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Journal : Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature

Enhancing Vocabulary Mastery Through English Songs: In the Eyes of EFL Students Sayit Abdul Karim; Suryo Sudiro; Dina Rizki Annisa; Hana I Khairunnisa; Dyah Ayu Rahmawati
Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30605/25409190.439

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The present study attempts to explore EFL students’ perceptions of utilizing English songs to enhance students’ vocabulary mastery. The present study employs a qualitative descriptive research design and the data were gathered by administering an online survey using a questionnaire through Google Forms as the research instrument. 56 (39 females and 17 males) EFL students from Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta were involved in the present study.Apart from the questionnaire, an online semi-structured interview with 6 respondents using the Whatsapp application was also conducted to further explore their views about how English songs could improve their vocabulary mastery. Furthermore, there are five questions that respondents should be filled out in the online google form using the 4 Likert Scale, ranging from the lowest point 1 (strongly disagree) to the highest point 4 (strongly agree). The interview was conducted to further explore their perceptions of how the English songs enrich their vocabulary mastery. The findings revealed that 46,6% of respondents strongly agree and 44,6% agree that they would look up the meaning of the song's lyrics given. Furthermore, 50% of the respondents strongly agree and 41.1% of them agree about English songs facilitate them to learn English. Meanwhile, 42,9% of the respondents strongly agree and 41,1% agree about English songs as an interesting media of learning, therefore, they utilized the songs to enhance their vocabulary achievement. The results of the interview respondents revealed six respondents (MZ, KF, PL, AF, SF, and GT) perceived that the utilization of songs in their learning brings a positive impact on their English language vocabulary development. However, two respondents, DL and GT viewed that English songs have both advantages and disadvantages for some reasons.
A Closer Look At The EFL Students’ Grammatical Errors In Writing Descriptive Text Alifah Maudia Rizqullah; Suryo Sudiro; Sayit Abdul Karim
Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023): volume 10 No 1 2023
Publisher : Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30605/25409190.559

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EFL students found some difficulties in writing descriptive texts because they have to observe the language features, and generic structure of such genre carefully to produce a good paragraph. Students made some errors in their writing and experienced difficulties dealing with the grammatical rules. The objectives of the present research are to identify the errors types that students might encounter in writing descriptive text and to describe what errors are dominantly made. Therefore, a descriptive qualitative research design was applied to describe students’ type of errors as proposed by Dulay (1982) and to figure out errors that dominantly occur in students’ writing, the present study used Ellis’s theory (1994), namely error collection, error identification, error description, and error explanation. The respondents were 30 students (5 males and 25 females) in English Language Education Study Program at Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta. The research data was taken from students’ works and analyzed qualitatively. The findings revealed that students made four types of errors, ranging from the highest to lowest, namely omission, misformation, addition, and misordering. Of 174 errors, 60 errors dominantly occurred in the omission part, and 51 errors were in the misformation part. Meanwhile, 47 errors occurred in the addition part, and 16 errors occurred in the misordering part.