E-LEARNING ACCESSIBILITY IN STATE-OWNED SCHOOLS IN NORTH BALI

This study aimed at investigating the implementation of e-learning in one of government non-favourite schools in Singaraja. This study was the result of the real implementationof e-learning in Bali in which the government expected e-learning to be applicable in every school in Bali since the launching of Balinese version of E-learning 2017. This research was a descriptive qualitative research. This study used snowball sampling in which the public opinion was counted. The data were collected by using observation and interview guide. The result of the study showed that the implementation of e-learning was not running well and became a serious problem. Some sollutions were offered in this study.

DEVELOPING ENGLISH SUPPLEMENTARY LOCAL WISDOM-BASED LISTENING MATERIALS USING NATURAL READER 14 APPLICATION

This study aimed at a) describing the topics needed to be developed for English supplementary local wisdom-based listening materials for the eighth grade students based on Curriculum 2013 at SMP Negeri 2 Singaraja; b) describing the process of developing the English supplementary local wisdom-based listening materials for the eighth grade students at SMP Negeri 2 Singaraja; c) assessing the quality of the developed product. This study implemented Design and Development research by Richey and Klein (2007). The phases were analysis, design, development, and evaluation. The data were obtained from document study, observation sheet, interview guide, questionnaire and a scoring rubric. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The results of this study show that (a) the developed topics are (1) giving and responding to compliment, (2) asking and giving opinions, (3) asking and giving information about ability and willingness, (4) asking and giving information about a must, prohibition, and suggestions, (5) asking and giving instruction, invitation, and permission, (6) asking and giving information about special events or days, (7) asking and giving information about the location, things, and animals; (b) the processes of developing the materials are analyzing the English syllabus, four potencies of local wisdom of Bali, and present situation at SMPN 2 Singaraja, designing a blue print of the product, developing a blue print into a complete listening materials, and evaluating the developed materials by four expert judges; (c) the result of product evaluation done by the four expert judges shows that the developed product is categorized as excellent materials. The outcome of this study is the product which is in the form of audio recording (CD-RW) and the printed listening materials along with the answer key and listening scripts.

USING SHORT FILMS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH WHILE BUILDING CHARACTERS

The role of teachers in EFL/ESL classroom is very important for the improvement of the students since it is believed that professional and creative English teachers can help students in learning English well. However, many teachers still lack the effort in finding new ideas and in improving their professionalism as a good English teacher. Yet, with the development of technology nowadays, many media are worth to be considered in teaching English. One of the media that is being actively mentioned in educational world nowadays is short film. In this case, short film is believed to be one of the appropriate ways in teaching English especially in teaching the character education presented in it. With short film, students can have more exposure to authentic English and the culture of the target language. But another important benefit is often overlooked by teachers, that is the possibility of learning values for building the students’ characters through the use of short film in the learning process. This present paper will try to respond to this fact by identifying the values of character educations in a short film entitled Piper from Pixar animation through textual analysis. There are character educations that revealed about parenting, self-supporting, and friendship value in the film. Thus, it can be concluded that when chosen correctly, short films can be a media for building students’ characters while developing their English, all in a more entertaining, relaxed, and enjoyable media that meet the students’ 21st century contexts.

TEACHER’S COPING STYLE STRATEGY WITH MISBEHAVING STUDENTS

The study aimed at: a) finding out kinds of students’ misbehavior and b) describing the English teachers’ strategies in handling students’ misbehavior.The participants of this research were four English teachers who taught in Grade 5 at DS, a bilingual school in Denpasar, in school year 2017/2018. This study was a descriptive qualitative study. There were three instruments used to collect the data namely observation sheet, interview guide and questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using interactive data analysis model including four steps namely data collection, data reduction, data display and drawing conclusion and verification. The findings revealed that: a) there were 10 different kinds of students misbehaviors at school namely inattention, needless talk, moving about the room, annoying others, disruption, lying, stealing, sexual harassment, aggression and fighting and also defiance of authority; b) The teachers used 6 different coping styles strategies in handling misbehaving students such as hinting, reward and recognition, punishment, aggression, social problem solving and relaxation. The results of this study were expected to be beneficial in giving additional knowledge for the English teachers of primary school in managing their classroom especially in a context of bilingual school system.

THE EFFECT OF FLIPPED CLASSROOM STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS READING COMPETENCE IN THE ENGLISH FOR NURSING

This study aimed to identify the effect of flipped classroom strategy toward reading competence between students who are taught using flipped classroom and those who are taught using conventional strategy. The study employed quasi experimental and used Non-equivalent Control Group Design. There were 80 respondents of the 3rd semester nursing students of STIKES Bali recruited as the sample through purposive sampling strategy. The data were collected by using pre-test and post-test to measure students' reading competence. The findings indicated that there was a significant difference between experimental and conventional group. The average score of experimental group in pre-test was 49.05, while the post-test was 78.58; the increase was 29.53. Meanwhile, the average score of control group in the pre-test was 45.55, while after the post-test was 58.48; the increase was 12.93. The t test obtained the value of t count 12.737. The value of t table with df 39 at a significant level of 5% was 2.0226. Therefore, t count> t table (12,737> 2,0226) and the significance value is lower than 0,05 (0,00 <0,05). The students taught using Flipped Classroom achieved better in reading competency than those who were taught using conventional teaching. In conclusion, Flipped Classroom is an active learning strategy that can be applied in the classroom, in which the learning process is reversed, that is, from the student to the teacher or student-centered learning.

