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Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim)
ISSN : -     EISSN : 26571617     DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.26418/jeltim.v2i2.41363
Core Subject : Education,
JELTIM focuses on publishing research articles on innovations and materials in English language teaching. We can accept genuine works on ELT methodologies, curriculum and syllabus, materials, media, computer-based innovations, internet-based interactions, and blended teaching and learning. We specifically welcome studies that are conducted through development, analysis, evaluation, experiment, survey, experiment, correlation, case study, grounded research, and action research.
Articles 62 Documents
Teaching grammar: issues and challenges Norhaida Aman
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 2, No 1 (2020): April 2020
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26418/jeltim.v2i1.40032

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The relationship between teachers’ beliefs and their instructional practices has attracted educational researchers’ attention. The literature on teachers’ beliefs and classroom practices suggests that a sound understanding of those beliefs is extremely helpful in developing and implementing useful programs and effective in-service training. This study explores the complex relationship between the beliefs and practices of teachers from primary schools in Singapore, specifically looking at how instructional strategies are reflections of teacher beliefs on grammar instruction.Overall, the teachers who participated in this survey unanimously agree that grammar is important and has to be taught in primary school. They believe that grammar consists of rules of sentence formation, and the use of accurate tenses, and that grammar should focus on both form and meaning. Explicit discussion of grammatical rules in the classroom is thought to be extremely important in helping students acquire the English language and develop their writing skills.In terms of their classroom practices, the data suggests a more traditional approach of explicit teaching of grammar where rules and sentence structures are first taught to students and brought to their attention.
English varieties in the Year-7 coursebook taught in Indonesia Yuni Hardianti; Sudarsono Sudarsono
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 3, No 1 (2021): April 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26418/jeltim.v3i1.39096

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The present research was designed to investigate the English varieties encountered in an English coursebook applied throughout Indonesia. It applied a descriptive analysis. The data were sorted out from corpora. The research found out that the coursebook applied in Indonesian schools included different varieties of English. They were American, British, and American and British-like. The varieties here covered vocabulary, spelling, and grammar.
Getting learners to speak in the (Indonesian) ELT classroom Timmis, Ivor
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 1, No 1 (2019): April 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26418/jeltim.v1i1.31223

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Despite realising the importance of acquiring good speaking skill, English teachers in Indonesia find that it is challenging to get their learners to speak during classes. Potential reasons for reticence are: their lack of vocabulary, dependency of L1 translation, and tendency to give short answers. Therefore, it is crucial to provide the teachers with practical techniques that they can use in their daily teaching to address this reticence. By providing scaffolding to the speaking activities, which includes how to structure the speaking activities and prepare the learners before the activities, the teacher can make speaking tasks more productive for learners. Moreover, the amount of scaffolding can be adjusted to suit the characteristics and needs of the learners to create better and lasting impact.
The speech acts and the communicative functions performed in thesis examinations: a pragmatic analysis Susilawati, Endang
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 1, No 2 (2019): October 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26418/jeltim.v1i2.33263

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Being a communicative event, a thesis examination process might generate a number of speech acts that possibly imply various meanings. To interpret meaning, a pragmatic analysis was implemented. The data analyzed comprised the authentic speech acts occurring within four thesis examination situations which were conducted by the EESP of FKIP Untan. The data analysis started by transcribing the speech recordings and by identifying the structures of the speech acts. This was followed by categorizing the communicative functions being performed. The last stage involved interpreting the contextual meaning of the speech acts. Three qualitative conclusions are arrived at in connection with and emerging from interpretations of the textual data: (1) the speech acts produced by the participants used various structures such as statements, questions, commands, instructions, prohibition and description; (2) the speech acts denoted various kinds of communicative or speech functions like expressives, directives, representatives, referentials, comissives, and metalinguistics; and (3) the occurrence of one particular communicative function can dynamically entail specific kinds of communicative functions in the light of the available context.  Some categories of speech functions were not consistent with the purpose of the communicative event of thesis examination.
Improving students’ interest in learning simple past tense using teams games tournaments Yusnita, Yusnita; Yuniarti, Yuniarti
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 2, No 2 (2020): October 2020
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26418/jeltim.v2i2.37832

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This study aims to describe the students’ interests and perceptions in learning simple past tense by using the TGT (Team Game Tournament) technique. The situation in the teaching-learning process at an Islamic Junior High School in Pontianak has shown that there are still many problems that must be addressed, concerning English grammar. The researcher has encountered several problems such as student’s reluctance to participate, lack of interest, motivation, and attention in the classroom. The researcher employed Classroom Action Research as a means to solve the problems. The findings presented information regarding the use of TGT that could serve as a beneficial alternative in teaching grammar, particularly the simple past tense. Furthermore, the information will provide the teacher with useful insights on ways to teach and to motivate their students in the classroom.
A review on the application of blog, blogger, widget and hypertext to develop a web-based instructional tool Mah, Boon Yih; Ab Rahim, Suzana
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 1, No 2 (2019): October 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26418/jeltim.v1i2.31505

