Mursid Saleh
Graduate Program Universitas Negeri Semarang Indonesia

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THE EVALUATION OF THE PRESENT FRENCH TEXTBOOK USED IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN SEMARANG AND ITS SURROUNDINGS Urip, Sri Rejeki; Su’udi, Astini; Saleh, Mursid
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 6, No 1 (2011): October 2011
Publisher : Faculty of Languages ​​and Arts, State University of Semarang

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School Based Curriculum (SBC) as one of the decentralization in education authorizesteachers to develop their own teaching materials. The fact shows that the teacher is stillminimal in writing, including writing textbooks. To facilitate French teachers in writing a Frenchtextbook, a guideline is needed. In Exploration Phase of Research and Development , one ofthe objectives is to find out the quality of French textbook used today. Knowing its strengthsand weaknesses is useful because the information can be used as data for developing aguideline for writing a better French textbook. To collect the data, the methods used were(1) Document Analysis, (2) In-depth interviews, (3) Questionnaires, and (4) Focus GroupDiscussion. To analyze the data, the Constant Comparative Method was utilized. For thetrustworthiness of the data, Triangulation, Member-checking were applied. By using theFrench textbook evaluation instrument set by BSNP and equipped with Cunningsworthcriteria, the six volumes of Bonjour Chers Amis were evaluated. There are four components tobe evaluated: Feasibility of Contents, Feasibility of Presentation, Feasibility of Language, andPractical considerations. The findings reveal that the criteria of French textbook evaluation ofBSNP has not been implemented optimally. These findings provide the information of thequality of the French textbook currently used in Semarang and its surroundings. Theinformation can be used as an overview what things are to be followed and avoided indeveloping a guideline for writing a French textbook integrating SBC and CEFRL.
YOUR LANGUAGE YOUR CHARACTER Saleh, Mursid
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 9, No 1 (2014): October 2014
Publisher : Faculty of Languages ​​and Arts, State University of Semarang

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The main function of any language is to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings. These being characteristic properties of human beings, the language a human being uses will ultimately reflect what is characteristic of him or her. Good language reflects good characteristics of the user, and vice-versa. Learning being another characteristic property of human beings, the language one learns shapes and is shaped by his or her personal characteristics. As character is the accumulation of one’s personal characteristics, there are good reasons to suggest that while one is learning and using a language, he take good care so that good character is reflected. In that way communication will be properly conducted and interpersonal relationships properly established.
DESIGNING A MODEL OF RESEARCH PAPER WRITING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR ACADEMIC WRITING COURSE: TEXTBOOK EVALUATION Ghufron, M. Ali; Saleh, Mursid
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 10, No 2 (2016): April 2016
Publisher : Faculty of Languages ​​and Arts, State University of Semarang

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This study attempted to evaluate an academic writing textbook used in English Education Study Program of Language and Art Education Faculty of IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia. The fourth edition of a book entitled ―Writing Academic English‖ written by Oshima and Hogue was critically evaluated based on two major points, namely general attributes of the textbook and the learning-teaching contents of the textbook. The general attributes of the textbook cover the book in relation to syllabus and curriculum, the methodology, the book‘s suitability to learners, physical and utilitarian attributes, and efficient outlay of supplementary materials; and the learning-teaching content of the textbook covers general elements (move of the tasks, tasks‘ objectives, etc.), academic writing (specified on research paper writing), vocabulary, grammar, and exercises. The questionnaires developed to evaluate the textbook were adapted from textbook evaluation checklist developed by Mukundan, Nimehchisalem, and Hajimohammadi (2011). The results indicate that the lecturers and students were not really satisfied with the book since it does not represent the students‘ needs and curriculum (the curriculum of English Education Study Program of IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro mandated to teach research paper writing for Writing IV course). The materials provided there are not specified to research paper writing. However, the textbook is very good in some points such as the methodology, physical and utilitarian attributes, layout of the book, general elements (move of the tasks, tasks‘ objectives, etc.), academic writing (from paragraph writing to various essays writing), vocabulary, grammar, and exercises in the area.
INTEGRATING LIFE SKILLS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT): STRATEGIES, PROBLEMS AND THEIR POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS -, Sajidin; Nurkamto, Joko; Saleh, Mursid; -, Retmono
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 2 (2013): April 2013
Publisher : Faculty of Languages ​​and Arts, State University of Semarang

