J-REaLL
Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) with ISSN numbers 2721-5016 (online) and 2721-5024 (printed) is an international journal that is published twice a year in the months of February and August. The aim of this journal is to promote a principled approach to research on English Language Teaching and Learning-related concerns by encouraging inquiry into the relationship between theoretical and practical studies. The journal welcomes contributions in the areas of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), Teaching English as a Second and Foreign Language (TESL/TEFL), English Language Testing and Assessment, Curriculum and Development, Linguistics, Translation, ICT-based Learning, Teaching English for Your Learners (TEYL), English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English Language Teaching and Learning (ELT), Teachers’ Training and Education in ELT, and Review Papers (Scoping/Systematic Literature Review (SLR)/Bibliometrics). Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) has been publishing the articles since February 2020 precisely since the release of Volume 1, Number 1, 2020. Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) has been accredited by Science and Technology Index (SINTA-4) since December 7th, 2022 (from Vol. 1 No. 2 up to Vol. 6 No. 1). Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) is indexed in the database Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Indonesia One Search, Garba Rujukan Digital (Garuda), Ministry of Religious Affairs Reference (Moraref), Scilit, WorldCat, Crossref, Dimensions, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), Public Knowledge Project (PKP|Index), Every submitted manuscript will be read by the editorial team. Manuscripts that are evaluated by editors and deemed not in accordance with the criteria of the journal will be rejected without external review. Then, a manuscript that has a special interest to readers is sent to peer reviewers, with two (2) different reviewers for each article by using the double-blind system. After reviewing the manuscript, it will be returned to the author for the revision process. In this journal, we have forty-one (41) reviewers. The editorial team makes decisions based on reviewers’ recommendations. The Editorial Board invites the authors to submit the best manuscripts to be published in this journal.
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<![CDATA[The relational patterns of selected factors influencing the EFL college learners’ reading comprehension ]]>
<![CDATA[Nuriyatul Hamidah]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 2, No 1 (2021): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v2i1.6922
<![CDATA[Having an effect on reading, metacognitive awareness, self-efficacy and motivation are considered as the main factor in affecting EFL reading comprehension. Thus, the aim of the present study is to investigate the relational pattern of those selected factors toward EFL reading comprehension and investigates the contribution of each variable. The design is categorized as quantitative study. The subjects of the study consisted of 90 students of the English Letters and Language, Humanity Faculty, UIN Maliki Malang. The instruments used in this study are a test and questionnaires. Moreover, the data are analyzed using multiple regression techniques including a correlation design called Path Analysis. The result of the study has shown that the regression model in the first layer is proven insignificant to the independent variable. The total contribution of all variables in the first layer is 2.5%. While, the regression model of second layer is proven significant. The total contribution of all variables in the path diagram in the second layer of this study is 44.86%. Based on the result, it is suggested for the future research to have a research on other factors such as combining affective and cognitive factors while considering students’ diversity such proficiency level, personality and gender.]]>
<![CDATA[The analysis of assessment instruments in English teacher lesson plans at junior high school in Singaraja Bali ]]>
<![CDATA[Desak Ketut Indriyani]]>;
<![CDATA[Luh Putu Artini]]>;
<![CDATA[Luh Diah Surya Adnyani]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 2, No 2 (2021): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v2i2.10118
<![CDATA[Education and Culture Ministry Regulation 81A Year 2013 has demanded teachers to use authentic assessment as a method of assessing students’ competences which is applied in English teachers’ lesson plans. This research aims to describe types of assessment instruments used in lesson plans, the relevancy between the assessments and indicators in the lesson plans, and the authenticity of assessment instruments used by English teachers as demanded by Curriculum 2013. The data were collected through document analysis of 20 English teachers' lesson plans from 4 Junior High Schools in Singaraja, Bali. The research model from Miles and Huberman (1984) was adopted in data analysis process. The instruments were derived and modified from principles of authentic assessment in Education and Culture Ministry Regulation 81A Year 2013. As the result, it was found that performance assessments and project assessment were used as the assessment types in the implementation of authentic assessment. The assessment instruments were relevant to the indicator of learning and the skills’ aspects in assessment instruments used was authentic as demanded by Curriculum 2013. ]]>
<![CDATA[Blended learning to enhance English writing assignments without using online tools ]]>
<![CDATA[Parichart Charernwiwatthanasri]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 2, No 1 (2021): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v2i1.9517
