THE INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL EXAMINATION ON STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONALISM AT ENGLISH CLASS IN MATARM MUNICIPALITY YEAR 2016

2017-07-21T02:51:39+08:00

This study aims at identifying whether or not the new national examination policy (NNEP) which operated in 2015 and is strikingly featured with “non-qualification-determination” impacts on the students’ motivation and teachers’ professionalism at junior high schools in Mataram Municipality year 2016. To obtain data needed, this quantitative study used two questionnaires. One questionnaire consisting of 37 was distributed to 60 students in ten junior high schools (JHS) for assessing the students’ motivation. The other one consisting of 67 main items was distributed to the 20 English teachers from the selected schools. The data were tabulated and then presented in Average Format. It was found that as whole both students’ motivation and the teachers’ professionalism were slightly influenced. Upon these findings, it is suggested that both the students and the teachers not be impacted on by the imposition of the NNEP. Motivation and professionalism should retain becuase learning is not just for national examination.

Key words: impact, national examination, motivation, professionalism

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SPACED AND MASSED TIME ALLOTMENT IN IMPROVING ENGLISH VOCABULARY OF THE STUDENTS OF MADRASAH ALIYAH DAKWAH ISLAMIYAH PUTRA NURUL HAKIM KEDIRI

2017-07-21T02:50:15+08:00

This research is aimed at finding if spaced time or massed time allotment can improve student’s vocabulary. Spaced time allotment can improve students’ vocabulary than massed time allotment. This experimental research was done at MA.DI.Pa Nurul Hakim Kediri in academic year 2016-2017. The total numbers of subject involved in this study were 49 students from science department classes. 26 students from IPA 1 were treated using spaced time allotment, and 23 students of IPA 2 were treated as massed time allotment. Spaced time allotment means students learned vocabularies in 45 minutes long then there was spaced approximately 8-9 hours. Students learned again in 45 minutes long. This run 10 times meeting while massed time allotment means students learned 90 minutes long without spaced time in it. This run 5 times meeting. The similarities of the two treatments are total time meeting and total vocabulary learned. The total time meeting of two treatments were 450 minutes and and the total vocabularies input were 100 vocabularies. The instrument employed in this research was multiple choice tests. It was found that the spaced time allotment is better than massed time allotment in improving students’ vocabulary. It was shown by the mean score 78.03 for IPA 1 or spaced time treatment while IPA 2 or massed time treatment obtained 66.37. There is a significant effect in gaining students’ vocabulary improvement. The t-count value (6.755) was higher than t-table value (2.704) in the significant level 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 22, Thus, the result of the research shows that the spaced time allotment is effective in improving students’ vocabulary than massed time allotment. The alternative hypoyhesis is accepted and null hypothesis is rejected. The spaced time allotment gives higher improvement in vocabulary mastery.

Key words: comparative, spaced time allotment, massed time allotment, improvement, English vocabulary

A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON CLASSROOM LANGUAGE USE: A STUDY AT SMA NEGERI 2 MATARAM

2017-07-21T02:51:56+08:00

Teacher talk is of crucial importance, not only for the organization of the classroom but also for the processes of acquisition. It is important for the organization and management of the classroom because it is through language that teachers either succeed or fail in implementing their teaching plans. In terms of acquisition, teacher talk is important because it is the major source of comprehensible target language input the learner is likely to receive. The purposes of this study were to investigate the amount of English used in the EFL classroom and discuss the amount of teacher talk time and the impact of teacher talk time on students’ participation in the classroom. Data for this study were purposively collected from observation and made the audio recording of the naturally occurring English classroom. Then, the data were transcribed by adopting Van Lier transcription system. In addition to the classroom recording, the data were also gathered through teacher interview and questionnaires for students. The results of the study showed that teachers involved in the study did not use English optimally in the classroom. Besides, they used teacher talk time excessively in the classroom that students had very limited time to practice using the target language. Therefore this study recommends that teachers should pay attention to their talk and talk time in order to increase students participation in the classroom.

Keywords: Teacher talk (TT), students talk (ST), teacher talk time (TTT), student talk time (STT), language acquisition, second language (L2)

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND VOCABULARY MASTERY TO OMBAK SUNSET HOTEL EMPLOYEES’ SPEAKING SKILL IN GILI TRAWANGAN

2017-07-21T02:51:59+08:00

Since adult learners who are working in certain sector have different motivation, vocabulary needs and speaking ability from young learners, it is crucial to examine the relationship between those aspects in English learning context. This study aims at finding out the correlation between motivation and vocabulary mastery to speaking skill of hotel employees. This research applied quantitative approach which was also supported by qualitative approach. Thirty employees at Ombak Sunset Hotel chosen by using purposive sampling become the samples of this study. There were four instruments used to collect the data from the participants; questionnaire, vocabulary test, speaking test and interview. In order to analyze the data, multiple regression was used. The results show that motivation and vocabulary mastery has a significant correlation with speaking skill; therefore, null hypothesis is rejected. It is concluded that there are other factors that can contribute to speaking skill of hotel staffs.

Keywords: Motivation, Vocabulary Mastery, Speaking Skill

STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES AND THEIR ABILITIES IN ENGLISH READING TEXTS AT SMPN 1 PRINGGARATA

2017-07-22T04:43:54+08:00

The aims of this study were to find out the correlation between students’ attitudes and their abilities in English reading texts, to know students’ attitudes toward English reading texts, to know which text students show their positive and negative attitude to, and to know the reasons why students have positive and negative attitudes. This research was mix method research with explanatory sequential mixed methods design. The population of this study was 210 students at the second grade at SMPN 1 Pringgarata in academic year 2016/2017. The numbers of sample were 118 determined by simple random sampling. Interview, questionnaire, and tests item were instruments in this study. Analyzing the data used persentage and statistical analysis called Spearman Correlation in SPSS program. The result was the score of significant correlation was 0.048<0.05. It indicated that there was correlation between students’ attitudes and their abilities in English reading text. Therefore, the alternative hypothesis (Ha), clearly accepted. However, the correlation was very weak (0.182). In addition, most students had good attitude towards English reading texts and their very positive attitudes were towards narrative text. Moreover, students’ reasons for having positive attitudes towards descriptive, recount, and narrative texts were that they were easier to be understood. They liked reading recount texts were that they liked writing a diary and liked reading people’s experiences. Students’ reasons for having negative attitudes towards descriptive, recount, and narrative text were that those texts were too long and difficult to be understood.

