scholarly journals Students’ Responses to the Application of Peer-Editing Group Correction for Cause–Effect Written Assignments

Author(s):  
Ngasbun Egar ◽  
Siti Musarokah

The study aims at describing the students’ response to the application of Group Correction of Students’ Written Assignment technique assisted with Peer-Editing Worksheet in cause-effect essay teaching. The type of the study is descriptive qualitative research. The respondents of the study are the fourth semester students of the English Education Department of Universitas PGRI Semarang. The techniques used to collect the data are questionnaire and interview. The data are analyzed qualitatively The result of the study shows that through Group Correction of Students’ Written Assignment technique assisted with Peer-Editing Worksheet, the students can take some advantages. For example, the students can review other group’ works easily; they can also learn from other work errors to avoid making the same errors in their own writing, and add more ideas on their own writing by reading others’ works, etc. In conclusion, Group Correction of Students’ Written Assignment technique assisted with Peer-Editing Worksheet is useful learning technique for both the writer of the essay and the students who provide feedback.

Prominent ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Rahmawati Dwi Handayani ◽  
Muh Syafei Syafei ◽  
Aisyah Ririn Perwikasih Utari

 Abstract The objective of the research to know the perception of fourth semester students of Universitas Muria Kudus  on the use social media in learning English. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research and the data was collected by the used of questionnaire. The participants are 50 students of English Education Department of Universitas Muria Kudus. The result showed social media have good perception for the fourth semester students of English Education Department of Universitas Muria Kudus. Social media have provide rich resource to learn English.                It is indicate that social media has positive contribution for learning English they are listening, reading, writing and speaking skill.


Prominent ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmawati Dwi Handayani ◽  
Muh Syafei ◽  
Aisyah Ririn Perwikasih Utari

abstract. The objective of the research is to find out the kinds of social media used by fourth semester students of English Education Department of Universitas Muria Kudus for learning English. The researchers used descriptive qualitative research and the data was collected by the use of questionnaire. The participants are 50 students of English Education Department of Universitas Muria Kudus. The result showed that social media the students use for learning English are YouTube (94%),, Instagram (72%0, WhatsApp (62%), Twitter (32), Facebook (30%), Line (10%), Manwha (6%), Telegram  (2%), Google (2%),  Tik Tok (1%), Cake English App  (1%), Quora (1%) and Discord (1%)


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 171-185
Author(s):  
Rini Listyowati ◽  
Ina Daril Hanna

