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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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Appraisal And Speech Structure Of Contestants’ Speeches In Speech Contest Of ESA WEEK Competition Ghasani, Betari Irma; Sofwan, Ahmad
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v7i2.15738

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Performing a persuasion speech and delivering meanings through spoken text poses many challenges for students. As a part of interpersonal meanings, appraisal helps the speaker expressing their position in speech through the choice of words or diction. The chosen diction enables the speaker to precisely realize the message she/he intends to convey through spoken text. Furthermore, in order to guide the listener so they can understand of speaker’s ideas, a clear speech structure is needed. Integrating the theories of appraisal (Martin and White, 2005) and speech structure (Sellnow, 2005), this thesis was intended to explain the appraisal and the speech structure on the students’ speeches in speech contest of ESA WEEK Competition. By using Discourse Analysis (Bavelas, 2002; Celce-Murcia and Olshtain, 2007), the data – in the form of transcripts from video recordings – were analyzed. The findings map out the high use of appreciation of attitude, entertain of engagement, and focus of graduation applied. Those appraisal, moreover, were highly found in the body of the speech. Finally, this thesis provides suggestions that teaching the speech structure and how to convince the listener by using appraisal is needed for better speeches.
FTA And Politeness Strategies In Prospective Students’ Personal Statements To Apply For A Master’s Program Abroad Iswara, Ratna Widya; Saleh, Mursid
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v7i2.15739

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Face threatening acts (FTAs) are sometimes unavoidable in communication. Thus, politeness strategies to soften the FTAs are needed to mitigate the risk of face loss. This study was aimed to investigate FTAs, politeness strategies and factors that influenced the choice of politeness strategies in prospective students’ personal statements to apply for a master’s program abroad. This research applied descriptive qualitative method. In collecting the data, the writer used documentary method to gather 11 personal statements from prospective master students. The data were analyzed based on politeness theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987). The results showed that all eleven successful personal statements contained both face threatening acts and politeness strategies. The total face threatening acts found were 147 including the acts that threatened both the positive and negative face. Among all FTAs, boasting became the highest occurrence. From four strategies in doing FTAs, only positive politeness and negative politeness were used. The highest occurrence of positive politeness was being optimistic, and using hedge for negative politeness strategy. Power, distance, rank of imposition, type of FTA and gender became the factors that influenced the choice of politeness strategies.
Mind Mapping And Brainstorming Strategies In Students’ Writing With High And Low Interest Ernidawati, Ernidawati; Sutopo, Djoko
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
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This research was aimed to analyze the effectiveness of Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Strategies in teaching writing hortatory exposition text to students with high and low interest. The subject of the study were the eleventh graders of SMK Kesehatan Darussalam Semarang in the academic year of 2016/2017. Two of nine classes in the school were chosen as the samples of the study. This study used experimental research design with factorial design 2x2. The researcher collected and analyzed the data by using questionnaire and writing test. The finding of this research indicates that mind mapping and brainstorming strategies are effective in teaching writing to the students with high and low interest. The result showed that the score of mind mapping strategy was higher than brainstorming strategy. It can be concluded that mind mapping strategy was more effective than brainstorming strategy and there was no interaction among the strategies, writing skill, and interest. It is hoped that the students and the teacher can use those strategies in teaching and learning process.
The Influence of Social Deixis in Students’ Conversation Savyanandaru, Oki; Yuliasri, Issy
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v7i2.15742

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In this study, we focused on the influence of social deixis on maintaining the level of politeness. The subject of this study was about speaking classroom activity of the eleventh year students of SMA N 3 Semarang. We intended to prove that social deixis influences the level of politeness and describe what factors influence it. This type of study was qualitative research since we did not collect the numerical data. The data was collected in the form of sentences. Research Method used in this study was a discourse study. In this study, we used the ethnography of communication approach since this study talked about social relation between people. In this study, the students were asked to use the social deixis and the level of politeness appropriately. Furthermore, there were observations, questionnaire and interview as this research instruments. The findings of the study showed that there were three factors that influenced social deixis on maintaining the level of politeness based on the students’ conversation. Those were social rank, social distance and formality.
The Effectiveness Of Using Songs And Dialogues To Teach Students’ Pronunciation Izzah, Ummul; Sukrisno, Alim
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 2 (2017)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v7i2.15743

