thesis abstracts, find out whether or not there is a difference in the use of hedges, and explain why they used hedges in the ways they do. It used a descriptive qualitative-quantitative approach and the data were taken from the thesis abstracts. The unit of analysis is lexical hedges analyzed based on the Salager-Meyer’s (1994) taxonomy as well as Hyland’ taxonomy (1998) and non-lexical hedges as suggested by Navratilova (2013). The results show that hedges both lexical and non-lexical hedges were used. There is a difference among these graduate students in using hedges. Those in English, Social and Education Management had the tendency to use more hedges than those in Mathematics and Science. This tendency of using more hedges by those in English might be influenced by their cultures. Meanwhile, the preferences of those in Social and Education Management in using more hedges are possibly caused by its nature in which these two programs are categorized as ‘soft sciences’ that are surely not very numerical.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS BY USING THE MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE Rofi’i, Agus; Rukmini, Dwi; Hartono, Rudi
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This study investigated the Mind Mapping Technique in relation to students’ motivation in writing descriptive texts. The problem statements are formulated as follows: (1) what are the problems faced by the students in the process of writing descriptive texts? (2) How is the improvement of the students’ motivation in writing descriptive texts through the Mind Mapping Technique? (3) To what extent does the teaching learning process by using the Mind Mapping Technique contribute to the improvement of students’ skill in writing descriptive texts? The objectives of this study are: (1) To find out the problems faced by the students in the process of writing descriptive texts, (2) To investigate the improvement of the students’ motivation in writing descriptive texts through the Mind Mapping Technique in each cycle, (3) To describe the improvement of students’ skill in writing descriptive texts after participating in the teaching learning process by using the Mind Mapping Technique. The design of this research was Classroom Action Research. This research ran the four steps: Planning the action, implementing, observing, and reflecting the action. The results of the study concluded that, the implementation of the Mind Mapping Technique in the teaching of writing descriptive text could develop the ability and improve the motivation.
MISTAKES WITHIN THE DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS PRODUCED BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Arifin, Adip; -, Retmono; -, Warsono
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Learning a target language is actually a process of trial and error, whether as the first, the second or even foreign language. This study is aimed to find out the mistakes within the descriptive texts. The method used in this study was a qualitative approach, and the design was discourse analysis. The data were taken from the 27 descriptive texts written by the fourth semester students of English Department, while the technique of analysis was based on the error analysis theory, involved: collection of a sample, identification, description and explanation. The generic structure result showed that the students could write well in the identification and aspect part, but not in conclusion part. In case of lexicogrammatical features, the use of verbs caused the most number of mistakes, or 132 mistakes (30.07%), while the fewest ones was the use of adjective, found only 4 times (0.91%) of the total mistakes. Generally, the students used the lexicogrammatical features in their writing, even though still need to be improved. The causes of students’ mistakes were mostly due to the interlingual aspect.
MODIFYING A MONOPOLY GAME FOR TEACHING WRITTEN VOCABULARY FOR THE SEVENTH GRADERS OF TERANG BANGSA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Elivas Hastunar, Daniela; Anggani Linggar Bharati, Dwi; Sutopo, Djoko
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This study is aimed at describing the existing media for learning vocabulary at Terang Bangsa Junior High School, to describe sort of English materials that are needed by seventh graders learners which do not exist at Terang Bangsa Junior High School, to explain modifying a Gladden Monopoly game for learning vocabulary to the seventh graders, and to explain the effectiveness of Gladden Monopoly game for teaching vocabulary to the  seventh graders. This study used a Research & Development (R&D) design, which was used to modify products and measure the effectiveness of the development proposed by Borg and Gall (2007).  The results of the study showed that English teaching material by using Gladden Monopoly game was effective in improving students’ achievement of vocabulary learning. Those were supported by the results of pre and post-test. Based on the results of the observation checklist, questionnaire, and the experts’ validation it showed that Gladden Monopoly game helped in studying English. It can be seen from the result of the answers of the questionnaires in which more than 75% of the students answered ‘A’ or ‘B’ that indicates that the product was easy and attractive to use.
TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES USED BY STUDENTS IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH NEWS ITEMS Lestiyanawati, Rochyani; Hartono, Rudi; Sofwan, Ahmad
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Due to the different aspects of the source language and the target language, there are some techniques involved in the translation process in order to achieve the equivalence of the translated works. This study is aimed at analyzing the translation techniques as proposed by Molina and Albir (2002) used by the sixth semester students of the English Department in translating news item texts from English into Indonesian. It also measures the translation quality related to the aspect of accuracy, clarity, and naturalness. And the last, it implies the students’ problems in translation. The findings indicate that, after analyzing and interpreting 225 sentences, literal translation is dominantly used as a technique in translating the source text with the highest used technique in which 149 of 225 sentences applied the technique. In relation to the translation quality, 155 sentences were found as accurate, 172 sentences were clear and 164 sentences were natural with the scoring rate of 2.1, 2.3, and 2.25 points in average. The questionnaire and interview result revealed that incommunicative or incorrect translation happened due to students’ unawareness about the context and the lack of the adequate knowledge about it. Some students also had less understanding about translation techniques.
DEVELOPING “BATTLESHIP” GAME BASED MATERIAL FOR TEACHING GRAMMAR OF PROCEDURAL TEXT WRITING The Case of The Eighth Grade of Junior High School Students Desy Artyani, Daning; Anggani Linggar Bharati, Dwi; Sofwan, Ahmad
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The problems of this study are ; What games are available to teach grammar for writing procedural text for the eighth grade of Junior High School students?, what games are needed to teach grammar for writing procedural text?, how is the design of Battleship based on grammar for writing procedural text?, how is the Battleship Game implemented to teach grammar for writing procedural text?, and how suitable is the design of Battleship Game to teach grammar for writing procedural text?.  This study used Research and Development (R&D). The researcher used the steps proposed by Borg & Gall (Borg & Gall, 1983). Those were used to develop the products and to measure the effectiveness of applying the products. The results of the observation, interview, test, questionnaire, and the experts’ validations showed that the “Battleship” Game contribute to the process of learning English. Considering the result of the pre test and the post test, it was proven that studying grammar of procedural text by using “Battleship” game will increase Junior High School students’ writing skill.

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