The Correlation between Silence Phenomenon and EFL Student Online Class

In order to eliminate the spread of the Corona Virus, the students have been being required to study from homes either synchronously or asynchronously. It is commonly known asan online class. It has been being done to cut the spread of theCOVID-19 virus. This new teaching approach needs EFL students to adjust their way of learning. Also, the online class creates some challenges, such as limited interaction, low motivation, internet connection issues, etc) for EFL learners in their learning process because teachers and students have less interaction. This situation is called a silence phenomenon. Due to this was a new type of issue in EFL teaching and less investigated research, the researchers conducted the study to investigate the factors and solutions of the silencing phenomenon faced by EFL students during an online class. This study employed a case study research method.The subjects of this studywere tenstudents of English Language EducationDepartment students, 2017 academicyear at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM). The researcher collected thedata through the interview technique.The interview was applied, so the researchers obtained rich and in-depth data. The finding of this studyshowed that students’active participation during online classes was very low.That low participation was caused by several aspects: individual, teacher,cultural, technological, and domestic. The students could implement various ways to minimize the students’ reticence in the online class. This research hopefully provides different views to make teachers' online classes fun and interesting, so English learning can obtain optimal outcomes.

Eliciting Idiom Retention through Alliteration in a Classroom Activity

Alliteration comes up as one of the efforts that follow the notion of linguistic motivation in creating language retention and memorization to learners. Idiom is one of the language phenomena where alliteration takes place as part of its non-arbitrariness principle. The claim underlying the effectiveness of alliteration in aiding language retention in idiom is tried to be applied in some classroom activities which may consist of pre, whilst, and post-teaching. All the activities in the teaching session are arranged to be integrated with idiom learning using alliteration. Learners' ability to recall idioms containing aliteration will also be tested in the provided exercises. The success of the expected retention on learners will be measured from the result gained from the activity divided simply into three phases, pre-teaching, whilst-teaching, and post-teaching where it will be conducted for approximately 90 minutes. As some deviations possibly made can influence the result, the teacher should figure out some considerations affecting the effectiveness of the lesson given. Reflection phase should be conducted maximally, so that learners’ response is really fruitful that it can be known whether they are engaged with the activity and gain the material well. In the first activity, they work semi-independently, so that the assessment is expected to be more objective, covering the combination of group and individual work.

ESP Course Design for Indonesian Hotel Industry: Need Analysis

English for Specific Purpose (ESP) runs to equip learners’ English language for their future needs in tertiary education. In the hotel industry, the laborers’ English capabilities are crucial as their duties deal with foreign guests. However, hotel employees’ English language inability was found in a small case. Thus, the ESP argues able to advance labor’s English language skills. This research aims to identify staff’s English needs in the front-desk department by identifying labors’ lacks, wants, and necessities. Furthermore, this paper also seeks the expected ESP course. The data were collected toward three staff and a hotel manager by using the qualitative method. Additionally, interview and participant observation has established in Kapal Garden Hotel, Indonesia. The result are 1.) Speaking and listening are primary skills for a front desk job. It is in line with work necessities that front desk staff’s duties are to communicate with foreign guests. The ESP course is expected to lead the students to pronounce vocabulary in hotels, respond to the conversation in the check-in and check-out situation, explain hotel facilities, direct the guest to a certain place, and understand the various foreign accents. 2.) The staff expects flexible teaching for ESP course design.

Improving Student Reading Comprehension Through Question and Answer Relationships

Reading comprehension is the ability to process text, understand the purpose of the text and integrate with what the reader knows. The ability of individuals to understand texts is influenced by their abilities and ability to process information. The method that researchers use in this study is the question and answer method in reading. So the teacher asks students to read a text, then after that the teacher holds a question and answer session in accordance with the reading text. The main research goals of the study is improving students reading comprehension skills with question and answer method. The implementation is doing in the classroom. After doing research with all 10th grade students, SMA Muhammadiyah 5 Jakarta. This question and answer method can make students become more diligent in reading and understanding every reading and questions given by the teacher, and for teachers, asked to provide more material and methods that can make students become more active and effective in each reading subjects. The result of is some students understand this method. And there are also students who do not like this method, but more students are successful and like this method.

Alumni of University EFL Students’ Opinions about Register of Football

The existence of football has paved the way for this study to find the football registers types. This linguistic part explains about language and the usage. The researcher implemented the theories of register from Biber and Conrad (2009) and Biber and Finegan(1994). This investigation uses the interviews via whatsApp to gather the data from 5 participants. These people were the alumni from university located in Yogyakarta. After the information of interview is got, the researcher analyzed it. The results showed 16 types as follows. First finding is actions. Second result shows positions. Third finding reveals places. Fourth result is championships. Fifth finding is supporters types. Sixth result reveals clubs. Seventh finding shows tools. Eighth result has business in football. Nineth finding is referee types. Tenth result indicates impacts of fouls. Eleventh finding is special matches. Twelveth result shows times. Thirteenth finding reveals honorifics. Fourteenth result has name. Fifteenth finding is impacts of less achievements. Sixteenth result has formations.

