scholarly journals A Study on EFL Higher Education Student’s Ability to Analyze Grammatical Simple-Past and Past-Perfect Tenses

Tamaddun ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Sitti Halijah ◽  
Muhammad Basri Dalle ◽  
Oky Cahyo Sakti Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
English Language ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Language Outcome ◽  
Language Competency

This study attempts to determine the students` Ability to Analyze the Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses. The authors used the descriptive method in this study. The population of the research were the fifth semester students of Faculty of Literature UMI Makassar in academic year 2018/2019. The sample of the study consisted of 20 students and were chosen through random sampling method. The istruments used were two kinds of instrument namely objective test and questionnaire to acquire data on their analytical capability of the simple past and past perfect tenses. Findings revealed that the ability of the fifth semester students was deemed as fair. This depicts that the students` ability to analyze Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses is 59, 20 which was condidered as fair. The problems found faced by the students ability to Analyze the Simple Past and Past Perfect Tenses were; (1) sometimes students were confused in analyzing simple past and past perfect tenses due to the lack of basic knowledge, (2) there were many students who did not have rich vocabularies after they graduated from high school, (3) they had forgotten the pattern of the tenses, and (4) students were still having difficulties to differentiate between simple past and past perfect tenses. The implication of this study is that fresh graduates of senior high school are still lacking the necessary requirements to fullfil the standard English language competency which leads to poor language outcome of the Indonesian high schools today. Hence, the study srongly suggests that it is essential to pay special attention on senior high school students’ second language acquisition before continuing their study in Higher Education.

scholarly journals Acquisition of Language Proficiency in English Among Senior High School Students from the Different Strands

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Kerny M. Macado ◽  
Felix M. Diano Jr.
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Proficiency Test ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Language Proficiency Test ◽  
Senior High School Students

Using a quantitative-comparative design, this study compares the language proficiency of the Senior High School Students of a certain University from the five (5) different strands; Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM), Humanities-Education-Social Sciences (HESS or HUMSS), Business-Accountancy-Management (BAM or ABM), Technical-Vocational-Livelihood (TVL) and General Academic Strand (GAS) and determine on which of these strands excels in the language proficiency test. There are 40 students randomly selected per strand. They are tested using the Language Proficiency Test in English. The one-way Analysis of Variance was utilized in the study. The findings reveal that there is a significant difference (p<0.05) in the English language proficiency of the students from the five (5) strands. Moreover, the students from the STEM strand excel from the other strands. This further indicates that the STEM students are more superior and developed on the academic literacy, alternative understandings and adequate formulation of theories and concepts in dealing with different variations of linguistics skills.  

scholarly journals An Evaluation of English Language Textbook: Interlanguage English for Senior High School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Muhammad Affan Ramadhana ◽  
Opik Dwi Indah ◽  
Suhardi Suhardi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
School Students ◽  
Instructional Activities ◽  
Senior High School Students ◽  
Language Type

English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks serve as the basis for many language inputs that learners receive and language practices that occur in the classroom. They may provide the basis for ideas and instructional activities as well as giving teachers rationales for what they do. The objective of this analysis is to know about how much a textbook meets the requirements of a good EFL textbook. The evaluation checklist used in this paper is the modification of Cunningsworth’s (1995) checklist developed by Al-sowat (2012). There are nine issues of textbook evaluating in this checklist: (1) layout and physical appearance; (2) content; (3) objectives; (4) language type; (5) skills; (6) activities and tasks; (7) structure and vocabulary; (8) culture values; and (9) teacher's needs.

scholarly journals High School Students’ Foreign Language Acquisition and Their English Achievement

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 495
Author(s):  
Rohfin Andria Gestanti ◽  
Elok Putri Nimasari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
School Students ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Competency ◽  
Early Production ◽  
Basic Level

This present study aims to examine language proficiency levels of high school students in particular assessment form and describe how such level of skills is appropriately matched for particular level of learners. While a proper language literacy investigation may be biased to perception that it can fairly measures students’ comprehension, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theories view that learner’s age may influence how they acquire a new language. In responding to such issue, this observational study seeks for the information through document observation on students’ scores of an English test conducted by the school as the main data. This observation allows the researchers to analyze the scores and describe it according to justified language competency and language acquisition. The data are classified and clarified by underpinning the theories related to the issues. The result showed that senior high school students generally obtain average scores that allow them to be categorized as Minimal and Basic level of proficiency. As per this level, the justification of language acquisition reveals that the students are included in pre-production and early production stage. Students in this stage are considered able to have average competency, especially in receptive English.

scholarly journals INTERACTIVE AND EDUCATIVE LEARNING MEDIA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-315
Author(s):  
Sitti Hadijah ◽  
Marhamah Marhamah ◽  
Shalawati Shalawati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
School Students ◽  
Senior High School Students

