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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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The Effectiveness of Story Telling and Role Play in Teaching Speakingfor Students with High and Low Motivation Mayasari, Adhe Risky; Faridi, Abdurrachman; Fitriati, Sri Wuli
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 2 (2021): June 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.42907

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Storytelling and role play as techniques of teaching have been studied and believed to be effective for teaching speaking. In speaking class, students’ interest and motivation are also improved as the impact of the techniques. The present research aims at explaining how significant the students’ achievement is taught by using storytelling and role-play as techniques of teaching speaking to the students with high and low levels of motivation. The design of this research was a quasi-experimental design with a 2x2 factorial design. This research was conducted on eleventh-grade students at MA Al-Hikmah Bandar Lampung as the research participants. Then, the writer analyzed the result from the questionnaire and speaking test using t-test and ANOVA. The results of this research showed that the value of sig. of techniques and motivation was 0.00. It meant that sig. the value was lower than 0.05. It can be concluded that there was a significant difference in the students’ achievement taught by storytelling technique and roleplay technique for students with high and low motivation. This research is expected to give a contribution to English teaching-learning such as giving appropriate techniques to teach speaking comprehension.
The Implementation of Professional Competence in Teaching ESP at Four Private Vocational Schools in Grobogan Rahmatunnisa, Eva; Mujiyanto, Januarius; Linggar Bharati, Dwi Anggani
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 2 (2021): June 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.43017

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A Professional teacher should master some competencies; one of them is professional competence. Accordingly, the preliminary research showed that some teachers had problems in the teaching-learning process. This research aimed to analyze the teachers’ competence in designing the syllabus, creating the lesson plan, developing the learning material, applying the learning media, the teaching-learning process, and constructing the students' assessment. This study was a qualitative case study. Subjects of the study were four private vocational school teachers in Grobogan. The data were collected by implementing observation, document analysis, and interviews. There were three steps in analyzing data, such as identifying, analyzing, and interpreting. The result showed that all teachers were good at designing ESP syllabus according to the instructional material, learning activity, assessment, time allocation, and learning resources. Then, they had created an ESP lesson plan well even though a teacher missed writing the learning method and the learning media. The media used were such as whiteboard, board markers, LCD, laptop, and other supporting materials. Additionally, all teachers did the teaching- learning process well despite some teachers found difficulties in applying lesson plan, they could not associate the lesson plan with the real condition in the class. The last finding showed that all teachers made an individual assignment for their students. But there was only a teacher who made group assignments. This research is expected to contribute to the teachers or lecturers in implementing professional competence to teach ESP.
The Appraisals Used by Indonesian and Filipino Teachers in Casual Conversation Sari, Rachel Kartika; Mujianto, Januarius; I. R. Agustien, Helena
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 1 (2021): March 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.43021

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The Appraisal system is a comprehensive framework that prominently accommodates word classification. These words reflect the feelings and attitudes of the speakers that might implicitly be influenced by culture and norms. To find out the differences and similarities, transcribed conversations of Indonesian and Filipino teachers in Maria Regina School were analyzed. A qualitative method is applied to interpret the findings. The manifestation of attitude, judgment, and graduation are classified accordingly based on Martin and White (2005). The finding of this research is then supported and related to the values and culture that ground the way teachers express appraisal in conversation. The result indicates that teachers are dominant in the engagement system, especially entertain items. These items reflect kinship and open discussion among teachers through questions and the use of modals. In the attitude systems, Filipino teachers are more dominant in positive security that reflect confidence and togetherness while positive happiness items are found in Indonesian teachers where they express their fascination and contentment. Indonesian teachers tend to express judgment of normality while Judgement of capability was expressed more by Filipino teachers. In the graduation system, teachers mostly use force intensification to express the degree of intensity, repetition, and quality. The significance of the research is, the readers will learn to be more considerate in expressing their feeling and emotion in casual talk, especially with people who have different backgrounds of culture.
The Role of Representational Meaning of Images in Supporting Ideational Meaning in English in Mind: Students’ Book Kartika Cahyani, Fransisca Putri; Rukmini, Dwi; Wuli Fitriati, Sri
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 1 (2021): March 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.43115

