EBONY
EBONY aims at promoting research and non-research articles in English language teaching, linguistics, and literature; an open access English language journal published biannually in January and July by English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of the University of Palangka Raya. EBONY welcomes articles in English language teaching covering teaching practices of English in secondary schools and universities, the use of enhanced media in language classroom, classroom action research, mobile-assisted language learning (MALL), e-learning, teaching and learning evaluation, and language testing. In linguistics field, EBONY also seeks submissions in terms of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse, pragmatics, semantics, and related research of aplied linguistics in education. The EBONY journal also accepts articles on literature in the aspects of literary criticism, comparative lterature, semiotics, feminist literature, and other literature studies such as analyses in the areas of prose, poetry, and drama.
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<![CDATA[The Implementation of Scavenger Hunt Game in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text ]]>
<![CDATA[Anggre Oktarind]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 2 No 2 (2022): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v2i2.5319
<![CDATA[One of the English skills, namely reading, should be mastered by students so they can understand and comprehend the text they read. However, many students have lack of ability in reading especially in reading descriptive text. This research was aimed to find the effectiveness of implementing Scavenger Hunt game in teaching reading comprehension of descriptive text. This research used the one group of pre-test and post-test design without control group with the research sample is tenth graders of SMA Negeri 1 Palangka Raya in the academic year 2021/2022 with the number of sample was 39 students. The data were obtained by using pre-test and post-test in multiple choice test items in relation to descriptive texts to measure the students’ reading comprehension. The data were analysed using Wilcoxon Signed Rank test since the data was not normally distributed. The result showed that there was significant effect of implementing Scavenger Hunt game (p<0.01) in teaching reading of descriptive text at the secondary school.]]>
<![CDATA[Improving Student Interests and learning outcomes for English Subject by using Mind Mapping through Online Zoom Application ]]>
<![CDATA[Ika Sari Puspita]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 3 No 1 (2023): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v3i1.7580
<![CDATA[This study aims to Improve Interest and Learning Outcomes in English Using the Mind Mapping Method assisted by the Zoom Meeting Application in Class X IPS 2 SMA Negeri 3 Pangkalan Bun. This is a class action research (PTK) study to create better English learning. This PTK uses the Arikunto stage. Each cycle consists of four stages, namely: (1) the action planning stage, (2) the action implementation stage, (3) the observation and inner achievement stage, and (4) the analysis and reflection stage. The research subject consisted of 32 students. Research Instruments use student learning outcomes. Data Analysis uses percentage techniques. The results showed that students’ English learning outcomes increased, namely from the first cycle of 32 students of Class X IPS 2 SMAN 3 Pangkalan Bun, there were 23 students, or 72%, who had achieved a KKM score of 73 with an average class score of 75.15. In cycle II, of the 32 students of Class X IPS 2 SMAN 3 Pangkalan Bun, 30 students, or 94%, had achieved a KKM score of 73 with an average score of 81.87. Based on the actions taken, it can be concluded that the Mind Mapping Method assisted by the Zoom Meeting Application can improve the quality of the English learning process.]]>
<![CDATA[Developing Example of Narrative Texts in Local Content Theme for Senior High School ]]>
<![CDATA[Lesly Martha Cecylia Meka]]>;
<![CDATA[Susan Ira Nova]]>;
<![CDATA[Tito Gilang Anas Saputra]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 3 No 1 (2023): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v3i1.7588
<![CDATA[Education is one of the basic needs of society and the state in improving the quality of society. Teaching learning material with local content can help student to improve knowledge about local wisdom. But, there are no local content about Palangka Raya contained in teaching learning material used.This research used ADDIE Model as its research method. The data for this research were obtained from expert, English teacher grade X and students’ SMA Negeri 5 Palangka Raya. By using research and development with ADDIE model, the researcher develop a teaching material with local content that concentrate writing skill of the examplary of narrative texts according to the syllabus from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia. The product from this study are helped the teacher to provide good narrative text with local content of Palangka Raya.The results of this study showed that a good teaching learning material has fulfilled through validation results at an average of 98% by teacher and 97,5% (very valid) by expert. It supported by assessment results at an average 10 by teacher and 10 (A) by expert. Then, the effectiveness based on the results of first trial task at an average 80,56 (Good) and the second trial task get avarage 83,27 (Good). Also, the products received the responses from students in the first meeting with avarge of 84% (Valid) and the second meeting 82% (Valid). From these result, the examplary narrative text can be use and effective to be teaching learning material.]]>