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This research was conducted to observe fourty eight seven graders of SMP N 17 Pekalongan’s pronunciation ability in pronouncing the simple phrases. The participants were divided equally into two groups for the experimental research. The first group used songs in teaching and learning the pronounciation and another group used dialogues. The data of this study were taken from the recorded voice that we transcribed and the teacher’s notes. Based on the transcription we gave the score based on the score rubrics we made before. The analysis was observed quantitively from the recordings, transcription, scores based on the score rubrics from the pre-test and the post-test, and the teacher’s notes which were taken during and after the lesson. We analyze and describe the result based on the data and used SPSS and t-table to analyze the post-test. The result showed that in general, the group used songs produced better result than the group used dialogues. The participants that used songs tended to attend the pronunciation class more willingly and showed more enthusiasm in conducting the activities. Meanwhile the participants that used dialogues were distracted after hearing the songs sung in the group that used songs. It is suggested that teachers must know how to control the situation and to keep the students from disturbing other classes because sometimes singing songs make the students over enthusiastic.
Realization of Teachers’ Questions to Uncover Students’ Cognitive Domain of English Subject Matter in Classroom Interaction Kurniawati, Anita Rizky; Wuli Fitriati, Sri
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 3 (2017)
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When teachers conduct a lesson, the activity of posing questions always appears in it. The activity of posing questions includes the skills of asking cognitive level of questions in which a teacher must acquire. This study was undertaken in order to investigate the teachers questioning skill in asking cognitive level of questions during the teaching learning activity. Questioning which can reveal students’ mastery in the English subject matter was analyzed. In conducting the questioning, the purposes of the questions when they posed the questions and the ways the teachers keep their students active in responding their questions are also discussed. This discourse study was based on the analysis of the teacher talk in class. The analysis was based on the recorded data of the four English teachers when they conducted lessons in class. To collect the data, I used video recording, field notes, and interview. The recorded data was transcribed. From the transcription, the way the teachers ask question in asking cognititve level were analyzed based on the revision of Blooms Taxonomy (2001) and the way the teachers keep their students active in responding their questions were analyzed according to the questioning techniques proposed by Jacobsen (1999). Then, the data from interview were transcribed and the data from field notes were analyzed qualitatively. The findings show that the teachers posed all of the types of cognitive level of questions for various ways. Remembering questions were done to asses the extent to which students’ background knowledge were. In the understanding level, the questions train the students’ understanding to convey the information by using their own words. In the analyzing level, the questions require the students to use their analysis to solve the problem and use their logical reasoning to the question given. In the evaluating questions require the students to state the reason and think critically. In the creating question level require the students to create an original product based on the information given where they are driven to think creatively and critically. Related to the teachers’ purposes in posing the question, there are seven major points of the teachers’ purposes in posing question. Finally, the result is related to the way the teachers keep the students active in responding the questions. The teachers used all of the questioning techniques. They are redirection, probing, prompting, wait-time and rephrasing. It can be concluded that the teachers use all types of cognitive level of questions both for low level and high level questions. Although almost all of the questions delivered by the teachers is low level questions but the teachers has tried to give more high level questions.
The Grammatical Impact of EFL Arabic Learners’ Mother Tongue in English Writing of Al-Mergib University Students Mohamed Wajej, Abdelbaset; Mujiyanto, Januarius
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 3 (2017)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v7i3.20736

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The process of second language learning has been influenced by so many factors, the mother tongue (L1) maybe the one of the greatest factors. When the rules of the two languages contact that is called ‘language transfer’. Two results might be caused when the second language learner tries to recall one of his/her mother tongue’s items: positive transfer or negative transfer. In this study, the researcher focuses on the negative transfer or mother tongue interference in English writing. A big number of linguists have researched the influence and the relationship between L1 and L2 learning. Many studies indicate that for EFL students, there tends to be interference from their first language in the process of writing in English. This paper mainly focuses on some factors of the grammatical, namely subject-verb agreement, tenses, articles and prepositions, influence of L1 “Arabic” in L2 “English” writing learning, and the L1 transfer to English writing. The participants of this study were 22 Libyan third-year students of English Department in Al-Mergib University. In the data collection period, the students were required to write an essay in English and to do fill-the-blanks test then the gathered data were analyzed qualitatively. The findings showed that the participants clearly recalled structures, thought and translated from their mother tongue in their English writing in all the studied items: subject-verb agreement, tenses, articles and prepositions. The students also showed other grammatical errors such as: missing verb to be, use of word order, wrong spelling and plurality case. Teachers then should include more free and controlled writing exercises and should vary their teaching methods to improve students writing abilities.
Gallery Walk and Think-Pair-Share Techniques for Teaching Writing Descriptive Text to Students with High and Low Motivation Dewi Kilas Sinar Nurani, Arsianti; Rukmini, Dwi
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 3 (2017)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v7i3.20737

