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English Education Journal
ISSN : 20870108     EISSN : 25024566     DOI : -
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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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Developing Project-Based Writing Assessment Module to Stimulate Students’ Critical Thinking and Creativity Lestari, Tutik; Bharati, Dwi Anggani Linggar; Rukmini, Dwi
English Education Journal Vol 8 No 4 (2018): December 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v8i4.25809

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This study aimed at developing project–based writing assessment module to stimulate the students’ critical thinking and creativity since most of teachers get difficulty in developing a higher-order thinking assessment.This study used Research and Development where the subject of this study was the students of X IPS 2 of SMAN 12 Semarang in the academic year of 2017/2018. Questionnaire, interview, observation checklist, and test were used as the instrument in collecting the data. The teacher collaborated with the researcher in developing the project-based writing assessment module. After the module was revised based on the experts’ suggestions, the main field testing was conducted. The module was utilized during the treatments.The students’ score improvement of the writing skill was 67.55 to 80.11, critical thinking skill was 67 to 78, and creativity skill was 65.39 to 78.55. Moreover, the paired sample test results show that there is significantly difference between the result of pre-test and post-test. In other words, there is a significant improvement in the students’ writing skill, critical thinking skill, and creativity skill after they used project-based writing assessment.
Spontaneity and Interactivity Features Displayed in Students’ Transactional Conversations in English for Nursing Program Wulan, Nawang; I.R. Agustien, Helena; Rukmini, Dwi
English Education Journal Vol 8 No 4 (2018): December 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v8i4.26044

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This research was intended to analyze how spontaneity and interactivity features were realized in the students’ transactional conversations in English for Nursing Program. This research was a discourse study. The data consisted of five transactional conversations by nursing students in English for Nursing Program. The data were collected through the following steps: recording, transcribing, selecting, counting, and reporting. Then, they were analyzed with spontaneity and interactivity features suggested by Thornburry (2005) and Thornburry and Slade (2006). It was revealed that the most frequent spontaneity features found in the students’ conversations were chunks and filled pauses which indicated that chunks were used to help the students in processing language in real time, and disfluencies were depicted in the form of filled pauses. In addition, the most frequent interactivity features identified were discourse markers which served as the maintenance of the flow of the conversation and predicted what the speakers are going to say next. In conclusion, spontaneity and interactivity features were found in students’ transactional conversations. In addition, it was suggested that the learners need to be exposed to the appropriateness of their use.
Lecturers and Students’ Perception and Practices of Students’ Presentation to Enhance Their Speaking Skills Saritwa, Firdausi Wimad; Fitriani, Sri Wuli; Faridi, Abdurrachman
English Education Journal Vol 8 No 4 (2018): December 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v8i4.26253

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This study aimed to explain: (1) the perceptions of English lecturers of UIN Walisongo Semarang towards students’ presentation in enhancing students’ speaking skills, (2) the perceptions of English department students of UIN Walisongo Semarang towards students’ presentation in enhancing students’ speaking skills, (3) the classroom practices of students’ presentation in learning English at UIN Walisongo Semarang, (4) the implementation of students’ presentation in helping students to enhance their speaking skills. This study is a classroom discourse analysis which employs a descriptive qualitative approach. In order to collect the data, the researcher used personal interview, classroom observation, and open questionnaire. This study presents that: (1) the English lecturers of UIN Walisongo Semarang have good perception towards the students’ presentation in enhancing the students’ speaking skills. (2) the English department students of UIN Walisongo Semarang have good perception towards the students’ presentation in enhancing the students’ speaking skills, only some students who have negative perception. (3) there are three main stages of classroom practices of students’ presentation in learning English at UIN Walisongo Semarang. Those are the presentation itself, question and answer session, and the last is getting feedback from the lecturers. (4) students’ presentation brings benefits for students in helping them to enhance their speaking skills. Students are motivated to speak actively, and it encouraged them to achieve the grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence, and strategic competence.
Developing Problem-based Speaking Assessment Model to Stimulate Students’ Critical Thinking and Creativity Mukhoyyar, Aniq; Bharati, Dwi Anggani Linggar; Mujiyanto, Januarius
English Education Journal Vol 8 No 4 (2018): December 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v8i4.26240

