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Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Semarang
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INTERACTIVE MATERIALS FOR TEACHING SPOKEN NARRATIVE TEXTS BASED ON INDONESIAN FOLKTALES Farida, Lulu April; Sofwan, Ahmad
Lembaran Ilmu Kependidikan Vol 41, No 1 (2012)
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Penelitian ini bertujuan mengembangkan bahan ajar interaktif dengan mendaptasi cerita rakyat Indonesia, dan mengkaji penggunaannya dalam pengajaran teks naratif lisan bagi siswa SMP. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian pengembangan dengan memodifikasi model Gall, Gall & Borg dan Thiagarajan, Semmel, & Melvyn. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa guru dan siswa membutuhkan bahan ajar interaktif untuk menjadikan pembelajaran lebih efektif. Sesudah dievaluasi oleh pakar, prototipe bahan ajar direvisi dan diujikan di dua SMP. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa produk itu dapat digunakan dengan baik di kelas dan siswa mencapai kompetensi yang diharapkan pada ketrampilan mendengarkan dan membaca. Siswa dan guru berpendapat bahwa bahan ajar itu efektif dan berguna bagi mereka untuk belajar Bahasa Inggris. Disimpulkan bahwa bahan ajar interaktif yang dikembangkan dari adaptasi cerita rakyat Indonesia berbentuk Widuri Game terbukti dapat diterapkan dan efektif untuk meningkatkan ketrampilan lisan siswa. This study aims at developing interactive teaching materials by adapting Indonesian folktales, and examining their implementation for teaching spoken narrative texts to junior high school students. A research and development (R&D) method with six stages was used in this study. The results show that the teachers and students require interactive materials that could make the teaching learning activities more effective. After being evaluated by experts, the prototype was revised and field-tested in two junior high schools. The results showed that the product was successfully implemented in the classroom in that the students could achieve the passing grade for both listening and speaking tests. The students also perceived that the product was effective and useful for them to learn English. The teachers perceived that the product was good and excellent to be used in the classroom. Therefore, it could be concluded that Widuri Game, the interactive materials adapted from Indonesian folktales was practical and effective to improve the students’ oral competence skill.
TEACHING MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCES IN ENGLISH IN PILOT INTERNATIONAL STANDARD HIGH SCHOOLS IN INDONESIA Setyorini, Andras; Sofwan, Ahmad
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 5, No 2 (2011): April 2011
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One of the ways to improve the quality of education in Indonesia is by initiating the program called Rintisan Sekolah Bertaraf Internasional (Pilot International Standard School-ISS). This program provides grants to selected schools to implement the teaching and learning process to comply with the international standards as in the developed countries. Some subjects, including Mathematics and Sciences are taught by using English as a medium of instruction in the classroom. Textbooks for these subjects have been prepared in both Indonesian and English. However, the teachers are not yet ready to conduct the teaching and learning activities in English, so there seems to be some problems in the classroom due to the lack of English proficiency among the teachers. With respect to this issue, the school can adopt Content-Based Instruction in which the students would learn the language as a by-product of learning about real-world and encourage the collaboration between subject matter teachers and English language teachers.   Key words: International Standard School, Mathematics, Sciences
THE SCHEMATIC STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN RESEARCH ARTICLE INTRODUCTIONS Rahman, Kasyfur; Sofwan, Ahmad
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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The article reports an investigation on the differences between the schematic structure of English and Indonesian research article introduction. By selecting thirty research articles from each group and analysing them using the CARS model (1990, 2004), this study has unravelled several differences. At the macro level, the English articles respectively have a higher percentage of reviewing items of previous research, indicating gap, and summarising methods. While their Indonesian counterparts tend to have a greater deal with making topic generalisations, presenting positive justifications, and stating the value of the present research. In addition, while the Indonesian articles have more unidentified schematic elements and lack outlining the structure of paper, the English ones demonstrate a higher degree of move reiteration. At the micro level, the English articles are characterised by the use personal deixes as self-mention, and more variation of linguistic clues in claiming centrality. On the other hand, their Indonesian counterparts are depicted by the absence of self-mention, the use of code mixing, and a major tendency in using amplifiers and evaluative adjectives in claiming centrality. These differences might be partially influenced by the writers’ culture, knowledge, editorial policy, social environment, and in certain cases, the technical problems.
APPLICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAVANESE Sofwan, Ahmad
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 5, No 1 (2010): October 2010
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Applicative constructions refer to those in which an underlying indirect object or oblique is realised as a coreargument. The applied argument replaces P and in most languages becomes the direct object. In mostinstances, the verb usually bears a distinctive inflection expressing the semantic relation borne by the directobject. In Javanese applicative constructions could be intransitive-based and transitive-based, and theyinvolve oblique to 2 advancement or 3-2 advancement. The N- prefix on the verb, the deletion ofpreposition, and the suffix –i/ni or –ake mark the advancement to direct object. The suffix –i/ni is used tomark locative, recipient and destination advancement, whereas the suffix –ake is used to mark benefactiveand instrumental advancement. It is also possible that advancement to direct object is not marked with anysuffix.
SPEAKER’S VISION AND ATTITUDES THROUGH DEICTIC EXPRESSIONS Sofwan, Ahmad; Bouk, Edmundus
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 9, No 1 (2014): October 2014
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This study addresses how deictic expressions of person, place and time account for vision and attitudes of a speaker in speeches on certain issues. In this qualitative study, the data consisted of four speeches delivered by Xanana Gusmao of Timor Leste. The result of the study shows that the speaker used various types of deixis, including person, place, and time deixis. Person deixis was used to introduce Timorese people, whereas more time deixis referring to present time was used to focus his attention on the present situation and did not want to turn back to the past experience with full of political and social conflicts. The speaker’s vision is reflected in the use of the first person plural ‘we’ more than the first person singular ‘I’ or ‘me’. This indicates that the speaker represents himself as an ‘insertive’ leader. He is also a sort of leader with more future vision, indicated by the use of more time deixis referring to the present and future time than those of past time, so he wanted to bring his people and nation to face the future to develop the nation and to build better relationship with its neighbouring states.
ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES OF AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT Aliningsih, Fitri; Sofwan, Ahmad
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 10, No 1 (2015): October 2015
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This study aimedto find the English teachers‘ perceptions and practices of authentic assessment in the pilot project schools of the 2013 curriculum in Grobogan regency. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, first, a survey was done. Then, to obtain more in-depth information about the teachers‘ perceptions and practices of authentic assessment, a case study research was conducted. In this case, interview and classroom observation were conducted. Then, the data were analyzed through reading or memoing, describing, and classifying.The study revealed that the teachers have positive perceptions towards authentic assessment as they agreed that the assessment approach is beneficial to assess students‘ progress and achievement. However, the teachers perceived insufficient time, crowded classes, exhausting and time consuming activities, and also complicated administration as the main problems in applying authentic assessment. There were no significant differences among the teachers on the way they applied authentic assessment. In this case, they preferred written and task basedassessment, performance assessment, and also classroom observation in assessing their students. Nevertheless, in some cases, they did not apply the assessment properly as they did not put the assessment principles into practices.
THE REALIZATION OF DISAGREEMENT STRATEGIES BY NON NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH Sofwan, Ahmad; Suwignyo, Eko
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 6, No 1 (2011): October 2011
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This study is meant to investigate the realization of disagreement strategies by non-nativespeakers of English by eliciting data through DCT and role plays from two groups of students:first year students and third year students of English Department. The DCTs and role playscontain 24 situations which are designed in different issues and social status. The resultshowed that most students realized disagreement through contradiction, counterclaim,irrelevancy claim, contradiction and counterclaim, and challenges related to personalinvolvement and non-personal involvement issues in different social status. The contradictionstrategy was dominantly used by the students. Some students realized disagreement throughthe combination of counterclaim and challenge strategy in equal and high-low status related topersonal involvement, and equal and low-high status related to non-personal involvement. Inthis case, students did not only disagree by producing counterclaim response but alsochallenged the previous speaker to provide more evidence related to his/her statement. Thefindings also showed that there is no pragmatic development from first year students to thirdyear students because they produced disagreement strategy in the same way although theyhad different English proficiency level.
