Prominent : Journal of English Studies
Prominent Journal of English Studies is a national journal of OJS published by English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muria Kudus (UMK) dedicated to publish high quality articles of research and non-research in the field of English Studies covering linguistics, literature, teaching, education, translation, culture, information and communication technology (ICT).
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<![CDATA[IMPROVING THE USER SURVEY OF UNIVERSITAS MURIA KUDUS BASED ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO MAXIMIZE THE RESULT IN SUPPORTING ACCREDITATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION (AIPT) 3.0 ]]>
<![CDATA[Muhammad Arifin]]>;
<![CDATA[Farid Noor Romadlon]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 3, No 2 (2020): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v3i2.5401
<![CDATA[Alumni or graduates are the key of university's accountability. Alumni who are well accepted in the working place, whether they are entrepreneurial or working with other people, are able to become the basis of the institution existence to get a trust. User survey is a must for university because it is a compulsive point that must be completed in preparing accreditation forms for both universities and departments. The use of information technology media is expected to increase its maximum results at score 4. This study aims to determine the use of information technology in implementing user survey at Universitas Muria Kudus. The results obtained are quite good. The use of information technology in the user survey has been carried out in almost every stage of the activity. These stages were collecting data from the alumni website and then identifying the departments. The next was blasting information on tracer study activities and procedures to alumni via email and WhatsApp group of alumni in each department. After the alumni had filled out the questionnaire through career center (PKPA) website, respondents’ data were classified based on the name of the workplace, alumni, and departments. After that, alumni assessment questionnaire was sent via post to alumni users, which was attached with the names of the alumni. It was then confirmed via WhatsApp and or email to HRD or Contact Person at the alumni workplace two weeks after sending. The number of workplace (companies/agencies/schools) which responded was quite good. There were 83 workplaces responded back the assessment by post or email. The result of user survey is inecessary as an input for institutions in escalating the quality of graduates.]]>
<![CDATA[TRANSLANGUAGING CONCEPT AND FUNCTION PERFORMED IN ‘HALUSTIK’ FILM AS A LINGUISTIC RESOURCE FOR INDONESIAN ENGLISH LEARNERS ]]>
<![CDATA[Nur Ekaningsih]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 3, No 1 (2020): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v3i1.4516
<![CDATA[The language phenomenon which is often called Translanguaging is an activity and process of language shifting. It includes the transformation between languages that are used with various other language sources to improve certain language skills. This research raised a romantic drama consisting of 13 episodes with several famous stars in Indonesia. Through data from the drama film of HALUSTIK, the researcher described the concept, function, benefits and linguistic resources that could be learned from translanguaging in this drama film. The language used in this film was dominated by 45% Indonesian, 40% English, 20% Sundanese and Javanese. The findings in this study, the researcher described the category of translanguaging in a concept that was divided into two, namely translanguaging space and translanguaging instinct. Whereas translanguaging functions were explained based on the communication carried out in the drama of HALUSTIK film taken from the first episode to the third. In addition, the benefits after watching this film, English learners in Indonesia could get some useful English expressions, fluent English pronunciation that could be transformed into Indonesian in a smooth and creative manner. The use of the Indonesian language that supported English in this film was very helpful to improve the source of knowledge and was able to provide a better understanding. The conclusion that can be taken after analyzing the Halustik drama film is that translanguaging does not damage the original language, it even supports understanding to facilitate the use of other languages. In this film, Indonesia language supports other language, namely English. Keywords: translanguaging; concepts; functions; linguistic resource]]>
<![CDATA[STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE OF THE TEXTS WRITTEN IN PARAGRAPH WRITING CLASS ]]>
<![CDATA[Aisyah Ririn Perwikasih Utari]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 2, No 1 (2019): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v2i1.2968
<![CDATA[Writing a text becomes the last skill in English learning. It needs a productive creativity and ability of the language used in it. The learners should listen, speak, read, and write to prove that they can use English well. Paragraph Writing is the first writing subject in the curriculum of English Education Department which should be taken by the students who are in the second semester. The activities of writing cover some processes in which they should know and apply the theories to practice writing some texts. Grammar and sentence structure are the crucial problems faced by the students. It needs an extra attention to make them understand about the components involved in this element of writing. The components are applied step by step from the beginning of the semester until it ends. The research problems are raised with some questions as follows: (1) what are the grammar and sentence structure’s components of the students’ text in Paragraph Writing class? ; (2) How is the analysis of grammar and sentence structure of the students’ text in Paragraph Writing class?. Further chapter of the research will provide the analyzed data and the result as the answer of the problems raised. The texts written by the students as the data source are randomly chosen from the whole final projects. From the result of the analysis, it can be found that 63% of the total texts are grammatically incorrect. The components of grammar structure are also recorded that there are 10% of the sentences are stringy, 5% comma splice, 10% run-on sentence, and 12% sentence fragment. Mostly, the problem that the students face are about concidering the tense and verb words. The conjunctions that influence the meaning are also mostly mis-used. The percentages found in the analysis show that most of the students make some errors in their grammar use in writing their paragraph writing project. The suggestions of the correct ones are also written in their text sheets to make further revisions. This can make them concern more to learn from the analysis. Paragraph writing class is like a stepping stone for them to start learning from mistakes.]]>
<![CDATA[THE IMPACT OF COLLABORATIVE WRITING STRATEGY AT STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ]]>
<![CDATA[Saeful Arifin]]>;
<![CDATA[Choiril Anwar]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 1, No 1 (2018): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v1i1.2487
<![CDATA[The aim of this study was to find out whether or not collaborative writing strategy is effective to improve students’ writing skill in descriptive text when they were applied to the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Karangtengah in academic year of 2015/2016. The collaborative writing strategy was the independent variable, while students’ writing skill in descriptive text was the dependent variable. Quasi experimental research design was used in this study. The population of this study was the tenth graders of SMA N 1 Karangtengah in the academic year of 2015/2016 which the total number of students was 340. The sample of this study consisted of X MIA 3 as an experimental class and X MIA 4 as a control group. The technique used in collecting the data was test. The finding of the study showed that the pre-test mean score of experimental group was 69.38 and control group was 68.71. After being given treatment for four meetings, it was found that the mean scores of experimental group was 82.15 and control group was 76.32. The result of the analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the mean score of pre-test and post-test. It was supported by t-test result in which the significant difference in the result of post-test between experimental and control group was 0.000 (smaller than 0.05). It means that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. Therefore, it could be concluded that collaborative writing strategy were effective to improve students’s writing skill in descriptive text.]]>
<![CDATA[THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHUNKING STRATEGY IN DEVELOPING STUDENT'S ABILITY IN STORY RETELLING ]]>
<![CDATA[Rohmaniyah Nia]]>;
<![CDATA[Nur Ekaningsih]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 3, No 2 (2020): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v3i2.4821
<![CDATA[Abstract: This research aims at finding out whether or not the use of chunking strategy is effective in developing students’ ability of story retelling to the tenth-grade students at MAN 01 Pekalongan. Quasi experimental research was applied as the method with two groups : experimental and control group. The total subject of this research was 52 students which were taken from two classes of X IPS 1 as a control group and X AGAMA 2 as an experimental group. Face and content validity were done by asking the English teacher and advisor to be expert judgements to validate the instrument by using a rubric appearance of test for face validity and its conformity by curriculum as a content validity. Inter-rater reliability in giving scores to the students’ was done to measure the reliability of the test. This research used SPSS in analysing the data of speaking test through several activities. They were pre-test before treatments, and post-test after treatments. The result of the research shows the significant difference in the story retelling ability between tenth grade students who were taught by using chunking strategy and those were not taught by using it. It can be seen in the result of mean score in the post-test of experimental class which is 89 and control class which is 83 and as a result Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.044 less than 0.050. Therefore, the null hyothesis of this study is rejected. It means that the use of chunking strategy had significantly improved the tenth-grade students story retelling ability in English teaching and learning process of the experimental class at MAN 01 Pekalongan in the academic year 2019/2020. Keywords: chunking, teaching speaking strategy, story retelling]]>
<![CDATA[VIDEO ANIMATION AS TEACHING MEDIA IN ELT ]]>
<![CDATA[titis sulistyowati]]>;
<![CDATA[Testiana Deni Wijayatiningsih]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 2, No 2 (2019): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v2i2.4100
<![CDATA[The issue of TPACK (Technology Pedagogical Content Knowledge) offers a problem solution for teachers who are interested in implementing blended learning. Education and Technology have become an important aspect in every student's daily life beyond the school and within the classroom. Experts now create software that facilitates teachers in creating animated videos which contain pedagogical knowledge. One of them is Videoscribe which can be used to present learning content by combining interesting images, sounds, and graphs to attract students to enjoy the learning process. The features provided by this software are varied, they enable teachers to design learning media that can be adjusted to meet the goal of the lesson. This paper will elaborate on how teachers can design an interesting and engaging learning media to meet the students’ needs and to achieve learning objectives by using the software. ]]>