<![CDATA[An Analysis of Students’ Problems in Writing Procedure Text at The Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Sepang ]]>
<![CDATA[Elicia Citra Dewi]]>;
<![CDATA[Tampung N. Saman]]>;
<![CDATA[Ristati]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 3 No 1 (2023): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v3i1.7688
<![CDATA[Writing is one of the basic English language abilities that should be mastered by English Learners. However, many Indonesian students, especially at the High School level, face difficulties in writing. Evidently, in the context of this study was conducted to find out students’ abilities and to explore the main problems faced by students in writing procedure texts. The method of this research was descriptive qualitative research. The sample of this research was 29 students of class X IPA2 at SMA Negeri 1 Sepang. Form of writing procedure text was used as the instrument to collect the data and a documentation technique was applied to collect the data. Afterward, the data were analyzed with a rubric analytical scale by brown (2007). The result showed that 13,8% of students were in a very good level, 17.2% of students in a good level, 17.2% of students in a fair level, and 51.6% of students were in a poor level. Therefore, 24.1% of students are classified in the poor level of language features category which means, language features are the most difficult area faced by the tenth-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Sepang with the number frequency 24.1% students in a poor level.]]>
<![CDATA[Persuasive Strategies in Donald Trump's Political Speeches ]]>
<![CDATA[Wilma Prafitri]]>;
<![CDATA[Muhammad Alim Akbar Nasir]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 3 No 1 (2023): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v3i1.7780
<![CDATA[This study analyses persuasive strategies on Donald Trump’s political speeches. This study uses qualitative research as the design and Content Analysis as the approach. The researcher explores persuasive strategies used by Donald Trump using Aristotle’s Theory to see what persuasive strategies are used and how Trump’s political speech could affect audiences to vote for him. The researcher selected three speeches such as campaign speech (2015),victory speech (2016) and inauguration speech (2017) as the object of study. These speeches are selected based on some considerations, such as lexical density, political concepts described by Trump, academic scrutiny and also to make this research more manageable. Furthermore, the researcher found that Trump has used persuasive strategies in order to convince Americans to vote him as President. According to Aristotle , there are three types of Persuasive Strategies such as Logos, Ethos and Pathos. The researcher found thirty one statements indicated of containing pathos, thirteen statements of Logos and fifteen statements as Ethos. Pathos encompasses the emotional influence on the audience. Based on the analysis, the researcher concludes that persuasive strategies played crucial part to evoke audience’s emotions and feelings.]]>
<![CDATA[The Effect of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) on Students’ Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text ]]>
<![CDATA[Miming Oktorianisarry]]>;
<![CDATA[Yulitriana Yulitriana]]>;
<![CDATA[Susan Ira Nova]]>;
<![CDATA[Maida Norahmi]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 3 No 1 (2023): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v3i1.7857
<![CDATA[There are difficulties faced by students in learning reading of the narrative text, such as difficulties to find details, translating new words, finding main ideas, and making inferences. This research was conducted to see the effect of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) on students reading comprehension of narrative text by applying ‘preview’ for brainstorming, ‘click and clunk’ for translating new words, ‘get the gist’ for finding details, and main ideas, and ‘wrap up’ for making inferences. It is a quasi-experimental research with experimental and control groups. The sample was the eleventh-grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Palangka Raya. XI MIPA 3 and XI MIPA 2 classes were the experimental and control groups, and each consists of 37 students. Reading comprehension tests were used to collect the data. Since the data were normally distributed, the hypotheses were tested by using the independent sample t-test. The hypothesis testing results show that the obtained sig (2-tailed) was 0.027 and smaller than the probability value of sig. 0.05 (Sig. 0.027 < Sig. 0.05). Therefore, Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. In other words, CSR significantly affects students’ reading comprehension of narrative text.]]>
<![CDATA[A Narrative Inquiry of an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teacher’s Experiences in Working with Special Needs Students ]]>
<![CDATA[Jumainah Jumainah]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 3 No 1 (2023): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v3i1.7954
