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A Content Analysis of English Textbook Related to Contextual Teaching and Learning Haque, Syaiful; Ifadah, Muhimatul; Mulyadi, Dodi
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 2 (2018): 2nd ELLiC Proceedings: Education 4.0: Trends and Future Perspectives in English Educa
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This research was aimed to investigate whether the English Textbook Contextual Teaching and Learning “Bahasa Inggris Sekolah Menengah Pertama” fulfilled the criteria of good textbook suggested by government and supporting the contextual teaching and learning. This research was designed in collaboration of descriptive qualitative and quantitative analysis. The object of this research was Textbook entitled “Bahasa Inggris Sekolah Menengah Pertama”. Library research and analysis were used to collect the data, while the instruments used were analysis sheet and interview. The result of this research showed that the textbook met the criteria of good textbook with the score for content fulfilment was 84.86%. The lowest achievement was in the criteria of cooperative fulfilment, which only achieved 28.18%. The researcher suggested that teacher could be more flexible in delivering the material of the textbook. For supplementing cooperative activity, teacher could arrange the activities that give students opportunity to collaborate in pairs.
Fostering English Speaking Atmosphere for Non English Students Department through English Courses Prasetiya, Yayuk; Ifadah, Muhimatul; Aimah, Siti
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 1 (2017): 1st ELLiC Proceedings: `Innovation, Trends, and Challenges in English Language Learni
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This research discussed about the influence of picture & picture and three minutes review in English course to students‘ speaking competence for non English department student. By comparing two teaching strategies; theimplementation of picture and picture or three minutes review and conventional teaching method. This research used quantitative approach with experimental method. The population was thestudents of Rusunawa (students‘ dormitory) Unimus Semarang. The sample was the students of class C4 and A2 with the amount of 24 students in each class. The researcher took the sampling based on random sampling, with C4 as the experimental group and A2 as the control group. The research instruments used were the test and questionnaire. The result of the test was 𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑤𝑎𝑠 greater than 𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒, so the hypothesis was accepted. There was significant difference in students‘ speaking competence between class taught with picture and picture or three minutes review and conventional teaching method that is 8.75. However, it was found that non –English students has various obstruction to join the English Courses. Time availability becomes one of those, because those students come from several backgrounds of study, and the schedule of English courses cannot be managed firmly. The courses were done to make the students getting used to that are why the schedule is made flexible, depend on the students‘ feasibility in joining the course.However, through many activities in the dormitory through the course showed positive foster in learning English, even though those students have different challenges.
Bridging Students and Lecturers Expectation in Learning Process through Self Assessment Ifadah, Muhimatul; Aimah, Siti
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 1 (2017): 1st ELLiC Proceedings: `Innovation, Trends, and Challenges in English Language Learni
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This study was aimed to describe student- lecturer expectation in the process of learning. The students and lecturer were given questionnaire which revealed their difficulty for lessons they enrolled. For the teacher, they were asked to describe their expectation to their students and describe the teaching; the preparation, process, and evaluation. The result showed that most of the students concern about the lecturers approach and methodology. 92% of sixty two students wrote that final score is very important, and it was the teacher who has the main role to transfer the comprehension. However, 8% students wrote that each of them should have their own strategies in learning the subjects, because each lesson will not have the same difficulty. In addition, someof them are also delivering that personal problem sometimes become more disturbing than the subject itself. Media becomes an alternative in eliminating the boredom and the anxiety in comprehending the lesson. It also can be said that the lecturers have different way in indicating the success of learning, 60 % indicated success with the students improvement and behavior, the rest wrote that successful learning is whenever the students able to perform what is demanded on the lesson, for example a product. Almost all of the students said that it was very helpful if the lecturer can be open-minded to the students about the evaluation, particularly- on what base the final score is resulted. Though, some lecturers also describe that they adjust the evaluation from the assignment, examination, and also the manner.