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The newest curriculum used in Indonesia is 2013 curriculum. 2013 curriculum implementation is not easy, because the teacher has to understand well about it. HOTS (High Order Thinking Skill) is one of the aspects in the 2013 curriculum that must be available. In this aspect, the teacher has to guide the students in having the ability to think critically and creatively, but most of the teachers had difficulty in developing the assessments that could stimulate students’ critical thinking and creativity. This study aims to develop problem-based speaking assessment model to stimulate students’ critical thinking and creativity. Research and Development approach was employed with the students of X IPA 2 of SMA 12 Semarang in the academic year of 2017/2018 as subject. The instruments of collecting data were a questionnaire, interview, observation checklist, and test. The teacher collaborated with the researcher in developing the problem-based speaking assessment module. The module was revised based on the experts before doing field testing. The improvement of the students’ score speaking skill was 67 to 80.03, critical thinking skill was 65.56 to 76.67 and creativity skill was 65.42 to 76.81. To know the significance of the research, the researcher used SPSS. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the result of pre-test and post-test. In other words, there is a significant improvement in the students’ speaking, critical thinking, and creativity skill after they used problem-based speaking assessment module.
The Choice of Larson’s Translation Strategies and the Resulted Quality of Indonesian Translation of Hyperboles in The Shrunken Head Novel Oktaviani, Ratih; Mujiyanto, Januarius; Saleh, Mursid
English Education Journal Vol 8 No 4 (2018): December 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v8i4.26422

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In translating hyperboles, the effect of exaggerating something from the source text when translated literally into the target text can cause a strange meaning and less acceptable because the terms are not in accordance with the rules of the target language. This study aimed to analyze the translation strategies used by the translator in translating type of hyperboles and its translation quality in The Shrunken Head Novel. The descriptive qualitative research approach is used as a research design. The results of the study showed that there are two types of hyperboles found in this novel, namely overstatement of numbers and quantity and impossible description. Then, there are three strategies that used by translator to translated types of hyperbole in this novel, namely the sense of the word may be translated non-figuratively, retaining the word in the original but to add the sense of the word and substituting a figurative expression from SL to TL. The analysis on translation quality showed that 212 data of hyperboles (88%) considered as accurate, 207 data (86%) belongs to acceptable and 164 data (68%) are considered as high readability.
The Flouts of Grice’s Maxims in An Animated Cartoon Serial Spongebob Squarepants Kusumo, Destra Wibowo; Mujiyanto, Januarius; Sutopo, Djoko
English Education Journal Vol 8 No 4 (2018): December 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v8i4.26646

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This study attempts to explain the flouts of Grice’s maxims as well as the relation between verbal and visual representations in an animated cartoon serial. The descriptive qualitative approach with the content analysis is used in the research design. The data are in the form of verbal and visual representations. The verbal data are the utterances taken from the dialogs; the visual data are the screen captures from the scenes in SpongeBob SquarePants. The results of the study show that all the four Grice’s maxims, namely quantitative, qualitative, relation and manner, are flouted. The maxims of quantity are flouted through too little and too much information. Next, the maxims of quantity are flouted through untrue information and information with lack of evidence. Next, the maxim of relation is flouted through non-relevant information. Finally, the maxim of manner is flouted through ambiguous, obscure, and lengthy information. Meanwhile, to deal with the relationship between verbal and visual elements in the flouts of maxims, the verbal or linguistic representations are evidently supported by the visual ones. The visual analysis in flout of maxims plays the essential role as it can get the pragmatic contexts clearer to help the analysis.
The Implementation of Translation Ideology of Cultural Terms in Andrea Hirata’s Novel Laskar Pelangi Pahlawanita, Nur Via; Hartono, Rudi; Faridi, Abdurrachman
English Education Journal Vol 9 No 1 (2019): March 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v9i1.25408

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This research is concerned with translation study, which is the translation ideology used in the translation of cultural terms found in Andrea Hirata’s novel LaskarPelangi into its English version, The Rainbow Troops. The objectives of the research are to answer the following four things : (1) to describe the cultural terms items categories found in the novel (2) to describe the techniques of translation applied in the translation of term items found in the novel to its translation (3) to describe the ideology of translation applied, in the translation of cultural term items found in the novel and its translation, and (4) to describe the degree of meaning equivalence of the Indonesian cultural terms in the novel as realized in its translation. The writer uses qualitative descriptive method in order to reach the objective of the research. The writer employs himself to collect data; by reading the novel and its translation, marking the cultural words, classifying, selecting and analyzing them based on the theories of translation procedure and translation strategy which are taken from some relevant references. The findings of this research show that: first, there were 168 data of cultural terms found in the novel, and categorized into Newmark’s five categories of cultural terms, with the following results : ecology category 48 data, material culture 27 data, social culture 14 data, social organization 77 data, and gesture and habit 2 data; second, the are 12 translation techniques applied by the translator, third, based on the techniques of translation used, that mostly tend to Target Language, it can be concluded that the translation ideology used by the translator is domestication ideology; fourth, the degree of meaning equivalence were 60.12 % fully equivalence, 31.55 % partly equivalence, 5.95 %non-equivalence, and 2.38% unrealized.
Students’ Gambits and Debate Structure in National University Debating Championship (NUDC) 2018 of West Java Permatasari Gunawan, Yayang Gita; Fitriati, Sri Wuli; Yuliasri, Issy
English Education Journal Vol 9 No 1 (2019): March 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v9i1.26663

