VOCABULARY MASTERY STRATEGIES USED BY INDONESIAN EXTENSIVE READING LEARNERS

Vocabulary mastery is a key aspect of foreign language leaning. Various methods can be used to improve vocabulary mastery. This present study was conducted to find out what strategies the learners of the Extensive Reading Course used in mastering the vocabulary in an English Language Education Program (ELEP) at a private university in Central Java, Indonesia, based on the Schmitt (2000) theory. The strategies discussed in this study are the determination, metacognitive, cognitive, memory and social strategy. In this study, a qualitative research design was applied to collect the data using questionnaire with open-ended questions. There were fifty-six participants of three Extensive Reading classes for this study. The result of the study showed that the determination strategy was the most preferable. Most of the participants used that strategy to enrich their vocabulary, while the social strategy was the least used. It was found that most of ER learners used determination strategies to mastery vocabulary.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIGHER-ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS) AND ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT

Higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) is a new concept of thinking in Curriculum 2013 in Indonesia, which is based on the revised top three levels in Bloom’s Taxonomy: analyzing, evaluating, and creating. This survey research used 44 students who were purposively sampled. The objective of this research was to determine if there was a linear correlation between HOTS and the English achievement of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Kudus. Using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation in the level of significance .05 and degree of freedom 42, this research showed that there was a high positive significant linear correlation between HOTS and the English achievement of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 2 Kudus. Key words: HOTS, taxonomy, curriculum 2013, English achievement

THE PERCEPTION ON THE USE SOCIAL MEDIA IN LEARNING ENGLISH

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.

TYPES OF MOOD USED BY THE LECTURER IN TEACHING READING: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Teaching Reading is a way to develop students’ awareness and to facilitate students to learn the reading skill in order to develop students engaged with the text they read in a meaningful way. In teaching Reading, the lecturer used several types of mood to make the students understand the materials. This study is aimed at describing the types of mood used by the lecturer in teaching two Reading classes in a private university in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. This study used qualitative research design since it describes certain phenomenon that is types of mood used by the lecturer in teaching Reading. The setting of this research is in English Department, Universitas Dian Nuswantoro Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. The data are in the forms of utterances used by the lecturer in teaching Reading. Data collection was done by observing and taking notes on the teaching and learning process of Reading, video recording the teaching and learning process of Reading, viewing the data to show the completeness of the data, and transcribing the recorded data into the written forms. The were analyzed using qualitative data analysis offered by Creswell (2009), those are organizing and preparing data, coding and segmenting the written data into clauses, identifying the type of mood, classifying the type of mood, and interpreting the data. The result showed that the type of mood mostly used by the lecturer in teaching Reading is declarative because the lecturer gives much information to the students to make the students understand the materials. Other types of mood used are interrogative and imperative ones.

DISCRETE AND INTEGRATED APPROACH AND THE IMPLICATIONS ON LANGUAGE TEACHING LEARNING MANAGEMENT

This paper describes discrete and integrated approach and the implication on language teaching learning management. Discrete approach emphasizes on the teaching and learning a language discretely, whereas integrated approach emphasizes on the whole language, namely speaking, writing, listening, reading, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. In fact, both are interrelated since discrete learning is the basis for integrated learning. Both should be implemented in the teaching learning process in the classroom so that students are able to use the language well. Therefore, the curriculum or the syllabus, teaching materials, teachers’ qualification, and classroom management should be prepared well.

TIME TOKEN TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ LEARNING ACTIVITY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to know the effectiveness of Cooperative Learning Time Token towards student’s learning activity and Communicative Competence in speaking English. This research uses Classroom Action Research procedures. The research consists of two cycles, each comprises four phases, namely planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The subject of the research is the students of SMK N 2 Temanggung semester 1 2019/2020. To get data, the writer uses Brown’s Scale of Test of Spoken English. While for students’ activities, the writer uses a set of observation sheet to observe the activity of the students in class. The research reveals that the uses of Time Token technique in English class has increased the students’ Learning activities from 68 % in Pre-cycle to 78% in cycle 1 and 80 % in cycle 2. The Communicative competence in speaking English has increased from 74 to 78 in cycle 1 and 81 in cycle 2Key words : Time Token, students’ activity and students’ communicative competence

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHUNKING STRATEGY IN DEVELOPING STUDENT'S ABILITY IN STORY RETELLING

This research aims at finding out whether or not the use of chunking strategy is effective in developing students’ ability of story retelling to the tenth-grade students at MAN 01 Pekalongan. Quasi experimental research was applied as the method with two groups : experimental and control group. The total subject of this research was 52 students which were taken from two classes of X IPS 1 as a control group and X AGAMA 2 as an experimental group. Face and content validity were done by asking the English teacher and advisor to be expert judgements to validate the instrument by using a rubric appearance of test for face validity and its conformity by curriculum as a content validity. Inter-rater reliability in giving scores to the students’ was done to measure the reliability of the test. This research used SPSS in analysing the data of speaking test through several activities. They were pre-test before treatments, and post-test after treatments. The result of the research shows the significant difference in the story retelling ability between tenth grade students who were taught by using chunking strategy and those were not taught by using it. It can be seen in the result of mean score in the post-test of experimental class which is 89 and control class which is 83 and as a result Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.044 0.050. Therefore, the null hyothesis of this study is rejected. It means that the use of chunking strategy had significantly improved the tenth-grade students story retelling ability in English teaching and learning process of the experimental class at MAN 01 Pekalongan in the academic year 2019/2020. Keywords: chunking, teaching speaking strategy, story retelling

IMPROVING THE USER SURVEY OF UNIVERSITAS MURIA KUDUS BASED ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO MAXIMIZE THE RESULT IN SUPPORTING ACCREDITATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION (AIPT) 3.0

Alumni or graduates are the key of university's accountability. Alumni who are well accepted in the working place, whether they are entrepreneurial or working with other people, are able to become the basis of the institution existence to get a trust. User survey is a must for university because it is a compulsive point that must be completed in preparing accreditation forms for both universities and departments. The use of information technology media is expected to increase its maximum results at score 4. This study aims to determine the use of information technology in implementing user survey at Universitas Muria Kudus. The results obtained are quite good. The use of information technology in the user survey has been carried out in almost every stage of the activity. These stages were collecting data from the alumni website and then identifying the departments. The next was blasting information on tracer study activities and procedures to alumni via email and WhatsApp group of alumni in each department. After the alumni had filled out the questionnaire through career center (PKPA) website, respondents’ data were classified based on the name of the workplace, alumni, and departments. After that, alumni assessment questionnaire was sent via post to alumni users, which was attached with the names of the alumni. It was then confirmed via WhatsApp and or email to HRD or Contact Person at the alumni workplace two weeks after sending. The number of workplace (companies/agencies/schools) which responded was quite good. There were 83 workplaces responded back the assessment by post or email. The result of user survey is inecessary as an input for institutions in escalating the quality of graduates.

PRONUNCIATION ERRORS MADE BY EFL STUDENT TEACHERS IN SPEECH PERFORMANCE

Pronunciation is one of the key factors in communication. The different pronunciation or different sounds will cause different meanings. It is known that the sound of English vowels and consonants are so much different from Indonesian vowels and consonants. A slip of pronunciation might occur and cause listeners misunderstand the message.This study is aimed at finding the pronunciation errors and the factors contributing to the pronunciation errors made by the EFL student teachers in speech performance.A descriptive qualitative research design was used. The data were collected through document analysis and interview. The result of the study shows that there were 79 errors found, meanwhile the factors contributing to the students’ pronunciations consists of internal external factors.

THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LEARNING ENGLISH

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%)