Students’ participation on speaking online class (a case study)

This paper aims to reveal factors that affect the students' participation in a speaking online class. The subjects are the second and fourth semester students of English department, Language and Culture Faculty, UNTAG Semarang. The research was held during the even semester of the academic year 2020/2021. The research method used in this study is a qualitative method. The data was based on the interview and the questionnaires filled by the students. Some technical issues came up in the online class such as internet connection which mostly became the hottest issue and also the device being used which was sometimes not compatible to the program used in the teaching and learning process. Those issues somehow have affected the online teaching and learning process. The other issues affected in online learning are students’ contribution and students’ condition. For those, it is hoped that the research will give a clearer explanation especially for the teachers who are struggling on teaching the online class and face a similar situation. Therefore, they can cope and handle it better. Keywords: online learning, participation, speaking class

An analysis of syntactic translation error on communication students’ abstract in Universitas Bengkulu

This research was purposed to find out the syntactic translation errors from source language (Bahasa Indonesia) to target language (English) in communication students’ abstract of Universitas Bengkulu. The method that used by the researcher in this research was qualitative method along with content analysis approach. The error sources of translation were classified as morphological, lexical and syntactic error based on Sager’s theory. However, this research focused on the abstracts in thesis which made and translated by the communication students who’s graduated on 2019. The researcher found out that there were 52 syntactic errors occurred in 7 abstracts which became the object of this research

Students’ emotional engagement in online collaborative writing through google document

Learning writing has been conducted by using various methods. Collaborative writing is one of method that used in writing learning practice. Studies about collaborative writing reveal that online collaborative writing is effective to promote students’ writing quality. There are many previous studies have explored the students’ perception, effectiveness, and benefits of collaborative writing. However, the study about students’ emotional engagement in collaborative writing is limited. This study aims to explore students’ emotional engagement during online collaborative writing through Google Docs. The exploration of students’ emotional engagement is beneficial to understand students’ feelings and emotions during the learning process. Classroom Action Research is used as the research design of the study. Participant of the research is four eleven grade high school students. The research was conducted at the SMA Negeri 1 Cikarang Barat in three weeks. Semi-structured interview and documentation were used for collecting the data. The result of the study showed that online collaborative writing through Google Docs involves students to learn writing enthusiastically. Online collaborative writing also involves students cognitively by acquiring new vocabulary during the online collaborative writing activity.

Students’ perceptions towards native and non-native english speaker teachers

There was an argument that native English teachers have many advantages than non-native English teachers and students preferred native to non-native teachers; however, the argument had to be assessed. Many researchers had been exploring students’ perceptions of native and non-native English teachers worldwide in formal education institutions. This study aimed to explore students’ perceptions of native and non-native English teachers in a non-formal education institution. This was a qualitative study based on a descriptive approach conducted using three instruments: close-ended questionnaire, semi-structured interview, and documentation. The study revealed that native and non-native English teachers had their own specific roles in the Indonesian context. Students needed native more than non-native teachers because the latter were bilingual having the same mother tongue as them, and they enabled a successful learning process because of the effective learning strategies they shared. Also, non-native teachers helped students deal with difficulties and challenges in their learning process.

The vocabulary mastery for early childhood through songs

The study was an experimental study that aims to improve early childhood’s education students in English vocabulary skills through interactive songs learning method for early childhood at PAUD Tarbiyatul Athfal 49, that was located in Kuripan, Ngadirgo village, Mijen district, Semarang. The study involved two groups of students, those were the control group (25 students) who were taught by using pictures, and the experimental group (25 students) who were taught by using songs. The pre-test was given before the treatment began and the post-test was carried out after the experiment was finished. The null hypothesis was then drawn, and T-test was also conducted to compare the mean score of the two groups. The mean score of the control group was 13.3, while the mean score of the experimental group was 16.4. The results showed that the mean score of the experimental group was higher than the control groups The t-test that had been carried out also showed that there were significant difference between the two groups was 0,23 (the figure was above 0,5). Based on the above results, it proved that Tarbiyatul Athfal early childhood education students understood in English by using songs was better than other learning method, since songs can motivate them to know more about English vocabulary

Learning media and strategies used by english students in practice teaching during the pandemic