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This study aimed to explain the appropriateness of using gambits in students’ debate competition, the debate structure realized in the students’ debate competition, the contribution of gambits to the students’ debate structure, and the ways the students overcome the difficulties of using gambits in the debate competition. To achieve the aims, this study used discourse analysis as the research design. To collect the data, this study used video recorder in observation and interview as the instrument. This study applied Keller and Warner (1988)’s theory about conversation gambits and Harvey-Smith (2011)’s theory about debate structure to analyze the data. The subjects in this study were 40 undergraduate students (20 teams) from different universities participating in National University Debating Championship (NUDC) 2018 of West Java. Their debate competition (five exhibitions) were observed, transcribed and analyzed. The objects of the study were the students’ gambits and debate structure. The findings from observation showed that most of debaters used variety of gambits from opening, linking and responding gambits to deliver their speech appropriately. Most of debaters applied the debate structure in the debate competition. Only one or two debater/s did not apply some parts of the debate structure. The use of gambits gave high contribution to the students’ debate structure to support them in making introduction, rebuttals, arguments, and conclusion in their debate speech. The results of interview showed that most of students learned gambits naturally and to overcome the difficulties of using gambits in any situation was by learning and practicing hard to make the speech perfect.
The Quality of Direct Procedures in Students’ Indonesian Translation of English Folklore Drama Scripts Abdul Gani, Citra Amiliani
English Education Journal Vol 9 No 1 (2019): March 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v9i1.26158

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According to Vinay and Darbelnet (1995), direct translation refers to the transposition of source language message element by element into target language based on either structural parallelism or metalinguistic parallelism. However, both parallelisms are not realized by the student translators so that sometimes they apply inappropriate direct translation. Therefore, this study is aimed to assess the quality of students’ direct translation procedures according to Larson (1994) in Indonesian rendering of English folklore drama script. This study employed descriptive qualitative method with the involvement of respondents for quality assessment. The result reveals that 445 direct procedures consisting of 45 borrowing translations, 18 calque translations, and 382 literal translations produce 249 accurate, 64 sufficiently accurate, and 132 less accurate translations. Dealing with clarity, 314 are considered as clear, 71 sufficiently clear, and 60 less clear translations. In addition, the analysis of naturalness results 285 natural, 51 sufficiently natural, 58 less natural, and 51 unnatural translations. The problems derived from students’ direct procedures are the use of unacceptable loan word and word by word translation which can create misinterpretation. Therefore, the students should increase their awareness of the structural and metalinguistic parallelisms between source and target language.
The Comparison Between Evaluative Stance of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Realized in the Campaign Speeches of the United States Presidential Election 2016 Novi, Aris; Fitriati, Sri Wuli; Sutopo, Djoko
English Education Journal Vol 9 No 1 (2019): March 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v9i1.26950

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The aim of the study was to compare and explain the appraisal resource of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton realized in the campaign speeches of the United States Presidential Election 2016. This study is discourse analysis conducted by employing appraisal framework (Martin and White, 2005). It is focused on analyzing the appraising items of engagement utilized by the speakers in their first and last speech. The results show that in both speeches Trump produced 704 appraising items, while Hillary discovered 300 appraising items. Besides, it was also discussed that the engagement used contains more disclaim, such utilization by Trump was a medium to deliver his political agendas. While the existence of contrary position in Hillary’s speeches indicated her effort to clarify, even counter-strike all issues she dealt with. The similarities of appraising items utilized by the speakers were relied on both speeches, in the first speech, all features of engagement were deployed in the same configuration, while in the last speech, it happened only on disclaim and proclaim. Meanwhile, the differences of appraising items used were found in entertain and attribute in the last speech. In relation to the pedagogical implication, the study suggests that the English teaching and learning that adopts appraisal resource contextualized in hortatory text is an appropriate technique, the students are engaged to experience the relevant English language skills effectively and be able to produce text properly.