Key Words: Attitudes, abilities, and English reading texts.

AN ANALYSIS OF SASAK SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE ON THE FORMS OF PASSIVIZATION AS USED IN NGENO-NGENE DIALECT AT RARANG VILLAGE OF EAST LOMBOK

2017-07-22T04:35:30+08:00

This study dealt with syntactic structure on the forms of passivization in Sasak Ngeno-Ngene dialect at Rarang village of East Lombok. This was descriptive qualitative method. The ways of collecting the data in this study were by observation, interview, note taking, and cross cheking. The investigation is focused on what are the type(s) of passive forms on Ngeno-Ngene dialect at Rarang village of East Lombok, how is the rule of passivization in Sasak Ngeno-Ngene dialect at Rarang village of East Lombok, and how is the relational structure of passive in Sasak Ngeno-Ngene dialect at Rarang village of East Lombok. In Sasak Ngeno-Ngene dialect as used in Rarang village of East Lombok, there are two types of passive construction can be found, they consist of canonical and adversative construction. Canonical passive in Sasak Ngeno-Ngene dialect as used in Rarang village of East Lombok is marked by the prefix te- and followed by the verb base. Adversative passive in Sasak Ngeno-Ngene dialect as used in Rarang village of East Lombok is marked by the confix ke- -an on the verb base. Futher, in Sasak Ngeno-Ngene dialect as used in Rarang village of East Lombok, the passive expression may appear in passive –causative construction which is derived from the transitive causaative form. The passive – causative construction is marked by the prfix te- and suffix -ang as derived transitive causative marker. In this study, I reports that in Sasak Ngeno-Ngene dialect and Indonesian, there are several expressions treated as passive by linguists. However, those expressions appear clearly not in passive form. They actually appear in ergative form.

Key Word: Passivization, Syntactic Structure, Sasak Ngeno-Ngene Dialect, Passive Properties.

STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES AND THEIR PERCEPTIONS IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

2017-08-07T01:02:24+08:00

This study was aimed at finding out students’ difficulties and their perceptions in writing recount text : A study at the second year students of MA Muallimin NW Anjani in academic year 2016/2017.The most students’ difficulties in writing recount text found such as words choice, sentence structure, content and organization. While students perceptions in this type of text were difficult to understand, boring, not easy to write. The method used in analyzing the data was qualitative method.The population of this study was the second year students of MA Muallimin NW Anjani.They were158 students. The sample was 39 students taken from religion program I. All the subjects in this group of learners consisted of only male. The data gathered through test and questionnaire. In this study, the writer found that the result of data analysis could be classified as fair 1 student (2.5 %), as poor 1 student (2.5 %), and as very poor 37 students (95 %). So, the study could be concluded that the students were insufficient in comprehending recount text.

Key words : Difficulties, Perceptions, Writing, Recount Text

METAPHORIC EXPRESSIONS IN BETANDAK: A PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE

2017-08-15T01:55:50+08:00

Every society has unique traditions that are different from one another. They could be oral, acts, or artifacts. The traditions they have depends on typology of the people; how they live their daily life, what value they believe in, how they react to the environment, and what they inherit from their ancestors. People of Pujut have betandak as their unique oral tradition since it is only found in Pujut and not in other areas. In some parts of its lyrics, tandak is expressed in metaphoric words. It was intentionally managed to make puns and made it even more sarcastic even though the pun was meant to be a smooth innuendo that one found it hard to understand. To make it easier to understand, it is urgent to seek for the answers of betandak’s forms, meanings and significances to the people. Concerning the social phenomenon of betandak, this research will employ the qualitative research. It involves a set of interpretive, material practices which is making the world perceptible. These practices turn the world into a sequence of representations including field notes, interviews, discussion, pictures, recordings and memos. The nomenclature of tandak has never been the concern of Pujut people. However, the absence of concept of nomenclature gives a way for all people to come with the concept of their own and create names for it. The nomenclature, so far, is classified into three categories: Seasonal, Spatial, and Occasional.

Keywords: Betandak, Metaphors, Forms, Meanings, Significances

RHETORIC AND THE CASE OF LINEARISATION IN POST GRADUATE STUDENTS’ ESSAYS

2017-08-23T02:22:09+08:00

This study pertained to analysis of rhetoric, linearization, and grammaticality within essays. The data were gathered from 24 essays that were written by English post graduate students of Mataram University in academic year 2015. The essays were taken from the subjects of ELT Curriculum and Materials Development and Teaching English for Young Learners (TEYL) as the final assignments. The research approach used qualitative method in which the entire findings were spelled out in form of writing (words). The purpose of study was to find out rhetorical problems, linearization problems, and grammatical errors which appear in English post graduate students’ essays. There were 10 rhetorical problems, 12 linearization problems, and 158 grammatical errors found based on data analysis as the result of study. Rhetorical competence, linear structure of idea, and grammatical competence are required by English post graduate students in order to be highly literate English learners properly, so that they could produce the outstanding essays particularly in English.

Keywords: Rhetoric, Grammatical Competence, Linearization Problem, Essay.