Loquen: English Studies Journal
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From Behaviorism to New Behaviorism: A Review Study
Meisam Ziafar;
Ehsan Namaziandost
Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2378
Neobehaviorism bridges the gap between behaviorism and cognitivism. Like Thorndike, Watson, and Pavlov, the neobehaviorists believe that the study of learning and a focus on rigorously objective observational methods are crucial to a scientific psychology. Unlike their predecessors, however, the neobehaviorists are more self-consciously attempting to formalize the laws of behavior. Neobehaviorism is associated with a number of scholars such as Tolman, Hull, Skinner, Hebb, and Bandura. Neobehaviorists demand formalizing the law of behavior. Neobehaviorism takes into consideration abstraction and hidden variables, it represents a holistic approach to behavior. It can be claimed that all neobehavioristic theories have been proposed in order to put some cognition within the mechanistic nature of traditional behaviorism.
A Pragmatic Analysis of Politeness Strategies Applied in the Use of Humorous Phatic Utterances
Dedi Febrianto
Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2090
Abstract: As opposed to informational purposes, phatic utterances hold a bigger role in human communication that is to keep social relations among people. Though people hardly ever notice the importance of phatic utterances, these are the utterances that indispensable in their daily basis communication used to avoid the sense of impoliteness, especially when meeting people they are familiar with. In uttering phatic, people use a variety of ways including raising humor. The humourous phatic utterances are interesting to be analyzed in order to investigate the implementation of politeness strategies used along with the production of phatic utterances. To the researcher's best knowledge, the link between humorous phatic utterances and politeness strategies has not become the concern of previous researches. Therefore, this research was conducted to describe phatic utterances conveyed by the characters of a widely known situation comedy (sitcom) Friends and also to find out the politeness strategies applied when uttering the phatic utterances. The researcher used solidarity and deference of politeness strategies as proposed by Yule (1996) to analyze each phatic utterance found. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative. The data were documented from the sitcom episode 21-24. The data were analyzed by describing the context used and giving the explanation of each datum that was included in phatic utterances. After conducting the analysis, it is found that there are 37 phatic utterances used in the sitcom. Politeness strategies are always applied in any phatic utterances found and the most frequently used politeness strategy is solidarity strategy.
Activating Students to Speak English by Using ELTIS Resource Pack
Nur Fadillah Nurchalis;
Selviana Selviana;
Effran Ade Riza
Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2092
Students are mostly talkative outside the classroom, but in English class, they are more apathetic. This research aims to examine how English Language Training for Islamic Schools (ELTIS) resource pack is able to activate students’ to speak English. This research is designed as Classroom Action Research (CAR) which is specific to collaborative action research. The subjects of this research are 25 students of the eighth class of MTs Pacongan Pinrang in the academic year 2019/2020. Instruments of the research test, observation checklist, and interview. The test aims to gain quantitative data, while the observation checklist and interview aim to gain qualitative data. The result finds that the use of various media available in ELTIS Resource Pack activates students to speak English. A variety of learning media reduces students’ boredom and engages students during the learning process enthusiastically.
Developing an Instructional Media of English General Purpose Through Android Based
Ahmad Suhaili;
Gema Ika Sari
Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2046
The purpose of this development research is to develop Android applications as a medium for collage school English general-purpose learning in part of speech for collage school students of first semester of STIT AL-KHAIRIYAH. The development model used refers to the development model of research procedures of Dick & Carey. It begins with an analysis of instructional, analysis of learners and context, research instrument of goal performance, selects materials and developing and evaluating application. To obtain a decent animation media used in the first study validated by expert content, media and teacher/lecturer. Furthermore, the students tested media covering the trial of small and large group trials. Test subjects were students of first semester of Non-English learner STIT AL-KHAIRIYAH among 36 students. Results of the assessment or validation shows that (1) validation of learning material expert, media expert and lecturer are on good qualifying with a mean of 80.34%. (2) Small group trial is on good qualifying, reaching level on 76,67% and (3) large group reach at level 80,12%.
The Application of Communicative Language Teaching Method in Vocabulary Teaching
Lilik Yuliawati;
Aprillia Aprillia
Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2095
Abstract: Since young learners have special characteristics in learning a foreign language, teachers have to create an interesting method in teaching English especially vocabulary. One of the methods usually used in teaching vocabulary is Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). The objective of the research is to know how to teach vocabulary using pictures and games in the CLT method, to investigate the advantages of teaching English vocabulary through pictures and games in CLT method, as well as to investigate the problems that occurred in teaching and learning process. The method used in this study is action research with 30 participants. The researcher collected the data by having observation, conversation, and interview. In delivering materials there are three necessary elements, those are engaged, study, and activate stage. The result shows that all the students gave positive responses to the use of pictures and games in vocabulary learning. They felt that pictures and games in the CLT method could help them understand the word meaning more easily and motivate them to learn vocabulary since the classroom activities were more interesting. Besides, this method also helped the students to pronounce each word correctly. However, there are some problems, such as the students usually feel bored when they only have one discussion for a long time. When the students have never heard of the word before, the teacher must explain it to them first. Besides, the class could be crowded and noisy.
