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CONCEPT
ISSN : 23378735     EISSN : 26856212     DOI : https://doi.org/10.32534/jconcept
Core Subject : Education,
Concept: Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching is a blind peer-reviewed and open-accessed journal which welcomes both local and global scientists to share and raise principled approach to research on English language teaching and learning. Contribution in such areas of linguistics, language in literature, language in tourism, art, and culture are also welcomed (more on focus&scope). This journal is published twice a year in June and December, with ISSN 2337-8735 (Print) and ISSN 2337-8735 (Online). Only sent manuscripts that followed the guidelines will be proccessed. Submitted papers will initially be reviewed by editors and for further review will be done by reviewers.
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING LYRA PERSONAL ASSISTANT IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL Dila Charisma; Suherman Suherman
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2018): January - June 2018
Publisher : Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Muhammadiyah Cirebon

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This study is aimed at knowing whether Lyra Personal Assistant can improve students’ speaking skill and to find out whether using this application can motivate second semester students’ speaking English of English Department at Universitas Muhammadiyah Cirebon. This study used quantitative method which categorized pre experimental research. English Department students at Universitas Muhammadiyah Cirebon were choosen to be population, and the sample were the second semester students who took Speaking subject. Measuring speaking skill, the writer used tests and assesing it using scoring rubic by Arthur Huges, and students’ motivation in speaking English after using Lyra were measured by questionnaire with 17 questions and 4 choice of answers. The result showed that using Lyra Personal Assistant was effective in improving students’ speaking skill, it could be seen from the result of pre-test average score (57.33), and result of post-test average score (74.22) that there was improvement score from pre test and post test., average students’ improvement of speaking skill from pre-test to post-test is 16.89. Based on the result of questionnaire, Lyra Personal Assistant also could motivate the second semester students’ speaking English. Key words: Speaking, Lyra Personal Assistant, Motivation
The View Point behind Appraisal in Discourse Study Agung Budi Kurniawan
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2018): January - June 2018
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Appraisal is one of discourse study or analysis component. The point of appraisal is about personal expression to a phenomena or object. One aspect which give much influence to appraisal is context. Context has significant rule for a participant to apply his or her appraisal. Context is about psychological view point to the situation and facts faced by a participant. Every participant could give different interpretation context to a similar phenomenon or object. The components of appraisal consist three things which are attitudes, amplification, and source. The attitude is about personal feeling of a participant. Amplification is about how strong of a participant’s feeling to an object. Source is about the starting point of our personal expression. The rule and use of appraisal could make our verbal and non verbal communication become very communicative, effective, and efficient if it is applied appropriately. Key Words: View Point, Appraisal, Discourse
Eight Grade Students Difficulties in Translating Narrative Text Nopa Yusnilita
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2018): January - June 2018
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The objective of this research was conducted to find out the students’ difficulties in translating narrative text to the eight grade students of SMP 7 OKU and to find out the factors that influence students’ difficulties in translating narrative text to the eight grade students of SMP 7 OKU. To analyzed the data the researcher used test and questionnaire as an instrument. The methodology of this research was descriptive method. From the population, the researcher took all of ninth students as a sample, and the total number of population were 70 Students. The samples were taken by using purposive sampling. The students’ mean scores 55.31 it meant that the eight grade students’ difficulties at SMP 7 OKU was poor level in translating narrative text. The three aspects of the scoring translation scale, the researcher found that high difficulties were idea development ability with the total percentage was 42.09%. Based on the result of the questionnaire the researcher found the main factor that influence the students’ difficulties in translating narrative text were teaching by using media the total of percentage score was 25.65%. Key words: Difficulties, Translating, Narrative Text
An analysis of determiners error in English composition of the students of MAN 1 Kota Cirebon Susilawati Susilawati; Niawati Niawati
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2018): January - June 2018
