International Journal of Business English and Communication (IJoBEC)
Articles in IJoBEC address all areas of business, English, and communication including, but not limited to, technology and financial management. English includes English Skills, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), English Language Learning (ELL), English Language Teaching (ELT), translation, Pragmatics, and Discourse Analysis. Business includes Entrepreneurship, Management, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Promotion, Advertising, Human Resource, Business Capital Market, Tourism Industry, Hotel and Restaurant Industry, and Meeting, Incentive, Convention, and Exhibition (MICE). Communication includes Interpersonal Communication, Organizational Communication, Communication Psychology, Public Relation Management, Intercultural Communication, Interactional and Transactional Communication, Hospitality, Journalism, and Broadcasting. Technology includes Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Business Database Processing, Information Management System (IMS), Business Data Visualization, and Business Data Analytics. Financial Management includes Financial Accounting, Computer Accounting, and Business Taxation. In addition, the journal IJoBEC welcomes submissions concerning the research results of internships, fieldwork research, community service, and library research.
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<![CDATA[EXPLORING LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS (A CASE STUDY AT CV ARAYAH INDO TEKNIK MAKASSAR) ]]>
<![CDATA[Andi Rayyan Samtidar]]>;
<![CDATA[Andi Samtidar]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 1 (2023): January ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[Bahasa Inggris Program Sarjana Terapan, Universitas Negeri Makassar ]]>
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<![CDATA[The aims of this research were to investigate the tactics of negotiations applied and explore the language usage by the top managerial officers of CV Arayah Indo Tehnik Makassar that they experienced during their business negotiations. This research applied a case study to achieve the research objectives. The instrument used in the data collection were questionnaire and semi-structured interview. The subjects of this research, the board of directors CV Arayah Indo Tehnik Makassar, were taken using purposive sampling technique. The questionnaire was distributed to and filled out by the main director of CV Arayah Indo Tehnik Makassar. The interview sample was conducted also to the main director CV Arayah Indo Tehnik Makassar. The results of this study found that all 15 strategies of business negotiations and 6 language sample of business negotiations were utilized during their practical business negotiations. However, the utilizations of those 15 tactics and language of negotiations were based on practical rather than theoretical knowledge]]>
<![CDATA[TRANSLATION ERRORS OF ENGLISH-INDONESIAN TEXT IN BASIC TRANSLATION CLASS ]]>
<![CDATA[Mustathira]]>;
<![CDATA[Fatimah Hidayahni Amin]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 1 (2023): January ]]>
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<![CDATA[This study aims at finding out (1) the kinds of translation errors made by the students, (2) the dominant translation errors made by the students (3) the students’ difficulties in translating English to Indonesian texts in UIM Al Ghazaly Makassar. This research used a descriptive qualitative method which intended to collect and analyze data by using the concept from Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014). The subject of this research was the third semesters of English Education Department in UIM Al Ghazaly Makassar. There were10 students who were chosen purposively as the participants of the research. The object of this research was errors in translating English to Indonesian Text. The instrument of this research is the text of paragraph. The test was used to get data about the students’ error in English to Indonesian translation text. The results of this research showed that the students made errors in English to Indonesian translation text, it found the kinds, the dominant, and the difficulties error made by students in translating a text. The kinds of error were (1) inversion of meaning students made about 2 errors, (2) omission of meaning made about 3 errors, (3) addition of meaning, made about 2 errors, and (4) Deviation of meaning, made about 3 errors. The dominant errors were, (1) Morphological aspect, made about 3 errors, (2) Lexical aspect, students made error with 3 errors, and (3) Syntactic aspect, the error made by students about 3 errors. The difficulties that student found in translate the text is lexical meaning, grammatical meaning, contextual meaning, textual meaning, and socio-cultural meaning, it can be conclude that the difficulties faced by students in translating a discourse, both in terms of lexical meaning, grammatical meaning, contextual meaning, textual meaning, and socio-cultural meaning, it can be said that the errors produced by all students occur repeatedly, although some translate it using the internet, the rest use the manual method]]>
<![CDATA[THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CHORAL AND REPEATED READING STRATEGY (CRRS) TO IMPROVE THE READING ABILITY OF YEAR 7 STUDENTS AT UPT SMPN 1 CEMPA PINRANG ]]>
<![CDATA[Sri Nurhamdani]]>;
<![CDATA[Chairil Anwar Korompot]]>;
<![CDATA[Geminastiti Sakkir]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 1 (2023): January ]]>