SPEECH FUNCTIONS AND GRAMMATICAL PATTERNS REALIZATION IN CONVERSATION IN THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOK Arifuddin, M.; Sofwan, Ahmad
Lembaran Ilmu Kependidikan Vol 44, No 1 (2015): Lembaran Ilmu Kependidikan: April 2015
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Penelitian ini bertujuan menjelaskan realisasi fungsi tutur dan pola gramatikal teks percakapan pada buku teks bahasa Inggris dan menjelaskan kesesuaian antara jenis ungkapan dalam teks percakapan dengan fungsi kebahasaan yang terdapat dalam kompetensi dasar dari kurikulum. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif dengan menggunakan bentuk analisis fungsional dan struktural yang dikembangkan oleh Eggins dan Slade (1997). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat 253 fungsi tutur yang terealisasi dalam teks percakapan yaitu terdapat 75 (29.65%) fungsi pembuka percakapan, 90 (35.57) fungsi pelanjutan percakapan, dan 88 (34.78%) fungsi merespon pembuka percakapan. Selain itu, terdapat 278 jenis mood yang terdiri dari 148 (53%) bentuk deklaratif lengkap, 40 (14%) deklaratif tidak lengkap, 18 (6.5%) polar interogatif, 24 (8.5%) wh-interogatif, 8 (4%) imperatif, 6 (2%) eklamatif, dan 34 (12%) jenis klausa minor. Hasil penelitian ini juga menunjukkan bahwa terdapat 21 (87%) dari 24 jenis ungkapan dalam kompetensi dasar dan sebaliknya ada 3 (13%) jenis ungkapan yang tidak terdapat di dalam teks percakapan pada buku teks.This study is aimed at explaining the realization of speech functions and grammatical patterns of conversational texts and the compatibility of some typical expressions with the basic competence of English curriculum. A descriptive qualitative approach by means of functional and structural analysis proposed by Eggins and Slade (1997) is used. The result show that there are 253 speech functions realized in the conversational texts consisting of 75 (29.65%) opening, 90 (35.57%) continuing, and 88 (34.78%) reacting. Additionally, the study show that there are 278 mood types used in the conversational texts. They comprise 148 (53%) declarative full, 40 (14%) elliptical declarative, 18 (6.5%) polar interrogative, 24 (8.5%) wh-interrogative, 8 (4%) imperative, 6 (2%) exclamative, 34 (12%) minor. The study also show that 21 (87%) typical expressions of the 24 total number of language function specified in the basic competence are introduced in the textbook whereas 3 (13%) expressions are not realized in the textbook.  
THE REALIZATION OF TENOR IN THE CONVERSATION TEXTS FOUND IN GRADE X ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS “PATHWAY TO ENGLISH” AND “BAHASA INGGRIS KELAS X Achsan, Mohamad; Sofwan, Ahmad
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 11, No 1 (2016): October 2016
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This study aims at explaining the tenor of the interactants in the conversation texts found grade X English textbooks as well as the appropriacy of their realization in the given contexts. This study also explains the similarities and differences between conversation texts found in both English textbooks in realizing tenor. This study was a qualitative research employing a descriptive comparative method. The comparative method compares conversation texts found in two English textbooks entitled “Pathway to English” and “Bahasa Inggris Kelas X” to find their similarities and differences in realizing tenor. The result of lexicogrammatical analysis of conversation texts found in two English textbooks showed the texts of two textbooks were dominated by declarative. This meant that the mood in the models of the conversation texts tended giving information rather than demanding information or demanding goods and services. They were between teacher and student, student and student, and friend and friend. Furthermore, there were various statuses found in these texts. They were unequal and equal. At last, the social distances showed low contact and low affective involvement and high contact and high affective involvement.