Lesson Study: Engaging Collaborative Learning to Promote Teachers’ Pedagogical Competence Aimah, Siti; Purwanto, Bambang; Santoso, Heri Dwi; Ifadah, Muhimatul
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 2 (2018): 2nd ELLiC Proceedings: Education 4.0: Trends and Future Perspectives in English Educa
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Teacher quality is the most important factor in enhancing student achievement. In order to achieve the goal, lesson study comprises three main phases of plan, do, and see encourages teachers to do collaborative learning in which they create learning communities to discover, create, and negotiate new meanings to improve their teaching. Teachers at all stages of their careers could learn from one another. They could work together, discuss common teaching issues, share successful strategies, and develop new approaches to share problems. Organizing such networks of teacher in collaborative learning promotes an effective way to share pedagogical and content knowledge. In order to think productively about ways to enhance student learning, teachers need to consider both the material they are teaching and the ways that they are presenting it. Considering the importance of both of them, this study aims to know the impact of collaborative learning to teacher performance particularly in SD/MI Al Hikmah Semarang. By involving three model teachers conducting teaching and learning process, and six observers (teachers and lecturers) observing the teacher performance and student activities in the classroom conducted in two cycles, this study shows that collaboration among teachers increased their performance of teaching in which teachers emphasized using active engagement, appropriate learning designs, and application of theories on learning. The majority of teachers agreed that collaborative learning through lesson study helped their performance of teaching. Teachers who participated in collaborative learning had better achievement in their teaching performance rather than those who did not participate in collaborative learning.
An Analysis of Grammatical Errors on Students Writing Kumala, Banjar Putri; Aimah, Siti; Ifadah, Muhimatul
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 2 (2018): 2nd ELLiC Proceedings: Education 4.0: Trends and Future Perspectives in English Educa
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This study was conducted to find out the grammatical errors on students’ writing. Grammatical errors were analyzed based on surface strategy taxonomy by Dulay, Burt, and Krashen. It consisted of four types, they were omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. There were 27 students that became the subject of this research. The purpose of this research was to identify and describe the dominant types of grammatical errors on students’ writing and to know to what extent the factors cause grammatical errors on students’ writing. Qualitative and quantitative were chosen as the research design. Library research, analysis, documentation, writing test result, questionnaire, and interview were used as the instruments of the data collection. The result of this research showed that the number of errors occurred was 810 errors. Omission errors had the biggest percentage with the percentage of 37%, followed by addition errors with the percentage of 32%. Misformation errors was in the third position with the percentage of 30% while misordering errors became the lowest errors with the percentage of 1%. The factors causing errors were carelessness (73%), first language interference (61%), translation (67%), teacher’s explanation and students’ incomprehension about grammar. Based on the result of the data, the more factors faced by the students, the more frequency of errors on writing occurred. Therefore, the teacher should recognize the students’ errors and encourage the students to learn grammar.
Students’ Difficulties in Translating Idiomatic Expression from English into Indonesian Ayuningtyas, Dian Paramita; Ifadah, Muhimatul; Aimah, Siti
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 2 (2018): 2nd ELLiC Proceedings: Education 4.0: Trends and Future Perspectives in English Educa
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This research is about the difficulties in translating idiomatic expressions. It is aimed to find out about how students translate the idiomatic expressions, and the difficulties experienced by students during the translating process.18 English Education students were taken as the sample of the study by purposive sampling. The students were given translation test which contained idiomatic expressions. The students’ translation results wereanalysed to know the accuracy level. The resultof accuracy level then leads to the analysis of students’ difficulties in translating idiomatic expressions. Therefore, questionnaire and short interview were employed to gain further data. The research found that 15% of students’ translations were totally inadequate, 23% were inadequate,10% were adequate, 14% were almost successful, and 38% were successful. The fact that the amount of the inaccurate translation result was more than the accurate translation result indicated that the students experienced difficulties during the translating process. Meanwhile, the translation difficulties experienced by students were lexical difficulty at 73%, stylistic difficulty at 67.5%, cultural difficulty at 66%, and 64% for grammatical difficulty. Based on the result, it is suggested for the students to improve their knowledge of English idiom and the translating ability. Inaddition, the students should optimize the use of dictionary to help produce good translation. For teachers, the result of the research can be used to reflect the students’ difficulties in translation, so that they are expected to overcome the difficulties by considering students’ ability and background knowledge in translation.