<![CDATA[From face-to-face to online teaching an English for Reading and Writing course is challenging to provide learning strategies and assessments that fit the pedagogical style of the online environment since there are many online tools (e.g. translation machine, grammar check software, and websites) for assistance in English writing. This study aims to investigate students’ learning strategies in taking an online writing assignment, with an emphasis on using authentic assessments to encourage students to avoid using online tools and plagiarism in their writing. The findings show that during online learning, students made use of online tools, and they searched for the information on the internet as an assistance in writing an assignment. However, using Blended Learning and four different types of writing tasks significantly reduces the use of online tools, and it enhances students’ active participation in the assessment process. The guided instructions of each task also help students to improve their writing skills, and most of the students preferred to work in small groups to complete the activities online which enhanced interaction and the sense of an online learning community.Keywords: blended learning; writing assignment; online tools ]]>
<![CDATA[The impact of the walking dead video game on students' reading comprehension on narrative text ]]>
<![CDATA[Muhammad Husnun Nadhif]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 2, No 2 (2021): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v2i2.11324
<![CDATA[With the development of technology every time, the development of media for learning is also overgrowing. Many new media are popping up especially digital-based media, ranging from images, audio, and video. All of that media has been widely used by teachers to get students excited about what they will learn in class. However, the longer these media feel boring for students, the teachers also have to twist their brains to find new media, one of which is video games. Several studies have looked into the influence of adventure video games on learning English; however, few studies have looked into the effect of adventure games on learning English. This study aimed to see how video games affected students' reading comprehension of narrative text. The study consisted of 50 students from SMA Negeri 1 Kebomas Gresik in tenth grade. X-IPS 1 and X-IPS 2 were the class examples. The impact of video games can be reflected in the multiple-choice scores of students. The author used a quantitative procedure and quasi-experimental design as the analysis methodology with a purposive sampling approach. A multiple-choice test was used as the testing tool. The findings in this study explain that video games do not significantly impact students but only increase the motivation of students to learn and entertain students only]]>
<![CDATA[Developing students' reading ability using visual novel for high school students ]]>
<![CDATA[Rizky Aditya Prasetyo]]>;
<![CDATA[Rahayu Kuswardani]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 2, No 2 (2021): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v2i2.11336
<![CDATA[Recently, many students study from home and their class is conducted online. Many of them spend more time at home, and since their class is conducted online, most of the students have their smartphones. Because of this situation, the visual novel can be used to aid the students in studying English, especially for reading. The visual novel is a game that utilizes pictures with various sound effects to make the reader more interested in playing and watching the picture. This study is to develop a visual novel for education with the purpose to aid students in learning English. The research method utilized by the researcher in the development of a visual novel is a DDR (Design and Development) method. The participants in this research were tenth-graders from various schools in Surabaya. The instrument used in this research were questionnaires, structured interviews, and expert validation. The visual novel was validated by the expert before testing the game. This study found that Visual Novel can help students became more motivated to learn English especially reading and the response they gave toward using visual novel in aiding learning English is positive. Several students also struggled with the game due to the student's lack of knowledge. In conclusion, the visual novel has been proven to meet the students' demand to aid in learning English. The implications of these findings are that teachers should use media to create a positive learning environment.]]>
<![CDATA[Metacognitive writing strategies for vocational high school students ]]>
<![CDATA[Imas Masyithoh]]>;
<![CDATA[Eko Suhartoyo]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 2, No 2 (2021): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v2i2.11435
<![CDATA[English writing task for students is considered as the most complex task since they need to combine all English skills on writing construction. Metacognition, the highest order thinking, has to be in writing strategies (planning, monitoring, evaluating). The students who use their metacognition can know which effective writing strategies on doing their writing task. This research aims to elaborate on whether there are significant differences between high and low achievers in writing in using metacognitive writing strategies or not. The researcher selects the Ex-Post Facto research and two instruments; (1) writing test – descriptive text to differentiate between high and low achievers in writing (2) questionnaire – to identify the most and the least uses of metacognitive writing strategies. With the Independent T-test for analyzing the data, the findings are. (1) The uses of metacognitive writing strategies and students’ writing performance are not significantly different. The mean of each strategy had been compared to the mean of students’ performance; moreover, based on the statistical analysis at SPSS, it shows no significant difference. (2)The most used strategy by high and low achievers in writing is planning while the least used strategy is monitoring. From these findings, the null hypothesis is accepted. Although there were no significant differences in the uses of metacognitive writing strategies between high and low achievers in writing, the students have already known effective writing strategies that can improve their writing.]]>
<![CDATA[Foreign student guest lecture and Indonesian EFL students' motivation in cross-culture understanding course ]]>
<![CDATA[Imam Wahyudi Karimullah]]>;
<![CDATA[Sari Kurnia Rahmawati]]>;
