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Amroh Umaemah
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THE USE OF RAFT STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY Amroh Umaemah; Mohammad Adnan Latief; Eny Irawati
ELT Echo : The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context Vol 1, No 1 (2016): December 2016
Publisher : IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (244.842 KB) | DOI: 10.24235/eltecho.v1i1.951

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Abstract: Teaching English writing for the students of junior high school level needs high creativity, the students have to be encouraged to study hard to gain writing competence. Additionally, the students themselves face many problems: the lack of vocabulary and poor knowledge of grammar. The objective of the study is to improve the students’ writing ability using RAFT strategy employing classroom action research (CAR) design involving two cycles, three meetings each. The observation to see the result of the implementation used questionnaire, observation checklist, writing test and field notes. The expected criteria of success were that all the students achieve the minimum passing grade 55 and 75% of them involve actively in the implementation of the RAFT strategy. Thirty students of grade 8 of MTs Salafiyah Syafiiyah Babakan Ciwaringin Cirebon West Java participated in the study. The finding shows the implementation of RAFT strategy was successful to improve the students’ writing ability. All the students achieved the score at least 55 and 74.24% of them actively involved in the process of teaching and learning.  Key Words: RAFT strategy, improve, writing, ability.
AN ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL CONTENT IN THE TEXTBOOK “PATHWAY TO ENGLISH” FOR SECOND GRADE IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Ine Nurjanah; Amroh Umaemah
ELT Echo : The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context Vol 4, No 1 (2019): June 2019
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Abstract: Some teachers English only focus on  students’ four skills and do not introduce about  the culture, especially in learning English. Then, the student don’t know about the culture.  Cultural content is not taught directly. It can introduce through the textbook. So this way the important thing to the teacher should choose the appropriate textbook for teaching and learning language without leaving the culture that represented in the textbook. This research investigates the representation of culture-related contents in English textbooks entitled “Pathway to English” that published by Erlangga for second grade in senior high school in Indonesia. A content analysis of these textbooks was conducted, using two aspects of culture, ‘cultural categories’ and the ‘cultural dimensions’ as the evaluation framework. In this research analayzed 14 chapters, 53 reading passages that was analyzed. Based on the result of the data that was analyszed. The are two aspect that present in this research. The first aspect is the cultural categories of Cortazzi and Jin (1999), and that has most huge amount of the porpostion is target culture. The country that use English as official language. Next, the other cultural categories that has small part  is local culture and the last which has the the smallest part is international culture. The second aspect is five dimentions of Moran’s theory (2001). The most that has huge amount of porpotion in five dimentions is product the second part is person and community. Practice and perspective are the small part that represent in the textbook. 
Co-Authors Eny Irawati Ine Nurjanah Mohammad Adnan Latief