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International Journal of Language Teaching and Education
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International Journal of Language Teaching and Education (IjolTe) is an open access published by Universitas Jambi, Master Program of English Language Education, Jambi, Indonesia. IJoLTe receives research-based and conceptual articles on English Language Education, Language Policy, English for Specific Purposes, Teaching English which have not been previously published, nor is it under review or consideration for book chapter or journal publication elsewhere.
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Attitude of Hausa ESL Secondary School Students Towards Spelling and Writing in English Muhammad Mukhtar Aliyu; Gambo A. Danladi
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 2 No. 3 (2018): Volume 2, Issue 3, November 2018
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Writing skill is described as an essential language tool for students. Studies have shown that Hausa ESL secondary school students commit various errors in their writing in English. Various factors have been identified as responsible for the problems. However, the students’ attitude towards spelling and writing has not been investigated. It is believed that students’ attitude plays an important role in motivating and influencing their second-language learning. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore the attitude and perception of Hausa ESL secondary school students towards English spelling and writing. The study adopts a survey research design where an intact class of 75 students from a secondary school in north-eastern Nigeria was selected. To collect the data for the study, a questionnaire was employed. The questionnaire comprises two sections: (i) attitudes toward English spelling and (ii) attitudes toward writing in English which include four writing purposes: (a) School Use, (b) Social Use, (c) Official Use, and (d) Creativity. Findings of the study revealed that the participants have a moderate positive attitude and perception towards English spelling and writing. The findings also indicated that the students’ attitude toward the School Use of English is the highest, whereas their Creativity in writing has the lowest means among the four purposes. In addition, the study revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between the participants’ attitude towards spelling and writing. To enhance students’ creative writing and thinking skills, the study suggests that literature in English should be made compulsory to all secondary school students. Story-reading and creative writing should be incorporated into the curriculum. Other extracurricular activities such as spelling completion should be organised to help the students.
Optimality Theory in ESL Phonology: A Practice of Final Consonant Clusters from Vietnamese L1 Speakers Thong Vi Nguyen
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019): Volume 3, Nomor 1, Juli 2019
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The present study aims to adopt the Optimality Theory to investigate the strategies of pronouncing the final consonant clusters in English by a group of Vietnamese L1 speakers. Vietnamese is a language without the final consonant clusters; therefore, Vietnamese ESL learners tend to have different strategies to pronounce those. Seven Vietnamese graduate students were employed to record their word-list out-loud reading. Each of the consonants occurring in their pronunciation production was considered as one token to be analyzed. The result shows that Vietnamese ESL learners employ five different strategies to generate the final consonant clusters. After that, by adopting the Optimality Theory, this study provides both faithfulness constraints and markedness constraints for each strategy with the attempt to generalize the cases of the final consonant pronunciation of Vietnamese speakers. This study is significant for ESL teachers to understand how the Vietnamese language affects the ESL learners’ final sound pronunciation
The Teacher’s Beliefs and Practices on the Use of Digital Comics in Teaching Writing: A qualitative case study Muflikhatun Nisa Muyassaroh; Abdul Asib; Sri Marmanto
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019): Volume 3, Nomor 1, Juli 2019
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In the industrial era 4.0, the use of digital comic as a multimodal teaching medium is seen as the new trend in EFL classrooms. Although many teachers had already used this medium, so far, there was not any study which inquires the use of comic in another setting such as vocational high schools. Considering this gap, this study aimed to explore teacher belief, practice, and problems in implementing digital comics to teach writing for vocational students. This study used a qualitative case study approach. The subject was an experienced English teacher who held M. A. in English language. As the findings, the teacher believed that the implementation of comics-manga was the best method to switch the vocational students’ stereotype on English; from English as the most difficult subject to English as the enjoyable subject. This medium was implemented by using the genre approach. However, as the consequence, the combination of digital comics and process approach confronted a major challenge, namely time management.
Motivation and Instructional Preference of EFL Students at Tertiary Level Dwi Ratnasari
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019): Volume 3, Nomor 1, Juli 2019
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The aims of the study to find out the relationship between students’ motivation and instructional preference. The main components of motivation that underlay the students to learn English, and the students’ most preferred instruction, is beneficial to contribute to teachers’ understanding of the need to consider students’ preferences when planning the teaching-learning activities and to choose the instructional methods to use in teaching. A mixed-method design used in this study by combining quantitative and qualitative data to analyze. Descriptive statistics and interview analysis were used. The participants of this study were 323 students at a private university in Palembang, Indonesia. An 82-item questionnaire assessing motivation and instructional preference and semi-structured interview were used. The questionnaire consisted of 50 items measuring motivation and 32 items measuring instructional preference. The result showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between motivation and instructional preference. It means that students who had a higher level of motivation would have more instructional preferences than those who had a lower level of motivation. The result of the study indicated that the primary motivational components underlying the students to learn English were instrumental orientation, intrinsic orientation, and integrative orientation, and the students’ most preferred instruction was mastery learning. This study implies that teachers should be aware of diversifying the instructional methods used in their classes. They should take into account the students’ characteristics when planning and implementing educational processes.