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This research attempts to investigate students’ common errors in using determiners and to find out the causes of students’ errors in their English writing. MAN 1 Kota Cirebon was used as the site for this research. The descriptive qualitative was used to be the research design of this research. The participants were 30 students. They were asked to write an English composition. In-depth interview was used to find out the causes of students’ errors. The result of the research shows that the common errors of the use of determiners are article with 39 cases (17.6%), followed by possessive 16 cases (7.2%), and quantifiers 6 cases (2.7%). The errors are caused by mother tongue inference, encouraged by teaching material and methods, false concept Hypothesized, and motivation. The writers find that mother tongue inference becomes the most common reason why the students made errors in their writings. However, they rarely find difficulties in applying possessive and quantifiers Key words: error analysis, determiner
THE USE OF CORE MODEL OF LEARNING IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY Cahyaningsih Cahyaningsih; Dede Rosyadi ZA
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2018): January - June 2018
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The objectives of the research are to know how to implement of CORE model of learning in teaching reading comprehension ability and to find out the improvement of students in reading comprehension by using CORE model of learning. The subject of the study was the second grade students of SMPN 1 Jatibarang, Indramayu which consists of 31 students. The data of this research was collected by giving the pre-test and post-test. The data analyzed using statistical formula percentage technique. The result of the data analysis could be seen from the result of the post-test both in cycle 1 and cycle 2. The mean of the pre-test was 64.27, whereas the mean of post-test of cycle 1 was 75.21 while the mean of the post test of cycle 2 was 79.06. It indicated that the post-test score in cycle 2 is higher than in cycle 1. So, it could be concluded that the students who were taught by using CORE model of learning have a better achievements than before. Key Words: Reading Comprehension, Teaching Reading, Core model of learning
LANGUAGE STYLE AND GENRE ANALYSIS OF EULOGY A Eulogy by Lee Hsien Yang at the Funeral Service of Mrs. Lee Kuan Yew Bagus Dwi Pambudi
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2018): January - June 2018
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This study aims at investigating the role of language as well as its characteristics and genre components in eulogy involving social function, generic structure, and linguistic features in eulogy. The eulogy analyzed was delivered by Lee Hsien Yang, the son of former Singapore Prime Minister, at the funeral service of Mrs. Lee Kuan Yew at Mandai Crematorium on October 6th, 2010. Employing discourse analysis, focusing on how the text is structured in terms of the sequence of words, clauses, sentences, and paragraph to unveil language style and genre components of eulogy. Although it is delivered orally, the eulogy can be regarded as written text based on several considerations such as one-way communication (monologic organization), context independence, synoptic organization, polished draft through the use of standard grammar and formal language, nominalization and lexical density. The eulogy purposes to commemorate someone deceased by praising and giving high honor, and it is generally in the form of speech (a piece of writing) in memorial service. The structure consists of initial event leading to other events/memories, sequence of events in particular time and place, and conclusion which functions to paraphrase the speaker’s feeling towards someone he/she loves. Eulogy also has distinct features such as the use of past tense, focusing on specific participants, the use of material processes, circumstances of time in initial position, and the use of evaluative words. Key words: language style, genre, eulogy
FREQUENT LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS Ima Isnaini Taufiqur Rohmah
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 3 No 2 (2017): July-December 2017
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The main factors that help determining students learn a foreign language is their strategies used in learning. This article aims to describe the most frequent learning strategies applied by students categorized as good learners that help them learn English effectively. This research is under qualitative case study which is conducted on three students from the first grade of Economic Education Study Program of IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro categorized as good learners of English. To get the detail of data in depth interviews, observation, questionnaires, and document analysis were used. The result of this study reveals that cognitive strategies and memory strategies were the strategies that often used by the student in learning English. These learning strategies employed the student gained best mark in each English test and could improve speaking skill. By applying those learning strategies, they always got good score in English lesson. Thus, in learning English as a foreign language, good language learning strategies are required. Key words: case study, learning strategies, successful learner