In recent years, corrective feedback has important role in Second language classroom. It becomes a good way to improve the students’errors both structural and spoken. Corrective feedback has been discussed mainly in writing class but less in speaking class. This objective of the research is describing the impact of verbal and non verbal corrective feedback that used in conversation courses.  This study is descriptive qualitative research because the purpose is to gain information about phenomena that exist in this research. This study focused on conversation courses dealing with structural errors and spoken errors. The result explained that in conversation courses, the teacher used the various kinds of verbal-non verbal corrective feedback and verbal corrective feedback became more dominant and be efficient to correct students’ structural errors and spoken errors. The subject of the research is first semester and third semester of English Education Department students at Islamic Madura University-Pamekasan, east Java. The research conducted in four classes, two classes are first semester and two classes are third semester students. The four classes are joined then divided into two classes which each class consists of first and third semester students.  Both classes is treated by verbal-non verbal for 5 weeks. The data were discussed qualitatively. The study found a significant effect for verbal Feedback  that used to improve structural error in the use of tenses but no overall effect on accuracy improvement of Pronunciation. Students still have errors in pronouncing some words. It is hard to correct because it is influenced by Madurasse dialect. Keywords : Verbal-non verbal, Corrective Feedback, Pronunciation, Grammatical Error.  Abstrak: Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, koreksi timbal balik mempunyai peranan penting dalam kelas bahasa kedua. Ini menjadi cara yang baik untuk memperbaiki kesalahan siswa baik secara structural maupun lisan. Koreksi umpan balik telah dibahas terutama dalam kelas writing tapi kurang dalam kelas speaking. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menggambarkan dampak umpan balik korektif langsung dan tidak langsung yang digunakan dalam kelas speaking. Penelitian ini menggunakan design  descriptive qualitative research karena bertujuan untuk mendapatkan informasi tentang fenomena yang ada dalam penelitian ini. Penelitian ini focus pada kelas speaking yang berhubungan dengan kesalahan structural dan kesalahan pengucapan. Hasilnya menjelaskan bahwa dalam kelas speaking dosen menggunakan beberapa jenis verbal-nonverbal corrective feedback dan umpan balik korektif verbal menjadi lebih dominan dan efisien untuk memperbaiki kesalahan structural dan kesalahan pengucapan. Subyek penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa jurusan Pendidikan bahasa Inggris semester pertama dan ketiga di Universitas Islam Madura –pamekasan, Jawa timur. Penelitian ini dilakukan dalam empat kelas , dua kelas adalah semester pertama dan dua kelas semester ketiga. Keempat kelas tersebut digabungkan menjadi dua kelas yang masing-masing terdiri dari mahasiswa semester pertama dan ketiga.  Kedua kelas tersebut diperlakukan dengan CF verbal-non verbal for 5 weeks. Data yang diperoleh di bahasa secara kualitative. Penelitian ini menemukan efek yang signifikan bahwa umpan balik verbal lebih sering digunakan untuk memperbaiki kesalahan structural dalam penggunaan tenses tetapi tidak ada efek keseluruhan pada peningkatan akurasi pengucapan . Siswa masih memiliki kesalahan dalam mengucapkan beberapa kata dan sulit untuk diperbaiki karena dipengaruhi logat bahasa Madura.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Megawati Megawati

Students four grade semester English Education Department have difficult in writing. They have  limitation in English vocabulary building, students didn’t understand  systematically in writing. They usual use common words in writing English so that they weak in writing skill. Lecturer choose clustering technique to improve students’writing skill. The advantages this technique can mapp students’mind, an idea or theme with symbols and diagram after that they can improve become written or text. Furthermore all of the content in which they want to write based on the outline. This research aim to know improving students’writing skill  through clustering technique on students STKIP Kusuma Negara, Jakarta. It is qualitative research using classroom action research method. It was conducted two cycle. Each of cycle consist of four steps. There are planning, acting, observing and reflecting. This research was conducted with the subject twenty five students in fourth semester English Education STKIP Kusuma Negara Jakarta. Data were collected  through interview, observation and test. The result of this research is improving students’writing skill through Clustering Technique showed an increasing percentage and average score. Cycle I was  32 % students pass in writing skill or the average score is 73.28, in Cycle II was 88 % students pass in writing skill or the average score is 81.6. The students given positive responses, they were enthusiastic and motivated when they written in English by Clustering Technique. Based on the result, it  can be concluded Clustering Technique could improve the students’writing skill on STKIP Kusuma Negara.


Author(s):  
Nur Muthmainnah Yusuf

The objective of the research was to know the description of how critical thinking skill can be optimized in teaching writing using peer editing technique.  Critical thinking skill should be strengthened in writing class to elicit the writing class problem. Applying peer teaching technique was assumed can optimize the critical thinking skill in writing class. This research used descriptive qualitative method. It was conducted to the students of English Education Department students in paragraph based writing class. The writer took one of six classes as the sample of the research. The researcher used observation and documentation to know the description of the class situation. The data which was collected are in form documentation, observation and interview result and students writing and peer editing form which is analyzed descriptively. After the research conducted it can be drawn a conclusion that teaching writing using peer editing can optimize the students’ critical thinking skill. It was proven with the minimal error that was produced in the next writing produced and the increasing score of students’ writing. The mean score in the pre-research was 68.62, after the treatment conducted the mean score increased up to 72.90.


