The Inspiring English Lecturers of the English Education Department at IAIN Samarinda

Author(s):  
Alfisah Alfisah ◽  
Umar Fauzan

The successful of teaching and learning process is cannot be separated from the lecturers' role that inspiring the students. An inspiring English lecturer should be possessed at least three skills namely attitudinal skills, teaching technical strategy, and students’ changes in learning English. In teaching strategy skills, it has the other indicators of being an inspiring English lecturer such as a) preparation; b) planning and development curriculum; c) use curriculum framework; d) clear targets and objectives of teaching; e) developing strategy and planning activities of teaching; f) designs of appropriate learning modules; g) planning classroom activities; h) finding new innovative teaching strategies; i) finding newest references; j) good classroom management. In teaching strategy to university students, the lecturer should be more interesting, creative and able to keep the students away from getting bored. In order to keep the students' away from getting bored in learning English, the lecturers had to use good teaching strategy. The objectives of this research are: (1) to know the teaching plan of the English lecturers based on teaching strategy; (2) to the teaching implementation of the English lecturers based on teaching strategy in English Education department. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative. The subject of this research is English Education Department of IAIN Samarinda. In this study, the researcher used a questionnaire guide and an observation sheet. The result of this research is that all of the lecturers of English Department of IAIN Samarinda is an inspiring person who always prepares the lessons well. This indicates that all students of English Education Department of IAIN Samarinda more appreciation with the statement. Meanwhile, the statement that shows the lowest responses is found on the statement of an English lecturer should think hard to find the latest references in their instructions. This indicates that a huge number of these indicators had not yet owned by IAIN English lecturers Samarinda.

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Idham Syahputra

This study described and examined on the current English language learning strategies used by Indonesian Students English Education Department enrolled at State Islamic University of Sultan SyarifKasim Riau in Indonesia. The subjects of the study were (99) male and female students still studying for their Undergraduate degree in English Education Department. The study investigates the frequency of strategies use among these students according to gender and proficiency variables. Proficiency is reflected by students’ learning level (i.e., sophomore, junior, senior), self-reported proficiency in English (i.e., the students’ university average in English courses) and language self-efficacy (i.e,. how good the students perceived themselves as English learners). The collecting data used Questionnaire adopted from Oxford (1990a), Mohammad Amin Embi (1996) danPolitzer (1993), interview lecturers about the language learning strategies used by students. The results of this study showed that State Islamic University of Sultan SyarifKasim, English Education Department used learning strategies with high to medium frequency, and that the highest rank (79.6%) was for Metacognitive strategies while the lowest (63%) was for compensation strategies and the others used cognitive, memory, affective and social. In general, the results showed that gender and proficiency had no significant differences on the use of strategies. Based on these findings, the researcher recommends that more training should be given in using Cognitive, Memory, Affective, social and Compensation strategies by embedding them into regular classroom activities or teaching and learning process


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-99
Author(s):  
Umiyati Jabri ◽  
Ita Sarmita Samad

This study aims to identify students’ teamwork models that the students prefer in the teaching and learning process in the classroom For this study, a 10-item possitive–negative statements questionnaire was constructed and gave to the students. The questionnaire was completed by 60 students. From the data analyzing using a Likert scale, the result of the questionnaire calculation showed that the students’ average is about 27, 6. This result is in undecided categories as stated on the Likert scale. It means that the students cannot decide their teamwork model preferences from teamwork models that lecturers applied in teaching and learning English in the classroom. Thus, it can be assumed that whatever the teamwork model implemented by lecturers in the teaching and learning process in the classroom, the students can receive it. In other words, students still have a positive attitude toward whatever the teamwork model implemented by the lecturers in the teaching and learning process in the classroom.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Ila Amalia

This study aimed to identify the integrated lesson as an alternative teaching strategy in pronunciation teaching. The pronunciation teaching mainly focused on word ending of past tense regular verbs. The participants of the study included a lecturer and 30 students of English education department. To collect the data, the researcher used observation and reading test. The result showed that the lecturer employed the integrated lesson based on some criteria: the students, the lecturer, the learning environment, the learning resources, and the classroom activities. The reading test result showed that from 30 students, 11 students got 100% of correctness, 3 students got 95% of correctness, 5 students got 90% of correctness, 4 students got 85% of correctness, 3 students got 80% of correctness, 2 students got 75% correctness, and 2 students got 70% of correctness. It was indicated that integrated lesson accomplished by the lecturer with careful planning and preparation could give positive influence to the students’ language comprehension and performance.


ELT-Lectura ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Herdi Herdi

The problem of the research is factors that influencing the students’ writing skill. This research wasconducted at English Education Department FKIP Lancang Kuning University, Pekanbaru. Using DescriptiveResearch focusing on the second year students of class A consisting of twenty five students. This research tries to explain the factors influencing the improvement of the students’ writing skill. The instruments of this research were observation, field notes, and interview. After analyzing the data, it was found that factors influence the improvement of the students’ writing skill were material, media, classroom activities, classroom management, teacher’s strategy, and teacher’s approach. In conclusion, materials, media, classroom activities, classroom management, teacher’s strategy, and teacher’s approach are factors that influence the students’ writing skill.


