An Analysis of Students’ Ability in Translating Text

ELT-Lectura ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-159
Author(s):  
Desi Andriani
Keyword(s):  
English Education ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Word Choice ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Academic Year

Translating text is look like an easy work, but it is a complicated job. A translation text may not have different meaning from the source text to the target language of the text. Translating text from Indonesia to English should not change the sense of language since our culture is different from abroad culture. Translating text from Indonesia to English is more difficult than from English to Indonesia. Since, English has grammar where grammar should not be error. Then, translator also should pay attention to word choice of English. The purposes of carrying this research are to know students’ ability in translating text and common errors made by students in translating text from English to Indonesia at English education students of UPI YPTK Padang in 2019/2020 academic year. This research was descriptive one. The sample of this research was 30 students of English study program of UPI YPTK Padang. The data were collected by using test. The result of the test showed that students had different ability in translating text. In general, students’ ability in translating text was categorized good.

STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION TO SPEAK IN A GROUP DISCUSSION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fajar Maulana ◽  
Ikhsanudin Ikhsanudin ◽  
Luwandi Suhartono
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Education ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Class A ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
Teaching And Learning Environment ◽  
Integrative Motivation ◽  
Academic Year

This research was done to know the factors’ influencing students’ motivation to speak in a group discussion. This research is qualitative survey, in which the subjects are the Third-Semester Students of English Education Study Program of Tanjungpura University in Academic Year 2018/2019. The subjects of this research were 25 students in class A. The data were collected through observation and survey. Based on the data the students are motivated enough in speaking class and the motivation are relatively high across the students but most of the students faced several speaking problems such as afraid of making mistakes, lack of confidence, and lack of motivation. In summary, the factors that influenced the students’ motivation to speak in a group discussion are the students' interest to the materials of learning, the students’ interest to the culture of the target language, and lastly the reinforced that the students receive inside/outside the teaching and learning process. All of the factors are related to types of motivation, such as, intrinsic, extrinsic, instrumental, and integrative motivation. The writer claimed that knowing and understand sorts of motivation is essential with the intention of making a better teaching and learning environment

scholarly journals EFL College Students’ Skill in Using Collocations in Writing Essays

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Dewi Nopita
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Efl College Students ◽  
Academic Year

Collocation is a natural order of words in which one word should be attached to another in a particular context. For students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL students), using collocations has been recognized to become a problem. This article is going to describe EFL college students’ skill in using collocations in writing essays. 42 students from the same class were selected. They were the 4th semester students of English Education Study Program at Teacher Training and Education Faculty of UMRAH who took Essay Writing course in the academic year 2019/ 2020. The students were given a take-home assignment to write essays. Then, the essays were analyzed to find out the students’ skill in using collocations. It was found that in using collocation in writing essays, 5 students had excellent skill, 14 students had good skill, and 23 students had low skill. The incorrect use of collocations consisted of lexical and grammatical collocations. Finally, it is hoped that these findings could be a useful input for future Essay Writing course.

scholarly journals Development of Basic Physics Practicum Guide 2 for Physics Education Students of the Muslim University of Maros

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-55
Author(s):  
Irma Sakti ◽  
Reski Idamayanti
Keyword(s):  
Physics Education ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Stage Design ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Model Research ◽  
Basic Physics ◽  
Academic Year

This research aims to develop a valid, practical and effective basic physics  practicum guide 2 used for students of the Physics Education Study Program of the Muslim University of Maros. This research employs a 4-D development model research with 4 stages, namely: Define Phase (Define), Planning Stage (Design), Development Stage (Develop), Dissemination Stage (Disseminate). The practicum guide was tested to 10 students of Physics Education in the even semester, the Academic Year of 2019/2020. The research instruments include validation sheets, observation sheets, and practicum assessment documentation. The results showed that the basic physics practicum guide 2 that was developed had met the valid criteria with a validity value of 0.93. Besides, the practices with the implementation of the device was mostly in category 3 and was found effective as 83% of the students reached scores above 70.

scholarly journals The Correlations among Reading Habit, Multiple Intelligences, and Writing Mastery of English Education Study Program Students of Sriwijaya University

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Ayu Lestari ◽  
Sofendi Sofendi ◽  
Ismail Petrus
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
English Education ◽  
Reading Habit ◽  
Reading Attitude ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Pearson Product Moment Correlation ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Academic Year

