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Linguists: Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching
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The Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching contains the research manuscripts related to the broad areas of Linguistics and English Language Teaching. The journal is published twice a year (July and October) by Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Bengkulu and is based at the Department of Tadris Bahasa Inggris, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Tadris. It is nationally and internationally reviewed by the journal's editorial board as well as other academic experts.
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The Implementation of Curriculum 2013: English Teachers’ Perceptions on Developing Lesson Plan and Teaching Materials Dwi Bayu Saputra
Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Islamic State Institute of Bengkulu (IAIN) Bengkulu

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Curriculum 2013 has been implemented in both primary and secondary schools in Indonesia. To execute this, teachers are supposed to be the only medium that has a major role in running this curriculum. However, they do not seem to have well preparations to implement the 2013 curriculum. Some fundamental aspects in this curriculum such as planning lesson and teaching materials need to have more attention in order to run the program well. Moreover, teachers should be well informed regarding these aspects, yet the implementation of 2013 curriculum in English teaching learning is not completely perfect. Considering the issue above, this research aims to investigate English teachers’ perceptions towards developing lesson plans and teaching materials. A questionnaire was used to collect the data about their insights on developing lesson plan and teaching materials. To triangulate the data, this research also administered an interview. The finding indicates that the English teachers tended to feel that structuring lesson plan is not an easy task. They sometimes felt burdensome in modifying the lessons and teaching materials. Besides, 80% of the participants stated that their teaching objectives were achieved after concerning those aspects. The results indicate that teachers needed sufficient knowledge and strong motivation to deal with these important aspects.
Teacher’s Difficulties in Teaching Oral Communication Skills in Indonesia: A Comparative Literature Review Valisneria Utami
Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Islamic State Institute of Bengkulu (IAIN) Bengkulu

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While oral communication skills is considered as an indicator of foreign language proficiency, in Indonesia, these skills seems to receive minium attention. As a result, the learning outcomes, still far from satisying. According to the literatures, teacher’s still encountered difficulties in teaching speaking and listening and hesitance to utilized English language in the classroom. This present study aimed to present comparative literature review of research studies related to teacher’s difficulties in teaching oral communication skills. First the study explains about communicative competence and listening model. Second, this study demonstrates the condition of oral communciation teaching in Indonesia and its relationship to the teachers’ competence. Thirdly, this study explore other Asian contexts. These contexts are compared and contrasted, thus some similarities and differences are highlighted. Finally, some practical implications and suggestions for further researches are offered. 
The Speech Act of Basuki Tjahja Purnamas’ Utterences on His Visit to Kepulauan Seribu Regency Dendi Wijaya
Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Islamic State Institute of Bengkulu (IAIN) Bengkulu

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This research is a descriptive study, looking at the speech act model in the remarks of Basuki Tjahja Purnama (BTP) in the face of the Kepulauan Seribu Regency. The benefits of this research can contribute to the analysis of the development of pragmatic studies and provide knowledge and lessons for the community of social media users to be wiser in responding to every news. The data of this research contained BTP's speech in his speech in the Kepulauan Seribu which was analyzed using the theory, namely pragmatic theory. This research method is a descriptive research method. The data source used is a secondary data source. From this BTP speech several types of speech acts were found, namely representative / assertive, commissive, directive, and expressive speech acts. The results of data analysis showed that the dominant speech act used was assertive speech act which contained speech acts stated, speculated, claimed, acknowledged, and believed. Also found directive speech acts that contain speech acts calling, asking, and hoping. Furthermore, expressive speech acts given speech acts are satisfied, appreciated, and gratitude. While commissive speech acts only found speech acts in the form of promises and threats. However, if seen from the dominance of the speech, then the commissive speech act taken as a promise is the type of speech act that is most commonly found in BTP speeches in the Kepulauan Seribu.
Students’ Ability and Factors in Using Subject-Verb Agreement: A Case Study of Indonesian EFL Learners in University Level Rina Husnaini Febriyanti
Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Islamic State Institute of Bengkulu (IAIN) Bengkulu

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Learning subject-verb agreement (SVA) is still challenging to be mastered by EFL learners especially in University level. Hence, the aim of this study id to describe the student’s ability and to find out the factors in using SVA. The method of this study used qualitative method that displaying analysis descriptively. The participants were 100 Indraprasta PGRI Jakarta University students who took grammar class and learnt about subject-verb agreement. The data was collected by giving test involved short answer choices that consisted of basic SVA, SVA using expression of quantity, SVA using there +be, and SVA using some irregularities, and short multiple-choice questions that related with the factors of learning SVA. The result showed the student’s ability in using SVA in fairly good and the factors came from the student’s motivation in improving their ability such as lack of reading the materials of SVA, lack of understanding on the SVA materials, lack of understanding on their lecturer’s explanation, lack of rereading the SVA materials after getting explanation from their lecturer, lack of doing the exercises, lack of practicing by themselves in SVA exercises, lack of doing self-correction in practicing SVA exercises, lack of doing analysis on the mistakes of SVA exercises, and lack of restudying the mistakes of SVA exercises. 
The Causes of Grammatical Errors Made by EFL Students in Writing Essay Resty Maya Sari
Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Islamic State Institute of Bengkulu (IAIN) Bengkulu