Practice teaching, indisputably, is one of the school activities distorted significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Practice teachers should adapt online learning to convey teaching and learning activities. This study aimed at finding out the internet device (wi-fi) available at schools in Pekanbaru municipality and learning media used by practicum teachers with the stable internet connectivity at schools in Pekanbaru municipality. There were 47 out of 51 English Education Students of Universitas Lancang Kuning involved in this research. They filled in 27 items of close-ended questions in the Likert scale. The findings revealed that most schools (83%) had wi-fi devices accessed by practicum teachers for teaching activities. With this device, practice teachers used more diverse applications (Google Classroom, Google Form, and Zoom video conference) more frequently (often), shown in the mean score of 4.0, to convey learning materials and tasks delivery. In schools with unstable internet connectivity, they chose the Whattsapp application to convey learning activities, including the delivery of the tasks. In conclusion, the availability of a wi-fi device with stable internet connectivity supports practice teachers in conducting online teaching activities during the pandemic. They can maximize the use of more diverse applications, namely Google Classroom, Google Form, and Zoom conference

EFL teachers’ perception towards online classroom interaction during covid-19 pandemic

The spread of Covid-19 is affecting education systems around the world and transform the learning from face-to-face to online learning. Interaction is important pattern to share knowledge between teachers and students. Previous research has said that interaction could also encourage students to master the subject matter. This study aims to describe the EFL teachers’ perception towards classroom interaction during Covid-19 pandemic especially on how the interaction between teacher-student, student-teacher, and student-student synchronously which is assisted by Google Meet. The research method used in this study is descriptive case study and taking data by conducting observation, interview, and documentation. Based on research result, teacher perceive online classroom interaction in balance emotion, exploratory talk tends to be implemented in online classroom interactions, Indirect talk of asking questions is the dominant online classroom interaction.

An investigation on students’ e-learning readiness in higher education

The main goal of this research was to measure students’ readiness in applying E-Learning. Quantitative method was employed in this research. The researcher distributed an online questionnaire to undergraduate students at one of private university in Batam randomly. The collected data was analyzed with statistical software SPSS. The descriptive statistics (percentage, means and standard deviations) were calculated and reported in this research. Four categories of students’ readiness are being discussed in this research – students’ technology skills, technology access, motivation, and time management. Based on the result, the students were highly ready learn using E-Learning with overall mean 3.34

DEVELOPMENT OF NEWS WRITING LEARNING MODULE BASED ON CONTEXTUAL APPROACH FOR STUDENTS OF PBSI

This research was conducted to describe the process of developing a news writing learning module based on a valid, practical, and effective contextual approach for students of PBSI (Indonesian Language and Literature Education). This type of research is development research (R&D). The development model used is 4-D (definition, design, development, and deployment). This research was conducted at the Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, Universitas of PGRI Semarang with a total of 30 students. This development process produces a product in the form of a news writing learning module based on a valid, practical and effective contextual approach. The overall module validity value is 85.36% with a very valid category. Practical scores were obtained in three ways, 86.22 % from lecturers in the very practical category, 93.12% from students in the very practical category, and 88.59% in student activity assessments in the very practical category. The assessment of the effectiveness of the module was obtained through a pretest and posttest design. Based on data analysis, it is known that the news writing learning module based on a practical and effective contextual approach is used in improving the ability to write news in PBSI Study Program students..Keywords: learning module, news writing, contextual approach

The analysis of SQ3R in reading learning process for mechanical engineering students of Politeknik Harapan Bersama

This research was motivated by low ability in English subject, reading comprehension in particular among students in Mechanical Engineering study program. Politeknik Harapan Bersama. Based on some related studies, SQ3R technique is as one of learning techniques that proved to enhance reading skills. This research was conducted with the assumption that the technique was able to improve reading comprehension. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to determine the effect of SQ3R technique on students' reading comprehension. The research presented 2 variables namely SQ3R technique (X) and reading comprehension (Y). Pre-Experimental method of One Group Pretest-Posttest Design was implemented with one class of Mechanical Engineering consisting 26 male and 1 female student involved during the study. Data were gained through cloze test and observation sheet. All data were then processed and analyzed quantitatively to determine the effect of the SQ3R technique on the students' ability to comprehend the passage. The results showed that tcount (5.001) was greater than ttable (2.080). Thus, this can be concluded that SQ3R technique has positive effect (54.4%) on the students' reading comprehension.