An Autobiography of Novice Teacher in Using Multimodality for Teaching Reading to Young Learners Maria Leswinda Wulan; N. A. Drajati; Sumardi Sumardi
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019): Volume 3, Nomor 1, Juli 2019
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This study is the author’s autobiography as a novice teacher in teaching fifth-grade students with multimodality. İ have been teaching young learners for five years in one of an elementary school in Indonesia. Until this day, I am still in the quest to find the best method to develop young learners’ reading proficiency. I also want to change their perspective about reading. İt is necessary to create a reading process which is enjoyable and not boring in the classroom. Young learners who were born in the 21st century, digital natives and non-traditional learners. Multimodality consists of several different modes. Each mode is meaningful and has a role. As a teacher, I could design each mode based on her students’ needs and what they were familiar with.
The Teaching Learning Process of Public Speaking from An Ethnographical Perspective E. T. Karmala; Diah Kristina; Slamet Supriyadi
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019): Volume 3, Nomor 1, Juli 2019
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This research aims to explore how the application of public speaking at an English course in Pare, Kediri, East Java. This research was qualitative in the form of ethnography research. The research objective is from an ethnography study in an English course in Pare Kediri East Java. The subject from the research is the teacher and students from public speaking class at an English course in Pare, Kediri, East Java. The data obtained through interviews, observation, and document analysis. The findings of the implementation of public speaking at an English course in Pare, Kediri, East Java. This study shows that there are three methods which the speeches were impromptu speech in the placement test to select students. Introduction speech to describe their name or background and storytelling speech with different themes to express their ideas and knowledge. Further, in the beginning, class, the teacher gives the power words to motivate students. Moreover, the teacher stimulates the speaking skill of students with dialog in the forum; The teacher gives the evaluation of strengths and weakness from students’ speech one by one.
“DEFENDS” as An Effective Writing Strategy to Create Students Creativity Mu'alim Ibnu Fathoni; Sumardi Sumardi; Slamet Supriyadi
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019): Volume 3, Nomor 1, Juli 2019
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In the educational process, specifically in the classroom, students must be able to produce good writing in academic writing that is relevant to the topic that is given or determined by the teacher. Most students get difficulty in learning writing moreover producing good writing. Teachers need to help the students build their habits of writing creatively. DEFENDS, a strategy that was developed by Ellis (1989,1990,1993) can help students to defend a particular position in a written assignment, improve writing strategies, facilitate writing process, and strengthen learning to learn writing skill. DEFENDS strategy gives students the means to plan before they begin writing. This strategy guides students to be an independent writer through several stages (Decide, Estimate, Figure, Express, Note, Drive, and Search). Students are demanded to have not only language skill but also other factors such as creativity. Creativity gives a contribution in education field nowadays, the issue of creativity has brought to the forefront of educational policy and practice, including the importance of creativity in writing. Research dealing with creativity in writing is needed. This research was an experimental design called post-test design using 2x2 factorial arrangements. The sample was high school students. Two instruments used by the researcher; those were writing test and creativity test. The value of Ftable at the level of significance is α = 0.05 is 4.01, while the value of Fo between columns is 5.734141. Fo between rows (16.5821) is higher than Ft at the level of significance α = 0.05 (4.01), and Fo columns by rows (9.21) are higher than Ft at the level of significance α = 0.05 (4.01).
Developing A Teaching Material Prototype for Linguistics Description of English Course Hustarna Hustarna; Melati Melati
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019): Volume 3, Nomor 1, Juli 2019
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Linguistics Description of English is a new subject in the curriculum of English Education Study Program in the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education in Jambi University. Hence, the material for this subject is not yet available. Therefore, this research aims at developing a prototype of teaching materials for Linguistics Description of English course. By designing the prototype of teaching materials for this course, the researchers expected that lecturers who will teach this subject will not find difficulties in teaching this course. Besides, the use of materials which have been designed based on students’ need and linguistic lecturers’ discussion is anticipated to be able to encourage students to be more active in teaching and learning process. Thus, the choice of the topics is suited to the characteristics of the students and drew from the result of the need analysis questionnaire and forum group discussion (FGD) with the lecturers. This research utilized research and development design, based on the theory developed by Borg and Gall (1983). The result of the research is the prototype of the teaching materials for Linguistics Description of English course.
Investigation of Passive Voice Occurrence in Scientific Writing Urip Subagio; J. A. Prayogo; Emalia Iragiliati
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019): Volume 3, Nomor 1, Juli 2019
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This study investigated passive voice use in theses of Graduate EFL students, Universitas Negeri Malang. The occurrences of passive voice in research method chapter in two time periods, 1985 - 2000 and 2002 – 2015 were compared. Passive voice occurrence in chapter of research method was also investigated then it was compared with the active. Passive voice occurrence in theses before 2002 investigated which was 1458, and 1171 in theses published after 2000 indicated the fact that today passive voice use in scientific writing indeed less frequent compared to the past. In addition, unlike the findings of some previous studies that claimed passive voice occurrence is still more dominant than the active in method section of scientific writing, this study found that, even in chapter of research method, active voice today occurs more frequently. It was 1883 occurrences of active voice and 1171 of passive voice were found.
RETRACTED: Involvement of the 12th Grade English Language Textbook in Jordan: An analytical Study Rami Ali Abu Sa'aleek
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education Vol. 2 No. 3 (2018): Volume 2, Issue 3, November 2018
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