Yetty Zainil
Universitas Negeri Padang

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Using Cubing Strategy in Teaching Explanation Text for Eleventh Grade Students of Senior High School Ayu Putri Nulmi; Yetty Zainil
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (624.095 KB) | DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101538

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This paper discusses how to use Cubing Strategy in teaching Explanation text at Senior High School. Based on the writers’ experience in teaching English, many students find difficulties in writing explanation text. Considering this problem, the teacher needs to apply a strategy in teaching and learning process to help the students understand the text. Cubing Strategy is a creative, hands-on activity which develops critical thinking and promotes deeper understanding and in-depth exploration of a topic. It uses a cube-shaped graphic organizer to prompt students to look at a topic from many different angles and levels. On each side of a cube, the student writes answers to prompts or questions. By applying the Cubing Strategy in writing an explanation text, the students may create a better explanation text.
Teachers' Question Types and Students' Speaking Performance in EFL Classroom Dinda Fadilah; Yetty Zainil
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9, No 4 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v9i4.110208

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Questioning could help students in improving their speaking skills along with critical thinking skills. Thus, this study was aimed to find most asked question type used by teachers and what type of question that could encourage students to speak more in EFL classroom in SMAN Kota Padang. The data were collected from classroom observation and stimulated recall interviews with the teachers. From the data analysis, it was found that LOTS questions were the most asked question. However, HOTS questions were able to encourage students to speak more compared to LOTS questions. From the interview, it was found that students’ could answer longer with the help of stimulus or the questions helped them to relate with daily life surrounding. On the other hand, some active students and their background could affect the questioning activity in classroom. Students with limited knowledge of vocabularies or timid personality found it harder to speak longer so they tend to answer the questions with few keywords only. The finding suggested that question type could encourage students to speak longer under some circumstances.
Tongue Twister as a Technique to Help Students Solve Their Difficulties in Pronouncing /s/, /∫/ at Junior High School Nurhasanah Nurhasanah; Yetty Zainil
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 7, No 4 (2018)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (835.507 KB) | DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v7i4.101317

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AbstractThis paper is aimed at describing the use of ‘Tongue Twister’ to improve students’ pronunciation of /s/ and /∫/ consonants at junior high school students. This technique is applied to help junior high school to pronounce words that have similar sounds. This technique enables students to solve the problem by using tongue twister sentence given to them. ‘Tongue Twister’ allows students to practice the sentence repeatedly and to determine the appropriate sounds to each word.
An Analysis of Students’ Error in Pronouncing Dental Fricative Consonant [/ð/, /θ/] Tahniah Eldika; Yetty Zainil
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 11, No 4 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v11i4.119788

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This research was conducted to measure the students’ ability, to find out the types of error and its cause in pronouncing English dental fricative consonants produced by students’ of 2020 class at the English education program of Universitas Negeri Padang. This research was design using descriptive quantitative method. In this study, the researcher focused on the second-year English education students from K2-K5 class who had taken phonetic and phonology class. There are 30 students as the sample of this study. To collect the data, pronunciation test and Stimulated Recall Interview were used as the instrument where students’ voices were being recorded and being transcript. The findings of this study were students’ ability in pronouncing dental fricative consonants was fair with the percentage of 60%. The dominant type of error that happened in this study was misformation with 89,21% or 645 error out of 723 error. While for the cause of pronunciation error, based on the interview, the dominant reason was ineffectiveness of online learning due to Covid-19 pandemic.