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The integration of life skills in English language teaching has to be managed properly to achieve an optimal result. The exploration to the fields reveals some problems on their implementation: (1) classroom management, (2) selection of learning materials, (3) learning assessment, and (4) selection of learning methods. In addition, most teachers were fully satisfied with the existing model due to the following reasons: (1) requiring an extra preparation and teaching media, (2) incomplete communication task executions, and (3) inflexibility of model to apply in any class. To make the model of implementation better some recommendation are made: (1) incorporating materials reflecting life skills, (2) providing more comprehensible inputs, (3) developing a representative assessments, and (4) selecting a learning method that guide teacher to gradually develop communicative competence and simultaneously develop life skills.
HUMOR ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIAL FOR IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL WITH HIGH AND LOW LEARNING MOTIVATION Syafiq, Ahmad Nur; Saleh, Mursid
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of humor as English foreign language teaching material to improve students’ speaking skill with of high or low motivation for the students and the effect that the use of humor gives to their teaching. This study was quasi experimental research named two-way (two-by-two) factorial design. The subjects were 80 students of STAIN Kudus, 40 students in the experimental group and 40 students in the control group. Both groups were distributed the pre-test to measure students speaking skill. For treatment, Shades (1996) classification of verbal humor was used. The results revealed that humor as teaching material has significant effect on the students’ speaking skill to those who have high and low learning motivation. The students expressed that humor in the classroom situation affected their learning positively to those who have high or low motivation rather than conventional material.
DEVELOPING ENGLISH MATERIALS USING ENGLISH-INDONESIAN MIXED SONG LYRICS TO TEACH VOCABULARY Cahyaningsari, Vinta; Saleh, Mursid
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 11, No 1 (2016): October 2016
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The fifth graders of Isriati Baiturrahman 2 Elementary School Semarang had problems to study English Vocabulary. They didn’t enjoy to study English vocabulary using drill and writing method done by the teacher. They need the interactive English materials which make them enjoy to study English, especially to improve their vocabulary. This study employed Research and Development design to develop the English materials using English-Indonesia mixed song lyrics to teach Vocabulary. Observation, questionnaire, interview, validation, and pre-test also post test were administered to collect the data. From the results of data collection the writer found that using English-Indonesian mixed song lyrics is effective to teach vocabulary. The average score of pretest was 67,00 and of post-test was 88,38. It means that English-Indonesia mixed song lyrics to teach vocabulary could be implemented in improving the learners’ vocabulary competence. Therefore, English teachers are suggested to employ the English-Indonesian mixed song lyrics for their future teaching materials. 
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ORGANIZING IDEAS IN WRITING ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT WITH MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE Anggrayani, Melawati; Sofwan, Ahmad; Saleh, Mursid
English Education Journal Vol 5 No 1 (2015)
Publisher : English Education Journal