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Eulis Rahmawati

This research investigates how process of speaking instruction takes place at IAIN SMH Banten. There are three main issues in the research problems: the process of teaching speaking, obstacles found in the teaching and learning process, and what efforts do they make to solve the obstacles in speaking. The process of teaching speaking discusses materials, preparation, procedures or steps in teaching speaking while obstacles and solutions discuss the speaking barriers that the students faced in speaking class and how they minimize the barriers. By applying descriptive qualitative research design to students of fourth semester in academic year 2014/2015, the result shows that the focus of speaking instruction at the fourth semester of English education department of IAIN SMH Banten seemed to let the students speak, without any language skills discussion as the feedback. At the same time, during the process of speaking instruction there are some problems faced by students. The first is  problem of limited English Competence dealt with students poor of vocabulary and the second is problems of psychological factors.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Welliam Hamer ◽  
Ledy Nur Lely

This article aims at sharing information on how pictionary game is used to increase the learners’ vacabulary mastery in the process of teaching and learning. It is clear that vocabulary is one of components of English language. When the learners are reading, they need to master vocabulary related to certain topic. Therefore vocabulary is important thing in learning English. However, mastering English vocabularies is not easy. English is foreign language in which learning English is often considered to be difficult to comprehend. This problem can be seen from the unsatisfactory result when learning English. The learning processs commonly used in the classroom just puts the teacher as a center of learning. It means that the teacher always dominates him/herself to teach, not to focus on how the learners learn effectively. This makes the learners passive and less interested in following the course of learning. In fact the learners’ interest is the most important factor in the study. Interest can be developed if the learning process run with fun, vary, and conducive athmosphere. There are many factors that can support the existance of an increase in the study, i.e. teachers, learners, materials, media, methods, and other learning sources. One factor that can help the learners learn vocabulary is the use of pictionary game. In this study, pictionary game is a classic game of drawing and guessing pictures. Pictionary game can also increase the imagination of learners, where learners are asked to draw according to the word given by the teachers. Things that are needed to play pictionary game are a list or card of vocabulary items, whiteboard, calkboard, or smart board and markers. Pictionary game will help learners to get involved in classroom activities. Other advantages of using pictionary game can be concluded that it provides fun language practice in the various language skills.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
I Wy. Dirgeyasa

The obejectives of this research are to know the improvement  of the students’ achievement in poetry mastery and their perception regarding to the semiotic method in teaching and learning poetry in  English Education Department, Languages and Art Faculty of State University of Medan. The research method used is the Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subjects of the research are the fifth semester of 37 students of 2013/2014 academic year. The data are collected by test in order to know the students’ achievment in poetry mastery. The students’ perception toward the implementation of the semiotic method for teaching and learning poetry is collected by questionaire. The data are analyzed by descriptive analysis. The result of research shows that (1) the average score of the students’ achievement of poetry mastery is (71.75) or it increases (11,59) point from pre-test (60.16) and (2) in general, the students’ perception toward the semiotic method for teaching and learning poetry are good and positive.


Author(s):  
Brijendra Singh ◽  
Anbarasi Masilamani

Smart education derived from information communication technologies (ICT) has attracted various academicians towards it. The growth of multiple sensor devices and wireless networks has brought drastic changes in IoT in the education sector. Applications of IoT in the education sector can improve academicians' and learners' considerable skills. Therefore, this chapter analyses various applications, advantages, and challenges of IoT in the education sector. The multiple applications of IoT in the education sector are identified in terms of smart classroom management, student tracking and monitoring, campus energy management, and intelligent learning. IoT in education's significant advantages are an innovative teaching and learning process, cost reduction, and smart infrastructure development. Various challenges in developing IoT-based applications identify as designing a secure learning environment, efficient resource tracking, efficient access to information, and intellectual plan development.


Author(s):  
Aji Budi Rinekso ◽  
Nurin Afifah ◽  
Ari Nur Widyantoro

The demands of English as an international language keep increasing along the time. Through time, the needs for learning English vary from for different purposes. Then the realization came to the surface that not all groups of learners need to learn general English. Thus, the design of English courses is developed for specific purposes as they are best known as English for Specific Purpose (ESP). The needs for learning English in specific purpose enable English teachers to pose themselves in different challenges other than in formal education. This paper aims at investigating the motivations of some English Education Department graduates for working as English instructors at English courses. The qualitative data was obtained by conducting the interview on some English instructors in Swift English School in Yogyakarta. After analyzing the data, it was found that despite its challenges, some English Education graduates prefer to work in English courses to regular schools. With all of the privileges of working in an English course, some general motivations underlie their working preferences. Among of the factors are flexible teaching situation, more chances for improving personal competence, higher salary and moderate career prospect.


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