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The Current Issues of Indonesian EFL Students’ Writing Skills: Ability, Problem, and Reason in Writing Comparison and Contrast Essay Rostanti Toba; Widya Noviana Noor; La Ode Sanu
Dinamika Ilmu Vol 19 No 1 (2019): Dinamika Ilmu
Publisher : UIN Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda

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The aim of this study is to investigate issues of Indonesian EFL students’ writing skills, covering ability, problem and reason why they got problems in writing comparison and contrast essay. The convergent parallel of mixed methods was used to explore these issues by involving 52 EFL students of IAIN Samarinda who enrolled the academic essay writing course. The three research instruments; essay writing test, open-ended questionnaire and interview were used in the data collection. The findings of this study revealed that the Indonesian EFL students’ writing ability was good that categorized with the mean score 77.83. However, some of them encounter problems in writing aspects including content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanics. Their reasons in experiencing these problems are not only limited knowledge of writing aspects and comparison and contrast essay itself, but also they had own personal reasons; lack of writing practice, writing dislike, writing anxiety, negative writing perception, low writing motivation, insufficient time given in writing test, and also inadequate teaching writing process taught by their lecturers. Indeed, the teaching writing improvement that involved EFL students and lecturers should be well-integrated in order to alleviate the students’ essay writing problems related to their reasons and to improve their writing ability. Factors caused the writing difficulties will be discussed further and some suggestions will be given on this research.
Analysis on Achievement Test in Intensive English Program of IAIN Samarinda Sari Agung Sucahyo; Widya Noviana Noor
FENOMENA Vol 10 No 2 (2018): FENOMENA VOL 10 NO. 2, 2018
Publisher : LP2M UIN Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda

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As one of the tests, achievement test has to be qualified. A qualified test will be able to give the information about teaching correctly. If the achievement test is less qualified, the information related to students’ sucesss to achieve the instructional objective will also be less qualified. It means the test has to meet the characteristics of a good test. In fact, there has not been any effort yet to identify the quality of the achievement test which is used in Intensive English program. It means the information of the test quality cannot be found yet. Therefore, researchers are interested in analyzing the quality of achievement test for students in Intensive English program of IAIN Samarinda. Design of this research belongs to Content Analysis. Subject of this research is English achievement tests and 28 to 30 students were involved in the process of try out. Data were collected through three steps. Data were analyzed based on validity, reliability, and item quality. Finding of the research reveals 60 % of the tests have a good construct validity justified by related theories. It was found 55% of the tests have a good content validity. Reliability coefficient of the first tests format is 0, 65 and the second tests format shows 0, 52. Calculation of item difficulty shows 68% of the test items were between 0,20 – 0,80. The estimation of item discrimination shows 73% of the test items were between 0,20 – 0,50. While calculation of distracter efficiency shows 65% of the distracters were effective to distract the test takers.
Evaluation of English Program Using Model of Countenance Stake in University of East Kalimantan Widya Noviana Noor; Rostanti Toba; Hafi Nanda
Southeast Asian Journal of Islamic Education Vol 1 No 2 (2019): Southeast Asian Journal of Islamic Education, June 2019
Publisher : Faculty of Education and Teacher Training of UINSI Samarinda

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The research aims to evaluate English Department by using model of Countenance Stake on the components of context, input, process, and product. The research is an evaluation research. The research done in four universities, they are IAIN Samarinda, ABA Colorado Balikpapan, Universitas Kutai Kartanegara and Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur. The data is collected by observation, interview, and documentation, and then analyzed in a qualitative descriptive way. The result of the research on the aspect of Antecedents shows that English Department is not yet in line with the institution’s stand, that is the department’s vision, mission and goals that have been compiled; Transaction, in the evaluation of input, the factors that affect the learning process, such as learning media, they are syllabus, SAP, test, and strategy in learning made by the lecturer of the English Department is good and the outcome of product includes the students learning outcome in one semester is good which is in accordance with the achievement that the department wants to achieve.
Foreign Language Acquisition at Elementary Level Education in Samarinda Mohamad Muklis; Widya Noviana Noor; Sherly Yuandari
IJELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics) Vol 4, No 2 (2020): Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda

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The main objective of this study is to investigate the process of foreign language acquisition of certain kid in Samarinda, as the capital city of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Two months case study have already conducted to capture all phenomenon happened especially towards important factors from several experts which are potentially influenced the process of L2 acquisition i.e. general factors e.g. aptitude, age, intelligence, cognitive, attitude, motivation, and personality (Ellis, 2008), linguistics input including formal and informal environments (Krashen, 1981), and three second language believes i.e. behaviorist, innatist, and interactionist (Lightbown & Spada, 2006). Direct observation to the subject condition and environment was done as well as semi-structured interview to obtain deeper information from the caregiver who has direct interaction with the subject every day. As the result, the findings indicate that a proper stimulus can motivate the subject to learn and acquire the L2 even though stable proportion from both formal and informal environments as linguistics input should be noticed in order for the subject to have better achievement on her L2 acquisition. Other factors influenced the L2 acquisition of the subject is also explained following by its implications and suggestions regarding with this research focus.