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This article is a report of an action research project conducted in writing class for eleventh graders of state senior high school 2 Bae Kudus in academic year 2013/2014. The objectives of this study are to describe (1) the problems faced by the students in organizing ideas in writing analytical exposition text (2)how mind mapping technique is implemented (3) how Mind mapping technique can improve the organizing ideas in writing analytical exposition texts. The result from the observation sheet and questionnaire showed that (1) the students still used bahasa indonesia in their writing analytical exposition text (2) by using mind mapping technique students’ writing skill from each cycle is increased (3) students’ score of writing skills from precycle to cycle 1 increased 14.7 points, from cycle 1 to cycle 2 increased 12.3 points from cycle 2 to cycle 3 increased 16.6 points. So the study concluded that the implementation of mind mapping technique (1) could solve the problems faced by the students in writing analitycal exposition text (2) could improve students’ organizing ideas in writing analytical exposition text.
CLASSROOMINTERACTIONPATTERNS IN HIGHER EDUCATION ningrum, Dini Setiana; Saleh, Mursid
English Education Journal Vol 6 No 2 (2016)
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This study was a classroom interaction analysis in English classes at Politeknik STTT Bandung. The classroom interaction was analyzed to find the patterns of classroom interaction. It is an observational research of TeknologidanBisnisGarmen students (S) and English teachers (T) in the 1st semester of Academic Year 2014/2015. The data were collected quantitatively with the Flanders’ Interaction Analysis Categories System. Then, the data findings were analyzed by interpreting them in order to find the patterns of classroom interaction. As the finding of this study, there were four basicpatterns of classroom interaction found in English classes at Politeknik STTT Bandung. They were (1) Teacher-Students (T – S), (2) Teacher-Student-Teacher (T – S – T), (3) Teacher-Student-Student (T – S – S), and (4) Student-Teacher (S – T) pattern. By using the interaction analysis, the writer could observe the patterns of classroom interaction, so the teacher would know the classroom atmosphere and develop his teaching skill and method. It was done in order to create the teaching and learning process more effective.
PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHER’S PERCEPTION ON COLLABORATIVE GENRE-BASED WRITING Sumekto, Didik Rinan; Saleh, Mursid; -, Retmono; Sofwan, Ahmad
The Journal of Educational Development Vol 3 No 2 (2015): November 2015
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This study was aimed at investigating the collaborative learning effectiveness and contribution toward pre-service English teachers’ (PSETs’) perception conveyed on genre-based writing lectures. The sample was 86 undergraduate pre-service English teachers (PSETs), Tidar University of Magelang (45 respondents) and Widya Dharma University of Klaten (41 respondents). This study used simple random sampling. Data were collected by means of questionnaire using 5-scaled Likert rating to obtain PSETs’ perception, and then analyzed quantitatively by applying the SPSS program. The findings showed that the highest response toward each category in the perception referred to (1) 41.9% or 36 responses on sometimes toward lecturer’s instruction method; 44.2% or 38 responses on seldom toward learning assessment process; 48.2 or 41 responses on seldom toward lecturer’s assessment mechanism; and 53.5% or 46 responses on sometimes toward lecturer’s instruction evaluation and reflection; and (2) there were 47.4% or 45 responses on sometimes which ranked to the highest response level on group’s performance goals; 48.4% or 46 responses on seldom which engaged PSET’s interpersonal competence; 48.4% or 46 responses on frequent which guided group maintenance; and 41.1% or 39 responses on sometimes toward classroom work.
DEVELOPING READING AND WRITING SKILL OF THE X APH 2 STUDENTS AT THE ODD SEMESTER IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2014/2015 FOR THE LEARNING MATERIAL OF EXPRESSING INTENTION BY USING PICTURE STORY AND PICTURE FOR WRITING STORY USING RAFT METHOD Qoidah Noor, Ahlis; Saleh, Mursid; Rukmini, Dwi
The Journal of Educational Development Vol 2 No 2 (2014): November 2014
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This research’s goal is to identify the students’ ability in analyzing the expression of Intention in Reading text and to  analyze the students’ capability in writing the expressions  through letters and develop their abilities in Reading through pictures and RAFT method. The data showed that there were only 21 % of students  able to identify the expression of Intention and the rest was 17 % able to write correctly in their simple sentences. The expression of intention using will, be going to,, intend to, need, want to had the various use and it made them got confused. This research integrated the Reading and Writing skill. The Reading competence analyzed through 5 M. The researcher then compared the result of both activities in Reading and Writing and analyzed the effectiveness of the response again. The result showed that there was a significant increasing of competence and performance in Reading and Writing . The data analyzed showed that there were 75 % students got development in competence and 25 % students found difficulties in finishing the task.