Social Function of Maxim to Present “Coming of Age” Value through Bildungsroman Novel Translation Entitled Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

This study aims to identify maxim utterance in Bildungsroman novel entitled Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami as well as translation technique used. Another purpose is to know the value of “coming of age.” This is a qualitative study which means the data were collected through document review from two sources; research object and rater assessment. The result shows that there are nine translation technique applied, they are: Established Equivalent, Amplification: Explicitation and Paraphrase, Reduction, Variation, Creation Discursive, Modulation, Paraphrase, Pure Borrowing, Generalization, Linguistic Compression: Implicitation. Regarding to quality of accuracy, acceptability, and readability, the following findings are shown as follows: accurate: 80%, less accurate 10%, not accurate 10%, acceptable 100%, less acceptable 0 %, not acceptable 0 %, readable 100 %, less readable 0%, and not readable 0%.

EFL Students’ Perspectives on Their Self-efficacy in Speaking During Online Learning Process

This article illustrates the EFL students' perspectives toward self-efficacy of them in speaking during the online learning process. Self-efficacy defined as a person believes that he/she could manage the situation and get a positive outcome. It points out to the intuition in one’s capacity to execute and organize the action required in producing the given attainments. Self-efficacy is very crucial for students in studying a language, especially for the fourth language skills. To achieve the qualification of English communication, mastering the fourth integrated skills is very necessary. Speaking includes in this term. The aim of this article was to analyze the EFL students’ perspective about their self-efficacy in speaking during the online class activity. The research was conducted on 35 EFL learners of English Department Student at Tidar University. The researcher uses the descriptive quantitative method in analyzing the data. In obtaining them, the researcher employed a survey study by using a questionnaire with 20 close-ended questions. The result showed that the learners have enough self-efficacy in speaking during online learning. The high percentage of neutral option still dominate them. However, the final result of the data shows that learners have strong self-efficacy. Keywords: EFL Students, Online Learning, Speaking, Self-efficacy

A Study of EFL Students’ Perspective on Ambiguity Tolerance

This research aims to investigate the EFL students' perspective on ambiguity tolerance. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative approach for this research. To collect the data, the researcher used the Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale (SLTAS) as the instrument. This research involved 30 students of the 5th semester of Tidar University Magelang as the participant. The result shows that the participants have low ambiguity tolerance in the term reading and listening and more tolerance in speaking and writing.

Postmodernism Creates Innovative English Teaching Learning by Utilizing ICT

Through comprehensive literature review and an examination of both Postmodernism and ICT, it is proposed that the influences of ICT have acted and continued to act to promote Postmodernism. The development of ICT is utilized by education field for teaching learning process. Many teachers and students utilize the existing of ICT as model of teaching and learning especially English. This study discussed about teachers’ belief and students’ belief in using ICT to have innovative English teaching learning. Qualitative descriptive was used in this study. The data was collected by conducting the interview. The participants were five English teachers and five students that chose randomly. The result showed that both teachers’ and students’ belief in using ICT is to make English teaching learning easier, more interesting, and effective. Keywords:Postmodernism,ICT, teachers’ belief, students’ belief

Improving the Students’ Motivation in Learning English through Google Meet during the Online Learning

The increase number of Covid-19 outbreak has profoundly changed our education system. This condition has led the teachers to alter the face-to-face learning into online learning. Online learning emphasizes on the internet-based courses synchronously and asynchronously. Besides its technical problems, conducting online learning was said to be monotonous since the teachers preferred doing online tasking to providing effective learning experience. Further, this condition led to low students’ motivation in learning English. In other words, the students might be in boredom to participate and engage in the teaching- learning process owing to the monotonous learning. Most students were said to be late or even reluctant to complete the assignments. Therefore, the researcher conducted the Classroom Action Research dealing with the use of Google meet to improve the students’ motivation in learning English during the online learning. The research subject was the 7th grade students of SMP Negeri Satu Atap Jarit. The research was conducted in two cycles. In cycle I, it showed that there was an increase of students’ motivation in learning English. The increase of students’ motivation was 61, 8%. Meanwhile, in cycle II, the researcher found that the Google meet significantly improved the students’ motivation in learning English. The increase of students’ motivation was 79, 4%. The result showed that the students actively participate and engage in the teaching-learning process. The students were very enthusiastic to respond and answer the some questions, and share their ideas related to the topic of the meeting. In addition, the increase of students’ motivation influence the students to compose sentences correctly related to the given assignments. Based on the result of data analysis, the researcher drew a conclusion that the use of Google meet significantly improved the students’ motivation in learning English during the online learning.Keywords: Google meet, Learning English, Students’ Motivation