Meaning Negotiation and Learners’ Uptake in The Process of Teacher’s Corrective Feedback Nurwulandari, Eki; Sofwan, Ahmad
Lembaran Ilmu Kependidikan Vol 45, No 2 (2016): Lembaran Ilmu Kependidikan: September 2016
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This research described and analyzed the teacher’s corrective feedback and learners’ uptake in the classroom interaction. This is a descriptive research. The sample of this research was 34 students of the eleventh graders of Medika Vocational High School Pekalongan. The data comprised of trancripts of 10 hours of narural classroom interactions recorded from a class of a teacher. The findings show that recast, clarification request, elicitation, repetition and explicit correction which successfully lead to student-generated repair, are rarely used by the teacher.  Dalam interaksi, ada memiliki negosiasi makna. Secara kualitatif, penelitian ini menggambarkan cara peserta didik memberikan serapan untuk umpan balik korektif guru di dialog transaksional siswa dengan mengumpulkan data. Secara quantitative, peneliti menganalisi presentase yang didapat dari masing –masing type yang digunakan pada umpan balik guru dan serapan dari peserta didik, dan presentase quesioner siswa dengan mempresentase kan masing- masing bagian dari quesioner. Peneliti bertujuan untuk menganalisis bagaimana dan dimana guru mengoreksi kesalahan yang diucapkan selama suatu aktivitas tertentu di kelas XI SMK Medika. Hasil juga memperlihatkan bahwa corrective feedback sangat efektif dalam menghasilkan perbaikan siswa secara relatif yang jarang terjadi di kelas. Berdasarkan studi ini menuang kembali, meminta klarifikasi, penimbulan, pengulangan, dan perbaikan secara eksplisit sukses membuat siswa melakukan perbaikan yang jarang digunakan oleh guru. Data dasar terdiri trancripts dari 10 jam interaksi kelas naruralistic direkam dari kelas guru. Dari total berubah, peneliti telah menghitung 228 episode masing-masing berisi kesalahan yang dihasilkan oleh pelajar, sebuah Umpan bergerak korektif dari guru dan serapan berikutnya pelajar dalam menanggapi CF. Episode umpan balik korektif diidentifikasi dan diklasifikasikan menggunakan model modifikasi dari Lyster dan Ranta (1997). 
Co-Authors Alief Noor Farida Andras Setyorini Anggara, IGede Arga Anggara, IGede Arga Anisatu Suriya, Hanny Anisatu Suriya, Hanny Argian Ekowati Arina Hafadhotul Husna, Arina Arini Sabrina, Arini Bambang Ruby Sugiarto Bintana, Khomsa Bintana, Khomsa Daning Desy Artyani, Daning Didik Rinan Sumekto Djoko Sutopo Dwi Anggani Linggar Bharati Dwi Rukmini Edmundus Bouk Eki Nurwulandari, Eki Eko Suwignyo Fatona Suraya, Fatona Febriyana, Anggie Febriyana, Anggie Fitri Aliningsih, Fitri Ghasani, Betari Irma Ghasani, Betari Irma Ima Fitriana Rosyidah, Ima Fitriana Januarius Mujiyanto, Januarius Kasprabowo, Teguh Kasprabowo, Teguh Kasyfur Rahman Lulu April Farida M. Arifuddin, M. Masfa Maiza, Masfa Melawati Anggrayani, Melawati Mohamad Achsan, Mohamad Mubais, Ahmad Mubais, Ahmad Mursid Saleh Nur Zaida, Nur Pasca Kalisa Putri Anggraeni R Ririn Riyanti, R Ririn Retmono - Retno Trihandayani, Retno Rochyani Lestiyanawati, Rochyani Rudi Hartono Sari, Dwi Indah Mutiara Sari, Dwi Indah Mutiara Sri Wahyuningsih Yoga Prihatin