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The use of the internet for teaching and learning has become a global trend among the education practitioners over the recent decades. The integration of technology and media into Malaysian English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms has altered the methods in English Language Teaching (ELT). In response to the impact of technology in ELT, the needs of a supplementary instructional platform, and the limitations of the learning management system (LMS) in fostering second language (L2) writing skill, a web-based instructional tool was designed and developed based on a theoretical-and-pedagogical framework namely Web-based Cognitive Writing Instruction (WeCWI). To determine the key concepts while identifying the research gap, this study conducted a literature review using online search on specific keywords including “blog”, “Blogger”, “widget”, and “hyperlink” found in the scholarly articles. Based on the review of literature, Blogger was opted due to its on-screen customisable layout editing features that can be embedded with web widgets and hypertext that share the identical features. By looking into the relationship between perceptual learning preferences on perceived information and the visual representations in iconic and symbolic views, the blogs can come with two different user interfaces embedded with web widgets or hypertext. The blog with web widgets appears in a graphical form of iconic view; while hypertext only displays textual form of symbolic view without involving the visual references. With the injection of web widgets and hypertext into the blogs, WeCWI attempts to offer a technological enhanced ELT solution to overcome the poor writing skill with a better engagement while learning online through the learners’ preferred perceptual learning preferences.
Prelim Pages: Volume 2 Number 1 2020 JELTIM, Editor
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 2, No 1 (2020): April 2020
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Investigating Malaysian teachers' technology acceptance towards integrating e-learning into English teaching Ke Hu; Asmaa AlSaqqaf
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 3, No 2 (2021): October 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26418/jeltim.v3i2.46798

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The presence of e-learning is prevalent in the teaching and learning process over the world. It has been proven to have a significant impact on the teaching of English subject. Therefore, this paper aims at investigating the level of ESL teachers’ technology acceptance towards integrating e-learning into English teaching at secondary schools in Sabah, Malaysia, by examining the constructs of Perceived Usefulness (PE), Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU), Attitude towards Usage (ATU), and Behavioral Intention (BI), which were extracted from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) proposed by Davis. A number of 144 English language teachers from 18 secondary schools in Kota Kinabalu responded to an online cross-sectional survey based on a simple random sampling, whereas the collected data were analyzed quantitatively and statistically. Overall, the results indicated that ESL teachers had a high level of technology acceptance (mean=3.921) to use e-learning in teaching English in terms of their PU (mean=3.925), PEOU (mean=3.797), ATU (mean=4.007), and BI (mean=3.995) in particular. Moreover, the discussions, recommendations, and implications have also been given in response to the issues addressed in the study.
Word coinage communication strategy in learners of English oral interaction Rushita Ismail; Muriatul Khusmah Musa; Rofiza Aboo Bakar
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 3, No 2 (2021): October 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26418/jeltim.v3i2.48593

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Coinage is one of the many creative strategies performed by language learners in instances when they are not able to retrieve the accurate lexical item from their limited linguistic knowledge. It is an issue of interests to language practitioners and learners and little research has been dealt on it. The study explored on the use of coinage strategies among Malaysian language learners in a pair work picture spot- the- difference narration activity. Thirty-two pre-selected items missing from one of the sets were to be identified and the session was video recorded.  From the transcription data, the instances of semantic coinage strategies were found to be  more frequently displayed as compared to grammatical coinage strategy when the learners encountered communication breakdowns. In semantic word coinage strategy, the learners formed lexical items by selecting two different features of the two interlanguage lexical items and combined them as a compound target language item. Grammatical word coinage strategy, on the other hand, was used by creating words which do not exist in the second language (L2) after an application of L2 rule to a L2 word. These communication strategies, in one way or another develop creativity and enhance the process of second language acquisition.
Forensic digest: the discourse on heinous crimes in Mindanao Court of Appeals Rafal, Grace S.
Journal of English Language Teaching Innovations and Materials (Jeltim) Vol 3, No 2 (2021): October 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26418/jeltim.v3i2.45430

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This study investigated the discourse of the Court of Appeals (CA) in Mindanao, Philippines. It examined the court decisions reversely decided in the Fiscal Year 2013 on heinous crimes filed in the Court of Appeals. This research focused on the different rhetorical and discursive devices employed in the court decisions and examined how these devices performed in the production of the text to grant the appellant’s request on the reversal of the decision in the case. It scrutinized the ideological themes in the reversed decisions through the lenses of Critical Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Analysis. The different rhetorical devices employed in the court decisions are organized into preeminent rhetorical devices, or devices most often used in the court decisions, and peripheral rhetorical devices, or those minimally used. The Preeminent Rhetorical Devices are double speak, slanting, ambiguity, aphorism, repetition, subordinate clause / delayed sentence, periodic sentence, passivization, and active voice. The Peripheral Rhetorical Devices are weaselers, aporia, and hypophora. The discursive devices employed in the production of the Court Decisions are scene-setting, specificity /indirect quotes, blame, consensus/ collaboration, pre-modifiers, extreme case formulations, and disclaimers. The ideological themes manifested in the specimens are the power asymmetry and just to cast the blame by the victim or the family of the victim and by the law enforcers. under power asymmetry are unsound judgment among trial or lower courts, abuse of power by the trial or lower court and by the law enforcers or arresting officers, and poor as victims of injustices. The following generated postulates are: pre-arranged signal: a non-verbal forensic discourse; Rule on chain of custody: the mantra of the drug crime discourse; Extrajudicial oral confessions discourse; and The charge and solve discourse.