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<![CDATA[This research aims to determine the effectiveness of Choral and Repeated Reading Strategy (CRRS) in improving the reading ability of year 7 students at UPT SMPN 1 Cempa Pinrang. The cluster random sampling technique was used to select the sample of 28 students for this study. A reading test was an instrument in this study. After treatment, the results of this test were used to assess the Choral and Repeated Reading Strategy (CRRS) to improve the reading ability of year 7 students at UPT SMPN 1 Cempa Pinrang. It can be demonstrated that the t-test value was less than P (0.000 0.05), implying that the hypothesis (H0) of this study was rejected]]>
<![CDATA[THE PRONUNCIATION ERRORS MADE BY STUDENTS OF FIRST GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FRATER MAKASSAR ]]>
<![CDATA[Ryan Agung Kurnia]]>;
<![CDATA[Baso Jabu]]>;
<![CDATA[Munir]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 1 (2023): January ]]>
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<![CDATA[This study aims to find out what sounds are wrongly spoken by students and the classification that causes pronunciation errors made by students. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative with a sample of class X IPA 1 which consists of 20 students in one class and uses the cluster random sampling technique. In obtaining the data, the researcher used a reading test and documentation (recording) as an instrument. The results found that pronunciation errors made by students amounted to 22 sound errors such as in sounds (e), (i), (i:), (l), (s), (k), (a), (p), ( ), (r), (h), (t), (ɡ) (z), (ʊ), (n), (ʌ), (f), (d), (c), (ͻ:) and (_), then in the classification of the causes of student pronunciation errors there are 5 such as mother tongue, phonological interference, avoidance, interlanguage transfer, and native language. So it can be concluded that the pronunciation errors made by students are quite large, the errors are caused by their first language so that students often change the meaning, in this case, it is necessary to have extra practice for students in communicating and learning English so that there are no pronunciation errors so that in the future students can be better than before.]]>
<![CDATA[THE EFFECT OF VOCABULARY MASTERY ON STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION ]]>
<![CDATA[Nur Rahmah]]>;
<![CDATA[M. Tahir]]>;
<![CDATA[Ahmad Talib]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 1 (2023): January ]]>
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<![CDATA[This study aims to decide the impact of vocabulary mastery on reading comprehension of junior high school students. This study utilized a quantitative strategy with simple linear regression analysis. This research data was collected through a test consisting of vocabulary mastery and a reading comprehension. The sample of the research was determined using random sampling. There are 59 students from SMP Negeri 2 Pangkajene and 16 students from SMP Negeri 4 Pangkajene. The aftereffects of this study show that there is an impact of vocabulary mastery on students’ reading comprehension. It is clear from the consequences of the computation of the correlation (R) is 0.573 with a coefficient of determination (R Square) of 0.329 which infers that the impact of the independent variable (vocabulary mastery) on the dependent variable (reading comprehension) was 32.9%. This shows that i 0.000 < 0.05. The conclution is (Ho) is dismissed and (Ha) is acknowledged.]]>
<![CDATA[THE APPLICATION OF 4C COMPETENCIES IN ENGLISH SUBJECT ON THE SECOND GRADE OF SMAN 1 MAROS ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurul Saqina Anwar]]>;
<![CDATA[Kisman Salija]]>;
<![CDATA[Nur Aeni]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 1 (2023): January ]]>
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<![CDATA[The aim of this study was to describe the application of 4C competencies to English lessons in the second grade of SMAN 1 Maros and to know the English score of the second grade of SMAN 1 Maros during the application of 4C competencies. The researcher applied descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research were collected through observation, interview, and documentation. This article only consists of the formulation of the first problem which was collected through the interview session. The subjects of this study were English teachers who teaches in the second grade and the second-grade students of SMAN 1 Maros that was consisted of two classes, but in this article the researcher only describe one class. The result of data analysis found that the application of 4C competencies in the second grade of SMAN 1 Maros has been implemented very well by the teachers and the students in the classroom.]]>
<![CDATA[THE IMPACT OF SELF-CONFIDENCE ON STUDENTS’ PUBLIC SPEAKING ABILITY ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurmalasari]]>;
<![CDATA[M. Tahir]]>;
<![CDATA[Chairil Anwar Korompot]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 2 (2023): April ]]>
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<![CDATA[This study aims: (1) to determine the significant impact of self-confidence on students' public speaking abilities; (2) to find out what causes the lack of confidence in students' public speaking abilities. This study used a quantitative method using simple random sampling technique in taking the sample. The subjects of this study were Business English Communication students’ batch 2020. The types of instruments and data collection techniques were questionnaires with two types, namely open-ended questionnaires and also closed-ended questionnaires. Data analysis used the normality test, simple linear regression test and hypothesis testing. The results showed that there was an impact of self-confidence on students' public speaking abilitiy, meaning that a significance value of 0.005 was less than 0.05 and a value of 2.991 was greater than a of 2.036. So, it can be concluded that there is a significant influence between self-confidence on public speaking or it can be said that is rejected and is accepted, which means that variable X has an effect on variable Y.]]>