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Writing an essay is one of challenging assignment for students, even an English department student get confused in writing a descriptive or narrative essay. Hence, there are many students who make some grammatical errors in writing an essay. This study aimed to investigate the causes of grammatical errors made by sixth semester English Study Program students in writing essay. The design of this study was qualitative with descriptive method. The researcher took 66 students as the subject of the study and open ended questionnaire as the instrument. The finding of this study showed that there were three causes of grammatical errors made by students, namely; carelessness, first language, and translation and the dominant cause was translation. The researcher also found that another causes of grammatical error were lack of vocabulary and lack of grammar. Mostly the students made error because of the translation method by using google translate or online dictionary. It can be concluded that the causes of grammatical error made by the students in writing essay at sixth semester students in the English Education Study Program at University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu were carelessness, first language, and translation. Moreover, the dominant cause of misformation error done by the students was translation. It is suggested for the students to practice writing more frequently to minimilize the errors in writing essay. It will be better if the students did not use google translate or online dictionary much. For lecturer of writing subject, the results of this study can be one form of evaluation that can be used to know the students’ causes of grammatical errors in order to find out some relevant strategies to overcome the causes. By overcoming the causes of misformation and giving motivation to the students to write carefully, the lecturers can carry out better quality teaching and learning activities especially in writing skill.
Using Story Mapping Strategy and Reading Motivation to Improve Reading Narrative Comprehension Achievement of Tenth Graders of SMAN 1 Kotapadang Hendri Firmansyah; Istikomah Istikomah; Sri Hidayati
Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Islamic State Institute of Bengkulu (IAIN) Bengkulu

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The study was conducted to see whether or not there was a significant improvement in reading narrative comprehension achievement between the students who were taught by using Story Mapping and those who were taught by Guided Reading, to know what the students’ reading motivation, and to know whether or not reading motivation significantly contributed to reading narrative comprehension achievement of tenth grader of SMAN 1 Kotapadang Bengkulu. The experimental research with non-equivalent control design was applied in this study. The population was the tenth graders of SMAN 1 Kotapadang and sixty students were selected as the sample purposefully; they were equally grouped into experimental and control ones. To collect the data, Reading Comprehension Test and Motivation Reading Questionnaire (MRQ) were used. The results showed that there was significant improvement in reading narrative comprehension achievement of the students who were taught by Story Mapping, students’ reading motivation was high, and reading motivation was significantly contributed to reading narrative comprehension achievement of tenth graders of SMAN 1 Kotapadang.
Investigating Non-Native English Teachers’ Strategies in Teaching English Speaking to Young Language Learners: A Case Study Mega Fadhilah; Nuraeni Nuraeni
Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Islamic State Institute of Bengkulu (IAIN) Bengkulu

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Teaching English speaking to young language learners requires particular treatments. For non-native English teachers, certain problems might be the difference of both students’ and teachers’ language and cultural shock. The aims of this study were to investigate non-native English teacher’s strategies in teaching speaking to young learners, to find the barriers faced by the teacher and also how they overcome the barriers. Qualitative method was employed to conduct this study. Two non-native English teachers who taught in elementary level in Southern Thailand were the participants of this study. The data and information needed were collected trough twenty five questions in a questionnaire sheets and several questions related with the topic were asked in an interview session. The result of this study revealed that the respondents used several strategies while teaching speaking in elementary level, such as applying Audio Lingual Method and Communicative Language Teaching method, playing games, doing group-work and drilling activities to enrich the students’ speaking ability. Besides, the non-native English teachers also implemented intrinsic method in order to make students interested in learning, such as keep motivating students about the importance of learning English, giving reward as an appreciation of what they reached and creating a stress-free environtment in the classroom. The non-native English teachers also agreed that they needed a lot of patience in facing the young learners’ behaviour during the English teaching learning process.
The Correlation Between Students’ Learning Styles And Students’ Writing Achievement Okky Leo Agusta
Linguists : Journal Of Linguistics and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Islamic State Institute of Bengkulu (IAIN) Bengkulu

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The objectives of this research were to find out the percentages of students’ learning styles and find out the relationship between students’ learning styles and students’ writing achievement. The method was used by this research was correlation research to find out the correlation between two variables. The population of this research was all of the tenth grade students in vocational school Tugumulyo, Musi Rawas, South Sumatera. The sample was otomotive engineering class and the class consisted 31 students. To get students’ learning style, the researcher used learning style inventory with questionnaire and to get students’ writing achievement, the researcher used writing test. Then, the technique for analyzing the data was the percentage calculation and Person Product Moment to find out the correlation between students’ learning style and students’ writing achievement. The findings, the students were 39% visual learning style, 42% Auditory learning style, and 19% Kinesthetic learning style. The coeffecient relationship robtained was -0.280 ( robtained < rtable ), there was no significant relationship between students’ learning style and students’ writing achievement.

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