The Relationship between Motivation and Economical Background in Learning English for Horse Keeper (Komunitas Kuda Tunggang) in Gedongsongo Temple Yuniarti, Nanda Eka; Ifadah, Muhimatul
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 2 (2018): 2nd ELLiC Proceedings: Education 4.0: Trends and Future Perspectives in English Educa
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Indonesia tourism is experiencing a rapid increase each year. Some tourism providers need skillful workers to adapt with it. However, as the local citizen, Indonesian people are being influenced with this phenomena. In Gedongsongo Temple, the horse keeper (KKT) are also become object who need to develop themselves to face the competitive and massive trends. This study aims to determine the motivation of the horse keeper in learning English. To obtain the data, a descriptive qualitative approach. The result shows that the motivation of the horse keeper was low proved by the process and the involvement during the program, due to internal and external factors. However economical factor become the main reason for them to not enrich their English skill.
Stimulating Students` Vocabulary and Grammar in Speaking Using Audio-Video and Picture Ifadah, Muhimatul; Aimah, Siti; Febria, Herdinatara
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 1 (2017): 1st ELLiC Proceedings: `Innovation, Trends, and Challenges in English Language Learni
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The difficulty of junior school students in expressing ideas, thoughts, opinions, or feelings into spoken language, is the background of the study. The objective of the study are to find out whether there is significant achievement on students speaking taught using audio-video and picture, and to describe the significant difference of speaking components between the students taught using audio-video and picture. By applying quantitative approach through experimental study, 60 students of grade VIII SMP Muhammadiyah 03 Semarang were taken as the sample. To get qualitative data, questionnaire was delivered for those students. The result of the study showed that from five aspects in speaking assessment; pronoun, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension, the increasing of vocabulary and grammar showed the highest level, followed by comprehension. Meanwhile, the students fluency in speaking did not provide significant enhancement, only 0.4 percent. From the questionnaire, the students delivered that their enthusiasm was positively supported by the use of media; however, the media was also aside their boredom in the learning process. From the study, it was suggested to the teacher to find appropriate theme and topic, related to the students age to help students learning in comfort way.
The Relationship between Motivation and Economical Background in Learning English for Horse Keeper (Komunitas Kuda Tunggang) in Gedongsongo Temple Yuniarti, Nanda Eka; Ifadah, Muhimatul
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 2 (2018): 2nd ELLiC Proceedings: 'Education 4.0: Trends and Future Perspectives in English Educa
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Indonesia tourism is experiencing a rapid increase each year. Some tourism providers need skillful workers to adapt with it. However, as the local citizen, Indonesian people are being influenced with this phenomena. In Gedongsongo Temple, the horse keeper (KKT) are also become object who need to develop themselves to face the competitive and massive trends. This study aims to determine the motivation of the horse keeper in learning English. To obtain the data, a descriptive qualitative approach. The result shows that the motivation of the horse keeper was low proved by the process and the involvement during the program, due to internal and external factors. However economical factor become the main reason for them to not enrich their English skill.
Stimulating Students` Vocabulary and Grammar in Speaking Using Audio-Video and Picture Febria, Herdinatara; Ifadah, Muhimatul; Aimah, Siti
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 1 (2017): 1st ELLiC Proceedings: `Innovation, Trends, and Challenges in English Language Learnin
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The difficulty of junior school students in expressing ideas, thoughts, opinions, or feelings into spoken language, is the background of the study. The objective of the study are to find out whether there is significant achievement on students speaking taught using audio-video and picture, and to describe the significant difference of speaking components between the students taught using audio-video and picture. By applying quantitative approach through experimental study, 60 students of grade VIII SMP Muhammadiyah 03 Semarang were taken as the sample. To get qualitative data, questionnaire was delivered for those students. The result of the study showed that from five aspects in speaking assessment; pronoun, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension, the increasing of vocabulary and grammar showed the highest level, followed by comprehension. Meanwhile, the students fluency in speaking did not provide significant enhancement, only 0.4 percent. From the questionnaire, the students delivered that their enthusiasm was positively supported by the use of media; however, the media was also aside their boredom in the learning process. From the study, it was suggested to the teacher to find appropriate theme and topic, related to the students age to help students learning in comfort way.