<![CDATA[This study is intended to unravel how an EFL teacher working in a special needs school teaches her students. The central issues of this study are challenges and strategies employed by the teacher, government concern, readiness, and future expectations of the teacher. Narrative inquiry is carried out as the method of the study. This study involves a participant who has been teaching as an EFL teacher for special needs students for more than seven years. The in-depth narrative interview is conducted to collect the data. To ensure the trustworthiness of the results, the researcher confirms the interpretation of the data with the participant. From the story told by the participant, it is concluded that the biggest challenge faced by the teacher in teaching special needs students is growing their motivation. Thus, the teacher shall be wise in planning the lessons based on each students’ characteristics to enhance their learning motivation. Furthermore, in relation to the government, supports in forms of training and material availability have been given by the Indonesian government. In terms of readiness, most of the English teachers working with special needs students have limited knowledge and experiences at the initial stage of their careers. However, the teachers learn along the way through trials and errors and from a series of training provided to develop their professional skills. In the future, it is expected that the English pre-service teachers can be prepared to teach special needs students as a part of their training and education. Furthermore, the existing teachers are expected to continue learning from different media so that they can keep improving the quality of their teaching.]]>
<![CDATA[Indonesian University Students’ Attitudes and Aspirations Towards ICT in EFL Learning ]]>
<![CDATA[Dedy Arianto Bannus]]>;
<![CDATA[Emeral]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 3 No 1 (2023): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v3i1.7997
<![CDATA[The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been widely used in learning a language and it seems to influence learners’ attitude on learning a language. Therefore, this study is intended to reveal Indonesian University students’ attitudes on the use of ICT in EFL learning. The data were collected from 152 second-year students on English education program who contributed in an online-survey and 4 of them were involved in a semi-structured interview. To obtain the objective, a mixed-methods research design was applied. The result indicated that Indonesian university students have a high positive attitude towards the application of ICT in their EFL learning.]]>
<![CDATA[The Effect of British Council for Teens Website on Students’ Vocabulary at the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN-1 Palangka Raya ]]>
<![CDATA[Arga Syafutra]]>;
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<![CDATA[Olga Dona Retsi]]>;
<![CDATA[Ristati]]>;
<![CDATA[Muhammad Subhan Fikri]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 3 No 2 (2023): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v3i2.8573
<![CDATA[English vocabulary is crucial. However, students struggled with vocabulary. This study examined how the British Council for Teens website affected Senior High School tenth-graders’ English vocabulary. This website taught English vocabulary using topic-related graphics and audio. This pre-experimental investigation used a one-group pre- and post-test. The researcher used purposive sampling to choose the SMAN-1 Palangka Raya X-6 class. Data was collected via a short answer test. Pre- and post-tests were provided. The researcher circulated a questionnaire to assess the British Council for Teens website’s impact on vocabulary learning. The Paired Sample T-Test in SPSS version 25 was used to examine the data at 5% (0.05). T-test analysis accepted Ha and rejected Ho. Hence, British Council for Teens improved SMAN-1 Palangka Raya tenth graders’ English vocabulary. The British Council for Teens website’s favorable questionnaire result supported that. Consequently, this website was effective on expanding students’ English vocabulary.]]>
<![CDATA[The Correlation Between Self-Efficacy and Speaking Performance of the Eleventh-Grade Students at SMAN 1 Palangka Raya ]]>
<![CDATA[Christy Givency]]>
<![CDATA[ General English Education Vol 3 No 2 (2023): EBONY- Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature ]]>
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DOI: 10.37304/ebony.v3i2.8599
<![CDATA[Speaking is a common English skill which is still difficult to master in Indonesia. Especially in secondary school contexts, many students cannot use English for communication functions although they have studied it for several years. As the modern era demands the need of communication skills, this research was initiated to discover whether there is a correlation between self-efficacy and students’ speaking performance to help them improve their speaking skill. The study was conducted with a sample of 40 high school students from class XI MIPA 2 of SMAN 1 Palangka Raya. To collect the data, self-efficacy questionnaire, speaking test, and documentation of students’ latest speaking scores and teacher’s notes of students’ activeness in English class were used. The data then was calculated and analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25 Program. It was found there was a weak correlation (r-count = 0.333) between the two variables. The level of students’ self-efficacy was moderate, but their level of speaking ability was high. Therefore, the study concluded self-efficacy has little or no direct effect on students’ speaking performance. It is suggested that English teachers can continue to improve students’ speaking skill and further research is conducted to find more evidence of this phenomenon.]]>