Author(s):  
Andi Dian Rahmawan

This study attempts to give teachers a perspective regarding what problems students face during the process of learning English material by employing the Autonomous Learning. The researcher used Pragmatics as the subject of learning to observe the process of Autonomous Learning during one semester. This is a descriptive qualitative research in which 7 students of English Education of PGRI University were employed as the subjects of this study. Those students are the most active ones in class. After they conducted a series of learning process autonomously, they were expected to fill the questionnaire as the data source to reveal the basic need of the students that they are expecting from the teachers. Then the data would be explained descriptively. It is expected that the teachers are going to have some new perspectives regarding the autonomous learning, which is related to the students’ problems. What they want the teachers to do and what the teachers should provide are two fundamental considerations. This study reveals that the autonomous learning does not mean that the students learn the material fully autonomously. Bigger than that, the students still need the presence of the teachers as the agent of autonomous learning.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Umar Umar

This study aimed to examine errors on past tense in a writing a narrative text of by 12 participants. The participantswere second semester students of English Education Department of STKIP Paracendekia NW Sumbawa in theacademic year 2014/2015. This research was a descriptive qualitative research. The instrument used for this studywas participants’ written narrative texts. The results of the study show that there were errors committed by theparticipants on using past tense. All of the errors on using past tense in the written narrative texts was identified andclassified; these were addition, omission, and misformation.These aspects of writing in English pose the most difficultproblems to participants. This study has shed light on the manner in which students internalize the rules of the targetlanguage, which is English. Such an insight into language learning problems is useful to lecturers because it providesinformation on common trouble-spots in language learning which can be used in the preparation of effective teachingmaterials.


Author(s):  
Ummu Hani ◽  
Leli Lismay

This research was conducted based on some problems found related to the learning style of milenial students in the classroom interaction. Most of the students did not follow the instructions given by the lecturer when working on assignment. So that, analysing milenial learning style is needed in order to found out some appropiate styles and strategies in teaching. This research was qualitative research. The instrument used in this research was observation and interview. The result showed that there were three categories of millenial learning styles namely; team learning, experiencing, and uses technologies in learning. Especially for students in the 2nd year at English Education Department of State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi, Most of the students applied  team learning and uses technologies as learning styles during classroom interaction. They did not like the style of experiencing, while in the language classroom, experincing, should be the crucial factor to help the students mastering the target language. In coclusion, millenial learning styles at English Education Department of State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi need to be improved in order to achieve the learning objectives.Keywords: Learning Style, Millenial, classroom interaction.


Author(s):  
Fiber Yun Almanda Ginting

This research is written to achieve an objective as follow: (1) to find out the progression of transitional in writing text has been made by the second semester of English Education Study Program in academic 2018/2019. The writer used descriptive qualitative research to give description systematically and factually about facts of a certain population. The researcher determines that the design is descriptive quantitative method because it describes the data that is taken from the sample, and the results of the data were tabulated in the form of percentage. There were 18 students (90%) agreed that transition words were used to connect the sentences. There were 20 (100%) students (90%) agreed that transition words were used to organize the sentences. There were 17 students (85%) agreed that transition words were used to remember about the topic. There were 20 (100%) students agreed that transition words were used to tell the experience, and there were 20 (100%) students agreed transition words were used to enhance the connections between facts.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Mir-atul Aufa ◽  
Hermawati Syarif

This study aimed to analyse the errors on pre-service teachers’ classroom language while having field practice in senior high schools. The analysis was conducted by adapting James (1998) Target Modification Taxonomy. Classroom language including the simple instructions and the questions given by pre-service teachers. The participants of this research are five pre-service teachers from four different schools. This study was descriptive qualitative research. The instrumentation of this research were observation, document and interview. The study analyzed pre-service teachers’ classroom language by categorizing the errors into types followed by the causes of each error. Some problems related to pre-service teachers’ classroom language were also found. The problems found hindered the optimal use of classroom language. The findings of the research showed that there were grammatical and lexical errors occured. The grammatical errors were omission (50%), overinclusion (21.73%), misselection (8.70%) and misplacement (4.34%). Some ellipsis (15.21%) were also detected.  


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