TEACHING STRATEGIES USED IN ESP CLASSES

This study aimed to describe teaching strategies implemented by lecturers in teaching English of continuing program students at STIKES Bali. Descriptive qualitative design use used. There were 2 respondents involved in this study which were lecturers who taught English in continuing program at STIKES Bali. The data were collected by using observation sheet and interview guide. The data were analyzed descriptively according to descriptive qualitative design. The finding showed that there were 5 teaching strategies from 7 teaching strategies proposed implemented by lecturer such as Direct Instruction, Discussion, Group Work, Co-operative Learning and Performance Activity. Direct Instruction and Discussion were the most teaching strategies that chosen by English lecturers. Teaching strategies were implemented according to the topics and characteristics of the students. Choosing the right teaching strategy is very important in teaching English, especially in continuing program students at STIKES Bali. English lecturers in STIKES Bali are expected to implement more and appropriate teaching strategies to improve the quality of teaching and learning process.

THE ANALYSIS ON THE READINESS OF ENGLISH TEACHERS IN IMPLEMENTING AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

This research aimed at discovering the readiness of English teachers in implementing authentic assessment in Senior High Schools which would implement curriculum 2013 in Bangli Regency. This is an evaluative study with discrepancy analysis approach proposed by Provust. Here, the idealimplementation of authentic assessment was compared to the real implementation by the English teachers. Two English teachers in SMAN 2 Bangli and SMAN 1 Tembuku were taken as the subjects of the research. The objects involved planning, executing, and reporting of authentic assessment in the form of portfolio, performance, project, and self-assessment. To collect the data, three rubrics for planning, executing, and reporting with Likert scale were used. This research discovers: 1) interms of planning, the teachers’ readiness is classified into average, 2) in terms of execution, the teachers’ readiness is classified into not ready, and 3) in terms of reporting, the teachers’ readiness is classified into not ready. There were three main problems faced by the teachers in implementingauthentic assessment, namely: a) lack of authentic assessment knowledge, b) lack of experience in designing authentic assessment, and c) lack of sharing from friends who get workshop about authentic assessment. From this research, it is suggested that a) teachers to join workshop and toread references about authentic assessment, and b) government should held more workshop about authentic assessment.

FOLKTALES AS MEANINGFUL CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC RESOURCES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING SKILLS

Creating an English learning environment in which learners are highly motivated is sometimes very challenging for EFL teachers. Folktales can be useful for facilitating learners in their competence of English language and also for enhancing their cross-cultural awareness. In the field of language teaching, the richness and potential of folktales seems to have been under-utilized in today’s language classes. This paper explores how folktales can be used as a medium of improving students’ reading skills and major benefits in using folktales for teaching English. A classroom action research was employed to attain the purpose of this study in which two cyclic learning sessions were conducted to improve English learners’ reading skills. Several selected Indonesian folktales were intensively utilized in reading classes. This result of this study indicates that use of folktales by EFL teachers could improve student’ reading skill and widen their vocabulary and at the same time, culture is acquired by the students.

TYPES OF COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES USED BY YOUNG LEARNERS IN EFL CLASSROOMS

The learner’s proficiency level in communication using English as a foreign language was indicated by their capability to make use of strategies to communicate both in written as well as spoken forms. This qualitative study focused on finding out (i) the types of communication strategies used by the students in EFL classrooms at SMP Negeri 4 Singaraja, and (ii) the students’ reasons towards the use of their communication strategies. The data were obtained from observation and focus group discussion. All data were analysed descriptively. The results of the study indicated that numerous types of strategies were used by the students when communicating in the classroom. They are the use of fillers, self-repetition, code switching, appeal for help, self-repair, asking for confirmation, massage abandonment, omission, approximation, and literal translation. Various types of reasons were expressed by the students toward the use of communication strategies such as thinking time, anxiety, and proficiency level.

STUDENTS’ READING PREFERENCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: A STUDY OF THREE ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS IN JEMBER

This study aims to determine the students’ reading preference and its implications of three English Education Departments in Jember. Getting learners’ full attention in the learning process is very important, because the ability to read is one element of language competences that always needs to be elevated. However, reading material usually becomes the biggest obstacle for the lecturer to engage students’ full interest to the course. This study involved 273 students of three English Education Departments in Jember as research objects. Survey and interview methods were used to obtain the data. The research findings show that English Education Department students mostly interested to reading materials about entertainment and lifestyle, arts, religious, education and historical theme, and they avoid reading political and sport. Based on these findings, the suggestion for lecturers who specialize in the subjects related to reading activities is they should be able to present the teaching materials with themes favored by students in order to improve students’ reading motivation.