<![CDATA[THE INFLUENCE OF EMPLOYEES' ENGLISH SKILLS TO THEIR WORK PERFORMANCE (A STUDY CASE AT REGIONAL OFFICE FOR CULTURAL PROPERTIES PRESERVATION IN SOUTH SULAWESI ]]>
<![CDATA[Khoiriyatul Annisa]]>;
<![CDATA[Seny Luhriyani]]>;
<![CDATA[Andi Samtidar]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 2 (2023): April ]]>
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<![CDATA[English is broadly used as a lingua franca to talk amongst overseas travelers, in other term, it's far referred as global language. Undeniably, communication skills especially in English are very important for employees in the workplace, especially for those who work in the tourism industry. And English is one of the essential factors to improve tourism industry. After noting the widespread influence of English skills in the world of work, especially in tourism. The writer took the research entitled “The Influence of Employees’ English Skills to Their Work Performance (A Study Case at Regional Office for Cultural Properties Preservation in Sulawesi)”. The purpose of this study was to find out whether or not there is an influence of English skills on employees’ performance at the Regional Office for Cultural Properties Preservation in South Sulawesi. This study is qualitative research using the descriptive approach to describe the object of the research without any interference from the researcher. The data collection techniques used in this study were observation and interviews. This study shows that the employees’ English skills were still lacking. However, the employees still used English at every chance they get. In addition, the employees use English to serve foreign tourists who come to visit, handle incoming letters, make leaflets and other media, make publications, understand texts in English, and translate a book from Indonesian to English and vice versa. In addition, translator applications or websites, such as Google Translate, are often used by employees to help them do their assignments. Furthermore, it was also found that the use of English has influenced employees’ performance, English can help them in completing their work. Therefore, it is suggested that the Regional Office for Cultural Properties Preservation in South Sulawesi, especially the Public Service and Publication working group conduct English language training for employees.]]>
<![CDATA[ANALYSIS OF THE APPLICATION OF MARKET DIGITALIZATION AT KAMPUNG BARU PUBLIC MARKET MAKASSAR CITY ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurul Hasanah Bur]]>;
<![CDATA[Indrawaty Asfah]]>;
<![CDATA[Abdul Wahid]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 2 (2023): April ]]>
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<![CDATA[A marketing process that uses media features as a sales facility starts with product branding and ends with expanding sales reach is referred to as digital marketing or digitization capabilities. This research aims to find out what market digitalization applications used. Then, this research considered of implementation digitalization in selling transactions, payment systems, and market management, it also discussed the impact of market digitalization in carrying out selling activities and payment transaction in Kampung Baru Public Market Makassar. Descriptive qualitative method has been used in this research. Interviews were conducted with traders and a staff using purposive technique. Observations were made in the field as well as observing objects through the application platform. This study found the types of applications used in the market area are divided into sales applications, payment transactions, and market management applications. The use of this application originated from the COVID-19 pandemic which required activities to be carried out from home. Some of the impacts felt for traders include escalate sales, enlarge sales channels, improving promotion of the products and services, effective time and sales, and accelerate the processing of billing, verification, and payment.]]>
<![CDATA[EXPLORING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNICATION AND WORK ENVIRONMENT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE AT PDAM MAKASSAR (A STUDY IN SERVICE AREA IV) ]]>
<![CDATA[Rezki Amaliah Sabar]]>;
<![CDATA[Andi Anto Patak]]>;
<![CDATA[Andi Hajar]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Business English and Communication Vol 1 No 2 (2023): April ]]>
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<![CDATA[This study aims to find out whether the communication and work environment at PDAM Makassar has been effective and also to find out whether the effectiveness of communication and work environment affects employee performance at PDAM Makassar. This research uses the qualitative descriptive method. Data collection techniques use observation checklist research instruments and interview guidelines. The subjects of this study were all employees of PDAM Makassar Service Area IV complaints unit and read meters with the number of speakers being as many as five people who were randomly selected. The data analysis used in this study is data analysis using thematic analysis. And the results of observations and interviews showed that the communication and work environment in Service Area IV of the complaints and reading meter units have been effective. Characterized by well-established communication, the message you want to convey can be conveyed well to the interlocutor, as well as the creation of a comfortable work environment for employees to carry out work, work support facilities are adequate so that work can be carried out properly. So the effectiveness of communication and the work environment affects the improvement of employee performance at PDAM Makassar]]>
