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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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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ INDIRECT SPEECH PRACTICE IN WRITING THROUGH PICTURES OF LOCAL STORY NARRATIVE TEXT
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
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Having realized the importance of English as one of the international languages, the students should master English writing skill as a means to deliver and share information, feeling, and thought in the globalization era. To produce a good writing, many language aspects should be paid attention well. Grammar is one of them. In the process of writing, students often fail to apply their knowledge of grammar. The condition is understood since in changing direct speech into indirect speech involves many types of grammar text and the changing of elements such as pronouns, verbs, and adverbs from the quoted speech sentences. This study aims to improve students’ indirect speech practice in writing through pictures of local story narrative text. An action research was carried out at twelfth graders of science program in SMA Negeri 1 Pabelan Semarang regency. The procedures included planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The result showed that the great improvement occurred. Students were enthusiastic to involve in the teaching learning process. The great students’ improvements were obtained when the students were successful in changing direct speech into indirect speech. Therefore, the use of pictures of local story narrative text is able to improve the students’ indirect speech practice.
APPRAISAL IN THE JAKARTA POST ARTICLES ON NATIONAL EXAMINATION
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
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This study is about appraisals which were used to evaluate the interpersonal meanings found in the article texts published in The Jakarta Post newspaper.It is  aimed to answer mainly questions: what appraisals are used in the article texts? and  what is the ideology of the of the article texts? The research design of this study is qualitative descriptive. Qualitative method is intended to unmask the text under analysis, while descriptive method is meant to describe the realization interpersonal meanings by using appraisal system as introduced by Martin and Rose (2003).The analysis was based on the system of appraisals which devided into three sub-systems: systems of affect,appreciation, and judgement.The analysis showed that the writers of the texts applied all of the apprpraisal devices (systems of affect, judgement, appreciation, system of amplification, the source of attitudes system, taxis and logico-semantic relation system) including the addressees of the appraisals, and the ideolgy of the texts. While the results of the analysis based on the appraisals devices indicated that most of the evaluation fell on the negative categories. Moreover, based on the ideological analysis, the writer of the texts seemed to refuse the implementation of national examination as the topic under analysis.
DEVELOPING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING MATERIAL THROUGH FLASH FOR GRADE SEVEN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
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The use of the interactive media is important to support teaching and learning process. It also helps the teacher and the students in getting better achievement in writing descriptive texts. This aims of this study were to find out what medium is needed and how it gave significant progress in teaching learning process. This study presented the developing flash media for enchancing seven grade students’ writing ability. The results of the try out were found that the mean of pre-test was lower than the post test. The critical value with the degree of freedom 19 at the 5% alpha level of significant is 2.093. The observed t-value is higher that critical value (2.88 > 2.00). It means that there is a significant difference before and after using flash media in teaching writing descriptive texts.  Based on the students and the teacher’s perception which gave possitive responses on the using of Flash media and the result of calculating students’ work, it can be concluded that the Flash medium is effective and can be used in teaching learning of writing descriptive text at the seventh grade of Junior High School.
“THE BOARD GAME TO DEVELOP STUENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL FOR HIGH AND LOW ACHIEVERS” The Case at The Eleventh Graders of Ihsaniyah Senior High School of Tegal In The Academic Year of 2013-2014
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
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This study was investigated the effectiveness of the board game for High and Low Students’ achievement in speaking. The objects of this study were conducted at the eleventh graders; the samples of the research were from two classes, each class consisting of 26 students for experimental group and 26 students for control group. Each class was divided into two groups based on their level of achievement (high and low). This research applied a quantitative method with a factorial design. The data were analyzed by using ANOVA and Tuckey test. The result of the study showed that: (1) there is no significant difference between using board game and drilling to the high achievers ;(2) There is a significant difference between using board game and drilling to the low achievers;(3) There is a significant difference of using board game to the high and low achievers; (4) There is a significant difference of using drilling to the high and low achievers; (5) There is a significant interaction of teaching technique (board game and drilling) and types of students of achievement (high and low).
HEDGES IN THESIS ABSTRACTS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS OF SEMARANG STATE UNIVERSITY
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 2 (2014)
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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.
MISTAKES WITHIN THE DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS PRODUCED BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 2 (2014)
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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.
TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES USED BY STUDENTS IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH NEWS ITEMS
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 2 (2014)
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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.
MIND MAPPING AND EVERYBODY WRITES TECHNIQUES FOR STUDENTS WITH HIGH AND LOW WRITING ACHIEVEMENT
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.
THE UNITY OF MEANINGS IN THE VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOK
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 2 (2014)
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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.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS BY USING THE MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE
English Education Journal Vol 4 No 2 (2014)
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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.

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