The objectives of this study were (1) to describe the students’ Reading habit, multiple intelligences, and writing mastery, (2) to find out whether or not there was significant correlation among the students’ Reading habit, multiple intelligences, and writing mastery, and (3) to find out whether or not the students’ Reading habit and multiple intelligences contributed to their writing mastery. In this study, 76 undergraduate EFL students of English Education Study Program of Sriwijaya University in the academic year 2017/2018 were chosen as a samples by means of purposive sampling. This study applied correlational research design. The data were collected by using questionnaires and test, and were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient and regression analysis. The results showed that (1) most of the students (50%)  were in the average level of reading habit; most of the students (15.7%) had six dominant intelligences; most of the students (57.8%) were in the good level of writing mastery; (2) reading attitude was the only habit which had a negative and significant correlation to the students’ writing mastery (r= -271, p< 0.018); reading attitude also had positive and negative and significant correlation to the students’ ideas  (r= 0.367, p< 0.001) and thesis voice audience (r= -0.236, p=< 0.040); logical intelligence was the only intelligence which had negative and significant correlation to the students’ writing mastery (r= -0.238, p= 0.038); ideas was the only the aspect of writing had a positive  and significant correlation to the students’ logical intelligence (r= 0.267, p= 0.020) and intrapersonal intelligence (r= 0.250, p= 0.029); (3) reading attitude became the best predictor and influenced the students’ writing mastery with 7.3% contribution (R2 = 0.073).

scholarly journals An Analysis on IL Fossilization Phenomenon in Students Writing Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-130
Author(s):  
Nurul Aini Aini ◽  
Muhammad Khoirul Mufid ◽  
Eny Maulita Purnama Sari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
English Education ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Academic Year

This present study tries to investigate the students’ writing performance to know whether interlanguage fossilization is occurs or not. The primary goal of this research is to give information relating interlanguage fossilization in students’ writing performance of English Education Study Program of IAIN Jurai Siwo Metro. This research is qualitative research. It is used to describe interlanguage fossilization that occurred in students’ writing performance. The writer uses observation, documentation and interview to collect the data. Purposive sampling is the technique for choosing the ten students of the sixth and the eight semester of English Education Study Program of IAIN Jurai Siwo Metro in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. The result of this research shows that there are two types of interlanguage fossilization that are commonly produced by students’ writing performance. They are syntactical fossilization and morphological fossilization. Syntactical fossilization consists of 71, 86% and morphological fossilization consists of 28, 14%.  Moreover, interlanguage fossilization phenomenon in students’ writing performance is caused by the students’ low English proficiency. Therefore, the students should be more active to improve their English ability.  

scholarly journals SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT ERRORS MADE BY SIXTH SEMESTER ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Eki Putra Hidayatullah ◽  
Syarial . . ◽  
Gita Mutiara Hati
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Method ◽  
English Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Verb Agreement ◽  
Causes Of Errors ◽  
Academic Year

This resarch used descriptive quantitative method. This research aimed to find out subject- verb agreement errors made by sixth semester Engllish Education students of Universitas Bengkulu and to find out the possible causes of the errors. The samples of this research were sixth semester English Education students of Universitas Bengkulu in 2016/2017 academic year. The data were collected by conducting writing. The results of the data were analyzed descriptively by using Surface Strategy Taxonomy by Dulay et al (1982) to analyze the types of errors and theory of causes of errors by Richards (1974) to analyze the causes of errors. The result shows that there were 3 types of subject-verb agreement errors found in students’ essays. The errors were omission (49 %), addition (25 %) and misinformation (26 %). Another result shows that there were 2 possible causes of subject-verb agreement errors in this research. They were interlingual errors (2 %) and intralingual & developmental errors (98 %).

scholarly journals SURFACE STRATEGY TAXONOMY: GRAMMATICAL ERRORS ANALYSIS IN THE THIRD-SEMESTER STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Annafi’in Nur Rixha ◽  
Idrus Alhamid ◽  
Siti Rokhmah ◽  
Syamsir Bin Ukka
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
English Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Grammatical Error ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Auxiliary Verb ◽  
Errors Analysis

