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How Junior High School English Teachers in Bengkulu City Utilise Published Textbooks in the Classroom: A Classroom Observation Study Safnil Safnil
TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English Vol 14, No 2 (2003)
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The purpose of the study was to find out: (1) how the junior high school English teachers in Bengkulu city exploited the commercially published textbooks for classroom use; (2) if there was a difference in the way the experienced and the inexperienced English language teachers exploited the commercially published textbooks in the classroom; and (3) whether the teachers adapted textbooks or produced their own materials for classroom use. Twelve English teachers (6 experienced and 6 inexperienced teachers) from four different junior high schools or SMPs (2 favourite and 2 non-favourite) in Bengkulu city were the participants in this study. Data were obtained through a questionnaire, classroom observations, and sample lesson plans. The results of the study revealed that: first, the junior high school English language teachers (ET and IT); (1) used the commercially prescribed textbooks to a large extent; (2) there was not much difference between the way experienced teachers and inexperienced teachers exploited the textbooks; (3) both groups of teachers adapted the textbooks or produced their own teaching materials.
A GENRE-BASED ANALYSIS ON THE INTRODUCTIONS OF RESEARCH ARTICLES WRITTEN BY INDONESIAN ACADEMICS Safnil Safnil
TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English Vol 24, No 2 (2013)
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The main purpose of this study was to search for the occurrence of communicative and subcommunicative units and to identify the linguistic features commonly used by the authors to realize the communicative and subcommunicative units. Three groups of English RAs by Indonesian speakers were chosen for this study: 10 RAs from engineering science, ten from science and ten from medical science journals. This study used genre-based method to investigate the communicative units in the text by using Swales’ CARS as a model. The results show that 1) only 11 out of 30 (36.66%) RA introductions have a ‘niche establishment’, 2) out of 11 RA introductionwith a niche establishment none is of counter claiming type, and 3) the discourse markers often used in the niche establishment are of the contradictory type and the linguistic features used are of lexical negation and negation of the phrasal verb. The findings confirm those of previous relevant studies that discourse styles and linguistic features of English RA introductions by Indonesianspeakers are different from the ones by English native speakers.
Pola Karangan Argumentatif Mahasiswa Prodi Bahasa Indonesia: Analisis Teks Model 'Top-Down' dan 'Bottom-Up' Safnil Safnil
Komposisi: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa, Sastra, dan Seni Vol 4, No 1 (2003)
Publisher : Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni UNP

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