EVALUATION STUDY OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR INDONESIAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

The aim of this study is to get the quality of the English textbook for Junior High School that was designed by the government. Is it appropriate with the students and context needs? Method of research is the evaluation method through content analysis. Model of evaluation is Discrepancy Evaluation Model (DEM) to know suitability or unsuitability of textbook using criteria of evaluation. The instrument of assessment has 8 criteria, namely goals, approach, language content, skills, topics, methodology, teacher’s book, and practical consideration. Validation of instrument is judgment expert. The result of research found that the English textbook “Bahasa Inggris Think Globally Act Locally Class IX” has a good quality. It can be seen from the percentage of criteria, such as goals 80.8%, approach 82,8%, language content 81%, skills 81,3%, topics 87%, methodology 78.8%, teacher’s book 56.8%, and practical consideration 82.3%.

THE COLLOCATION ANALYSIS OF TWILIGHT NEW MOON NOVEL

Nowadays in globalization era, being able to communicate in a foreign language is of paramount importance due to its role in seeking for jobs, scholarship, etc. Translation is one of English for Specific Purpose, because is challenging and interesting job to be mastered. Because translation is not an easy work, it needs a serious attention and concentration. It can be said that the core of translation is a transfer a message without any left words missing especially the meaning. The translator shall be careful in replacing the meaning from Source Language to Target Language. In translation, some problems appear like usage of collocation in novel Twilight New Moon. The author mostly uses collocation in the novel.. The translator also translate the novel not only by method word by word, but also the translator uses modulation method and context of sentence. The use of collocation in novel makes reader easy to understand meaning of novel, get the point of message of novel

DOMINANT LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY MANAJEMEN DAKWAH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS AT UIN MATARAM

One of the prominent skills to be acquired by English language learners is Language learning strategies (LLSs) which is significant to enhance communicative competence. Individual’s differences in using the strategies depict their understanding on LLSs. An interesting fact on the result of Manajemen Dakwah Department Students (MDDSs) at State Islamic University (UIN) of Mataram in the odd semester of academic year 2018-2019 was 64 students got higher average English scores in their final test (88) compared to their middle test (65) that might reflect different use of LLS. The English subject was focusing on reading comprehension. Furthermore, descriptive qualitative case study was applied to record the dominant LLSs used by ten successful students or achievers in English class who has the criteria of achieving English score above 90. Three instruments were used to gather data, they are: documentation, questionnaire, and interview. The result shows that students used all LLSs and creating their own learning opportunities. Only HN that did not use social strategy though he used all other strategies. It means that successful MDDSs believe that exactly all LLSs are significant for elevating their language learning. Another result shows that the dominant LLSs which were used are compensation as they are good guesser for the unfamiliar words, memory strategy since they always try to memorize to retain the vocabulary in mind, and metacognitive strategy where they always create best setting for them to learn. Keywords: Language Learning Strategies, MDDSs, Dominant LLSs, English Scores.

ERRORS IN STUDENTS’ WRITING COMPOSITION IN SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE “MY DAILY ACTIVITY”

ABSTRACT This research is to find out the types of error analysis found in the Students’ Writing Composition in the aspect of grammar, punctuation and spelling also is to find out the most dominant kind of error analysis found in Students’ Writing Composition in Simple Present Tense form. This study applies the quantitative and qualitative methods. This study used documentation as a method of collecting data. From the analysis of this research, it shows that the students’ error in writing composition of simple present tense consists of three aspects of writing, they are they are in grammar, punctuation and spelling. In the aspect of grammar, there are 66 data or 56.89 %, which consist of some errors in class words (part of speech) such as in in verb (25 data or 37.88 %), determiner/article (16 data or 24.24 %), preposition (15 data or 13.64 %), noun (9 data or 13.64 %) and pronoun (1 data or 1.51 %). In punctuation, there are 28 data or 28.14 %, while in spelling there are 22 data or 18.97 %.

AN INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL FOR ENHANCING EFL LEARNERS’ SPEAKING PROFICIENCY

Due to the central role of speaking skill and its escalating demands of instruction in various levels of education in Indonesia, a myriad of teaching approaches and strategies have been applied to equip learners with the competences enabling the development of this skill. As a widespread approach to English language teaching (ELT), which gains its popularity within the context of EFL, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is geared towards learners’ communicative competence comprising of grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence as the underlying abilities of speaking proficiency. The development of these competences can be better facilitated when learning takes its place both in and outside classrooms as the latter provides potential promises for learners’ speaking proficiency development. For this reason, this paper presents learners’ challenges for learning speaking, the model activities in and outside classrooms, the importance of speaking instruction and the components of communicative competence and speaking proficiency.

INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF SELF-REGULATED STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT ON TERTIARY EFL STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS

This study aimed to investigate the relative effect of Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) teaching approach on tertiary EFL students’ writing. During two months, sixty EFL University students enrolling in basic writing course took part in this project and were divided into experimental and control groups. Pre- and post-tests were carried out to garner the intended data pertinent to the students’ writing scores. A mixed-design ANOVA was carried out to analyze the changes of writing scores of the respective groups since the assumption of homogeneity of regression slopes for the planned Analysis of Covariance was not met. The statistical evidence showed that there was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of writing scores at the significant value sig .00 < .05. The data also suggested that students who were taught using SRSD relatively outperformed their counterparts in the control group. The empirical evidence demonstrates that the use of SRSD as an instructional approach to some extent positively affects EFL students’ writing skill.

The Use of Course Review Horray (CRH) Strategy to Promote Students' Self-Confidence in Learning Vocabulary

This research aims at finding out whether Course Review Horray strategy has effect to promote students’ self-confidence in learning vocabulary at the seventh grade students of MA NW Senyiur Keruak Lotim or not. This research rises since the use of English vocabulary plays crucial roles of mastering English language. Students will gain a huge number of benefits in which they can cope with various vocabulary items. For instance; students will automatically convince their self to speak up fluently where they know much of variety of vocabulary. This phenomenon comes up along with students of MA NW Senyiur Keruak Lotim. This research was a quasi-experimental with two group pre-test and post-test design. The population was all the students of the seventh grade at MA NW Senyiur Keruak Lotim consisted of 74 students from 3 classes. The samples of this research were 2 classes consisted of 25 students each group. The experimental group was treated by using Course Review Horray strategy and control group was using Engage Study and Activate Strategy. The instruments of collecting the data were vocabulary test and questionnaire. After the data analysis completed, it was found that the questionnaire of students’ percentage was 56% the students got qualification A as criteria Student master 90%-100% of all indicators, 24% students get qualification as B master 80%-89% of all indicators, 16% students get qualification as C master 65%-79% of all indicators, 4% students get qualification as D master 55%-64% and 0% students got qualification as E master 0%-54% of all indicators. The number of T-test score was (2.865) > T-table (2.011). So, Course Review Horray (CRH) has effect towards students’ self-condident in learning English vocabulary

Using Interactive Games for the Teaching of Question Tags: Insights from an English Language Course In Indonesia

Learning foreign language has been the part of our educational systems. It has been taught from the early stage of education. However, there are still many difficulties in learning. And there are many challenges for the teachers to make it as a fun learning. This research aims is examine how can the interactive games can help the students to understand about questions tags better and can be used in the daily conversation. Meanwhile, the observed population that was used for the research was the students of English For All (EFA) English Course in Cirendeu, Tangerang Banten. The students were Junior High School students. The writers used the descriptive qualitative methods as using interactive games which was using oral test and conversation activities to learn how much their improvement in understanding about question tags. Keywords: Question Tags, Interactives Games, Teaching

Lecturers’ Motivational Strategy in ESP Classroom

This study is aimed to investigate how teachers’ motivational strategies use in ESP classrooms in the success of language teaching. Hence, the present study is trying to examineteachers’ motivationalstrategies and their reasons in ESP classrooms in teaching EnglishatFDIK UIN Mataram from their point of views. This research employed descriptive qualitative design on lecturers’ motivational strategies in ESP classrooms. The subjects of this study are four lecturers of ESP classes representing each departmentsat faculty of dakwah and communication science (FDIK) ofUIN Mataram. Management dakwahdepartment, Islamic community development department, Islamic counseling guidance department, and Islamic communication and broadcasting department. Then, it was found that ESP teachers in FDIK UIN Mataram generally employ all Ten Commandments for motivating language learner as proposed by Chengand Dornyei(2007). Further, researcher found additional motivational strategy appeared in lecturer no 3that interview strategy is not belong to the ten commandment but also stated in Chengand Dörnyei (2007)as main instrument, it is promoting self-motivating learner strategy. Finally, the reasons why the teachers consider to use those motivational strategies are: (1) bringing teaching practicality and interaction to be easier, more comfortable, and being more fun, (2) creating students’ awareness on the future success, (3) showing their care on students’ learning improvement and interest, and (4) being fair and wise in assessment. Keywords: Lecturers’ motivational strategy, and ESP Classroom

The Impact of PQ4R Strategy Use on EFL Students' English Reading Comprehension

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of PQ4R strategy on reading learning at English Study Program Universitas Islam Negeri Mataram. The research was used action research method. The sampling was taken by 34 students. The validity of data used credibility, transferability, dependability, and conformability. Reading comprehension ability achievement questions prepared by the researcher. It was used as the data collecting tool. These questions were implemented to both groups before the experiment. Independent sample t-test was used for data analysis. The result of the study that t-test result is t-stat (5.38) > t-table (1.99). It means that there is a significant difference was found in reading comprehension learning