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Textbooks have an essential function to guide students’ activities in learning English language and also to provide the materials for teachers in teaching English language. In a textbook, a text is also accompanied by images which can be used to explain the content of the text, or the function of the image is to make the text understandable for the readers. This study investigated visual metafunctions of the images in supporting linguistics metafunction of the texts in students’ textbook. The objectives of this study were to explain the representation of representational meanings of the images in supporting the ideational meanings of the texts. Using the framework of Grammar of Visual Design by Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) and Systemic Functional Linguistics by Halliday (1994) and Eggins (2004), this study used discourse analysis as the research approach. The source was reading texts in English in Mind: Students’ Book on Culture in Mind sections. The objects of this study was reading texts which were supported by images. The units were clauses in reading texts and visual items, including vectors, colours, image acts, gazes, size of frames and social distance of the images.The findings revealed that the representational meanings of the images supported the ideational meanings of the texts because the images tried to give depiction of the verbal texts to make the readers could comprehend the texts easily. The presence of narrative representational meaning and the presence of material process inform the situation happened in the stories.
The Use of Brown - Levinson’s Politeness Strategies As A Realization of Sociocultural Competence Among Adult Learners of Elti Surakarta Gunaningtyas, Martha Tanjung; Wuli Fitriati, Sri
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 2 (2021): June 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.43117

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This study focuses on analyzing the use of Brown and Levinson's politeness strategies to reflect sociocultural competence among adult learners. English is an international language in international communication to talk with people of different age, gender, status, etc. Besides, politeness strategies can reflect somebody's sociocultural competence when he/she talks to others. At the beginning of this study, preliminary research showed that English was used as a language tool in the class for adult students in conversation classes. The adult students came from different backgrounds including job, age, gender, status, culture, existence, and experience. Some of them had been abroad and communicated with the English native speaker directly. A proficiency test was used at the beginning of the research. It was continued by a sound recorder, video recorder, DCT, and interview to get the data. The findings reveal the more prominent use in bald on record and positive politeness strategies. Those strategies, based on the theory of Brown and Levinson and Celce Murcia, showed there was a close relationship between the speakers. The rest of the strategies showed that there was a distance between the speakers. In conclusion, politeness strategies were in students' interactions to reflect their sociocultural competence. The suggestion focuses on giving practices to students to increase their experiences in implementing politeness strategies.
The Existence of Representational Meaning in Supporting Ideational Meaning in the Radio Communication On Board Texts in MarEngâ„¢ Learning Tool Bedagama, Diana Novietasari; Rukmini, Dwi; Linggar Bharati, Dwi Anggani
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 1 (2021): March 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.43139

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English is a lingua franca on the sea; seafarers must communicate using English in radio communication. In facilitating cadets’ meaning-making process of English in radio communication, MarEng™ Learning Tool by Turku University has been used as one of the innovative language learning tools. It is a multimodal learning media which provides verbal texts accompanied by visual text. This study aims to explain how the representational meanings of visual images support the ideational meanings of the verbal texts existed in in MarEng Learning Tool, which are analyzed using Grammar of Visual Design and Systemic Functional Linguistic approaches. The analysis of representational meaning was conducted by concerning the presence of vectors and other visual items realizing representational meaning. Moreover, the ideational meaning analysis was focused on the analysis of the transitivity of the verbal texts. The findings revealed the representational meaning of the images supports the ideational meaning. The existence of representational meaning in MarEng™ Learning Tool was to describe the participants and the situation in the radio communication on board in the texts.
The Indicators of Potential Presuppositions in Malala’s Speeches as the Nobel Peace Laureate Fitriyani, Sefty Hanida; Mujiyanto, Januarius; Warsono, Warsono
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 2 (2021): June 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.43375

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Presupposition means that people have their own beliefs before communicating with others (Yule, 1996). He defined the types of presuppositions into six; existential, factive, lexical, structural, counterfactual, and non-factive presuppositions. The study examined the existence of the indicators of potential presuppositions in Malala’s speeches after winning the Nobel and its relation toward the educational field. This study employed a qualitative approach. Four of Malala’s speeches were the data. The researcher used an instrument based on the theory of the indicators of potential presuppositions proposed by Yule (1996). As a result, the researcher found 34 potential presuppositions in Malala’s four speeches; 14 existential, six factual, four lexical, six structural, two non-factive, and two potential counterfactual presuppositions. Being aware of presuppositions will help both students and teachers be good communicators and create a communicative and effective teaching-learning process to achieve the goal. Theoretically, it expounds on the potential presupposition indicators as one of the linguistic expressions by considering the users of those forms in a communication. Pedagogically, it may contribute to the enrichment of educational material. Practically, it could give more ideas and references for further researchers.
The Use of Structures and Functions of Lexical Bundles in Conversation Texts in Bahasa Inggris Textbook Published By Kemendikbud Inaroh, Inaroh; Faridi, Abdurrachman; Wuli Fitriati, Sri
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 1 (2021): March 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.43411