Effects of Socio-Affective Strategies on Students’ Self-Confidence in Classroom Speaking Activities
Abdul Muin;
Aswati Aswati
Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2178
This research was to investigate the implementation of socio-affective strategies to improve students’ self-confidence in classroom speaking activities. This research was conducted in two cycles. The subjects of this study were the students of this school grade VIII A. The number of the subjects was thirty-five students. The instruments which are used to collect the data are observation questionnaire and field note. The student who had a strong desire in cycle I was 23 students, in cycle II was 33 students. The student who used visual contact in cycle I was 21 students, in cycle II was 28 students. The student who spoke aloud in cycle I was 22 students, in cycle II was 29 students. The student who used their gestures in cycle I was 24 students, in cycle II was 29 students. The student who comprehended the material in cycle I was 28 students, in cycle II was 32 students. Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that using Socio-affective strategies can improve students’ self-confidence in speaking English
Lecturer’s talk in Classroom interaction in Listening class: A case study
Muhammad Zuhri Dj;
Musfirah Musfirah
Loquen Vol 13 No 1 (2020): January-June
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v13i1.2321
The aim of this research was to find out the category of lecturer’s talk in classroom interaction in learning listening. The method used a case study which applied observation and interview. It aimed to gain the data that were observed during Teaching and learning process and interview the lecturer and learners. The data were presented by analyzing the lecturer’s talk. The source of data was the lecturer who teaches listening in TBI program. The instrument of this research were observation where the researcher saw or watched the teaching and learning process after that transcribing the lecturer’s talk and interview where the researcher used recorder. This research instrument was applied to acquire the data about lecturer’s talk used by the lecturer. The result of the research showed that there were some categories of lecturer’s talk performed by the lecturer during classroom interaction, the lecturer applied categories based on FIAC System, and they are: accept feeling, praises and encourages, accepts and uses idea of students, asks questions, lecturing, giving direction, and criticizing or justifying authority. Most frequent category of lecturer’s talk were asking the question, giving direction, praise or encouraging and lecturing.
Students’ writing skill through Telecollaboration: in the context of WhatsApp and Facebook
Safiatur Rokhmah
Loquen Vol 13 No 1 (2020): January-June
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v13i1.2381
This study focused on observing, identifying potential problems, modifying teaching practices, evaluating the results, reflecting and analyzing the teaching writing skills through telecollaboration. The participants of the research were the students of MA Al Jauharotun Naqiyyah Cibeber grade XII with the total number of 15 students. The students were selected based on the pre-observation writing result which was conducted at the beginning of new term. The selected participants were being taught writing through telecollaboration then observed their progress in learning English writing. The results of the study found that the use of ICT and digital media such as Facebook and WhatsApp application help students in making learning outside school hours. It also motivated students to use English.
An analysis of Semantic changes of English lexical borrowings in Indonesia Tourism field
Tatu Siti Rohbiah
Loquen Vol 13 No 1 (2020): January-June
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v13i1.2554
Abstract: This research was analyzed English lexical borrowings in the Indonesian tourism field. This research aims to classify and analyze the kinds of semantic changes that happen in the borrowed English tourism field in Indonesian. The method used was descriptive-qualitative content analysis to the corpus of data in the tourism field. The unit of analysis is the corpus of tourism fields collected from Indonesian magazines in June – July 2019, such as Intisari, tamasya, and Jalan – jalan. The result findings are 25 words meanings such as 12 words did not find changes of meaning and 13 words found changes of meaning of the tourism register in English adopted into Indonesian languages, such as extension, narrowing, degeneration, and regeneration. It means that Indonesian borrowed the foreign words, whose concept is adapted to the Indonesian. In Indonesian tourism field in semantic changes is adopted to the social condition.
Blended learning via YouTube media to Motivate EFL learners on speaking skill
Eva Fachriyah;
Erma Perwitasari
Loquen Vol 13 No 1 (2020): January-June
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v13i1.2287
This study aims to investigate language teaching in the practice of English speaking skills through blended learning, utilizing Youtube as a media. Participants were 42 (males and female) in third semester students enrolled in the second year in Information Technology program, Serang Raya University. The method was classroom action research. Data collected through the procedure taken from the Kemmis Taggart model. Those were begun from planning, action, observation, and reflection. Meanwhile, the data analyzed based on the whole observation of the action on each circle and the result of questionnaires. The result shows that students were greatly motivated on practicing speaking skills.