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This study investigates the effectiveness of gallery walk and think-pair-share techniques to teach writing descriptive text to students with high and low motivation. A quantitative approach is used in this study by applying 2x2 factorial design in the form of pre-test and post-test. 72 students from the tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Simo Boyolali who take English subject in the academic year of 2016/2017 are participated in this study. The motivational questionnaire and writing test are used as the instruments of the study. This study reveals several findings: gallery walk technique is effective to teach writing descriptive text to students with high and low motivation, think-pair-share technique is effective to teach writing descriptive text to students with high and low motivation, there is no significant difference on the effect of gallery walk technique and think par-share technique towards writing descriptive text achievement of students with high and low motivation, gallery walk technique is more effective to be used to teach writing descriptive text to students with high and low motivation compared to think-pair-share technique,  the ANOVA test reveals that there is no effective interaction among students’ motivation, teaching technique, and students’ writing achievement. To conclude, gallery walk technique is more effective compared to think-pair-share technique for teaching writing descriptive text to students with high and low motivation, and there is no effective interaction among students’ motivation, teaching technique and students’ writing achievement. In sum, it can be said that students’ writing achievement is not influenced by motivation; it is influenced by the implementation of teaching techniques.
The Relation Between Pragmatic Awareness and Realization of Requests Among Non-Native English Instructors Anisatu Suriya, Hanny; Sofwan, Ahmad
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 3 (2017)
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Language acquisition requires the learners to develop their pragmatic competence so that they are able to comprehend and produce the language as a mean of conveying meaning that is understandable by certain strategy or manner. Foreign language learners with lack of pragmatic awareness realized inappropriate target language. This study, therefore, was aimed to describe the English instructors’ pragmatic awareness and realization in requests, and how the awareness relates to the realization. The study used a descriptive qualitative in order to describe and elaborate the pragmatic awareness and realization of request speech acts among the 12 representations of non-native English instructors studying English Education in Graduate Program of State University of Semarang. Multiple Discourse Completion Task (MDCT) and role play were used in collecting data. Triangulation that included English native speaker’s analysis was also used in order to enhance the validity of the data. The result of the study shows that the participants’ awareness was high in the term of power relation but lower in ranking of imposition and social distance. Power relation was the social factor that mostly influenced the choices of request strategies in the oral production of requests. It is, therefore, concluded that there is causal relation between pragmatic awareness and its realization.
Employing Self and Peer Editing Techniques to Teach Writing Recount Texts for Students with High and Low Motivation (The Case of Grade 5 of Mondial Primary School in the Academic Year of 2015/2016) Ardy Prabasiwi, Evita; Warsono, Warsono
English Education Journal Vol 7 No 3 (2017)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v7i3.20740

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This current study aims at exploring the effect of self-editing technique and peer editing technique for teaching recount text writing to students with high and low motivation and explaining whether there is significant interaction among teaching technique, writing skill, and students’ motivation. This study is an experimental research with a 2 x 2 factorial design. Respectively, the results of the present study have revealed that firstly, there is no significant difference between pretest and posttest result of students with high motivation students that are treated with self-editing technique. Secondly, there is significant difference of pretest and posttest scores of low-motivated students who are treated by self-editing technique. Thirdly, it is described that peer editing technique has significant effect to be treated to students with high motivation in improving the writing skill of recount text. Fourthly, peer editing technique is not effective to be applied for low-motivated students because there is no significant difference between pretest and posttest scores of low-motivated students treated by peer editing technique. Fifthly, there is no difference in the improvement between students with high and low motivation in writing recount texts through peer and self-editing technique. The summary of the analysis shows that both techniques, peer and self-editing techniques are applicable to treat high and low-motivated students in teaching recount texts writing.

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