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This study investigated the use of structures of lexical bundles, functions of lexical bundles, and the relationship between structures and functions of bundles in conversation texts. For the purposes of the study, the BahasaInggris textbook, published by the Ministry of Education and Culture(2018), was chosen to be analyzed. In the process of collecting the data, a set of tables was used. The first table was used to collect data to analyze structures of lexical bundles based on Biber's (2006) theory. The second table was used to collect data regarding Biber and Conrad's (2005) theory for functions of lexical bundles. Procedures for analyzing data consisted of steps, including reading, categorizing, and analyzing. This study revealed that, firstly, personal pronoun + lexical VP (e.g. we are going to) identified as the most frequent structure of bundle appeared in the conversation texts.Secondly, stance expression had a high proportion of the most recurring function of the bundle. They are used for expressing desire, intention, ability, obligation, and showing certain and uncertain feelings. Moreover, there were relationships between the functions of bundles with particular structures. In conclusion, improving the teaching quality can be built based on the appropriateness of the textbook. The teacher needs to pay attention to the English book that they will use, especially those that provide enough materials for enhancing students’ formulaic competence
The Realization of Brown - Levinson’s Politeness Strategies in the Movie “The Proposal” Azmi, Mia Nurul; Hartono, Rudi
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 2 (2021): June 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.43818

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Communication is a main part in a society. In every society, there are some styles and ways of using language. There are two kinds of communication, verbal and non-verbal communication. Non-verbal communication can be gesture or expression. The purpose of this study was to analyze the positive and negative politeness strategies used by the speakers in the conversations of The Proposal movie. Method of data analysis were done by using Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory. The results of this study show some findings. There were positive politeness strategies used in the utterances with the highest data was performed by the the seek agreement sub-strategy - 18,6%; and the lowest was performed by assert or presuppose speaker’s knowledge of and concern for hearer’s wants sub-strategy - 1,2%. In the negative politeness strategy, the highest data was performed by the impersonalize speaker and hearer sub-strategy – 39,3%%; and the lowest was performed by apologize sub-strategy – 1,4%. It can be concluded from the study, the difference between positive and negative strategies is the relationship between the speaker and listener, and the language used in speech.
Techniques and Quality of Ironic, Cynical, and Sarcastic Expressions in Ahmad Tohari’s Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk Trilogy Indonesian – English Translation Wijayanti, Titik; Astuti, Puji; Hartono, Rudi
English Education Journal Vol 11 No 2 (2021): June 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/eej.v11i1.43844

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Many ironic, cynical, and sarcastic expressions are found in Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk trilogy. Because of the differences of situational context and cultural background, it is not easy for the target readers to grab the information and mission or messages delivered by Ahmad Tohari in the source text. Some techniques might be chosen by the translator. The accuracy, acceptability or naturalness, and readability of the ironic, cynical, and sarcastic expressions should also be considered. The aims of the study were first to identify the translation techniques of ironic, cynical, and sarcastic expression in Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk trilogy from Indonesian into English, and the second, to explore the translation accuracy, acceptability, and readability of translating ironic, cynical, and sarcastic expression in Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk trilogy from Indonesian into English. The object of this study was Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk trilogy written by Ahmad Tohari translated by Rene T.A. Lysloff. This study employed embedded research design. It combined or integrated qualitative and quantitative data. The data analysis was deductively built from particular to general. The result of the translation techniques analysis shows that the most dominant translation techniques are established equivalent, reduction, and modulation. Based on the analysis, it reveals that the translation quality of ironic expression translation possesses the highest score compared with cynic and sarcastic expressions translation. It can be concluded that translation techniques influence the translation quality. It might be suggested for the future researchers to investigate how translation technique influences the translation quality.