THE STUDENTS DIFFICULTIES IN UNDERSTANDING ANAPHORA AND CATAPHORA ON NEWS ITEM TEXT AT SEVENTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF BATURAJA UNIVERSITY Shofiyatul Huriyah
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 3 No 2 (2017): July-December 2017
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The objectives of this study were to find out the students’ difficulties in understanding anaphora and cataphora and to find out the factors that influence students’ difficulties in understanding anaphora and cataphora on news items text. Technique for collecting the data was test and questionnaire. The method of this study was descriptive method. The writer took all of seventh semester students as a sample, and the total number of sample was 46 students. Based on the result of the data analysis, it was found that the students’ difficulties in understanding anaphora in divorcement was 18% and ambiguity was 82 %. The students difficulties in understanding cataphora in divorcemet was 25%, ambiguity was 44%, and Common searching backward than searching forward 31%. The writer also found that the most difficult problem that faced by the students was understanding cataphora, it refers to 58% of difficulties while anaphora 42%. The result of the questionnaire show that, there were two factors that most influences students in learning anaphora and catphora. They were 1) lecturers’ knowledge, enthusiasm and responsibility for learning and 2) effective interaction between the lecturer and the students. Key words: Difficulties, Anaphora, Cataphora, News, Items, Text
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING FLASH ANIMATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN TEACHING SPOKEN REPORT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT POLYTECHNIC OF HARAPAN BERSAMA TEGAL Dani Fitria Brilianti
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 3 No 2 (2017): July-December 2017
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This research mainly aims at determining the effectiveness of using flash animation as alternative media in teaching spoken recount. In order to achieve the objective of the study, I designed a classroom research which was done from 2th October till 13th October 2017. There were nine meetings in this study including pre test and post test. The population is the third semester of computer engineering of computer engineering students at Polytechnic of Harapan Bersama Tegal. The numbers of the population are 21 students that consist of 10 male and 11 female students. The instrument used to obtain the data were flash animations, lesson plan, test, and questionnaire. In doing the analysis of the data, I used criterion assessment written by Harris (1969:84) to score the students’ speaking performance. The result of the study showed that the speaking achievement of the third semester of computer engineering of computer engineering students at Polytechnic of Harapan Bersama Tegal improved. The mean of the student speaking score of the pre-test was 44.76, the cycle 1 test’s result was 66.10, and the mean of the cycle 2 test was 80.00. The improvement between pre-test and the cycle 1 test was 21.32 points, the different result of cycle 1 test and the cycle 2 test was 13.10 points and the different result between pre-test and cycle 2 post test was 35.24 points. In line with the result, flash animation seems to be alternative media to improve students’ ability in performing spoken recount. Key words: Flash animation, Recount text, Speaking
IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERVISITATION TECHNIQUE THROUGH CLINICAL SUPERVISION IN IMPROVING TEACHERS’S PEDAGOGY COMPETENCE Asep Suhendi
Concept : Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol 3 No 2 (2017): July-December 2017
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The goal of this study is to improve the professionalism of teachers through clinical supervision with the approach of intervisitation techniques. Respondents taken in this action research were 40 teachers from SMA Negeri 1 Suranenggala. The research design is action research which is divided into two cycles, each cycle consists of four main activities, ie: planning, implementation, reflection and evaluation. This action research was done in the form of teaching simulation (peer teaching) by using Learning Lesson Plan (RPP) with approach of intervisitation technique. The results of the interviews obtained during the initial research meeting to determine the actions of the teachers are very motivated and enthusiastic to follow this activity. The average simulation result teaches the score of 66.68 (cycle 1) and 80,42 (cycle 2); 2) The participant attitude to the learning process simulation score 76, 69 (cycle 1) and 83.35 (cycle 2), 3) Average of Lesson Plan (RPP) score of 73.35 (cycle 1) and 82.37 (cycle 2) 4). Average teaching learning process values ??were 74.72 (cycles 1) and 84.97 (cycle 2). The conclusion of this research is academic supervision by way of clinical supervision through the approach of intervisitation technique can improve teachers’ pedagogic competence and develop their motivation to achieve in order to accelerate their teaching professionalism. The researcher recommends that similar school action research activities should be continued to be done to endorse the performance of teachers and schools achievements. Key words: Intervisitation Technique, Clinical Supervision, Pedagogy Competence