This research aims to describe senior high school students’ perspectives about the use of learning media in English language teaching context and to investigate the sorts of interactive and educative learning media in English language teaching. This research worked on descriptive research design, both qualitative and quantitative data were collected through a questionnaire. This study involved 171 senior high school students who voluntary filled in the questionnaire. The research findings reveal that the use of learning media to support learning process needs to be improved since the media used needs to be adjusted with the current trend of learning that is technology-based learning media. In addition, Powerpoint slides, video, film, online or traditional games were found as interactive and educative learning media from the students’ perspectives. The students are excited when the teachers are presenting media in their learning process, even though it only simply presented through Powerpoint. In other words, learning media has an essential role to support effective learning atmosphere for the students. 

scholarly journals Testing the Effectiveness of “English Language” Course Book for Indonesian Senior High School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-109
Author(s):  
Risma Rasyid ◽  
Novalia Tanasy ◽  
A. Muhajir Nasir
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
English Language ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Average Value ◽  
International Language ◽  
Post Test

English as an international language is one of the general subjects taught at school. Many school apply English as subject. From the explanation which has been explained above the researcher was research about course book. This study aims to know the effectiveness of the English course book by pre-experimental method with giving the students pre-test and post-test. The researcher conducted the first grade students in the senior high school in Maros specially at MA DDI Alliritengae Maros. The results show that learning outcomes after using the English Couse Book titled "English Language", it can be seen that the average value is 66.42 and the classical completeness is 15.79%. Where, the average learning outcomes are still less than 75 and the classical completeness is still less than 75%. So it can be said that the learning outcomes also do not meet the Minimum Completeness Criteria (KKM) specified. In conclusion, learning using the English Course Book titled "English Language" is not effective to be applied in class X.1 IPA MA. DDI Alliritengae Maros.

scholarly journals The English teachers’ challenges in TOEFL preparation for senior high school students

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45
Author(s):  
Saiful Akmal ◽  
Risdaneva Risdaneva ◽  
Habiburrahim Habiburrahim ◽  
Maulina Sari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Aceh Province ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Senior High School Students

This descriptive qualitative study was aimed at discovering English language teachers’ challenges in teaching TOEFL preparation for senior high school students. The data were collected by using an in-depth interview with six experienced and qualified English language teachers teaching TOEFL in the three-state and private senior high schools in Aceh province, Indonesia. Open, axial, and selective coding techniques were used to analyze the data from in-depth interviews. The results show that teachers faced some challenges during teaching TOEFL preparation for senior high school students including students’ different language proficiency, their lack of vocabulary mastery, their fatigue, their passive attitude, class size, and time limitation. The findings recommend the further idea to organize a more organized preparation TOEFL program for high school students that can be integrated into the existing curriculum, and thus it will no longer be viewed merely as an extracurricular program.

scholarly journals Chinese to English Lexical Transfer Errors in the Writing of Rural Senior High School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 645
Author(s):  
Zhenyan Ye
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Multiword Units ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Lexical Transfer

The influence of first language (L1) has been widely recognized as a crucial factor in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Language transfer is a typical phenomenon originating from this impact of L1. Many studies have tried to explore the influence of learners’ L1 on their SLA. This paper reports a study conducted at a rural senior high school in eastern China. Based on the lexical transfer taxonomy proposed by Dodigovic et al (2015), this research attempted to at first identify examples of lexical transfer from Chinese to English caused by (1) Chinese polysemes, (2) Chinese collocations, and (3) multiword units (MWUs) yielded from learners writing. Subsequently, the patterns of and underlying reasons for lexical transfer were traced. 115 pieces of students writing were examined for error collection, and some typical examples from which were further analyzed to show how negative lexical transfer occurs. The results suggest that a great proportion of errors were caused by Chinese polysemes. The significant difference between the lexical specificity of Chinese and English as well as the word-for-word semantic equivalent assumption of L2 learners were found to be important reasons for negative lexical transfer. Pedagogical implications such adopting a wider range of semantization strategies and preventing learners from taking word-for-word relation between L1 and L2 for granted were drawn from the discussion.

scholarly journals INDONESIAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Silva Afdian ◽  
Delvi Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
High School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Language Skill ◽  
School Students ◽  
Senior High School Students ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study aimed to investigate senior high school students’ attitude towards advantages of learning literature in English. The participants of this research were 22 eleventh grade students in SMAN 2 Padang who took English as Specialization class. This study was descriptive qualitative research used in investigating senior high school students’ attitude towards literature in English. The instrumentations of this research were questionnaire and interview. The following are advantages of learning literature in English, encouraging language sources, improving language skill, expanding students’ awareness through environment and willingness to learn English language. The findings of the research showed that students’ attitude towards advantages of learning literature in English is positive.

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