<![CDATA[Elchin Gashimov]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 2, No 2 (2021): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v2i2.12633
<![CDATA[This study explores an innovative way to increase students' learning motivation in a cross-culture understanding (CCU) class at an English Language Teaching study program in a private university in Indonesia. The lecturer assigned EFL students to find international students to share their cultures to solve students' lack of motivation in indoor learning activities. From observation, interview, and an online survey to 94 students (four classes), 98.9 % agreed that the international students' guest lecture method could increase EFL students' motivation to learn CCU. The Indonesian lecturer exposed to global culture and international students exposed to Indonesian culture becomes the primary resource for Indonesian EFL students to get insight and inspiration for their intercultural communication and adaptation practices.]]>
<![CDATA[Environmental factors affecting learners’ autonomy in the covid-19 pandemic ]]>
<![CDATA[Wahyu Pratama]]>;
<![CDATA[Rahayu Kuswardani]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 2, No 2 (2021): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v2i2.11335
<![CDATA[Recently, Covid-19 has threatened the education sector and forced learners to adjust an online learning. According to that, learners need to study in their own space and make them more independent and autonomous. However, learners tend to experience difficulties caused by their surrounding environments that sometimes does not support online learning. Surrounding environments include human activities e.g., noise in the surrounding; financial capabilities of parents for internet data plans; or other issues beyond the student's intellectual abilities. Therefore, this research aimed to explore the existed environmental factors that affected the learning environment and define the factors which affected learners’ volition. This study was applied a qualitative method and presenting the collected results descriptively. The researcher worked with one English teacher who has been voluntarily participating in this study. This study used semi-structured interview and questionnaire as the research instruments. Firstly, the researcher sent the questionnaires using Google Form for all students at 11th graders from one of the government-owned senior high schools in Surabaya. Secondly, the researcher interviewed an English teacher to find out the class’ conditions. This study has revealed that teacher still holds huge responsibilities to guide students along the online learning process. Besides, there were still a lacks IT skills of students which make the teacher not only a facilitator but also a helper or counsellor. This dominant role of the teacher eventually made students less autonomous.]]>
<![CDATA[Pedagogical content knowledge of English teacher on reading comprehension during pandemic covid-19 with online classes in senior high school ]]>
<![CDATA[R. Muchammad Aditya Rafianto Kusuma]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 3, No 1 (2022): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v3i1.11481
<![CDATA[The research of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) uses a qualitative approach. The purpose of this research is to obtain the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of prospective teachers of English Courses in terms of academic ability during the Covid-19 pandemic, as it is known that the pandemic has changed the structure of life that has been neatly arranged in this world. Data were analysed in the form of documents, observed, and interviewed with prospective English teachers on SMAN 15 SURABAYA. The technique of taking the data in this study was purposive sampling. The subjects in this study are teachers with more learning hours because in general they are categorized as professional teachers, then teachers with many teaching hours will be examined how the PCK is. The instruments in this study used CoRe and Vignette. The data analysis technique uses the Miles and Huberman model, namely data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. Based on the results of the study, it shows that the pedagogical content knowledge of English teachers on reading comprehension during the pandemic still needs more creative and innovative adjustments, this is indicated by the number of teachers who are still hampered during learning hours.]]>
<![CDATA[Experiences using google translate application for translation used by English department students ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurul Iftitah]]>;
<![CDATA[Rahayu Kuswardani]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) Vol 3, No 1 (2022): Journal of Research on English and Language Learning (J-REaLL) ]]>
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DOI: 10.33474/j-reall.v3i1.11408
<![CDATA[This study exposed experiences using Google translate application for translation used by English Department students. This research is focused on explaining problems and strategies using Google Translate used by English Department students. This research used a descriptive qualitative design. Researchers selected 20 students from English Department who had taken translation subject and agreed participated in this research. The instrument used was a questionnaire in the form of open-ended questions where students had to express their answers in a paragraph. In the questionnaire there were instructions and a descriptive text about tourism places written in Indonesian that must be translated into English by students using two ways. First, students used Google translate application. Second, students translated those texts manually without an application. There were eight questions about what translation problems they found after using the app and what strategies they did to fix the result. Several points were found to be improved in the process of translation using Google translate, including to deal with grammatical error, to deal with inappropriate words or phrases, to deal with no provided meaning in google translate and to deal with abbreviation existed in Indonesian language and to deal with word for word translation.]]>