English and Indonesian are grammatically different. The difference proves that the rules and the application of grammar are the difficult problems in writing English. Based on previous preliminary research, many Third-Semester students of English Education Study Program had problems using grammar. This is supported by the results of unstructured interviews by researcher against students. Then students made mistakes they cannot correct called errors. As English Education students, they must have good competence in all language skills to become a good English teacher. In the future, students will teach writing effectively if they master the grammatical understanding.This research’s objectives were to find: (1) The the types of grammatical errors based on surface strategy taxonomy found in students’ descriptive essay,(2) The dominant grammatical error based on surface strategy taxonomy found in students’ descriptive essay,(3) The factors causing students made grammatical error in writing descriptive essays.To achieve the objectives, a qualitative method is used. Data collected by observation, interview and documentation from students’ descriptive essay worksheet then analyzed using error analysis.The findings of the research: (1) Grammatical errors are Misformation (3rd Person Singular, Plural, Auxiliary Verb, Dictionaries, Preposition, Conjunction, Pronoun, Singular, Simple Present Tense, Simple Past Tense), Omission (Simple Present Tense, Agreement, Auxiliary Verb, Plural, Article, Pronoun, Conjunction, Preposition, Adverb), Addition (Simple Additions, Double Marking), Misordering (Adjective, Pronoun, Auxiliary Verb). (2) The dominant grammatical error is Misformation with 47.05% from 170 errors. (3) The factors causing error are Interlingual and Intralingual.

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ STRATEGIES IN RESPONDING TEACHERS’ ORAL QUESTIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Foristia Kencana Wensi ◽  
Hilda Puspita ◽  
Rudi Afriazi
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
English Education ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Response Strategy ◽  
Strategy Group ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Avoidance Strategy ◽  
Academic Year

The aim of this research was to find out the strategies used by the English Education Study Program students in responding teacher oral questions. The research was designed as a descriptive quantitative research. The population of the research was sixth semester students of English Education Study Program of Universitas Bengkulu in the 2017/2018 academic year. The samples were 69 students. The data were collected by using a set of questionnaire. There were 25 statements of responses strategies which consisted of seven categories of response strategies proposed by Lui et. al (2018) and any communication strategies proposed by Dornyei (1997). They were avoidance strategy, accommodative strategy, asking for clarification strategy, no response strategy, excuse strategy, denial strategy and apology strategy. The result of this study showed that students of English Education Study Program preferred to use six categories i.e., accommodative strategy, asking for clarification strategy, no response strategy, excuse strategy, and denial strategy and one was seldom used namely apology strategy. In addition, the most frequently used strategy group by the students was avoidance strategy.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON ENGLISH STUDENTS’ WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH IN SOCIAL MEDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Yupika Maryansyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
English Education ◽  
Willingness To Communicate ◽  
Dominant Factor ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
English Students ◽  
Academic Year

This research aims to investigate factors affecting willingness to communicate in English in social media. This research was conducted in a descriptive method framework. Specifically, the research described factors that affect students' willingness to communicate in English in social media at English study program at the fourth semester of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu academic year 2018. The subjects of this research were fourth-semester students of English Education study program of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu Academic Year 2018 consisted of class A, B, and C.  The populations of the study were 77 students. The instruments used were questionnaire and interview. The data obtained from both questionnaire and interview were then analyzed by the process of checking, classifying, determining, and analyzing the data by using the percentage formula. The results of the study showed that there were five factors affecting willingness to communicate in English in social media. They were self-confidence, personality, motivation, attitude, and anxiety. The dominant factor was motivation since it had the highest percentage. In addition, the study also revealed some reasons why students have the willingness to communicate through social media.    

scholarly journals IL FOSSILIZATION PHENOMENON ANALYSIS IN STUDENTS’ WRITING PERFORMANCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Nurul Aini ◽  
Muhammad Khoirul Mufid
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
English Education ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Education Study ◽  
The Common ◽  
Academic Year

It has been widely recognized that interlanguage fossilization is the common phenomena in second language acquisition. The present study tried to investigate the students’ writing performance to find out whether interlanguage fossilization occured or not. The primary goal of this research was to give information relating to interlanguage fossilization in students’ writing performance.This research was qualitative research. The writer used observation, documentation and interview to collect the data. Purposive sampling was the technique for choosing the ten students of the sixth and the eight semester of English Education Study Program of IAIN Jurai Siwo Metro in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. The result of this research showed that there were two types of interlanguage fossilization commonly produced by students. They were syntactical fossilization and morphological fossilization. Syntactical fossilization consisted of 71, 86% and morphological fossilization consisted of 28, 14%.  Moreover, interlanguage fossilization phenomenon in students’ writing performance was caused by the students’ low English proficiency. Therefore, the students should be more active to improve their English ability.

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