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Meylina Meylina
STMIK Jayanusa Padang
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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CHALLENGES OF LEARNING SPOKEN ENGLISH IN MINANGKABAU CONTEXT Meylina Meylina
Proceedings of ISELT FBS Universitas Negeri Padang Vol 5 (2017): The Proceedings of International Seminar on English Language and Teaching
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Padang

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Considering the background languages, there are internal and external challenges for Minangkabau-Indonesian EFL students in their speaking ability. Even within one indigenous language, they basically speak in different dialects and accents. They need to accomodate these challenges into a proper english usage. This paper is aimed at investigating the speaking problems of the students and the factors affecting their speaking performance. The writer uses a questioner addressed to 60 students from STMIK Jayanusa Padang and IAIN Imam Bonjol Padang. The findings of this paper indicates that psychological factors are the major problems in learning spoken English. Among these are lack of self-confidence, lack of aptitude, lack of motivation, anxiety, and shyness. The study was expected to help students improve their performance in speaking and have more exposure to the language.
ENHANCING STUDENT’S TECHNICAL VOCABULARY SIZE BY USING FRAYER MODEL GRAPHIC ORGANIZER Meylina Meylina
ELP (Journal of English Language Pedagogy) Vol 5 No 1 (2020): ELP (Journal of English Language Pedagogy)
Publisher : Universitas Mahaputra Muhammad Yamin

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English vocabulary seems to be a crucial problem experienced by non-native students in STMIK Jayanusa Padang. Their low vocabulary knowledge caused several problems in understanding a text especially related to technical vocabulary. The purpose of this research was to improve the students' technical vocabulary size of the third-semester students at STMIK Jayanusa Padang through the Frayer model graphic organizer. This research used classroom action research. The data was collected through tests, field notes, and interviews. The findings of this research revealed that there was an improvement in students' technical vocabulary size obtained from the pretest, cycle 1 to cycle 2. The average score of the pretest was very low, 0.4. Then, it gradually improved in cycle 1 became 0.83 with an increasing point was 0.43 points. Next, the average score found in cycle 1 then better improved in cycle 2 which turned into 1.43 with the increasing point from cycle 1 to cycle 2 was 0.6 points. Shortly, Frayer Model influenced the enrichment of students' technical vocabulary size.
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