<![CDATA[THE USE OF CUE CARDS FOR TEACHING WRITING OF BIOGRAPHY TEXT ]]>
<![CDATA[Ulya Maliyatika]]>;
<![CDATA[Muh Syafei]]>;
<![CDATA[Rusiana Rusiana]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 1, No 1 (2018): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v1i1.2507
<![CDATA[Students at schools learn to write in order to express their ideas well. They should have a good ability in writingEnglish texts. However, many students find it difficult to express their ideas in a paragraph, and to make a composition correctly. The media factorseems to be one that makes the teaching-learning process unable to achieve its goal. Therefore, the authors propose to apply Cue Cards as teaching media to overcome the problem.The objective of the research is to scrutinize whether there is a significant difference between teaching writing of biography textbefore and that after being taught by using Cue Cards.This experimentemployed one group with pretest and posttest design was conducted at the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 KaranganyarDemakin academic year 2017/2018 insecond semester. There were 34 students of grade XI IPS 1 taken as the sample through cluster random sampling.The datasetsfor this research were collected through written test. Before cue cards were used in the treatment, the measn score was60. After cue cards were used in some meetings of treatment, the mean score is 82. The hypothesis of the research stated that there is a significant difference between teaching writing of biography text on the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1KaranganyarDemak in academic year 2017/2018) before and after being taught by using cue cardsis confirmed. It can be seen from the calculation of t-test, withdegree offreedom (df) = 33, α = 0,05, t (critical) is ±2.042 and t (obtained) is 8.79. The analysis showed that Ho was denied and Ha was confirmed.Therefore, it is suggested to the English teacherto keep usingcue cardsin teaching writing of biography text.]]>
<![CDATA[PRONUNCIATION ERRORS MADE BY EFL STUDENT TEACHERS IN SPEECH PERFORMANCE ]]>
<![CDATA[Diah Dwi Lestari]]>;
<![CDATA[Fitri Budi Suryani]]>;
<![CDATA[Nuraeningsih Nuraeningsih]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 3, No 2 (2020): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v3i2.5396
<![CDATA[Pronunciation is one of the key factors in communication. The different pronunciation or different sounds will cause different meanings. It is known that the sound of English vowels and consonants are so much different from Indonesian vowels and consonants. A slip of pronunciation might occur and cause listeners misunderstand the message.This study is aimed at finding the pronunciation errors and the factors contributing to the pronunciation errors made by the EFL student teachers in speech performance.A descriptive qualitative research design was used. The data were collected through document analysis and interview. The result of the study shows that there were 79 errors found, meanwhile the factors contributing to the students’ pronunciations consists of internal and external factors.]]>
<![CDATA[THE STUDENTS’ LEARNING STRATEGIES IN INCREASING SKILLS ]]>
<![CDATA[Ahmad Syaifurrohman Chilmy]]>;
<![CDATA[Sri Endang Kusmaryati]]>;
<![CDATA[Aisyah Ririn Perwikasih Utari]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 3, No 1 (2020): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v3i1.4704
<![CDATA[Learning strategy is an individual way or specific behavior in action of getting and processing information to make them comfortable in learning situations to improve their progress in learning proccess. This study aims to identify the direct and indirect learning strategies of the students of Muria Kudus University. This is a qualitative descriptive research conducted in the third semester of Muria Kudus University English Education Department Teacher Training and Educational Faculthy. The subjects of this study were the third semester students in the academic year 2016/2017. The result indicates that the students prefer to use indirect learnings strategies with average score = 3.4822 than direct learning strategies with average score = 3.2987. The direct learning strategies that students used to increase their English skills were cognitive strategies with the average score = 3.3765, the compensation strategies with the average score = 3.3738, and the memory strategies with the lowest average score = 3.1460. Indirect learning strategies used by the students was social stratgies with the average score=3.5976, the metacognitive strategy with the average score=3.573, and the afective strategies with the average score = 3.2761.]]>
<![CDATA[Gender Representation in English as A Foreign Language (EFL) Textbooks for Senior High School in Indonesia ]]>
<![CDATA[Puput Arfiandhani]]>
<![CDATA[ Prominent Vol 2, No 1 (2019): Prominent : Journal of English Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.24176/pro.v2i1.2989
<![CDATA[English language textbooks, as one of the manifestations of language-in-education policy, played an important role to connect classroom language and real world language. The present study investigates the gender representation in the English as A Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks. The analysis is done by tallying the number of occurrence of male and female characters. The research results indicated that there is an equitable representation of both males and females. However, there is a gender bias portraying females. Males are portrayed to be more authoritative and put in the spotlight, such as the one of doing the networking in business meeting while female characters are in the background, doing presentation, giving speech, more representative in politics, in which females are absent on this spotlight.]]>
